Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation

STORY: Diligent female chemist steeps in scientific innovation DATELINE: Oct. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:01 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Yu's lab 2. various of Yu and her students 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU JIHONG, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of chemistry at Jilin University 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU JIHONG, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of chemistry at Jilin University 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): CHI QIANWEN, Yu's student STORYLINE: Yu Jihong, a delegate to the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is known for her technological breakthrough in developing a new type of lithium(Li)-air battery. This flexible zeolite electrolyte solid-state Li-air battery has huge application potentials in flexible electronics and automobile power systems. For more than three decades, Yu's team has made continuous efforts to develop zeolite-based materials. Though traditional studies of zeolites

Cesium-absorbing device at Fukushima Daiichi plant

Cesium-absorbing device at Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Workers install a new cesium-absorbing device, which uses the mineral zeolite, into a water treatment system at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on July 30, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Co. began a test run of the device on Aug. 16, 2011. (Photo courtesy of TEPCO)(Kyodo)

Operation at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

Operation at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Zeolite is placed in the sea to absorb radioactive materials on April 15, 2011, near a water intake for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)