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The finals of the China International College Students' Innovation Competition (2025), held from October 13 to 15, were concluded at Zhengzhou University. Four SCNU teams achieved remarkable results, winning one gold and three silver awards.
A group photo of SCNU teams.
Among them, the gold-winning project “Colorful Vision, Luminous Eyes—The Pioneer of Intelligent Color Dynamic E-Paper Technology” sets a best ever record for SCNU, securing SCNU’s first national gold award in the Industrial Track.
The winning team was composed of 15 students, with five teachers led by Professor Zhou Guofu from the Advanced Optoelectronics Research Institute as their advisors. Their project “Luminous Eyes” is a high-tech product which focuses on electrowetting reflective full-color video display technology, overcoming the limitations of traditional e-paper that can only display static images. It can also achieve video-level refresh rates, high ambient light reflectivity, professional color accuracy, and wide color gamut coverage—delivering both energy efficiency and eye protection.
The product is highly applicable in smart education, outdoor advertising, and medical imaging, and promotes the transformation of the display industry from “backlight dependence” to “ambient light utilization”, aiming to become a global standard-setter and industrial benchmark for healthy display technologies. Its innovation and practicality were highly praised by the judges, resulting in the national gold award.
The number of projects and participants from SCNU hit a record high this year, with a total number of 2,598 submissions by 12,516 teachers and students.
Jointly hosted by the Ministry of Education and 10 other governmental departments in cooperation with the People’s Government of Henan province, and organized by Zhengzhou University and the People’s Government of Zhengzhou Municipality, this year’s event attracted 6.19 million projects and 24.43 million participants from 5,673 universities and colleges across 161 countries and regions.
More information about the award-winning projects of SCNU teams is as follows.
Gold Award Winning Team
School of Origin: South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics
A photo of the gold award winning team from South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics.
Project introduction: The project focuses on electrowetting reflective full-color video display technology, overcoming the limitations of traditional e-paper that can only display static images. It achieves video-level refresh rates, high ambient light reflectivity, professional color accuracy, and wide color gamut coverage—delivering both energy efficiency and eye protection. The product is highly applicable in smart education, outdoor advertising, and medical imaging, and promotes the transformation of the display industry from “backlight dependence” to “ambient light utilization”. It aims to become a global standard-setting and industrial benchmark for healthy display technologies.
Silver Award Winning Team
School of Origin: School of Environment
A photo of the silver award winning team from the School of Environment.
Project introduction: Addressing the high cost and low efficiency of traditional environmental remediation technologies, the team developed high-efficiency, low-cost nano zero-valent iron (nZVI) synthesis and application technology. The project also boasts multiple high-level publications and invention patents. The products are widely applied in the remediation of soil heavy metals and organic pollutant remediation, as well as groundwater restoration, with remarkable pollution removal effects—outperforming similar foreign products. Numerous contaminated sites have already been successfully remediated cumulatively.
Silver Award Winning Team
School of Origin: School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering
A photo of the silver award winning team from the School of Optoelectronics Science and Engineering.
Project introduction: The team was established to define the chassis for future humanoid robots and develop and set the wheel-legged chassis standard for the era of embodied intelligence. Core members specialize in cutting-edge fields such as bionic mechanical design, wheel-legged coordination and balance control, and multimodal embodied perception and decision-making. To address common problems in traditional robot chassis—such as poor terrain adaptability, slow emergency response, structural redundancy, and high cost—the team developed a universal, stable, economical, and intelligent multifunctional chassis. It enables functional expansion and task collaboration across various application scenarios, providing revolutionary mobility support for AI carriers.
Silver Award Winning Team
School of Origin: School of Chemistry
A photo of the silver award winning team from the School of Chemistry.
Project introduction: The team has broken through key technical barriers and successfully developed a cost-effective, domestically produced chiral chromatography column—the Huaxi Chromatography Column. Through independent innovation, they synthesized a β-cyclodextrin-bonded spherical COF stationary phase, achieving breakthroughs in key performance indicators such as column efficiency, lifespan, pH tolerance, and the range of detectable pharmaceuticals. Meanwhile, the overall cost is significantly lower than imported products, offering a powerful domestic solution for the separation and purification of chiral drugs and accelerating the end of foreign dependence in the field of chiral drug separation technology.
Source from SCNU News Center
Translated by Zeng Zichun, Tang Ying
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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