South China Normal University (SCNU) won a total of 10 awards for research accomplishments and individual contributions at the 2025 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award as the results were announced on September 15.
Four projects were awarded as the first completion unit, including first-ever Outstanding Contribution Award and three second prizes, and another six achievements were awarded as a participating unit.
Academician Yang Zhongmin was conferred the Outstanding Contribution Award, marking the first time SCNU has won this prestigious individual accolade. Yang's team has established a complete, autonomous technology chain encompassing material design, preform fabrication, fiber drawing, and laser system integration. They successfully developed high-gain broadband specialty glass fibers and rolled out a series of high-power single-frequency fiber lasers and ultrafast femtosecond fiber lasers that have reached internationally leading levels, breaking foreign technological blockades.
The project entitled "New A Priori Estimates Framework and Kinetic Theory for Aggregation-Diffusion-Fluid Coupled Models”, led by Professor Jin Chunhua’s team from the School of Mathematical Sciences, earned the Second Prize of the Provincial Natural Science Award. Focusing on biophysical mechanisms such as cell migration and tumor invasion, the team constructed a novel a priori estimates framework, resolving the existence problem of global bounded solutions for three-dimensional slow-diffusion chemotaxis-fluid models. It also answered an open problem proposed by Winkler that has long drawn attention from the European mathematics community. The framework has been adopted by domestic and international peers as a standard tool.
Professor Gao Jinwei’s team from the South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics won the Second Prize of the Provincial Natural Science Award for the project “Indium-Free Flexible Transparent Conductive Films and Their Fractal Transport Mechanisms”. To overcome the bottleneck that traditional indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes rely on scarce indium resources and are inherently brittle, the team pioneered crack-template lithography to fabricate sub-micron metal mesh transparent electrodes. This achievement raised the optical transmittance of the films to over 90% while reducing sheet resistance to below 10 Ω/sq. Furthurmore, the team established a 1,020-mm-wide roll-to-roll pilot line, and boosted the power conversion efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to 25.30%, with applications realized in fields such as smart automotive windows. The team has published multiple papers in top-tier journals and has been granted 45 invention patents.
The project “High-Value Cascade Utilization of Mine Tailings and Integrated Technology for Comprehensive Pollution Control in Mining Areas and its application”, headed by Professor Yan Bo’s team from the School of Environment, won the Second Prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. Focusing on the challenge of source control of heavy metal pollution in mines, the team revealed the microscopic mechanism by which reactive silicon passivates heavy metals. It also established a technical system for the high-value cascade utilization of mine tailings and the comprehensive remediation of “water-solid-soil” pollution in mining areas, achieving large-scale practical application in mining-area pollution remediation.
The Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award represents the highest honor in the province’s science and technology sector. This year, a total of 227 projects and individuals were presented with the 2025 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, including 2 recipients of the Outstanding Contribution Awards, 30 Natural Science Awards, 19 Technology Invention Awards, 128 Science and Technology Progress Awards, 4 recipients of the Science and Technology Cooperation Awards, 24 recipients of the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Awards, and 20 Science and Technology Achievement Promotion Awards.
Source from Office of Scientific Research
Translated by Chen Bao, Lin Huiru
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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