Over the last few years, techniques that convert waste energy into a storable form, particularly electricity, have become a promising and sometimes mandatory strategy for industrial and domestic utilities with the release of China’s carbon emission goals.

On July 17, the winners of the 5th Xplorer Prize were announced.

From June 23 to 25, the 16th Sino-US Chemistry Professors Conference and Synthetic Chemistry Future Forum was held at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).

In a microcavity, consisting of two parallel mirrors separated at a small distance, light couples very strongly to matter. This gives rise to the formation of so-called polaritons, quasiparticles consisting of light and matter (such as molecules) with intriguing optical properties.

High entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) show great potential as functional materials. However, thus far, the realized HEAs have been restricted to palettes of similar elements, which greatly hinders the material design, property optimization, and mechanistic exploration for different applications.

The century-long development of surface sciences has witnessed the discoveries of a variety of quantum states. In a recently published article, researchers observe spectroscopic signature of the novel “obstructed surface states” on the (0001) plane of SrIn2P2, a candidate “obstructed atomic insulator (OAI)”.