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Researchers make progress on designing light-element spin-orbit coupled materials

2022-02-22

Associate Professor Qihang Liu’s research group of the Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE) and the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with Professor Xiangang Wan at Nanjing University, has made substantial progress in the field of designing light-element materials with correlation-enhanced spin-orbit coupling effect. Their research results were recently published in the top journal Nature Communications, entitled “Designing light-element materials with large effective spin-orbit coupling”.

Researchers make series of advancements in the field of photoelectric conversion and electrocatalysis

2022-02-11

Associate Professor Zongxiang Xu’s team from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has made a series of research developments in the field of photoelectric conversion and electrocatalysis. They published four academic papers in renowned journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Energy Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering Journal.

Plate motion change and hotspot drift contributing near equally to Hawaiian-Emperor Bend

2022-01-14

Assistant Professor Jiashun Hu from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and his co-authors have reported their latest work proposing the lost plate in North Pacific, the Kronotsky Plate (KRO), which is the key to the puzzle. Their work, entitled “Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 million years ago,” has been published in the high-impact academic journal Nature Geoscience.

Climatic and tectonic factors driving uplift of Andes

2021-12-21

Assistant Professor Jiashun Hu from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and his co-authors have reported their latest work discussing the effect of sediment subduction on Andean orogeny. Their work, entitled “Southward expanding plate coupling due to variation in sediment subduction as a cause of Andean growth,” has been published in the high-impact academic journal Nature Communications.

Researchers reveal instability of large optically-bound clusters through new type of non-Hermitian theory

2021-12-14

Associate Professor Jack Ng’s (Zihui Wu) group from the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has reported their latest work on the consequence of non-Hermiticity in optical trapping and binding. Their work, entitled “Non-Hermitian physics for optical manipulation uncovers inherent instability of large clusters,” was published in the high-impact academic journal Nature Communications.

Scholars achieve series of developments in functionalization of rare earth nanomaterials

2021-12-03

Professor Zhiping Zheng’s group from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently made a series of developments in the field of functionalization of rare earth nanomaterials. Their results have been published in high-level journals, such as CCS Chemistry, Nano Research, and Small.