A key problem encountered in achieving the energy of controlled nuclear fusion is how to confine the high-temperature, high-density plasma within a limited range for a long enough time and make enough nuclear fusion reactions per unit of time. This is extremely important in fusion plasma physics research.

Chair Professor Xueming Yang in the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Professor Xingan Wang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) were invited to write a perceptive on stereodynamics and quantum interference phenomena in molecular collisions.

Associate Professor Jian Yang’s group from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Professor Jun Cui’s group from the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University have recently made a series of significant progress on the auroral research. Their resulting three papers have been published in Geophysical Research Letters, a leading Natural Index journal in the field of Earth Sciences.

A group of researchers has derived a universal lower bound for the finite-time work penalty in bit reset, an elementary operation in irreversible computation. The bound applies to all physical models as long as the detailed balance is respected and, thus, encompasses previous results focused on specific models.

Scientists from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have made progress in synthesizing new oxides with high hydrogen content and high conductivity.

Recently, Professor Chuang-Chuang Li’s team from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) completed an asymmetric total synthesis of Taxol using a concise approach through 19 isolated intermediates. The challenging eight-membered ring was constructed efficiently by a diastereoselective intramolecular SmI2-mediated pinacol coupling reaction to form the C1−C2 bond.