On Feb. 27, 2021, the Basic Research Management Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the 16th edition of the top 10 domestic scientific advances of 2020. The research team led by Prof. Xueming Yang from the SUSTech College of Science offers experimental proof of quantum interference in chemical reactions.

Molecular reaction dynamics is the study of chemical and physical transformations of matter at the molecular level. Recently, scientists from China made substantial scientific progress in this area, by revealing the electronic angular momentum effect to a chemical reaction for the first time.

Recently, the team of Associate Professor Lele Duan from the Department of Chemistry of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) reported a rapid and efficient method of preparing graphdiyne (GDY)-supported transition metal single-atom and sub-nanocluster catalysts and explored their application in the field of energy catalysis. The results were published in the internationally renowned chemistry journals Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.

In the past week, Chair Professor Jiaqing He’s research group from the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has published their researches about thermoelectric materials in Science. These two papers were titled “High-entropy-stabilized chalcogenides with high thermoelectric performance” and “Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2”.

Recently, Professor Junling Wang from the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and Professor Hongjin Fan from Nanyang Technological University, have made important progress in the field of piezoelectric materials. They have synthesized new organic-inorganic hybrid ferroelectric materials, achieving a shear strain of 21.5%, which is two orders of magnitude greater than that in conventional ferroelectric polymers and oxides.

Recently, Professor Lang Chen’s lab at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has made significant experimental progress in two-dimensional ferroelectric metal. The relevant results have been published in Nano Letters entitled “Electric Polarization Switching on an Atomically Thin Metallic Oxide”.