Recently, a team led by Jiaqing He (Chair Professor of Physics, SUSTech) successfully introduced the 2D Van der waals defects into the eco-friendly SnTe-based thermoelectric (TE) materials for the first time to enhance the average ZT value, which shed light for future studies on SnTe and other intermediate-temperature bulk TE materials. The results, entitled as “Constructing van der Waals gaps in cubic-structured SnTe-based thermoelectric materials,” have been published in one of the most famous international journals Energy & Environmental Science.

Recently, a team led by Prof. Kaijun Liu (Earth and Space Sciences, SUSTech) made significant progress in the excitation of oxygen ion cyclotron harmonic waves in the inner magnetosphere. The results have been published in Geophysical Research Letters, one of the top journals in space physics.

Recently, the team of Professor Haiping Xia, the Chair Professor of Department of Chemistry and executive director of Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, published a review article in Chemical Reviews, a high-impact international journal, entitled “Metallaaromatic Chemistry: History and Development.” It is the first time for the scientists to review the research progress and future direction of the metallaaromatic chemistry in this journal for the past two decades.

Recently, Dapeng Yu’s group from the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology and Xiong-Jun Liu’s group from the International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, have proposed to realize and detect the non-ergodic critical phases, a fundamental phase, in optical Raman lattices for the first time.

Researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have made significant progress in magnetic topological materials. The scientists elucidate an unprecedented hybridization effect between the building blocks of the topological surface states and reveal the termination-dependent time-reversal symmetry breaking in a magnetic topological insulator.

Recently, Qiu Shi Science & Technology Foundation announced the “Outstanding Young Scholar Award” winner list in 2020, with 12 scholars winning the prize. Tiangang YANG, assistant professor of the Chemistry Department is one of the 2020 award laureates.