Research led by Dept. of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) could lead to significantly improved HIV-inhibiting medication and the improvement of lives for millions of people around the world.

Recently, Professor Lin Junhao’s research group in the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) worked with teams from Vanderbilt University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) to make a vital breakthrough in amorphous materials. The international team has successfully synthesized monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) at low dimensional limits, and accurately measured the atomic structure of the NAC at the atomic scale for the first time. The research results were published in Nature titled “Synthesis and properties of free-standing monolayer amorphous carbon.”

The earthquakes that shattered nearly twenty years of significant seismic silence in Southern California on 4 July 2019 were part of a set of shocks that led to a fundamentally improved understanding of the fault rupture process.

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is proud to announce that it has had its first faculty member invited to take part in a Ministry of Natural Resources expedition to Antarctica. Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) Research Assistant Professor Fu Lei was invited to take part in the 36th Antarctic Expedition from November 17 to February 10.

There is significant research into new materials for fuel cells that directly electro-oxidize formic acid into carbon dioxide, but the development of high noble metal mass‐normalized activity and long‐term stability catalysts remain a significant challenge for the commercialization of direct liquid fuel cells.

With research into solar cells booming across the world, it has become critical to find new and innovative ways to maximize their efficiency in commercially viable ways. Improving their ability to convert sunlight into energy is vital to improving their effectiveness for society.