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.

The synthesis of natural products that feature good biologically active applications have been the source of significant research, but their often congested organic structures make their chemical synthesis extremely challenging.

It is well known that elementary particles such as fermions and bosons play an important role in our study of the universe.

The role of organic chemistry in commercial and industrial applications is well known, but the importance of asymmetric carbon bond coupling is far less known.

Excited state properties of octahedral d6 transition metal complexes, including ruthenium(II), rhenium(I), osmium(II), iridium(III) and rhodium(III), have aroused tremendous interests due to their attractive photophysical and photochemical behaviors. From the last two decades, the establishment of the predominant role of luminescent cyclometalated iridium(III) system as photo-functional materials has stemmed from their overwhelming properties for the potential biological and energy related applications. Since the pioneering work of Thompson, Forrest and coworkers in employing cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes first reported by Watts as phosphorescent emitters in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), promising applications have been realized as demonstrated by their rapid adoption in smartphones and displays everywhere.

Quantum computation is a new type of computational model based on the regulation of quantum mechanics to control quantum information units. It is one of the hotspots in the world’s science and technology frontier. Its potential applications are expected to have a profound impact on our society.