Carbene chemistry stands at the forefront of molecular exploration, offering a captivating journey into the unique behavior of carbon species that challenge conventional rules. Carbenes, compounds containing a divalent carbon atom with only six electrons in its valence shell, are very intriguing to scientists.

α-Chiral alkyl thiols and other organosulfur moieties with different sulfur oxidation states are important chiral building blocks in organic synthesis and biochemical processes, as well as key structural elements in a variety of biomolecules, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals. Consequently, the efficient catalytic enantioselective carbon–sulfur (C(sp3)–S) bond formation constitutes a longstanding objective in modern chemical and biological research.

Associate Professor Zhifang Xu’s research team from the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with Professor Andreas Hemmerich from the University of Hamburg, Professor Congjun Wu from Westlake University, and Dr. Zixiang Li, a specially appointed researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have made significant progress in the research of orbital physics in optical lattices.

Associate Professor Jiashun Hu’s research group from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently made new progress in the study of constraining the India-Eurasia collision process using plate rotation records.

On October 24, the American Physical Society (APS) announced that Qikun XUE, President of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Chair Professor of College of Science(SUSTech), Professor of Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has received the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize (Oliver E. Buckley Prize) in recognition of his achievements in the fields related to topological insulators and the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

Junxin GUO, Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), won the C.F. Ying (Chongfu Ying) Award for Young Ultrasonics Scholars.