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”.

Recently, Caizhen Li, a postdoctoral fellow of Academician Dapeng Yu’s group (Shenzhen Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology), in collaboration with Professor Zhimin Liao (Peking University) and Professor Chuan Li (University of Twente), made new progress in gate-controlled topological transition of superconductivity.

Recently, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Professor Bin TAN’s team won the first prize of the Natural Science Award in Guangdong Province for its project “Asymmetric Axial Chiral Chemistry of Organic Catalysis”. It is one of 11 first prizes of Natural Science in the whole province, and also the first provincial science and technology award for the University.

Recently, Associate Professor Tiangang Yang (Department of Chemistry, SUSTech) together with the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA), University of New Mexico, has made important progress in the study of low-temperature interstellar chemical reaction kinetics. The results have been published in Science Advances entitled “Isomer-specific kinetics of the C+ + H2O reaction at the temperature of interstellar clouds”.