From June 23 to 25, the 16th Sino-US Chemistry Professors Conference and Synthetic Chemistry Future Forum was held at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).

In a microcavity, consisting of two parallel mirrors separated at a small distance, light couples very strongly to matter. This gives rise to the formation of so-called polaritons, quasiparticles consisting of light and matter (such as molecules) with intriguing optical properties.

High entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) show great potential as functional materials. However, thus far, the realized HEAs have been restricted to palettes of similar elements, which greatly hinders the material design, property optimization, and mechanistic exploration for different applications.

The century-long development of surface sciences has witnessed the discoveries of a variety of quantum states. In a recently published article, researchers observe spectroscopic signature of the novel “obstructed surface states” on the (0001) plane of SrIn2P2, a candidate “obstructed atomic insulator (OAI)”.

The mantle’s compositional structure reflects the thermochemical evolution of Earth. Yet, it has long been debated whether any radial compositional layering is maintained within the mantle, and if and how this would affect the scale of mantle convection.

A major issue in the study of turbulence is to find its putatively universal small-scale properties. Most existing theories of turbulence based on phenomenology and mathematical analysis largely focus on the velocity structure functions, as their scaling laws can characterize the dynamics of energy cascade.