Visiting Assistant Professor Zhou Xinan in SPST is awarded the 2023 ICTP Prize, a prestigious international prize from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Established in 1964 by Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam in Trieste Italy, ICTP is a renowned international scientific hub and a UNESCO-affiliated organization that is committed to promoting science in the underdeveloped world. The...

**This article is provided by Prof. Feng Jicheng, and is originally published on the Materials Community of Springer Nature on August 16High-performance electronics requires billions of transistors, but their downsizing and interconnections, and materializations impose technological limits. Three-dimensional (3D) printing at nanoscale can probably provide a solution. Convergence between ...

Erythritol is a C4 sugar alcohol that naturally exists in some vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, and fermented foods. Because of its stable physical and chemical properties, low price, high biological safety, and the fact that it cannot be metabolized by the human body, erythritol is widely used in the food industry as a natural sugar substitute (such as in sugar-free sodas). Due to the lack of eryth...

The rosy clouds of dawn, the sunset glow, the hazy moonlight and the rainbow are all forms of light found in nature.From an optical point of view, natural light, which does not directly show polarization, is isotropic. When natural light passes through a linear polarizer, it becomes linearly polarized. Through a quarter-wave plate, the linearly polarized light then becomes circularly polarized. Ci...

The discovery of topological states and topological phase transitions has reshaped our understanding of physics and materials over the past few years. The topological transition from a normal insulator to a topological insulator (TI) can be realized by chemical or mechanical pressure. The topological transition was first predicted and demonstrated in Tl-based chalcogenides TlBi(S1−xSex)2 by i...

Organic π-conjugated molecules (OCMs) have become promising candidates in the fields of organic catalysts, bio-imaging/sensing, and organic optoelectronics. Recently, introducing main-group elements (such as B, N, S, Si, P, etc.) into molecular backbones has become a powerful strategy for fine-tuning photo-physics, redox characteristics, molecular organizations, and optoelectronic functionalities...

Rich and tunable physical properties could emerge from the moiré superlattice constructed from two-dimensional multilayers. The magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is one of the most distinguished examples, which exhibits unconventional superconductivity, correlated physics, ferromagnetism, and nontrivial topology far beyond monolayer graphene. Recently, magic-angle twisted trilayer grap...

                                  Coronoids are polycyclic aromatic compounds formed by annulated benzene rings that enclose a cavity in the center. They can be regarded as nanoporous graphene molecules whose electronic properties are critically dependent on the size and topology of their outer and inner peri...

A critical factor in next-generation energy storage systems is that all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries are expected to provide better safety and higher energy density than traditional lithium batteries which contain liquid materials inside which can be unsafe, flammable and hard to recycle. The significant difference in all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries is the solid electrolytes which r...

In natural silk spinning process, the molecular assembly synergistically realizes the complex and ordered mesoscopic hierarchies. Inspired by this, SPST Ling Shengjie's group cooperated with Yao Yuan's group from ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, to combine the “molecular-supramolecular assembly” and “phase transition-induced mechanical training” ...

On May 7, the results of the 2021 Young Chemistry Award of the Chinese Chemical Society were announced. SPST Associate Professor Ji Quanjiang won this award for his developing a novel gene editing system that is easy to use in disease treatment. Prof. Ji Quanjiang is mainly engaged in the research of Cas nuclease mining, mechanism, and molecular evolution, and is committed to developing ...

Photoswitches are a class of molecules that can change their structural geometry after light exposure, and have wide applications in light-responsive materials, ion transport, and biomedicine. The speed at which the photoswitch changes structural geometry (i.e. thermal relaxation rate) is an important factor that determines its application scenarios, so the regulation of this performance is of gre...

Compared with traditional solar cells, perovskite solar cells have the characteristics of high efficiency and low cost, and are considered to be the most promising next-generation solar cells. However, the widely used lead perovskite material has a wide band gap, which limits its theoretical maximum efficiency. In recent years, tandem solar cells based on the superposition of wide-bandgap and narr...

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, an important research direction in the field of condensed matter physics, is generated by the spontaneous magnetization of the material itself without relying on a strong magnetic field. When a perpendicular magnetic moment is introduced into the host topological insulators, the broken time-reversal symmetry lifts the spin degeneracy and gives rise to ...