Month: November 2020

Ten NC State faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Congratulations to Xingao on his passing the prelim exam!

This multi-disciplinary multi-PI project is looking to develop molecule/material hybrid photoelectrodes for cooperative sunlight-driven generation of liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water

• Artificial photosynthetic reduction of nitrogen to ammonia at room temperature using natural seawater
• Orchestrating photoswitch thermal backconversion using hydrogen bonds to reshape energy landscapes
• Fluorescence resonance energy transfer between isomers of molecular photoswitches
• Bimodal multiphoton catalysis via structural regeneration
• Single-turnover subparticle imaging reveals kinetic compensation in electrocatalytic surface water dissociation

• Bright ideas accelerate the hunt for quantum emitters
  The search for materials that can power future quantum technologies is accelerating, but identifying the most promising candidates remains painfully slow. Evaluating whether a material can efficiently emit quantum light requires computationally intensive simulations, making it difficult to screen the vast number of available materials.
• Supersized quantum sensors make faint photons easier to catch
  Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.

• Atomic catalyst unlocks the hidden value of plant waste
• Newton’s 300-year-old law just passed its biggest test yet
• Scientists just imaged the hidden quantum shape of a molecule
• Physicists create a tiny “Big Bang” with surprisingly small atomic nuclei
• Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost

• Physicists create a tiny “Big Bang” with surprisingly small atomic nuclei
  August 23, 2026
  Researchers at CERN have created microscopic versions of the early Universe by colliding surprisingly small atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The collisions produced quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot matter believed to have filled the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang. Even more intriguingly, the particles left behind reveal the shape of the nuclei […]