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

• Author Correction: Electronic energy levels and optical spectra of trivalent lanthanide ions in water – Ce(III), Pr(III), Nd(III), Sm(III), Eu(III), Gd(III), Tb(III), Dy(III), Ho(III), Er(III), Tm(III), and Yb(III)
• Probing resonances in the double-well entry valley of the Cl + NH3 reaction using high-resolution anion photoelectron spectroscopy
• Near-unity charge transfer efficiency on bare semiconductor photoanodes induced by polyols and ammonia co-oxidation
• Taming distonic radical cations for precise γ-C–H functionalization of alkylamines
• External control of photocleavage reactivity in polymer networks to reconcile photodegradability and photostability

• Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock
  Researchers in the US and Germany have unveiled a theoretical blueprint for an atomic clock driven by a highly synchronized laser, where atoms work in concert rather than independently. Publishing their results in Physical Review Letters, Jarrod Reilly at the University of Colorado, Simon Jäger at the University of Bonn, and their colleagues in the […]
• Laser-plasma 'mirror' unlocks a new path to extreme light intensities
  An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a practical route to dramatically boosting the intensity of high-power laser light.

• AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter
• This “quantum” material fooled scientists and revealed something new
• A bizarre new state of matter may be hiding inside Uranus and Neptune
• Scientists sculpt Einstein onto a crystal using only light
• Breakthrough discovery reveals hidden oxygen flow deep inside catalysts

• AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter
  April 23, 2026
  Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma—a strange “fourth state of matter” found from space to wildfires—the team revealed hidden patterns in how […]