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

• A metal-DNA biohybrid as enantioselective artificial photoDNAzyme
• Stereoelectronic manipulation of ligands for perovskite solar cells
• Chiral hafnium phosphate catalyzed asymmetric de Mayo reaction via visible-light-induced dearomatization
• Counterion-enabled divergent reactivity in dinuclear gold photoredox catalysis
• Tracking coherent vibronic and vibrational motions in ultrafast proton transfer

• Seeing the invisible: The limits of two-photon vision
  Near-infrared light is invisible to humans. And yet, under the right conditions, the human eye can perceive it. Researchers from Poland's International Center for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have now shown that the efficiency of this phenomenon depends not only on the laser pulse itself, but also on two highly specific factors: the beam diameter […]
• How temperature changes light: New model could guide smarter LEDs, sensors and photonic devices
  Technion researchers have developed, for the first time, a comprehensive physical model explaining how the properties of a radiating material, including absorption, emission, and quantum efficiency, affect the fundamental characteristics of the light it emits as a function of temperature. In essence, the emitted light changes its color, intensity, and randomness according to the material's […]

• Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy
• After 100 years, scientists finally uncover hidden rule behind cosmic rays
• Scientists put a tiny lump of metal in two places at once in record-breaking quantum experiment
• “Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers
• The hidden atomic gap that could break next-generation computer chips

• After 100 years, scientists finally uncover hidden rule behind cosmic rays
  May 14, 2026
  Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, researchers found that cosmic ray particles—from tiny protons to heavy iron nuclei—all begin fading away more sharply at the exact same point, hinting at a universal rule governing […]