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

• Visible light suppresses carbon formation on Ni/CeO2 catalyst in methane dry reforming reaction
• Localized potential wells enabling directional electron transport boost photocatalytic uranium extraction from natural seawater
• Shaping light in 3D for direct asymmetric photochemistry: a 1000-fold enantioselectivity enhancement
• Full-cycle photoswitching dynamics in PdII acylthiourea complexes
• Excitation of acyclic trisubstituted alkenes via triplet energy transfer for diastereo- and enantioselective [2 + 2] photocycloaddition

• Speedy electrons for brilliant laser light: Research paves the way for compact, inexpensive free-electron lasers
  Extremely short, intense light flashes are in high demand to investigate atoms, molecules and new materials. Free-electron lasers (FELs) produce these flashes. But around the world, beam time available at large-scale user facilities is in short supply, and waiting times are long.
• Getting photons into shape for reliable quantum communication
  The vast majority of modern quantum technologies—from quantum cryptography to the quantum internet to the quantum computer—rely on one essential element: the transmission of photons. Two qubits (two atoms, for example) exchange information: One qubit emits a photon, and the other qubit absorbs it.

• Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years
• Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works
• Scientists are building a microscope powered by a quantum computer
• Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light
• CERN finds gluons behaving strangely deep inside atomic nuclei

• Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light
  September 13, 2026
  Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar to the physics that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air. Because lasers are used to control […]