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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

• Photoreforming of solid waste on 1 m2 scale using single-source precursor-derived co-catalyst films
• Self-organized nanoplasmonic artificial leaf for hot-carrier bioelectronic interfaces
• Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversion
• Singlet fission mediates carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in purple photosynthetic bacteria
• Dual Photoredox/Cobalt Catalysis Enabled Regiospecific Markovnikov Hydroboration of Unactivated Mono-, Di-, and Trisubstituted Alkenes

• Graphene plasmon cavities enable advanced and scalable terahertz photodetectors
  How could we noninvasively distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissue? And how could we increase the speed of wireless communications? These two seemingly unrelated questions may share the same answer: terahertz (THz) light. Spanning frequencies between 0.3 and 20 THz, THz light interacts with matter without causing damage and allows for faster data transfer than […]
• New breakthrough spots deadly methanol without opening bottles
  A new optical technique developed by researchers at the University of St Andrews and Adelaide University allows toxic methanol in alcoholic spirits to be detected without opening the bottle. Published in the Journal of Physics: Photonics, this new work offers a powerful new tool for tackling counterfeit alcohol and improving consumer safety worldwide.

• A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism
• NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space
• Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation
• Could cosmic memory explain dark matter, dark energy, and black holes?
• Superconductivity breakthrough could unlock ultra-efficient electronics

• A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism
  June 23, 2026
  A newly proposed quantum sensing technique could make it much easier to identify one of physics’ newest and most intriguing classes of magnets: altermagnets. These unusual materials, discovered only a few years ago, appear to combine the speed and efficiency of antiferromagnets with some of the useful electronic properties of traditional magnets, making them promising […]

Remember this annoying color change when you look at your screen at different angles? Professor So group at NCSU Materials Science and Engineering department offers a solution. The article is published in The Journal of the Society for Information Display (https://doi.org/10.1002/jsid.792)

The power has been restored. All IMAKS instruments are up and running. Good luck with your experiments.