IMAKS Lab

• Photoinduced copper-catalysed deracemization of alkyl halides
• Photoredox cobalt-catalyzed asymmetric desymmetric reductive coupling of cyclobutenes with alkynes
• Asymmetric photooxidation of glycerol to hydroxypyruvic acid over Rb–Ir catalytic pairs on poly(heptazine imides)
• Photoelectrochemical production of disinfectants from seawater
• Visible light-driven dearomative meta-cycloadditions of 2-acetonaphthalenes via triplet energy transfer cascade

• A new wave in ultrafast magnetic control
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation and application of magnetic field steps, in which a magnetic field is turned on in a matter of picoseconds.
• Enhancing light control with complex frequency excitations
  Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and at Florida International University report in the journal Science their insights on the emerging field of complex frequency excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits.

• Study tracks chromium chemistry in irradiated molten salts
• Electrochemical process separates valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste
• Diagnosing a dud may lead to a better battery
• An efficient self-assembly process for advanced self-healing materials
• Chance discovery improves stability of bioelectronic material used in medical implants, computing and biosensors

• Metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light
  April 1, 2025
  Researchers have created a bilayer metasurface made of two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures, opening new possibilities for structuring light.

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.

All power will be down on NCSU Centennial campus starting at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2 . The crews will connect power lines to newly constructed buildings. As a result, all instruments have to be powered down and unplugged from wall outlets.

The facilities were planning to do work on secondary power lines (emergency lights, signs, and such). Accidentally, this morning they switched off the HVAC system and lab hoods. As a result, the lab got hot beyond the operating range of ultrafast lasers. facilities have been contacted. The temperature is getting to normal now. We anticipate we can start running experiments around 11 a.m.

to Chris Papa, Anh Thy Bui, and Phil Castellano on their article published in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10260-7)