IMAKS Lab

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

• Berry pseudorotation enabled photodissociation of Fe(CO)5 observed by ultrafast electron diffraction
• A supercharged molecular motor operating by constitutional alteration and proton transfer
• A photochemical rotor bias in dual molecular motors
• Harnessing solar energy for autotrophic E. coli growth
• Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion

• Portable UV spectrometer can detect air pollutants across 2.5 km with high precision
  Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt and her team at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have developed a new type of UV dual-comb spectrometer that detects gaseous air pollutants with unrivaled accuracy and sensitivity. Using ultraviolet double laser light, the device measures the concentration of harmful gases such as formaldehyde within half […]
• Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks
  Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from precision micromachining to eye surgery to optical frequency combs, the Nobel Prize-winning technology behind today's most precise optical atomic clocks. Yet despite more than two decades of effort, ultrafast lasers have largely remained bulky, […]

• Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout
• New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence
• New hydrogen breakthrough turns waste heat into clean fuel
• NASA’s X-59 is about to break the sound barrier for the first time
• This strange crystal acts like metal and glass at the same time

• Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout
  June 3, 2026
  Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that the way vaporized materials cool can dramatically change the particles that eventually form, especially for volatile elements like cesium.

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.