IMAKS Lab

• New contactless method reveals how mirror-image materials respond differently to light
  New research introduces a contactless way to see how mirror-image materials respond differently to circularly polarized light, without first building them into a complete electronic device. The researchers developed a novel method based on light-induced charge separation that allows researchers to directly probe how the material's structure acts like a microscopic filter, influencing how electrons […]
• X-rays: Beyond the Nobel Prize limit
  When certain atoms are irradiated with laser light, they can produce a very different kind of laser light: laser pulses with extremely high frequencies in the X-ray range. These laser pulses, which helped achieve record-breaking results at TU Wien in the 1990s, were the subject of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts
• Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier
• New fuel cell breakthrough could help power energy-hungry data centers
• This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze
• UCLA scientists discover how to guide heat like light at room temperature

• Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts
  August 10, 2026
  Silver nanocatalysts have been found to switch where they perform their most important reactions depending on whether a solid oxide cell is making electricity or hydrogen. The discovery could enable smarter catalyst designs that boost clean power generation while making green hydrogen more energy-efficient.

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)