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	Electron-hole recombination mechanism in halide perovskites	2020-02-20
	A research team led by Prof. ZHAO Jin from Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) found low-frequency lattice phonons in halide perovskites resulting in high defect tolerance toward electron-hole recombi...
	Progress Made in Mechanism of Neuron Polarity Maintenance	2020-01-17
	On December 30, 2019, the research group of Prof. WANG Chao have revealed the molecular mechanism by which the Ankyrin-G/Ndel1 complex in the axon initial segment (AIS) of neurons maintains the axonal polarity through regulating cargo sorti...
	[NewScientist]China has developed the world’s first mobile quantum satellite station	2020-01-09
	The first mobile quantum satellite station has successfully stransferred secure information(Image by Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)The world’s first portable ground station for sending and receiving secure quantum communications is up ...
	Five Teachers Elected Council Members of the CAYST	2020-01-05
	A few days ago, the sixth congress of members of the Chinese association of young scientists and technologists was held in Beijing.WAN Gang, vice chairman of the CPPCC and Chairman of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, atten...
	Scientists Take a Step Further toward the "Swallowable Surgeon"	2019-12-28
	In his 1959 speech, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman first put forward the idea of swallowing the surgeon, which is using micro-nanorobots to perform medical procedures in the body. With the development of micro-nano fabrication technolog...
	Converting Bio-Materials to Superelastic and Fatigue-Resistant Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels	2019-12-26
	Superelastic and fatigue-resistant materials that can work over a wide temperature range are highly desired for diverse fields including aerospace, mechanical cushioning, energy damping, and soft robotics.Many low-density polymeric foams ar...
	[APS Physics]Quantum Computers Approach Milestone for Boson Sampling	2019-12-19
	A team of researchers has sent 20 indistinguishable photons through an interferometer and measured how 14 of them emerged from the other side. The feat may seem unimportant, but it signifies a milestone in the field of quantum computation: ...
	Progress Made on The Structure of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes	2019-12-15
	Carbon nanotubes can be considered as all-carbon tube-shaped conjugated polymers containing only sp2-bonded atoms, which play an important role in nanotechnology and nanoelectronics. So far, no study has reported the realization of long π-...
	The Recent Progress on A Spin-orbit Coupled Mott Insulator	2019-12-11
	A central theme in condensed matter physics is to observe and understand the exotic quantum phenomena in doped Mott insulators. A famous example of doped Mott insulators is the cuprate high-temperature superconductors. In cuprates, there ar...
	[Xinhua]Chinese physicist honored with Nishina Asia Award	2019-12-11
	HEFEI, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese physicist Lu Chaoyang has been honored with the 2019 Nishina Asia Award, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) said Tuesday.The 37-year-old recipient, a professor of physics at the Hefei...
	Scientists Synthesize Extremely Stable Electrocatalyst with Phase-Mixing Strategy	2019-12-06
	Anew way to improve the stability of polymorphic cobalt diselenide (CoSe2) catalyst through phase mixing is reported by the research team led by academician YU Shuhong and professor GAO Minrui. This work is published inNature Communications...
	A Smart Strategy to Increase Photothermal Therapeutic Efficiency	2019-12-05
	ProfessorLIANG Gaolin, JIANG Jun and ZHANG Qun, in cooperation with the team led by professor WANG Guangfeng from Anhui Normal University, developed a “smart” strategy to increase the photothermal therapeutic efficiency of their correspon...