The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (HFIPS, CAS), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have joined forces to establish the Joint Laboratory for Spectroscopic Detection of Matter Composition in Deep Space (Lab-DeepSpec) on Science Island, Hefei.
A research team led by Professor JIANG Changlong at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a highly sensitive, real-time sensor for detecting trace water, addressing key challenges in modern industrial quality control and environmental monitoring.
A research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Zhejiang Juhua Equipment Engineering Group Co., Ltd., Dongguan University of Technology, and the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric effect in the plastic superionic conductor Ag₂Te₁₋ₓSₓ.
A research group led by Prof. SHENG Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered mirror symmetry triggered chiral phonon behavior and a giant magneto-optical modulation in the two-dimensional material AgCrP2S6 with space- and time-symmetries.
On November 24, the International Science Program on Fusion Burning Plasma, initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was officially launched, alongside the release of the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) Research Plan, at a ceremony in the BEST Hall of Hefei Future Science Town.