The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese "artificial sun," has achieved a continuous high-temperature plasma operation for 1,056 seconds in the latest experiment on Thursday, the longest time of operation of its kind in the world.
China is building a research facility to incubate core technologies used in power generation of fusion energy that powers the sun.
We speak with Dr. Tao Zhang from the Institute of Solid States Physics about his involvement in research that has developed a general method for the kinetically controlled synthesis of gold penta-twinned nanocrystals in one system. With these insights, a universal approach to the synthesis of nanocrystals could be achieved.
