After thousands of nuclear fusion experiments, Chinese scientists made a big breakthrough on May 28 in their quest to create an artificial sun that could help solve the world's energy problems. They set a record for sustained heat in nuclear plasma－a temperature of 120 million C for 101 seconds－said Gong Xianzu, a physicist in charge of the experiment in Hefei, Anhui province. Gong, a leading researcher at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, said on Tuesday that the result at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST－nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun"－also reached a temperature of 160 million C for 20 seconds.
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China has reached another landmark in its quest for a fusion reactor with the latest experiment on an "artificial sun" last Friday in Hefei, Anhui Province. The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) broke the world record of achieving a plasma temperature of 120 million degree centigrade for 101 seconds.
Prof. HUANG Qing’s group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science developed a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) gas sensor to detect aldehyde with high sensitivity and selectivity, which provided a new detection method for studying the adsorption of gas molecules on porous materials. The relevant research results have been published in Analytical Chemistry.
Recently, a research team led by Prof. ZHAO Bangchuan from the Institute of Solid Materials, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), synthesized 3D porous honeycomb-like CoN-Ni3N/N-C nanosheets and VN nanonbelt arrays via in-situ growth method, respectively, and successfully constructed a high-energy-density flexible supercapacitor device. The result has now been published in Advanced Functional Materials.