Circularly polarized luminescent materials emitting red to near-infrared light are of interest for technologies such as 3D displays and bioimaging. However, achieving high emission efficiency, stability, and durability simultaneously has remained a challenge. In a recent study, researchers at Kyushu University developed a new series of small luminescent radicals with exceptional photoluminescence efficiency and photostability. Their work demonstrates how a favorable electronic structure, chirality, and light emission can be achieved in a single molecular system.

A violent volcanic eruption in the South Pacific has revealed a surprising natural mechanism that could potentially help slow global warming. The finding provides entirely new insights into atmospheric chemistry and may inspire new methods to remove methane emissions from the air.

In short, we report an inverse phase enhancement (IPE) strategy to fabricate high-performance graphene paper (IPE-GP) exhibiting high strength (63.3 MPa) and high thermal conductivity (1325 W/m·K) at a minimal polymer loading of 5.9%. Using this conspicuous IPE-GP, we fabricated graphene composites that attained a record in-plane thermal conductivity of 802 W/m·K of polymer bulk composites.

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, colloquially known as the “Oscar of Science”, goes to “Muon g-2”, a conglomerate of three international research collaborations that performed their groundbreaking measurements at the American Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the Brookhaven National Laboratory as well as CERN in Switzerland. Over the course of more than 60 years, researchers in the collaborations worked to measure the subtle wobble of the muon as precisely as possible. While scientists from the Mainz Institute of Physics were already central to the last experiment at CERN in the 1970s, the group of Professor Dr. Martin Fertl from the PRISMA⁺⁺ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) provided core contributions to the latest experiment at Fermilab.