Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the University of Science and Technology of China of CAS, and the University of Macau, developed a coordination-unsaturated copper single-atom nanozyme.

A research group led by Prof. SHENG Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the direct observation of strong spin-phonon coupling in the absence of long-range magnetic order.

A research team led by Prof. HAO Ning from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with researchers from Anhui University and the University of Science and Technology of China of CAS, has identified two distinct types of unusual low-energy quasiparticle states in the kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₅ using single-atom impurities as local "quantum probes" and scanning tunnelling spectroscopy.

A research team from the Stable High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by CAS Member XIE Yi and Professor ZHANG Xiaodong, proposed a surface halogen (Cl, Br, and I) passivation strategy to significantly improve the stability of photocatalysts.

A research team led by Prof. SHENG Zhigao at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully manipulated the structure and microwave absorption of CoxSe nanosheets by synthesizing them under a high magnetic field (HMF).

For the first time, researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Theoretical Physics of CAS, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have introduced a metal-based cooling strategy that does not rely on the globally scarce isotope helium-3. It is expected to provide a self-sufficient, controllable "super refrigerator" that is critical for advancing frontier quantum technologies.

Recently, researchers from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics and Chip Technologies at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, revealed anomalous oscillatory magnetoresistance in an antiferromagnetic kagome semimetal heterostructure and directly identified its corresponding topological magnetic structures.

A research team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators from Anhui University, ShanghaiTech University, and the University of New Hampshire, has demonstrated the first electrically controllable generation of hopfions—three-dimensional topological solitons—in a solid-state magnetic system.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. WANG Hui from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. ZHAO Yanli' s group from Nanyang Technological University, constructed a novel urchin-like copper single-atom nanozyme (UCCSE) and revealed that needle length plays a critical role in enhancing cellular uptake and chemodynamic tumor therapy efficiency.

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.