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[Minwoo Song, Jongwoo Nam, Hyemin Lee, Yong-Hoon Kim, Keehoon Kang, and Takhee Lee] Bridging Marcus–... Oct 29, 2026 l Hit 24

Charge transport in molecular junctions is commonly described by either Marcus theory which captures thermally activated hopping via redox processes or Landauer formalism which models elastic tunneling between two electrodes. However, real molecular junctions often operate in an intermediate regime between the two tran...

[Sangwook Ha/ Dr. Suyong Jung(KRISS)/ Prof. Joonho Jang] Spectroscopic Identification of Dimensional... Oct 28, 2026 l Hit 38

Intertwined electronic orders in low-dimensional quantum materials often evolve in a strongly thickness-dependent manner, yet direct spectroscopic access to their mutual evolution remains a key challenge. NbSe2 is a prototypical layered superconductor in which charge-density-wave order coexists with superconductivity, ...

[Sunggyu Ryoo/Dr. Kyungjune Cho(KIST)/Prof. Takhee Lee] Noise-Suppressed High-Performance WSe2 Photo... Oct 22, 2026 l Hit 446

Improving the sensitivity of two-dimensional semiconductor phototransistors requires increasing photocurrent while minimizing noise. However, conventional doping approaches often place charged dopants in or near atomically thin channels, introducing charge scattering, trap states, and noise that limit the signal-to-noi...

[Professor Kang’s research team] World’s First Realization of ‘Kagomene’, a Two-Dimensional Material... Oct 19, 2026 l Hit 450

Kagome lattice materials host a variety of intriguing quantum phenomena arising from the intrinsic interplay of topology, electron correlations and geometric frustration. Even though previous studies have primarily focused on bulk three-dimensional kagome materials, the realization of an ideal two-dimensional kagome sy...

[Dr. Yuting Qian, Prof. Bohm-Jung Yang] Berry curvature dipole generation and nonreciprocal spin pho... Sep 28, 2026 l Hit 566

Berry curvature dipole (BCD) describes the dipole-like distribution of Berry curvature in momentum space and plays a key role for quantum geometric phenomena in nonlinear optoelectronics. Experimentally, BCD can be generated at artificially designed semiconductor heterointerfaces where rotational symmetry breaking is i...

Bridging-driven condensation by eukaryotic SMC complexes is a conserved feature of genome organizati... Sep 4, 2026 l Hit 504

The Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) protein family plays a central role in higher-order genome organization through ATP-dependent DNA loop extrusion by cohesin and condensin and other processes. Whether these activities fully account for the complexity of chromosome architecture remains unknown. Here, we unc...

Probing Intrinsic Magnetic Phases in Low-Dimensional Nearly Twin-Free NiPS3 Single Crystals (publish... Aug 26, 2026 l Hit 488

We report the intrinsic thermal and magnetic properties of the low-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnet NiPS3 and explore its emergent magnetic phases by controlling crystallographic twinning. Using nearly twin-free crystals, we resolve intrinsic properties that are typically obscured by multidomain eff...

Microscopic Evidence for a Zhang-Rice Triplet State in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet, NiPS3 (pub... Jul 20, 2026 l Hit 253

NiPS3 is one of representative van der Waals antiferromagnets which exhibit unusual light-matter interaction coupled with the magnetic order. It exhibits a highly coherent many-body exciton peak (< 0.5 meV linewidth) around 1.478 eV under a low-temperature zigzag magnetic order, which vanishes when the magnetic...

[Kai-Xuan Zhang/Seungbok Lee/Je-Geun Park]  Interfacial chirality-induced magnetic-field-free switch... Jul 20, 2026 l Hit 271

Chirality, a central concept across many scientific disciplines, continues to inspire the discovery of novel physical phenomena. In condensed matter physics, structural chirality—defined by the absence of mirror plane symmetries—has primarily been explored in bulk materials. However, new chiral ph...

[Prof. Je-Kyung Ryu's Research Group] Thyroid cancer-associated EZH1 Q571R mutation drives chromatin... Jul 6, 2026 l Hit 323

Dysregulation of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) contributes to cancer. Of its catalytic subunits, Enhancer of Zeste (EZH) 1 and EZH2, EZH2 mutations are extensively studied, but the role of EZH1 in cancer remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate the thyroid cancer-associated EZH1Q571R mutation and un...