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正Wide bandgap semiconductors play more and more important roles in both scientific researches and industrial applications.The unique wide bandgap properties provide a platform for flexible functional design for crystal growth,defect engineering,interface engineering,and device construction.Meanwhile,the underlying physical mechanism     

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Wuzong Zhou is Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He obtained his BSc in 1982 (Fudan University, Shanghai) and his PhD in 1988 (University of Cambridge) under the supervision of Professor Sir John M. Thomas and Dr. David A. Jefferson. He then pursued his research in Cambridge for 11 years as a Research Assistant, Research Associate, Research Fellow of Queens’ College (1987-1990) and Assistant Director of Research (1993-1998).     

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<正>Progress in Natural Science was founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 1991.The journal was co-sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The orientation of the journal is to select and publish the latest achievements and academic papers of high level and innovative significance in fundamental     

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科学界与整个社会愈来愈认识到环境:已成为人类社会发展的中心议题之一.随着人类人口增长与经济活动增强导致环境压力愈显突出,其后果已不断为人们所认识和体验:栖息环境质量下降、南半球高纬度臭氧洞、物种灭绝加快、全球气温升高,富营养化加剧,人类各种发病率增加等.     

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正The standard model(SM)in particle physics has been successfully tested by the present experimental observations.The SM consists of electroweak unification theory and quantum chromodynamics(QCD)theory with light quarks(u;d;s)and heavy quarks(c;b;t)as its fundamental components.Usually,these quarks are named as the light flavor and the heavy flavor.In addition to quarks,there are intermediate gauge bosons and gluons for mediating the     

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The second international workshop on the Statistical Physics and Mathematics for Complex Systems (SPMCS) was held in the Center for Complexity Science at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China, from 23–27 October 2010; the first workshop, held in 2008 in Le Mans, France, was convened by the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique et Systèmes Complex-es of ISMANS, an engineering college in France. As announced in the Aims and Scope, this conference series is intended to bring together senior and junior scientists, as well as Ph.D. students, to present the state of the art, to exchange recent results, new ideas, and different points of view on     

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正Materials have been playing a role of solid carrier for the advance of human civilization and representing the development level of human productive forces.Human society makes unceasing progress from the Stone Age,Neolithic Age,Bronze Age,Iron Age,to the present information society and times for electronic and various functional materials.All the advances of science and     

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正The ever increasing concerns over energy security due to the depletion of fossil fuel give rise to heightened interest in and greater effort towards more sustainable energy supply and utilisation.In the meantime,the climate change as a result of CO2emission from fossil fuel use is undoubtedly another key driver for renewable energy development.Unfortunately,renewable energy such as solar,hydroelectric,wind and geothermal only constitutes a very small     

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Politics needs dialogue; trading needs exchange; culture understanding needs communication;science and technology,of course, needs a stage to share successes of research and development.Two years has passed,Fudan University is changing as well as Shanghai, Chian and the World and a new stage is sprouting.     

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微电子和光电子器件是现代信息技术的硬件基础．半导体硅(Si)是当前制备微电子器件最重要的材料，但由于其间接带隙的能带结构和弱的电光效应，限制了在光电子器件方面的应用．几十年来，人们一直在探索能在单块Si片上集成微电子器件和光电子器件的途径，如果这一技术被突破，无疑将对未来的通讯、显示、计算机等信息技术产生深远的影响．     

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<正>It has been 10 years since the journal-“Progress in Natural Science:Materials International”(PNSMI)-co-sponsored by Chinese Materials Research Society(C-MRS) and International Union of Materials Research Societies(IUMRS), was renamed in 2010. Materials science, one of the traditional science disciplines in China,