A physicist from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is among seven scientists who have won this year\u2019s Future Science Prize, China\u2019s first privately funded award for the subject, for discoveries that could aid the development of quantum computing and energy technology.<\/p>\n
Dai Xi, chair professor of physics at HKUST, shared the prize in physical science \u2013 one of three categories \u2013 with fellow physicists Fang Zhong from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ding Hong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.<\/p>\n
According to the prize\u2019s committee, Dai and Zhong were credited for pioneering computational methods that enabled the prediction of several topological materials, while Ding was credited with using experiments to verify one such substance predicted by Dai and Zhong.<\/p>\n
\u201cTopological electronic materials, due to their stable topological structure, would lead to these materials being able to do things that other materials are not able to do, where they can be used in spintronics, quantum computing and energy technologies,\u201d said Chen Xie, a member of the science committee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prediction and verification method developed by Fang Zhong, Dai Xi and Ding Hong, is the start of the potential application in these areas for these substances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inaugurated as China\u2019s first privately funded science award in 2016, the Future Science Prize recognises scientists who have made groundbreaking scientific and technological achievements in the Greater China region, regardless of nationality.<\/p>\n
The annual award has three categories: life science, physical science, and mathematics and computer science. Each prize comes with a US$1 million cash award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A physicist from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is among seven scientists who have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9191,745,76069,76068,76059,76066,76061,76067,76063,8464,76062,76064,918,76058,11840,158,67,132,68,76060,76065],"class_list":{"0":"post-123116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-dai-xi","11":"tag-ding-hong","12":"tag-energy-technology","13":"tag-fan-zhong","14":"tag-future-science-prize","15":"tag-greater-china-region","16":"tag-hebei-university-of-geosciences","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology","19":"tag-ji-qiang","20":"tag-quantum-computing","21":"tag-shanghai-jiao-tong-university","22":"tag-spintronics","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-xu-xing","28":"tag-zhou-zhonghe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114980841321218661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}