Timely monitoring abnormal gaits of teenagers is crucial for their physical health and development. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are widely used in the wearable field. Choosing high-performance and safe triboelectric materials to monitor abnormal gaits remains challenging. Polyoxometalates (POMs) nanomaterials can effectively serve as triboelectric materials due to rich surface morphology and large specific surface area. The team designed a TENG using POMs nanorods as triboelectric materials by changing the morphology of POMs, achieving an improvement in TENG performance. The optimized TENG has achieved significant results in gait monitoring of teenagers, promoting research in this field.

Although the Navier-Stokes equations are the foundation of modern hydrodynamics, adopting them to quantum systems has so far been a major challenge. Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Maciej Łebek, M.Sc. and Miłosz Panfil, Ph.D., Prof. UW, have shown that these equations can be generalised to quantum systems, specifically quantum liquids in which the motion of particles is restricted to one dimension.  This discovery opens up new avenues for research into transport in one-dimensional quantum systems. The paper, published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters, was awarded an ‘editors’ suggestion'.