Associate Professors Yan Ning and Zhao Dan have been appointed as Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 1 January 2021. The appointments of the Dean’s Chair are in recognition of their outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments. Prof. Yan’s research uses heterogeneous catalysis to transform shrimp shell, woody biomass, carbon dioxide (CO2)

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) is an important training mechanism to allow undergraduate students to experience developing latest technologies in university research laboratories. NUS ChBE students can choose to participate in UROP as an elective module after their first semester. A project usually lasts for one to two semesters and needs to be completed before

A research team from NUS Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering developed a new anti-counterfeiting technology, named as DeepKey, based on 2D materials and machine learning models. The research was led by Assistant Professors Chen Po-Yen and Wang Xiaonan. The team invented a simple procedure without expensive instruments for fabrication of 2D materials-based tags that exhibit Physically Unclonable Function

Founded in 1976, the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) aims to promote the development of science and technologies in Singapore, and to represent the scientific opinions of its members. Since 2011, SNAS started to elect its Fellows. Provost’s Chair Professor Liu Bin was one of the seven NUS researchers elected as Fellows of SNAS

ChBE welcomes a new Faculty Member aboard. Dr Wang Lei has joined ChBE as an Assistant Professor. Lei is interested and experienced in electrochemical related catalysis and materials discovery for sustainable energy and green organic synthesize technologies. Prior to his NUS appointment, Lei received the Swedish Knut and Alice Wallenberg postdoctoral research fellowship award to

A research team from Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, developed a new technology that can rapidly store natural gas in solid state. The team is led by Dean’s Chair Associate Professor Praveen Linga. The solids, known as gas hydrates, can be stored over a long period potentially at a cost that

A research team led by two of our Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Faculty members, A/P Yan Ning and Dr Zhou, are developing a new process that can turn waste shells from prawns and crabs into the essential ingredient for a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. Read more about it in the following link: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/…/marrying-chemical-and…/

Photo credit: ST PHOTOS/JASON QUAH Membrane technologies could help lower carbon emission by cleaning power plant flue gas CO2 capture from flue gas of power plants and various industries has attracted attention globally as well as in Singapore due to the concerns about CO2 emission, global warming and sea level rise. Provost’s Chair Professor Neal Chung from

The Department would like to congratulate A/P Praveen Linga on his new appointment as the Vice Dean (Communications and Outreach) with effect from 2 October 2020. Full members of the Faculty Board can be viewed here: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/about-us/people/faculty-board/

Asst Prof Chen Po-Yen has won two awards for his innovative research into next-generation functional materials for wearable electronics and emerging soft robots: AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award The AIChE is the world’s leading organisation for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 60,000 members in over 110 countries. The ‘35 Under 35 Award’ recognizes the

ChBe welcomes two new Faculty Members aboard. Dr Owen Shea Fenton has joined ChBE as an Assistant Professor. Prior to his NUS appointment, Owen was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer. He graduated in 2016 with a PhD from MIT under the supervision of Professors Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson.

  Professor Chi-Hwa Wang has been nominated to become a Fellow of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies UK (WSSET   https://www.wsset.org/) recognizing his contributions to the science and technology of relevance to waste to energy.  The nomination was strongly supported by the members of the Executive Committee of WSSET.   WSSET is non-profit Society which