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Asst Prof Shin Sunmi named among Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators
Assistant Professor Shin Sunmi has been named among the Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators by the journal Nanoscale, highlighting rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Her paper, Enhanced far-field coherent thermal emission using mid-infrared bilayer metasurfaces, was featured by the journal in a themed collection of research contributions highlighting “the very best work from researchers in the early stages of
[Business Times] Engineering Singapore’s green future
Countries have pledged zero emissions by 2050 but the means to get there are vague. Businesses need specific details on the decarbonisation of economies to align their own strategies, to raise and make investments, and to participate with impact. To read the full article by Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and Dalson Chung: Engineering Singapore’s green future
[Straits Times] Smart recycling boxes that reward residents for sorting waste have cut contamination rate
A trial in Bishan and Sin Ming to collect recyclables using smart boxes has managed to cut the contamination rate of their contents to just 5 per cent – far lower than the national average of 40 per cent. Professor Seeram Ramakrishna (NUS Mechanical Engineering), who chairs the Circular Economy Taskforce at the National University
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Prof Seeram Ramakrishna and Asst Prof Sing Swee Leong among world’s most highly cited researchers
Prof Seeram Ramakrishna and Asst Prof Sing Swee Leong from NUS Mechanical Engineering have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the latest Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List published by data analytics firm Clarivate, among the world’s most influential scientific minds. They are among 18 highly cited researchers from the NUS College
A/Prof Palani Balaya conferred as Academician by World Academy of Ceramics
Assoc Prof Palani Balaya (left) receives the certificate from Dr Mrityunjay Singh, President, World Academy of Ceramics Congrats to NUS ME Associate Professor Palani Balaya! A/Prof Balaya has been conferred the title of Academician by the World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), and was officially inducted during CIMTEC 2022 – 15th International Conference on Modern
A world’s first: NUS researchers upcycle pineapple leaves into low-cost fat trappers
[This article first appeared on NUS News.] Imagine swallowing a capsule or munching a cracker made from pineapple leaf fibres to lose weight at a fraction of the cost of fat burners currently available in the market. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has come up with an innovative
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Q&A: Prof Cecilia Laschi on soft robotics and the octopus
[First published on NUS CDE.] One of Prof Cecilia Laschi’s passions is studying how the octopus can help inspire more advanced and capable soft robots (Photo credit: Jennie Hills, The Science Museum, London) Professor Cecilia Laschi is a robotics professor at the College of Design and Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. In this Q&A she gives us
[International Day of Women & Girls in Science] A/Prof Ong Soh Khim featured in DiscovHER by Science Centre Singapore
Assoc Prof Ong Soh Khim is featured in DiscovHer 2022: “Inspiring the NeXXt Generation” by Science Centre Singapore, an event organised in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science that falls on 11 February every year. Find out more at https://www.science.edu.sg/whats-on/workshops-activities/discovher.
Asst Prof Shin Sunmi wins ACerS Global Young Investigator Award
Congrats to Asst Prof Shin Sunmi for receiving the The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)’s Global Young Investigator Award! The ACerS Global Young Investigator (GYI) award recognises the outstanding young ceramic engineer and scientist whose achievements have been significant to the profession and to the general welfare of the community around the globe. As award