{"id":2526,"date":"2020-11-25T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=2526"},"modified":"2022-12-27T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T04:30:30","slug":"a-p-duong-hai-minh-and-teams-upcycled-aerogels-wins-ies-prestigious-engineering-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/a-p-duong-hai-minh-and-teams-upcycled-aerogels-wins-ies-prestigious-engineering-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"A\/P Duong Hai Minh and team&#8217;s upcycled aerogels wins IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2416 alignnone\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/09\/pineapple-aerogel_team_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/09\/pineapple-aerogel_team_web.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/09\/pineapple-aerogel_team_web-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/09\/pineapple-aerogel_team_web-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>A\/Prof Duong Hai Minh (centre) and team with their aerogels<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Associate Professor Duong Hai Minh and team for winning the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award! The winning project, titled &#8220;Recycling Various Wastes into High-Valued Engineering Aerogel Materials&#8221;, entails the creation of light and strong aerogels from a variety of waste materials such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/news\/turning-pineapple-waste-into-high-value-aerogel\/\">pineapple leaves<\/a>, old tyres, coffee grounds and plastic bottles \u2013 for a tenth of the cost and 18 times faster compared to standard aerogels. During manufacturing, no toxic solvent is used; much less energy is being consumed; and no toxic waste is disposed into the environment. Additionally, the aerogels can also be reused and recycled.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/news\/nus-engineers-recognised-at-ies-achievement-awards-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Some of the team&#8217;s aerogel projects thus far:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/upcycling-pineapple-leaves-into-eco-aerogels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upcycling pineapple leaves into eco-aerogels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/me-researchers-develop-worlds-first-aerogels-made-from-scrap-rubber-tyres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NUS ME researchers develop world\u2019s first aerogels made from scrap rubber tyres<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/news\/from-plastic-waste-to-ultralight-pet-aerogel-with-wide-ranging-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From plastic waste to ultralight PET aerogel with wide-ranging applications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/news\/turning-old-clothes-into-multifunctional-cotton-aerogels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turning old clothes into multifunctional cotton aerogels<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\/Prof Duong Hai Minh (centre) and team with their aerogels Congrats to Associate Professor Duong Hai Minh and team for winning the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award! The winning project, titled &#8220;Recycling Various Wastes into High-Valued Engineering Aerogel Materials&#8221;, entails the creation of light and strong aerogels from a variety of waste materials such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2416,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[39,46],"class_list":["post-2526","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-all-me","news_category-staff-achievement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14071,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2526\/revisions\/14071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}