Welcome Professor Barbaros Ozyilmaz

Professor Barbaros Ozyilmaz will be joining the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) as the Head of Department with effect from 1 July 2019. Prof Ozyilmaz who joined NUS in the Department of Physics has been associated with the Department of MSE through a courtesy joint appointment since 2015. He is a highly prolific researcher who is among the top cited researchers in the world. He is also the founding member and Deputy Director for the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D materials, a world-leading graphene research group. His research interests are in spin transport and spin transfer torque in nanoscale magnets; charge, spin and heat transport properties of nanoscale graphene devices; and applications of graphene in the areas of data storage, data processing, flexible electronics, spintronics, displays, touch panels, batteries, supercapacitors and tissue engineering. A highlight of some of his research achievements are having broken new ground with the creation of a graphene-based transparent, flexible electrode that delivers superior performance over the commercial indium tin oxide electrode, significantly impacting the development of a broad spectrum of devices, from solar cells to touch screens, being the first to establish the fundamental spin transport properties of large-scale graphene, proving the feasibility of large-scale graphene for spintronics applications and the first to produce in collaboration with scientists from Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University graphene on an industrially relevant scale and first to demonstrate its potential for touch panel applications. He had also pioneered the use of graphene as a biomaterial in tissue engineering and stem cell therapies, promising to advance many areas in biomedicine.

CDE Awards and Recognition Ceremony 2024

The CDE Awards and Recognition is an annual ceremony to celebrate faculty who display excellence in their research and a passion for teaching. This year’s ceremony was held at CDE’s EA building on 23 April 2024 and included awards and recognition for:  Provost’s Chair  Dean’s Chair  Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2023  Outstanding Early Career Award

High-Mobility Compensated Semimetals, Orbital Magnetization, and Umklapp Scattering in Bilayer Graphene Moiré Superlattices

NUS Materials Science and Engineering Asst. Prof. Denis Bandurin’s research team at CMX-lab has made significant advancements in terahertz-enabled sample characterisation. They have developed a novel approach that intertwines conventional low-temperature magnetotransport measurements with intricate electronic effects, actuated by the incident terahertz radiation. The immense potential of this method was unveiled during the testing on

Long-Life Solid-State Batteries by Intelligent Composites with Active Interfaces

The Singapore National Research Foundation announced that it awarded S$8.3M over 5 years to an interdisciplinary NUS team led by Associate Professor Stefan Adams(Materials Science and Engineering) for the CRP project “Long-Life Solid-State Batteries by Intelligent Composites with Active Interfaces”. To meet the urgent need for safe, sustainable high-density energy storage, the team comprising the