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Two exceptional NUS researchers have been named in Tatler’s Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2025, a prestigious list celebrating young changemakers across Asia who are shaping the future of their fields. The NUS honourees, Associate Professor Benjamin Tee and Assistant Professor Jocelyn Chew Han Shi, embody the spirit of innovation and public impact, translating cutting-edge science

  Clean, safe water is vital for human health and well-being. It also plays a critical role in our food security, supports high-tech industries, and enables sustainable urbanisation. However, detecting contamination quickly and accurately remains a major challenge in many parts of the world. A groundbreaking new device developed by researchers at CDE has the

Asst. Prof. Denis Bandurin’s research team (NUS Materials Science and Engineering and Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials) has reported experimental observations of nonreciprocal supercurrent flow in topological insulator/superconductor hybrid structures. Their work contributes to addressing a long-standing question about the possible presence of exotic quasiparticles known as Majorana bound states (MBSs) in such systems. The

Antiferromagnetic materials are becoming increasingly crucial in advanced technologies such as spintronics, magnetic memory and sensors, high-frequency electronics, and quantum computing. Chiral antiferromagnetic materials are a special class of these materials where the arrangement of magnetic moments (spins) not only alternates as in ordinary antiferromagnets, but forms a special magnetic octupole structure. This feature enables the

Researchers in Dr. Andrew B. Wong’s lab have built model electrode materials that lets them watch— and quantify—how tiny variations in local (micro)environment dictate the outcome of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂RR). CO2RR uses renewable energy to convert CO2 into useful chemicals such as ethanol and ethylene towards the broader goal of achieving

The CDE Awards and Recognition Ceremony is held annually to celebrate faculty who display excellence in their research and a passion for teaching. This year’s ceremony was held at CDE’s Lecture Theatre 7A on 21 April 2025 and included awards and recognition for: Provost’s Chair Dean’s Chair CDE Young Researcher Award 2025 CDE Researcher Award

Further cementing its position among the world’s best, CDE has been named in the global top 10 for six subjects in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS WUR) by Subject 2025. In the ranking, released on 12 March 2025, CDE ranked in the global top five for three subjects: Civil and Structural Engineering,

Strain Control of Third Harmonic Generation in Nb2SiTe4 Driven by Tuneable Anisotropic Characteristics A study on the strain control of third-harmonic generation in Nb₂SiTe₄ driven by tunable anisotropic characteristics, led by fourth-year MSE undergraduate Yihang Ouyang under the supervision of Assistant Professor Maciej Koperski and Professor Kostya Novoselov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CDE,

Congratulations to Professor He Chaobin from The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS on his promotion to Full Professor! Renowned for expertise in Polymers, Prof. He Chaobin has consistently been an inspiring mentor, colleague, and friend. Read more about Prof. He Chaobin: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/mse/staff/he-chaobin/

Huge congratulations to Professor Chen Jingsheng for his elevation to IEEE Fellow! His appointment, effective 1 January 2025, was due to his contributions to magnetic materials and heterostructures for Magnetic Recording Technology and Spintronics. The grade of Fellow, the highest grade of IEEE membership, is conferred upon IEEE Senior Members with outstanding records of accomplishments

Assistant Professor Denis Bandurin (Materials Science and Engineering) has been honoured with the 2025 Young Scientist Award by the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), the first researcher based in Singapore to receive this prestigious award. The award recognises his groundbreaking research into the terahertz response of free electrons in solids. The

A novel aerogel that can efficiently harvest water from the air could be a solution to combatting the growing challenge of freshwater shortages around the world, particularly in arid and drought-prone regions. The aerogel, which can absorb up to 5.5 times its weight in water and perform even in low humidity environments, has been developed