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Professor Silvija Gradecak-Garaj joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering as a full Professor on 15 July 2019. She was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she held the position of Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. At NUS, she concurrently holds the appointment of Director in the Office of the Deputy

Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee group’s work featured as cover of Science Robotics  

Assistant Professor Benjamin Tee from NUS Materials Science and Engineering and NUS iHealthtech were among 21 young scientists from 10 countries selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to be in the Class of 2019 Young Scientists. Details

Welcome Dr He Qian on-boarding the Department of Materials Science and Engineering starting on 1 July 2019.

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

Warmly welcome Professor Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov, a Nobel Laureate, to join our department as a Distinguish Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Novoselov received his Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 in recognition of his contribution “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. At NUS, Prof Novoselov will lead a new research

Welcome Dr Soon Hwee Ping on-boarding the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute of Entrepreneur Leadership starting on 25 Feb 2019, as an Associate Professor (Practice). She did Materials Science at NUS, and therefore she is one of our outstanding alumni. Hwee Ping has been a senior research scientist at Robert Bosch Singapore

A/Prof Tan Swee Ching and his team have successfully developed a novel solar energy triggered, low-energy method to pull clean water from humid air that exists above sea surface. A super-hygroscopic hydrogel, capable of absorbing more than 4X its own weight with water was employed for the process. The team had constructed a floating prototype

Dr. Pieremanuele Canepa joined MSE department as Assistant Professor on 10 Sep 2018. Dr. Canepa’s research area is first-principles calculations, combined with, high-throughput methods to improve the understanding of the relationship between materials’ properties and their physical and chemical characteristics. His research focuses on deciphering the complex structure of liquid electrolytes and electrode interfaces, ion

Our heartiest congratulations to our MSE Class of 2018. We wish them the best in their future endeavours.

Continuously tune the work function of conductors in a wide range for the first time. Ouyang Jianyong and his team developed a novel method to continuously tune the work function of ITO, Ag, Au, PEDOT:PSS and rGO in a wide range by using controlling the ratio of Cu2+ to poly(amido amine) (generation 3) (PAMAM). The

Professor Shih Choon Fong, NUS University Professor and former NUS President, has been awarded the Centennial Medal by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) for his innovative research and leadership in higher education.