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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.

A/Prof Tan Swee Ching and his team have successfully developed a new method of optically manipulating metal work function. Work function of a material is typically known to be independent of light intensity based on our present understanding. However, the team has discovered a special case where there is a ‘light-intensity dependent’ change in work

A Mechanoresponsive Phase-Changing Electrolyte Enables Fabrication of High-Output Solid-State Photobioelectrochemical Devices from Pigment-Protein Multilayers. Natural photosynthetic proteins have many attractions as materials for new solar technologies but they also have limitations in terms of stability. Solid state architectures have the potential to overcome these limitations but it had been challenging to fabricate effective interfaces with