RESEARCH NEWS
Concrete to Chocolate: How Abhimanyu Goel 3D-prints across scales
Ar Abhimanyu Goel brings together sustainable concrete and artisanal chocolate, exploring how digital design and 3D printing can bridge engineering, creativity and sustainability.
NUS CDE researcher Abhimanyu Goel recognised for advances in low-carbon construction
Early Career Scientist Award at the 8th Asia Pacific Biochar Conference (APBC 2026) recognises his research into innovative approaches to reducing the carbon footprint of construction.
From seaweed to wound dressings: Engineering from the problem up
A field experience in Timor-Leste taught two NUS Biomedical Engineering students why developing useful solutions starts with understanding the problem.
SHINE 2.0 sets sights on next generation of semiconductor innovation
Bringing together nearly 250 researchers and industry leaders, the SHINE 2.0 workshop at CDE highlighted new technologies and partnerships aimed at meeting the growing computing demands of AI.
NUS CDE researchers awarded funding to scale up low-carbon technologies
Three projects will receive support to advance promising technologies in carbon capture and hydrogen production towards industrial deployment.
NUS CDE’s Assoc Prof Raymond Ong joins airport pavement centre leadership
New initiative by Changi Airports International aims to improve the safety, reliability and sustainability of airport infrastructure worldwide.
NUS CDE researchers map individual reactions to guide better catalyst design
A new imaging method reveals differences across catalyst surfaces, offering insights that could help researchers improve materials for hydrogen production and other chemical processes.
NUS researchers reveal how stiffer ovarian tissue can impair egg development
Targeting a signalling pathway helped restore connections between eggs and the cells that nourish them, improving egg maturation in laboratory experiments.
Start with the problem, not the discipline: Rethinking solutions to sustainability challenges
Recently named the inaugural NUS Keppel Professor in Sustainability Solutions, NUS CDE’s Prof Rajasekhar Balasubramanian reflects on three decades of tackling complex sustainability challenges and translating research into real-world solutions.
Building the next generation of semiconductor talent in collaboration with Applied Materials and Micron
New graduate scholarships awarded through CDE’s Master of Science in Semiconductor Technology & Operations (MSc STO) programme
NUS CDE researchers unlock dexterous soft-robot motion from a single artificial muscle
Taking inspiration from the octopus’s neural connections, NUS CDE researchers have developed a way to produce dexterous soft-robot motion from a single artificial muscle.
NUS CDE researchers design AI hardware that filters out irrelevant visual data
A versatile transistor enables AI hardware to filter image data before analysis and adapt to different tasks, reducing energy consumption with little loss of accuracy.