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Wonders of glowing human hair waste

Wonders of glowing human hair waste

June 30, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists transform human hair waste into a functional material by modifying its fluorescence properties with…

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Ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalyst for boosting water splitting reactions

Ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalyst for boosting water splitting reactions

May 26, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) chemists have developed a scalable hydrothermal approach for obtaining ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalysts which can…

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Towards controlling contact polarity and contact resistance in 2D-material devices

Towards controlling contact polarity and contact resistance in 2D-material devices

April 18, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists found that contacts made of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) and tungsten diselenide (WSe2) on gold…

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Giant room temperature magnetoresistance

Giant room temperature magnetoresistance

April 14, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers together with their collaborators have discovered a record-high magnetoresistance effect in high mobility graphene…

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Discovery of ferroelectricity in an elementary substance

Discovery of ferroelectricity in an elementary substance

April 06, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have discovered a novel form of ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer that can…

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Towards improving future electronic devices through oxide materials

Towards improving future electronic devices through oxide materials

March 30, 2023

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have demonstrated a new way of controlling Rashba interactions in oxide systems. This method…

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Aggregated gold nanoparticle conjugates for multimodal imaging and synergistic phototherapy

Aggregated gold nanoparticle conjugates for multimodal imaging and synergistic phototherapy

February 09, 2023

NUS chemists have discovered that aggregated photosensitizers conjugated gold nanoparticles can be used for multimodal imaging and synergistic phototherapy to…

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Sub-angstrom non-invasive imaging of the atomic arrangement in 2D hybrid perovskites

Sub-angstrom non-invasive imaging of the atomic arrangement in 2D hybrid perovskites

July 06, 2022

NUS scientists have demonstrated the non-invasive imaging of both the organic layers and underlying inorganic lattice of two-dimensional (2D) hybrid…

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Long-lost sister of high-temperature copper-oxide superconductor discovered

Long-lost sister of high-temperature copper-oxide superconductor discovered

June 01, 2022

NUS physicists have realised the superconductivity phenomenon in the lanthanide nickel-oxide, answering a theoretical prediction made about three decades ago….

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Electronic self-passivation of single vacancy in black phosphorus

Electronic self-passivation of single vacancy in black phosphorus

May 25, 2022

NUS scientists discovered that a two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting material, known as black phosphorus (BP), exhibits an electronic self-passivation phenomenon by…

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Distinct driving mechanisms for charge order in monolayer vanadium diselenide

Distinct driving mechanisms for charge order in monolayer vanadium diselenide

February 24, 2022

NUS physicists have discovered that monolayer vanadium diselenide (VSe2) has coexisting charge-ordered states with two distinct driving mechanisms. Charge density…

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Water clusters in hydrophobic crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks

Water clusters in hydrophobic crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks

January 19, 2022

NUS chemists have developed hydrophobic porous nanochannels of covalent organic frameworks which can be used to confine and transport water…

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