Highlights

Wonders of glowing human hair waste
June 30, 2023National 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
May 26, 2023National 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
April 18, 2023National 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
April 14, 2023National 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
April 06, 2023National 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
March 30, 2023National 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
February 09, 2023NUS 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
July 06, 2022NUS 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
June 01, 2022NUS 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
May 25, 2022NUS 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
February 24, 2022NUS 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
January 19, 2022NUS chemists have developed hydrophobic porous nanochannels of covalent organic frameworks which can be used to confine and transport water…
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