Highlights

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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Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries
December 22, 2021NUS scientists have developed a general wet-chemistry approach for the scalable and automated synthesis of a library of ultra-high-density single-atom…
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Predicting high temperature Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons
December 06, 2021NUS researchers have predicted that an exotic state of matter, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, can exist at relatively high…
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Visualising designer quantum states in stable macrocycle quantum corrals
October 27, 2021NUS scientists have devised an on-surface synthetic protocol to construct atomically-precise and stable organic quantum corrals (OQCs), which induce a…
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Molecule-mediated surface reconstruction enables giant upconversion luminescence enhancement
September 20, 2021NUS researchers have developed a synthetic method to enhance upconversion luminescence in protein-sized lanthanide-doped nanocrystals by surface reconstruction through molecule…
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Controllable surface defect engineering on transition-metal trichalcogenide
July 22, 2021NUS scientists have developed a method for controllable introduction of two different types of sulphur vacancies into zirconium trisulfide (ZrS3…)
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