Highlights

Recovered carbon black for multicolour fluorescence displays

Recovered carbon black for multicolour fluorescence displays

April 18, 2019

NUS physicists have discovered that recovered carbon black powder can be transformed by laser treatment to give a wide range…

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Carbon dioxide to methanol conversion

Carbon dioxide to methanol conversion

April 05, 2019

NUS chemists have developed a highly efficient nanostructured catalyst based on zinc and silver that can convert carbon dioxide, an…

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Sentiment analysis for portfolio management

Sentiment analysis for portfolio management

April 01, 2019

NUS data scientists have developed a deep learning-based text data analytics method to extract sentiment information from analyst reports for…

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Two (boron) is better than one

Two (boron) is better than one

March 28, 2019

NUS chemists have developed a cost effective method to synthesise geminal organodiboron compounds which are versatile chemical building blocks for…

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Detecting ethylene, the fruit ripening hormone

Detecting ethylene, the fruit ripening hormone

March 26, 2019

NUS chemists have developed fluorescent probes for the detection of ethylene gas for fruit harvesting and storage. Ethylene is a…

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Motion control at the nanoscale

Motion control at the nanoscale

March 18, 2019

NUS physicists have designed a bipedal nanowalker that can change its walking manner and direction by adjusting the length of…

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A ratiometric fluorescent probe for cisplatin

A ratiometric fluorescent probe for cisplatin

February 19, 2019

NUS chemists have developed a novel ratiometric fluorescent probe for studying cellular activity of the clinically important anticancer drug cisplatin…

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Phase transition dynamics in two-dimensional (2D) materials

Phase transition dynamics in two-dimensional (2D) materials

February 12, 2019

NUS scientists have discovered the mechanism involved when transition metal dichalcogenides on metallic substrates transform from the semiconducting 1H-phase to…

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Highly complex two-dimensional tessellation in the molecular world

Highly complex two-dimensional tessellation in the molecular world

February 11, 2019

NUS scientists have developed a method to construct highly complex molecular tessellations using a single molecular building block. Tessellation is…

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Dengue infection correlates to dynamics rather than morphologies

Dengue infection correlates to dynamics rather than morphologies

February 07, 2019

NUS biophysicists have discovered new conformational changes and structural dynamics of the dengue virus during their transmission to human hosts.Dengue…

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Genomic contamination threatens endangered Milky Storks in Singapore

Genomic contamination threatens endangered Milky Storks in Singapore

January 31, 2019

Researchers from NUS and Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) have discovered that the endangered Milky Storks’ conservation is threatened through cross-breeding…

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Haze smoke affects butterfly caterpillars

Haze smoke affects butterfly caterpillars

January 19, 2019

NUS biologists have discovered that haze affects the survival and development of butterflies, which could have an adverse impact on…

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