Highlights

Data-driven discovery of NbOI<sub>2</sub> as a high performance layered piezoelectric

Data-driven discovery of NbOI2 as a high performance layered piezoelectric

August 05, 2022

NUS scientists have identified two-dimensional (2D) materials that exhibit large piezoelectric effects for potential use in wearable sensors.

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Sustainable electro-synthesis of esters

Sustainable electro-synthesis of esters

July 27, 2022

NUS chemists have discovered how acetate esters could be electro-synthesised from water and carbon monoxide in an environmentally sustainable way….

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Efficacious and safe drug for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

Efficacious and safe drug for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

July 18, 2022

NUS pharmaceutical scientists have developed an improved pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of irregular heart rhythm, known as atrial fibrillation….

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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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Simulation technologies for optimising COVID-19 drug therapies

Simulation technologies for optimising COVID-19 drug therapies

June 30, 2022

NUS pharmaceutical scientists have developed a modelling and simulation strategy to evaluate the pharmacotherapy of COVID-19 related drugs and help…

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Learning motifs and their hierarchies in atomic-resolution microscopy

Learning motifs and their hierarchies in atomic-resolution microscopy

June 21, 2022

NUS researchers have developed a human-explainable machine learning scheme that rapidly identifies previously unseen novel structures in disordered materials without…

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Alignment of quantized levels in valleytronic materials

Alignment of quantized levels in valleytronic materials

June 13, 2022

NUS researchers have predicted that Landau levels belonging to different valleys in a two-dimensional (2D) valleytronic material, monolayer tungsten diselenide…

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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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A simple method to determine phase preference of proteins on live cell membranes

A simple method to determine phase preference of proteins on live cell membranes

May 12, 2022

NUS scientists have demonstrated a simple and fast method to determine if a biomolecule partitions into lipid domains on live…

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A biologic drug for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A biologic drug for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

April 24, 2022

NUS scientists have discovered a novel anti-inflammatory action of a lung resident protein Isthmin 1 (ISM1) and demonstrated its potential…

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Single-molecule experiments reveal force capability of artificial molecular motors

Single-molecule experiments reveal force capability of artificial molecular motors

April 13, 2022

NUS physicists have shown that a single man-made molecular motor can exhibit a force similar to naturally occurring ones which…

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