Producing semiconductor lasers on a silicon wafer is a long-held goal for the electronics industry, but their fabrication has proved challenging. Now, researchers at A*STAR have developed an innovative way to manufacture ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 14, 2017
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The huge doses of drugs required to combat cancer could be reduced thanks to the work of A*STAR researchers, and the drugs themselves may become more effective. The researchers have developed a polymeric 'scaffold' that helps ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 21, 2016
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Researchers in Singapore have developed a new protein that can alter DNA in living cells with much higher precision than current methods.
Biochemistry
Sep 13, 2016
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Selective ion transport is the foundation of water purification technology, as well as underpinning a range of biological effects—such as the function of nerves—and diagnostic technologies that use ion-sensitive electrodes ...
Materials Science
Aug 10, 2016
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Three-dimensional (3D) movies, which require viewers to wear stereoscopic glasses, have become very popular in recent years. However, the 3D effect produced by the glasses cannot provide perfect depth cues. Furthermore, it ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 4, 2015
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A scheme for greatly increasing the number of colors that can be produced by arrays of tiny aluminum nanodisks has been demonstrated by A*STAR scientists.
Nanophysics
Jan 21, 2015
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Green tea has long been known for its anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-aging and anti-microbial properties. A group of researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR has taken the health ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 6, 2014
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Thanks to the positively and negatively charged units in their monomers, zwitterionic polymers have a high affinity for water—a property known as hydrophilicity. This property helps prevent fouling, namely the build-up ...
Polymers
Jul 30, 2014
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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) rely on dyes that absorb light to mobilize a current of electrons and are a promising source of clean energy. Jishan Wu at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 30, 2014
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Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to create an artificial neural network capable of rivaling the speed and accuracy of the human visual cortex. Now, Haizhou Li and Huajin Tang at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm ...
Engineering
Jul 16, 2014
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