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09 Mar 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Modeling the motion of chips produced in gun drilling shows a simple angle change could lead to better gun drill design.
08 Mar 2017
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, held the signboard-hanging ceremony to commemorate the official launch of the Center for Core and Fundamental Nuclear D&D Research on March 3, 2017.
08 Mar 2017
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed the most energy-efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) filament technology.
07 Mar 2017
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Researchers developed a semi-transparent organic solar cell that achieves better efficiency and transparency than existing ones, according to a recent study in the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM).
06 Mar 2017
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Professor Cheung Yiu-ming from the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), and his team has invented a new technology entitled “lip motion password” (lip password) which utilises a person’s lip motions to create a password.
06 Mar 2017
Nagoya University
Nagoya University-led collaboration develops a pioneering nanobiodevice that can isolate cancer biomarkers quickly with high resolution.
02 Mar 2017
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
A joint research team in Japan developed a mesh which can be wrapped around injured peripheral nerves to facilitate their regeneration and restore their functions.
02 Mar 2017
Tohoku University
A research group at Tohoku University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a molecular robot consisting of biomolecules, such as DNA and protein.
01 Mar 2017
Asia Research News
An invitation to attend BioPharma Asia Convention Keynote Plenary
28 Feb 2017
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Silicon nanowires fabricated using an imprinting technology could be the way of the future for transistor-based biosensors.
27 Feb 2017
Tohoku University
Researchers have created a high performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using waste silicon (Si) sawdust.
27 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Scientists find a way to control the way cracks form and spread to make a coating for electrochromic materials.
27 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A simple etching technique offers a means for creating left-handed and right-handed nanostructures.
27 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Laser-based measurements reveal just how small each magnetic ‘bit’ could be using the next generation hard disk technology known as heat-assisted magnetic recording.
27 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Assembling nanorods into complexes shaped like sea urchins may enable real-time imaging of cell components, including DNA.
27 Feb 2017
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and China Aerospace International Holdings Ltd. (CASIL), a public-listed subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), reached a strategic collaborative research framework agreement to advance aerospace engineering.
24 Feb 2017
Hokkaido University
A team of Hokkaido University scientists has succeeded in creating “fiber-reinforced soft composites,” or tough hydrogels combined with woven fiber fabric. These fabrics are highly flexible, tougher than metals, and have a wide range of potential applications.
21 Feb 2017
Asia Research News
This year’s line-up of speakers included some of the brightest minds in the areas of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, smart cities, space exploration, augmented and virtual reality, computing and materials science.
17 Feb 2017
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Major advancement in understanding the cause of high resistivity at the electrode–electrolyte interfaces, which has been hindering the development of high power density batteries.
17 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A new circuit scheme would greatly increase the accuracy of high-density spin-based data storage.
17 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Dropping the carbon from a key battery component could finally enable long-life, low-cost grid-connected batteries for renewable energy storage.
17 Feb 2017
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Electrons play a key role in heat transport through 2D tin sheets.
17 Feb 2017
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
A National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) research group discovered that the amount of friction force between organic molecules and a sapphire substrate in a vacuum can be changed repeatedly by starting and stopping laser light irradiation.
16 Feb 2017
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Blue light emitting diodes sparked a revolution in lighting technology and “now everything is LEDs” according to Assistant Professor Dr. Chanyaporn Chuntamara, School of Architecture and Design at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.
15 Feb 2017
Asia Research News
Highlighting the Trend of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles
14 Feb 2017
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University
A new computational method may improve the control of nanomaterial fabrication.
14 Feb 2017
Asia Research News
Over 500 new inventions, ideas and designs to commercialize and invest in.
08 Feb 2017
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
World’s thinnest oxide semiconductor is just one atom thick, thanks to a new method developed by a research team at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. This may open up new possibilities for thin, transparent, and flexible electronic devices, such as ultra-small sensors.
Giants in history
Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt (29 November 1926 – 13 September 2012) conducted research on how the sun affects environmental conditions on the moon.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.
Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) pioneered the use of optical fibres to transmit images, and founded several optical technology companies. Born in Punjab, India, he worked at a local optical instruments factory before moving to London for PhD studies at Imperial College. There, he devised a flexible fibrescope to convey images along bundles of glass fibres.
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who invented the tube principle, which formed the basis for modern skyscraper design.
A Japanese surgeon, Tetsuzo Akutsu (20 August 1922 – 9 August 2007) built the first artificial heart capable of keeping an animal alive.
Lin Lanying (7 February 1918 – 4 March 2003) was a Chinese material engineer remembered for her contributions to the field of semiconductor and aerospace materials. Lanying was born into a family who did not believe in educating girls and she was not allowed to go to school.
Gregorio Y. Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer and physicist best remembered for inventing the first two-way video telephone. Zara’s video telephone invention enabled the caller and recipient to see each other while conversing, laying the foundation for video-conferencing