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03 Dec 2014
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
A research team in South Korea has developed a technology that can manipulate a polarized light in broadband operation with the use of a metamaterial.
03 Dec 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Upsetting the stability of super-small gold clusters generates multifaceted nanocrystals with potent catalytic properties
03 Dec 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Flexible metal–organic frameworks with a range of pore sizes are made by threading through molecular ligands
03 Dec 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A green route to key molecular building blocks delivers a continuous stream of products
03 Dec 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Confining tiny gold colloids inside nanoscale templates reveals how to design complex structures beyond the capabilities of conventional lithography
01 Dec 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Environmentally friendly paving block that can keep the air clean
01 Dec 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Protective nano-coating and anti-erasing ink can prevent tampering product information on packaging.
01 Dec 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Faculty members of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design's Environment and Interior Design discipline are exhibiting their project at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
01 Dec 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Companies in an A*STAR IMRE-led industry consortium will have access to new active packaging that protects perishables with a layered plastic that is not only extremely effective at keeping out oxygen and moisture, but extends the shelf-life of food by absorbing oxygen that may be present in packaging.
25 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
A research team led by Prof. Keon Jae Lee of KAIST provides an easier methodology to realize high performance flexible electronics by using the Inorganic-based Laser Lift-off (ILLO), which enables nanoscale processes for high density flexible devices and high temperature processes that were previously difficult to achieve on plastic substrates.
25 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
SIMTech invention can be used in an array of industries, and is critical for next generation ultra-precision systems
24 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) has held on 24 November its press conference for ISSCC 2015.
20 Nov 2014
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Saint-Gobain and CNRS, both headquartered in France, jointly established UMI-LINK at NIMS in Tsukuba City, Japan, where the three organizations launched research and development activities.
20 Nov 2014
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Dr. Masamitsu Hayashi, senior research scientist of NIMS, the Magnetic materials unit, was awarded the Sir Martin Wood Prize at the Millennium Science Forum.
20 Nov 2014
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
A lecturer from Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), was awarded the Merit Award for Excellence and Award for Excellence from the Nigerian government recently.
20 Nov 2014
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University
The Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules（WPI-ITbM）has been highlighted as a 'ChemSites' article in SYNFORM (2014/12).
20 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
More than 100 Pre-orders Prior to Product Launch Made
20 Nov 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) announced on 20th November two new funding programmes, namely HKSTP-PolyU Tech Incubation Fund (TIF) and PolyU Tech Launchpad Fund (TLF)
19 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
An agent-based model that analyzes commuters’ travel data will improve the Singapore rail experience
19 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Waste is reduced through the cheap and green development of a catalyst for the transformation of a commercially important functional group
19 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
The countries most threatened by the Ebola virus —Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea— are also those with the fewest resources to report on the crisis. Three international organizations have launched an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign to get vital equipment to local radio stations in the worst-affected areas.
13 Nov 2014
University of Malaya
The research paper published in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials presents a comprehensive survey on the state-of-the-art channel assignment algorithms in cognitive radio networks and discusses open research issues and challenges of channel assignment in the cognitive radio networks.
12 Nov 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Integrating force feedback into therapies for impaired hands
11 Nov 2014
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Leading education researchers and practitioners meeting in China make a series of recommendations calling for the wider uptake of inquiry-based science education (IBSE) methods in more countries around the world.
11 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and its partner institutions will bring its expertise in aerospace to the Asia Aerospace City in Malaysia
05 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A combination of X-ray diffraction and computational techniques can determine unknown crystal structures in powder mixtures
05 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A multifunctional testing instrument helps improve production of laser-heated hard disk drives with enhanced storage capacities
05 Nov 2014
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A long-lived catalyst facilitates the first steps toward a viable small-scale on-board hydrogen generator
02 Nov 2014
Asia Research News
The Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and Select Biosciences South East Asia present the second annual Lab-on-a-Chip Asia – Microfluidics and Point-of-Care Diagnostics.
30 Oct 2014
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Researchers at the University of Lorraine in France say that quasicrystals, a type of complex metal alloy with crystal-like properties, can be useful in the design of new composite materials.
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