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Why do predators sometimes lay dormant eggs — eggs which are hardy, but take a long time to hatch, and are expensive to produce?

Researchers from SUTD and SUSTech proposed an approach which integrated oscillation-assisted DLP 3D printing with grayscale UV exposure to render an ultrafast and flexible fabrication of microlens arrays with optical surface smoothness.

Without relying on the Dirac cone approximation, this new thermionic emission model allows a wide array of graphene-based devices operating at different temperatures and energy regimes to be universally described under a single framework

The three-dimensional quantum Hall effect was predicted more than 30 years ago, but has not been observed until now by the Singapore University of Technology and Design together with international researchers.

“Every cell, organism and species, and species assemblage and ecosystem, is necessarily mortal, yet the biosphere persists,” said Assistant Professor Cheong.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yang Shengyuan for the published paper in the Nature Journal.

It is the first experimental demonstration of an interesting quantum effect, called the three-dimensional quantum Hall effect. This effect was predicted more than 30 years ago, but has not been observed until this published work.

To read the published paper, please click here.

ScienMag has recently published an article about this research project. To read the article, please click here.

This research highlight can also be found at /Research/Research-News/2019/8/Researchers-demonstrate-three-dimensional-quantum

The presented optical security devices have potential applications in deterring counterfeiting of important documents and packages of high-value medicines.

“We first analysed chemical big data and spotted a pattern between molecular structures and fluorescent properties. After understanding this TICS process, we then designed a probe to prove this concept,” said Assistant Professor Liu.

In essence, this work communicates a new synthetic ‘tool’ for chemists which operates in an unconventional and intriguing manner, paving the way for the design of other asymmetric reactions based on halogen-bonding interactions.

Researchers from the SUTD and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) proposed a paradigm to use finite-element simulations and hybrid multimaterial 3D printing to design and manufacture fast-response, stiffness-tunable (FRST) soft actuators which are able to complete a softening-stiffening cycle within 32 seconds.