What's New@Physics

A new physical principle behind quantum physics

Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszliskowski, Valerio Scarani and Andreas Winter from CQT, together with co-workers of the University of Gdansk (Poland), propose a new physical principle called "information causality" in a paper published in Nature. If this principle is enforced, the number of theories that can
describe our world is drastically reduced. This might explain why no phenomenon has ever been observed that would go beyond quantum physics.

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High-performance polymer semiconducting heterostructure devices by nitrene-mediated photocrosslinking of alkyl side-chains.

This paper describes a breakthrough in polymer organic semiconductor devices through the development
of a class of benign photocrosslinkers that overcomes the long-standing re-dissolution problem of polymer films to enable high-performance polymer devices and solar cells to be fabricated using general heterostructure engineering...

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All you wanted to know in quantum cryptography...

... has now been reviewed for you by Valerio Scarani of CQT and his co-authors, in a publication in Reviews of Modern Physics.
Link to publication: Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1301 (2009)

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Why S'pore needs more people to study physics

A waning interest in physics here has raised questions about how this will affect Singapore's economic progress. Amresh Gunasingham speaks to former chief defence scientist Lui Pao Chuen, who is trying to turn the situation around...

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Eight NUS research projects awarded grants by A*STAR

Asst/Prof Jeroen Anton Van Kan's research project titled "Development of Novel Methods of Fabricating Metallic Nano Injection Molds for Lab-on-chip Biomedical Sample Preparation and DNA Analysis Applications" is one of the eight NUS research projects awarded grants by A*STAR ...

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Doping graphene: Molecular tuning.

Professor Feng and colleagues in Singapore and China report that the adsorption of organic molecules onto graphene could allow the electronic properties of graphene to be controlled and tuned. Their first-principles calculations show that a charge-transfers...

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Research assistant opening in single-molecule force and fluorescence lab for joint project in RCE in Mechanobiology.

Successful candidate will be working on single-molecule experiments of proteins and protein-protein interactions...

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NanoCore PhD studentships in Nanotechnology available:

Excellent students from all scientific and engineering, as well as biomedical disciplines are welcome to apply for PhD studentships. Students whom we are recruiting typically are in the top 10% of their class and have shown the ambition and ability to immerse themselves in challenging, high impact research ...

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