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IHPC Research Highlights

The articles here are contributed by IHPC's scientists and researchers, comprising of individual or collaborative efforts with other research institutes to co-create innovative technology or capability that solves major scientific, industrial and societal challenges. Click on each article to read more.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to deep dive on research works and contribute to Singapore's economic and societal growth.

Additive Manufacturing

spraying metallic powders on the surface of worn-out aircraft components

Cold Spray’s Hot Potential in Repairing Aircraft

Simulations of Laser Assisted Additive Manufacturing by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Artificial Intelligence

Getting a Headstart on Predictions

Keypoint-based visual servoing framework (KOVIS)

Guiding Hand-eye Coordination in Robots

Teaching Robots by Example

Artificial Intelligence to Detect Papilledema from Ocular Fundus Photographs

Referral for Disease-related Visual Impairment using Retinal Photograph-based Deep Learning: A Proof-of-Concept

Predicting Diffusion Data

Giving Handheld Devices a Computing Edge

Seeing Clearly Through the Haze

Targeting The Root of The Problem

The Ripple Effects of Supply Chain Disruptions

Chemistry & Polymers

A*STAR Research Interview - Jacqueline Tan

Accelerating Discoveries in Chemistry with AI

Smoothing The Path for Conductive Polymers

Enabling Superior Sodium Capture for Efficient Water Desalination by a Tubular Polyaniline Decorated with Prussian Blue Nanocrystals

Polymer Power Potential

A Hard Look at Polymers in Cement Mix

Formula for Flavor

Simulating the Shapes of Nanoflakes

WIEN2k: An APW+lo Program for Calculating the Properties of Solids

COVID-19

Did Singapore’s circuit breaker’ work?

Simulating A Water Droplet

Mapping Cough Droplets In-flight

Dispersion of Evaporating Cough Droplets in Tropical Outdoor Environment

Going with The Flow

Electronics & Photonics

Limiting Light Loss

Next-generation innovations in imaging and communications

Bringing Integrated Avalanche Detectors into the (Visible) Light

Molecular Blemishes Boost Batteries

Catching the Culprit in Electromagnetic Interference

Shining A Way Forward for On-chip Lasers

Designing Binders for the Batteries of Tomorrow

How dementia and hearing loss are linked

A Quantum Leap for Biosensors

Reconfigurable Photon Sources Based on Quantum Plexcitonic Systems

High Oscillator Strength Interlayer Excitons in Two-dimensional Heterostructures for Mid-infrared Photodetection

Helping Devices Take the Heat

Control of LED Emission with Functional Dielectric Metasurfaces

Piezoelectricity made simple

Ceramic Holds Promise for Greener Optical Devices

Collective Mie Resonances for Directional On-Chip Nanolasers

Paving The Way for Electronic Applications

A Surface That Makes Light Work

Light, Finely Sliced

Atomic Nitrogen Route to 2D Semiconductors

Atomic Nitrogen Route to New 2D Semiconductors

Giant Piezoelectricity in Oxide Thin Films with Nanopillar Structure

A Tip for Future Nanoscale Sensing

Efficient Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation and Control over Outcoupling Mechanisms in Metal–Insulator–Metal Tunneling Junctions

A Shot in the Arm for Spintronics

Taking the Edge Off Nanoscale Heat

Metals & Alloys

Machine Learning Helps Ultra-strong Alloys Take Off

Lightweight, high-strength, single-phase HEAs

A Modern Twist to Ancient Alloys

Alloys as Electricity-generating Allies

Hall-Petch and Inverse Hall-Petch Relations in High-entropy CoNiFeAlxCu1-x Alloys

MXimizing the Power of Alloys

Finding a Premium Blend

Suppressing Sound in Extreme Places

Quantum

Delving into a Spectrum of Quantum Capabilities

A New Recipe for Quantum Computers

Shining a Light on Quantum Materials

Stepping Stone to A Quantum Future

Sentiment Analysis

Sensing Emotions in a Crisis

Predicting and Understanding News Social Popularity with Emotional Salience Features

Global Sentiments Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter: Analysis of Twitter Trends

Data Analysis Tool Empowers the People

Reading Between the Lines

Transport

A Spatiotemporal Dynamic Analyses Approach for Dockless Bike-share System

EPIC STAR: A Reliable and Efficient Approach for Phonon- and Impurity-limited Charge Transport Calculations

Reducing Commuters’ Wait Time

Green Lights All The Way

Urban & Sustainability

Wind Loading on Scaled Down Fractal Tree Models of Major Urban Tree Species in Singapore

Minimizing Our Plastic Waste Footprint

Designing Today’s Cities for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Evaluation of Glazing Retrofitting Solution for the Tropics

Early Dengue Outbreak Detection Modeling Based on Dengue Incidences in Singapore during 2012 to 2017

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