What's New@Physics

Charge-Transfer-Based Mechanism for Half-Metallicity and Ferromagnetism in One-Dimensional Organometallic Sandwich Molecular Wires

The Journal of American Chemistry Society (JACS) recently published a quiz based on the work of Lei Shen, Shuo-Wang Yang, Man-Fai Ng, Valeri Ligatchev, Liping Zhou, and Yuanping Feng in their article entitled "Charge-Transfer-Based Mechanism for Half-Metallicity and Ferromagnetism in One-Dimensional Organometallic Sandwich Molecular Wires" in JACS Image Challenge #73. The goal of this series of challenges is to provide an interactive, enjoyable experience for all users, and particularly valuable to
advance the understanding of students in such topics. Click here to meet the challenge.

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China Immersion Trip, CHIP 2010

The China Immersion programme (CHIP) 2010 is open for registration now. The immersion trip will be heavily subsidized by the Faculty of Science and the Physics Department, and an affordable contribution will be paid by the students. Click here for registration form, itinernary and poster. Please submit your forms before 23 Feb 2010.

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Germany Immersion Trip 2010

The immersion trip will be heavily subsidized by the Faculty of Science and the Physics Department, and an affordable contribution will be paid by the students. It is open to all NUS Physics students. Application for 2010 trip is available now. Click here for more information.

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A Rotational DNA Nanomotor Driven by an Externally Controlled Electric Field.

Continuous rotation of DNA around its phosphate backbone is achieved with a simple nanomotor,
which is driven by an electric field oscillated between four orientations (see image on the right). The motor consists of a DNA rotor and a partially single-stranded DNA axle held between a surface and a magnetic bead. Rotation is caused by realignment of the rotor DNA with the oscillated electric field.

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The need to prepare students for a lifetime of careers

In the first World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held at Doha, Qatar on 16 Nov 2009, Professor B V R Chowdari said universities must have global vision, perspectives and aspirations and offer multiple pathways such as double major, double degree and joint degree. Click press coverage 1, and press coverage 2 for more information.

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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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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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