A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (A*STAR IMRE)

Researchers uncover a popular electronic material’s extraordinary ability to bend when exposed to light, opening new design options for microdevices and optomechanics.

Tiny chemical houses get a new engineering blueprint for building more orderly, robust and light-responsive structures that facilitate industrially relevant light-driven reactions.

Icy shocks turn atomic flaws into a performance advantage for magnesium-ion batteries, advancing them as safer and cheaper energy storage options.

Researchers develop a rapid colour-changing microlaser with phase-changing perovskites and a novel light trap, opening new possibilities in optical communications and sensing.

A molecular reshuffling strategy allows access to otherwise blocked sites on polystyrene’s structure, enabling the transformation of a major form of plastic waste into a new class of high-value chemicals.

Ultrafast light pulses can drive the conversion of magnetic spin currents to electrical charges at ultrafast timescales, bringing electronics closer to terahertz speeds.

By uncovering how conventional metals interact with novel semiconductors, researchers achieve a breakthrough in nanoscale circuitry for ultra-low temperature quantum electronics.

A new approach to trapping light waves inside tiny flat structures could enable more energy-efficient lasers in next-generation photonic devices.

As a new five-year phase of Research, Innovation and Enterprise takes off across the nation, A*STAR leaders present the strategic throughlines and shifts through which the agency will advance national priorities in health, economy, sustainability and future technologies.

A hybrid platform for manipulating deep ultraviolet light in semiconductor materials opens new possibilities for next-generation ultraviolet photonic devices.

Controlling when a protective layer stops growing in lithium-ion batteries may be more beneficial than modifying its composition during formation.

A new nanoscale laser uses optical origami to balance trapping and releasing light, paving the way for efficient integrated photonics.