DAY FOUR~ "MATERIALS FOR TOMORROW"

Today we began our day at The Matrix @ Biopolis~ We were there for the UK-Singapore Materials Workshop " Materials For Tomorrow". This was an event where experts in the field of science and engineering would come together to share the latest developments and discuss the implications.

 The Matrix @ Biopolis

Materials For Tomorrow~

During the opening ceremony, the Guest of Honours addressed the audience with regards to the success of the partnership between Singapore and the UK to form a collaborative scientific community throughout the years . It was truly a heart-warming moment, as they have shared their personal experiences and given their wishes for the sessions to be fruitful for all during the event.

GOH - British High Commissioner to Singapore

GOH - Minister of State for Trade and Industry

A group photo of the distinguished guests

The workshop began with Professor J.J. Scott, who is the Director of Research in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University, giving his presentation on Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics. Prof. Scott has won many different awards, and even has his book, "Ferroelectric Memories".

Professor J. F. Scott

Moving on, Professor Subbu from NTU Singapore and Professor Antonio H. Castro Neto gave their presentation on Nanobiomaterials and Two-Dimensional Crystals respectively. 

First slide of Prof. Subbu's presentation

First slide of Prof. Antonio's presentation

After that, it was lunch time  and time for the poster judging session. Posters by the various institute were put up for the professors to judge. 

Lunch

Posters

The program continued with more presentations which are seperated into two parallel sessions, in which we attended the talks on " Graphene / Materials for Energy". It began with Dr. Cinzia Casiraghi from the University of Manchester presenting on "Materials in the Flatland: Graphene and other 2-dimensional crystals", where she focused on the properties of Graphene, and also the potential of Graphene in future elctronics. 

Presentation by Dr. Cinzia Casiraghi

The day continued with many more experts presenting about their findings.  As JC students, the amount of knowledge we were able to absorb were minimal, due to the lack in understanding of many different terms and background knowledge. However, the most important takeaway from this workshop was the learning experience and the inspiration through interacting with some of the post-doctorate students there.