Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
南洋理工大学

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in engineering, business, science, humanities, arts, social sciences, education and medicine. NTU’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine was established jointly with Imperial College London.

Ranked 11th in the world, NTU has been placed the world’s top young university for the past six years. The NTU Smart Campus is frequently listed among the Top 15 most beautiful university campuses in the world and it has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to LEED-certified) building projects, of which 95% are certified Green Mark Platinum.

NTU is home to world-class autonomous institutes - the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering - and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).

Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a campus in Novena, Singapore’s healthcare district.

A cosmopolitan hub of more than 100 nationalities, the NTU community comprises about 5,000 faculty and researchers.

1 December 2018 - 30 November 2019

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Nanyang Technological University (NTU) published between 1 December 2018 - 30 November 2019 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
616	230.71

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Earth & Environmental Sciences	79	32.08
Physical Sciences	269	97.54
Life Sciences	108	19.97
Chemistry	274	125.65

Highlight of the month

Catching electrons while they are still hot

A new experimental technique will allow scientists to optimize the choice of materials for extracting energy that is currently wasted in current solar cells, thereby boosting their power conversion efficiencies.

Solar cells convert light into electricity, but about three-quarters of the light energy is lost as heat. A major source of this waste heat is ‘hot electrons’ — fast-moving electrons produced by energetic photons. These electrons lose their excess energy before it can be harnessed.

Now, a team led by led by researchers at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore used ultrashort laser pulses to excite electrons in a promising solar-cell material called perovskite. They then studied how the generated hot electrons behaved.

The insights gleaned will be useful for selecting the best material to extract the energy from hot electrons generated in perovskite.

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