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We are happy to share that Xiaogang received Shimadzu-SNIC Industry Award in Applied and Translational Chemistry in Jun 2022. The SNIC industry awards recognise and reward outstanding individuals, who have achieved research excellence in selected areas of chemistry and chemical … Continue reading →

FRG Team won the 2nd Runner-Up Prize in the HPC Innovation Challenge for the Environment competition in September 2022! This competition intends to explore how we can tackle environmental challenges using High-Performance Computing (HPC). The FRG team, consisting of Miss … Continue reading →

Our review article, Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and twists beyond TICT: from mechanisms to rational designs of bright and sensitive fluorophores, was published in the journal of Chemical Society Reviews! This work was completed in collaboration with Zhaochao Xu … Continue reading →

American Chemical Society (ACS) on Campus hosted their first-ever digital event at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prof. Xiaogang Liu delivered an interesting speech on Effective Writing Skills. The feedback was very positive and the audience learned the … Continue reading →

FRG congratulates Tianruo for the completion of his master’s degree. He did an excellent work over his master studies. We now welcome him to join our group as a PhD student.

The State-crossing from a Locally Excited to an Electron Transfer State(SLEET) model has been applied to rationalize the mechanism of Aggregation-Induced Emission(AIE). CRCU Journal highlighted it on their cover page of the journal. Congratulations to Weijei and Chao for this … Continue reading →

Our UROP Project work was featured by C&EN and ACS Central Science! “Xiaogang Liu is using fluorescence to tackle the problem of illicit cooking oil. The Singapore-based physical chemist is building a database of fluorescence fingerprints to help nab adulterated … Continue reading →

We have developed a theoretical descriptor ΔE for predicting PET-based fluorescence probes; utilizing this descriptor, we quantitatively designed fluorescent stains of lipid droplets and mitochondria for live-cell bioimaging. This work was published in JACS, and reported by various mediums, such … Continue reading →

Supphachok Chanmungkalakul (aka “Earth”) won a prestigious research award from the National Research Council of Thailand in Feb 2020, for the work done during his Master studies. Congratulations! Earth joined the Fluorescence Research group in Jan 2020. He will work … Continue reading →

By collaborating with Professor Xiao Yi’s group from the Dalian University of Technology, we have developed a new strategy that enhances the brightness and clarity of sub-cellular structures when dyed with novel rhodamine fluorophores, laying the ground for the advancement … Continue reading →