FACILITIES: Advanced Materials Research Centre

Location: N4-B3a-01
Tel: 6790 6837

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Mission, Vision and Research Philosophy

The Advanced Materials Research Centre is a University-wide research centre that focuses on the synthesis of advanced and innovative functional materials for applications ranging from biotechnology to nanoelectronics

Research focus

The Advanced Materials Research Centre focuses on the following major areas of focus: Biomaterials, Energy & Catalysis, Nano & Organic Electronics, Nano Photonics & Magnetics, and Defence Materials.

Research Facilities

Main research facilities include materials synthesis for organics and in-organic materials, thin film deposition, materials characterization including morphology, thermal characterization, and structure characterization.

Research activity

The AMRC hosts several multidisciplinary research programs with participation of faculty from Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Chemical & Biomedical Engineering (CBE), and Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) in NTU.

Centre’s achievements

Several notable contributions were made by AMRC in the field of Biomaterials. This includes biodegradable stents and frictionless body pumps that could be applied to heart as well as renal applications. Both these technologies are on the verge of commercialization and technology transfer agreements have been finalized with major multinational organizations. Project on rare earth materials has also led to a very close collaboration between AMRC and Advanced Materials Research (AMR) which is based in Canada.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/AMRC/content/default.asp