July 15, 2025
Prof Tan just returned from an inspiring and eventful trip to Beijing, where he had the honor of delivering a Keynote presentation at the 12th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE). Beyond the WCCE, he was deeply grateful for the warm invitations to share his work and exchange ideas at several top institutions, including: 🔹 Tsinghua University 🔹 Peking University 🔹 Beihang University 🔹 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) 🔹 Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), CAS 🔹 Beijing Institute of Nano Energy and Nano Systems 🔹 Beijing University of Chemical Technology
March 10, 2025
Prof Tan was recognised as an outstanding reviewer for Energy & Environmental Science on 10 Mar 2025.
January 21, 2025
Prof Tan was recognized as one of the most prolific reviewers of 2024 by Materials Today on 21 Jan 2025.
August 2, 2024
Prof Tan delivered a Keynote Presentation at The 1st International Conference on AI Sensors & The 10th International Symposium on Sensor Science (aisi3s2024) on 2 Aug 2024.
October 27, 2023
Prof. Tan was Invited by Prof. John Rogers to give a talk to his group at Northwestern University on 27 October 2023.
September 12, 2023
Prof. Tan was invited by Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 12 September 2023.
May 25, 2023
Prof. Tan was Invited as a Keynote Speaker and Panellist at “World Climate Industry Expo-Climate Future Forum”, Busan, Korea, 25 May 2023.
January 11, 2023,
It is our great honour to be invited as the presenter on the Heat Resilience & Performance Centre launch day and to present our work to Minister of Defence Dr. NG Eng Hen.
November 3, 2022
Team from Singapore Chinese Girls School won the Champion Award in Shell NXplorers 2021 and Merit Award in TAN KAH KEE Young Inventors’ Award 2022 under guidance of Prof. Tan Swee Ching.
August 18, 2022
Our new developed moisture-driven electricity generation device has been featured in above news channels.
August 18, 2022
Our new developed moisture-driven electricity generation device is highlighted by Lianhe Zaobao , 8 World , and The Strait Times
June 25, 2022
The Straits Times Life section is doing a feature on interesting inventions that are likely to reach the market in the next 12 months. We are delighted to see that our moisture grabbing film is one of them being featured! Chech detials here
April 26, 2022
Teams from NUS High School and Singapore Chinese Girls School won multiple awards in Singapore Science and Engineering Fair 2022 under guidance of Prof. Tan Swee Ching.
April 6, 2022
Our research is highlighted on NUS homepage
March 31, 2022
Our new developed moisture-trapping composite film has been highlighted in the above news channels
March 26, 2022
Our new developed moisture-trapping composite film is highlighted by CNA , The Straits Times , and 8 World
May 1, 2021
Dr. Tan Swee Ching was invited to talk about his latest invention “Smart Farm” by Daniel Martin on CNA 938. Watch video here
April 13, 2021
Our new developed SmartFarm system using Super-hygroscopic Hydrogel based film has been highlighted in The Straits Times .
January 21, 2021
Our new developed Super-hygroscopic Hydrogel based film has been featured in MIT Technology Review China（DeepTech） .
January 19, 2021
Dr. Tan Swee Ching was invited to talk about his latest invention which could improve personal health matter by Daniel Martin on CNA 938.
January 4, 2021
Our new developed Super-hygroscopic Hydrogel based film has been highlighted in The Straits Times .
December 16, 2020
The Fluidic Photothermal Structure (ACS Energy Letters, 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01797) developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching for sustainable solar desalination and energy generation has been highlighted in InfoMat .
December 10, 2020
It is our pleasure to collaborate with Hawaii Space Exploration, Analog and Simulation programme for future space farming. (MSN news.)
July 8, 2020
The Shadow-effect Energy Generator developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was featured in U.S. News & World Report.
June 17, 2020
The Shadow-effect Energy Generator developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching has been highlighted in the above Chinese news channels.
June 11, 2020
The Shadow-effect Energy Generator developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was featured in Forbes.
May 29, 2020
The Shadow-effect Energy Generator developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was featured in a renowned local Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao.
May 24, 2020
Our “Energy harvesting from shadow-effect” work has been highlighted in the above news channels.
May 23, 2020
The Shadow-effect Energy Generator developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was featured in MIT Technology Review.
May 8, 2020
One of the figures from our recently published article “Hydro Assisted Self-Regenerating Brominated N-Alkylated Thiophene Diketopyrrolopyrrole Dye Nanofibres – A sustainable synthesis route for renewable air filter materials” in Small is highlighted by Advances Science News under “This month in pictures” category. “This month in pictures” is a new series in which they feature and highlight the most breath-taking images from science and research published over the past month across their journals.
May 4, 2020
Our recent work entitled “Energy Harvesting from Shadow-effects” is being featured on Chemistry World.
January 4, 2020
Congratulations! Ultradry, a spin-off company from Swee Lab has clinched 2nd runner up in the prestigious 第二届金茂绿建高校创新大赛 (Jin Mao Green Building Innovation Challenge 2020) held on 3rd Jan 2020 in Beijing. The competition was organised by China Jin Mao Holdings Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Sinochem Group. China Jin Mao Holdings Group and Ultradry has signed a MoU to collaborate on integrating our patented super-hygroscopic hydrogel into their building materials for a wide range of home applications.
December 24, 2019
An editorial article featuring our recent project on Harnessing Humidity as a Renewable Resource has been published in Advanced Science News.
December 21, 2019
Ms. Lakshmi Suresh was nominated to be one amongst the 15 students from 8 Asian countries to attend the Asian University Association’s (AUA) Overseas study program from Dec 9-15 hosted by IIT-Bombay.
December 19, 2019
Our work on the development of a self-sustainable dehumidification system that was published in Joule has been highlighted in the following media.
November 26, 2019
A/Prof. Tan receiving the 2019 Annual Teaching Excellence Award from the Senior Deputy President and Provost.
November 20, 2019
Yaoxin’s paper on repurposing food waste for solar desalination has been highlighted in Materials Today.
November 19, 2019
Congratulations! Yaoxin was awarded the Best Poster Award (8 out of 71 poster presenters) in Cell Symposia of Next-Generation Materials for Energy Applications!
September 3, 2019
Our recent Advanced Energy Materials’ article entitled “Optical-shading-induced In-plane Potential Gradient Creates a Photoelectric Synergy in a Semi-artificial Photosynthetic System” has been highlighted in Materials Views China.
August 15, 2019
Congratulations to A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching for being awarded the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award(2019)!
July 10, 2019
A floating device equipped with superhygroscopic hydrogel that can pull clean water directly from ocean using sunlight has been highlighted in different news outlets!
June 28, 2019
A/Prof. Tan’s postdoc supervisor, Prof. Carl Thompson of MIT, visited our lab.
May 15, 2019
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching received the Honors List Award (2017/2018) in recognition of commitment to the engineering education
Feburary 25, 2019
Dilip Krishna Nandakumar received the Best Publication Award (2018) for the article on Superhygroscopic Hydrogel
Feburary 25, 2019
Sai Kishore Ravi received the Best Publication Award for the third consecutive year; He won the Best Publication Award (2018) for the article on Photosynthetic Bioelectronic Sensor.
October 16, 2018
Dilip Krishna Nandakumar has been awarded “The President’s Graduate Fellowship”
August 30, 2018
An editorial article featuring our recent project on photosynthetic tactile sensors has been published in Advanced Science News
August 15, 2018
Our team was honored to be invited to the “NUS Vision Mission and Values day” to display a prototype of a low-energy dehumidifying cool-fan built using our innovative hydrogel as the dehumidifying agent. Our booth was visited by the NUS president and many other dignitaries
July 26, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching’s team received the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2018 for the project on Nanofibrous Air Filters Self-assembled from Molecular LEGOs. The team received the award from Er Edwin Khew, Former president of IES and Mr Heng Chee How, Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Defence
July 23, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching gave an interview on 95.8 FM as part of the show “一起学习成长” where he shared with the audience how relative humidity could affect the way we perceive temperature and explained how the reduction of moisture in the air using the recently developed superhygroscopic hydrogel could help us with better thermal comfort and reduce our reliance on air conditioners.
June 5, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and team were invited to exhibit the recently developed super-hygroscopic hydrogel at Innovfest Unbound 2018, the anchor event of Smart Nation Innovations. A/Prof. Tan’s research group was honored to present the group’s project to the Minister for Communications and Information, Mr. S Iswaran during his visit to the group’s booth. A/Prof. Tan also presented the project to the ASEAN delegates and demonstrated the potential applications of the hydrogel in energy-conservation and thermal-comfort.
June 5, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and team were invited to exhibit the humidity-reducing hydrogel at the Ecosperity Conference 2018. A/Prof. Tan and team were honored to present the group’s project to the Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr. Chan Chun Sing
May 29, 2018
The super-hygroscopic hydrogel developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and his team was featured in a numeber of international news websites
May 29, 2018
The super-hygroscopic hydrogel developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and his team was featured in a numeber of renowned Chinese-language newspapers like Shin Min Daily News, Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe wanbao
May 28, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was invited for an interview to brief on the recently-developed super-hygroscopic hydrogel at the Channel 8 as part of the programme Hello Singapore
April 5, 2018
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was invited as a guest speaker for The Liveability Challenge jointly launched by Temasek Foundation Ecosperity and Eco-Business. His talk has been highlighted in The Straits Times and The New Paper
April 26, 2018
Sai Kishore Ravi received the Best Publication Award (2017) for the article on Biohybrid Cells with Mechano-responsive Electrolytes
January 13, 2018
As part of the Nature Conference on Material Electrochemistry held in Shenzhen China, Sai Kishore Ravi gave a talk on the Mechanoresponsive Gel Electrolytes for Protein-based Bioelectrochemical systems
October 16, 2017
NUS Enterprise is a key establishment in Singapore aimed to advance innovation and entrepreneurship. It plays a pivotal role in identifying the commercially promising and impactful research projects and direct them towards licensed technologies and high-tech spin-offs. Recognizing the potential market impact of our Ultra-Dry Dessicant research at our lab, NUS Enterprise invited our research group to be a part of the 7th National run of the Lean LaunchPad (LLP) program to take part in the market survey.
September 30, 2017
A team of NUS students from Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering under the mentorship of A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching have won the third prize in Singapore Frontier Challenge, a National Level Competition related to alternative energy production, transmission and storage.
July 19, 2017
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching was interviewed by Channel 8 as part of the programme Hello Singapore
May 11, 2017
Lee Di Sheng, our Final Year Project student (Year 4, UG) took his interview at MIT Biological Engineering and successfully secured a PhD offer. He is one among the 23 students admitted by MIT that year
May 3, 2017
A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and team were invited to exhibit the nanofibrous air filter at INNOVFEST UNBOUND, the anchor event of Smart Nation Innovations, a week-long series of events that showcase Asia’s most innovative developments
May 21, 2017
The nanofibrous air filter developed by A/Prof. Tan Swee Ching and team was featured in a number of international news websites
May 21, 2017
Our Photo-bioelectrochemical tandem cell was selected for the back cover in Advanced Energy Materials (Volume 7, Issue 7)
May 22, 2017
A/Prof. Tan received the Innovative Teaching Award (Silver)
February 28, 2017
Sai Kishore Ravi received the Best Publication Award (2016) for the article on the transparent Photo-bioelectrochemical Tandem cells
Highlights:
Channel 8 News (here)
Our Energy harvesting from shadow-effect has been highlighted in the following news channels and news websites
Forbes(here)
PV Magazine(here)
la Repubblica(here)
Rinnovabili.it(here)
Eco-Business(here)
Express Informer(here)
The Amed Post(here)
Daily Mail(here)
New Atlas(here)
Tech Xplore(here)
Yahoo! News(here)
Newswise(here)
Nanowerk(here)
AlphaGalileo(here)
Sciencenewsnet.in(here)
EurekAlert!(here)
Our Super-hygroscopic Hydrogel has been highlighted in the following news channels and news websites
The Straits Times Online (here)
Science Daily (here)
TODAYonline (here)
Phys.org (here)
Channel NewsAsia (here)
Channel 8 News (here)
South China Morning Post (here)
Techexplorist (here)
Our Nanofibrous air filters have been highlighted in the following news channels and news websites
TODAYonline (here)
Science Daily (here)
Nano werk (here)
Phys.org (here)
Channel NewsAsia (here)