Insights to other areas

Day 6

It has already been the sixth day into the programme, and is my last day following Dr Du. The aim of today was to get to know more about other aspects of MSE, rather than just solely focused on armor research. She has brought me around other labs, such as the biomaterial lab, where a few commercial products (such as Biodegradable Drug Eluting Stent) were developed from, as well as showed me other researches going on, such as graphene and capacitors.

Graphene has only been discovered not too long ago, and its potential for application is extremely wide. Researchers in NTU have been trying to grow graphene on different metals, such as copper, steel and nickel, as they require different conditions to grow in different metals.

Capacitors are being developed such that a very small capacitor can be light and reliable enough to be used in military purposes, such as for soilders to carry them out-field to power certain military equipments.

I apologise for the short post today, but I am not feeling well, so the update today is rather brief. Tomorrow will be longer and more interesting! Do watch out the for the next post!