A very short introduction to Density Functional Theory

Today marks the end of my third year of uni and my last exam was on computational chemistry. Exactly in this module, Nevin Tham, Shawn Ng and I have created a video that explains Density Functional Theory (DFT), as a part of our course work….

Channel Molecule: The power of spectroscopy

I was once asked by a friend why the world is so colourful if it is entirely materialistic without a divine designer. Well, it isn’t colourful. The part of the entire range of electromagnetic waves that we may recognise as ‘light’ or ‘colours’ is just a tiny…

Water cluster design @ Prof Bettens’ lab

[On the whiteboard: hydrogen bonding, illustration of symmetry operations]     When we think about what makes chemistry interesting, one of the things is that matters are discrete: as we know, the seemingly continuous objects on the macro level, like a block of iron, a…