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The Specialty Optical Fibre Fabrication Laboratory houses a state-of-the-art fibre drawing tower capable of pulling the newest type of optical fibres called micro-structured fibres. This cutting-edge fibre manufacturing technology would allow PolyU researchers to develop novel optical fibres for communication and sensing applications.

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Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world’s fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.

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Researchers at RIKEN created a new graphite nanotube that conducts electricity when exposed to light, which could lead to efficient solar batteries based on organic materials and developed molecular devices that can respond to various types of stimuli, similar to living organisms.

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PolyU has moved up from the 224th place in 2008 to the 195th place in the "Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking 2009" of the Times Higher Education Supplement.

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Press Release - A review in Science this week outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.

Read more of the article entitled 'Quantum Simulators: One system to simulate another'