Dr. Sing Shy Liow
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798
email: liow0019@e.ntu.edu.sg
Biography
Liow Sing Shy is currently a post-doctoral research fellow/project officer in the department of biomaterials in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, NTU. She has just defended her Ph.D. thesis on April 2013, and will receive her doctorate degree in polymer science from NTU this July. She received a B.Eng. degree in Materials Engineering from NTU. Her overall research direction focused on synthesis of biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers based on polyurethanes (BTPU), understanding their structure-property relationship based on thermal and mechanical analysis, polymer hydrolysis, and polymer toxicity in vitro studies. During her Ph.D. training with Professor Subbu S. Venkatraman and Professor Marc J.M. Abadie, she discovered and characterized novel polyurethane that based on poly (ε-caprolactone) and poly (trimethylene carbonate) copolymers. This work provided potential property tunability for achieving target polymer modulus, elasticity and rate of degradation. Currently, she focuses on electrospinning of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid), synthesis of bioadhesive poly (polyol sebacate) and polymer surface patterning by using photolithography technique.
Research Interests
My research interests are biodegradable polymers synthesis, bioadhesives, surface patterning, thermal and mechanical analysis, polymer degradation and toxicity