FOO Maw Lin

Senior Lecturer

Special Appointed Asst. Prof. Kyoto University and Tokyo University, 2012-2015; Postdoc. Associate, UC Berkeley and Kyoto University, 2008-2012; Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005; M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2000.

Contact Information:

Office: S7-03-09

Tel: (65)-6516-4328

Fax: (65)-6779-1691

Email: chmfml@nus.edu.sg

Research

Recognition and Achievements

NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (Team Lead) 2022
Chair, Department Outreach Committee 2019-2021
Advisor, Chemistry Graduate Society 2015-2019, 2024 – present
Assistant Mentor of Singapore Team for International Chemistry Olympiad 2016
Senior Chemist, Air Products and Chemicals (2006-2008), commercialized one amine curing agent
Dodds University Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2004-2005.

Education and Research Interests

Pedagogical interests include employment of Socratic methods to teach physical and inorganic chemistry with emphasis on real-life applications in energy resources and battery electric vehicles. Application of technology and games to facilitate teaching and learning of inorganic chemistry and renewable energy. Interdisciplinary education and systems thinking of chemistry undergraduate students.

Teaching Contributions AY2024/2025

CM3191 Chemistry Synthesis Laboratory – Organic Chemistry Section
CM4282 Energy Resources
CM5198 Graduate Seminar Course
HS2904 Driving towards the Future: BEVs (interdisciplinary module)

Representative Publications

Foo, M. L., & Mun, L. Y. , Teaching an interdisciplinary course on battery electric vehicles without disciplinary prerequisites. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024, 14, 83-91.
Tan J.H.R.; Ang W.H.; Foo, M. L., CountQuest: A Card Game Played on Zoom for Revising Effective Atomic Number Concept. J. Chem. Edu. 2022, 99, 2425-2430.
Foo, M. L.; Ng, T.T.M., Incorporating Cost–Benefit Analysis and Business Databases as Part of an Interdisciplinary Course on Energy Resources. J. Chem. Edu. 2022, 99, 1808-1815.
Foo, M.L.; Matsuda, R.; Hijikata, Y.; Krishna, R.; Sato, H.; Horike, S.; Hori, A.; Duan, J.G. ; Sato, Y.; Kubota, Y.; Takata, M.; Kitagawa, S., An Adsorbate Discriminatory Gate Effect in a Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer for Selective Adsorption of CO₂ over C₂H₂. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3022-3030.
Foo, M. L.; Horike, S.; Inubushi, Y.; Kitagawa, S., An Alkaline Earth I3O0 Porous Coordination Polymer: Ba₂TMA(NO₃)(DMF). Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2012, 51, 6107-6111.
Foo, M. L.; Wang, Y. Y.; Watauchi, S.; Zandbergen, H. W.; He, T.; Cava, R. J.; Ong, N. P., Charge ordering, commensurability, and metallicity in the phase diagram of the layered NaxCoO₂. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2004, 92 (24).
Schaak, R. E.; Klimczuk, T.; Foo, M. L.; Cava, R. J., Superconductivity phase diagram of NaxCoO₂ center dot 1.3H(2)O. Nature 2003, 424, 527-529.