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
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.

Research Interest

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

Teaching Contributions AY2023/2024

CM4282 Energy Resources
TUM-NUS joint MSc industrial chemistry experiments
HS2904 Driving towards the Future: BEVs (interdisciplinary module)

Representative Publications

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.; Matsuda, R.; Kitagawa, S., Functional Hybrid Porous Coordination Polymers (review). Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 310-322.
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.