Asia is leading the field in green materials
Singapore- China collaboration could be the best place to invest in materials science, Kazunari Domen, an researcher at the University of Tokyo, said. He said that long-term state investment with strong support for collaboration has also supported the growth in sustainable-materials research in Japan. To develop their research areas and materials, researchers from very good foreign universities are invited to come to Singapore.
There is still room for Chinese science to grow
South Korea and Singapore, which are part of China-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), have emerged as the most active countries in collaboration between China and BRI countries, a US-based researcher said. “It’s not like…Chinese Communist Party is saying to Chinese researchers that they must collaborate with these countries,” Jenny Lee, a science policy researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said.