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Dual-frequency Omnidirectional Antenna with Large Frequency Ratio
The invention presents a novel method of designing a compact dual-frequency omnidirectional antenna with a large frequency ratio to support indoor 5G wireless communication.
Prof. LEUNG Kwok Wa, Dr. HU Peng Fei
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Transition Metal Nitrone Complexes as Phosphorogenic Bioorthogonal Probes
The inventors developed novel transition metal-based phosphorogenic bioorthogonal probes using nitrone as both a bioorthogonal functional group and an emission quencher.
Prof. LO Kam Wing Kenneth, Dr. LIU Huawei, Dr. LEE Cho Cheung, Dr. TANG Siu Ming
  • Bioorthogonal Labelling
  • Bioorthogonal Probes
  • Phosphorogenic
  • Transition Metal Complexes
  • Chemical Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Medical Science
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A New Method of Producing Enhanced LED with High-precision Nanostructures
The invention is a low-cost and high-throughput nano-patterning process scheme to achieve accurate and uniform high-precision nanostructures on sapphire substrates to improve LED production.
Prof. HO Johnny Chung Yin, Dr. FANG Ming, Mr. SHU Lei
  • Nano-patterning Process
  • Patterned Sapphire Substrates (PSS)
  • Soft Polymer Mask
  • Dry Etching
  • Wet Etching
  • LED Manufacturing
  • HDTV
  • Smartphone
  • Computer Monitor
  • Nano Structure
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Method of Producing Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Hybrid Structure via 3D Printing
The invention is a novel fabrication method that links soft hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials to form hydrophilic–hydrophobic hybrid structures via 3D printing, as an alternative to chemical bonding.
Dr. NIU Xinrui, Mr. ZHAN Yuexing , Miss CHAN Yan Ting, Miss YIU Tak Mei, Miss WONG Tsz Ling
  • Hydrophilic
  • Hydrophobic
  • Hybrid Structure
  • 3D Printing
  • Chemical Bonding
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Microfluidic Devices
  • Soft Robotics
  • Artificial Tissues/Organs
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Privacy-assured Similarity Joins over Encrypted Datasets
It is optimized based on the well-known fast and effective algorithm for similarity search, a practical cryptographic technique called searchable encryption, and a carefully designed “result sharing query scheme” that protects the query set distribution while greatly improving the query efficiency.
Prof. WANG Cong, Mr. WANG Xinyu, Dr. YUAN Xingliang , Dr. YU Chenyun, Dr. NUTANONG Sarana
  • Similarity Join
  • Data Analysis
  • Encrypted Datasets
  • Data Privacy
  • Big Data
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One-step Efficient Preparation of Unconventional Phase of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
The present technology relates to a simple, facile, and general salt-assisted synthetic method for the preparation of a series of unconventional 1T′-phase transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).
Prof. ZHANG Hua, Dr. Lai Zhuangchai
  • 2D Materials
  • Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
  • 1T′ phase
  • Phase Transformation
  • Metastable Phases
  • One-step Reaction
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Therapeutic Use of Mitochondrial Fusion Promoter M1 for Nervous System Injury
The inventors identified mitochondrial fusion promoter M1 as a potent small molecule that has the therapeutic potential to enhance the intrinsic growth capacity of adult neurons—an important step as successful axon regeneration after nervous system injuries largely depends on the intrinsic growth capacity of injured neurons.
Dr. Chi Him Eddie MA, Dr. Ngan Pan Bennett AU
  • Mitochondrial Fusion Promoter
  • Axon Regeneration
  • Potent Small Molecule
  • Neuron Intrinsic Growth
  • Central Nerve Injury
  • Peripheral Nerve Injury
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Online Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters of Encapsulated Three-Phase Harmonic Filter Capacitors for IoT Applications
Researchers have developed a modified particle swarm optimisation (m-PSO) technique and technology for online estimation of the intrinsic parameters of encapsulated capacitors in power electronic systems.
Prof. CHUNG Shu Hung Henry, Mr. LEE Wai Kwan
  • Switching Circuits
  • Parameter Estimation
  • Harmonic Filter Capacitors
  • Modified Particle Swarm Optimisation
  • Power Electronic Systems
  • Power Quality
  • Filter Capacitors
  • IoT Devices
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Battery System and a Method of Forming a Battery
This invention can use a wide variety of metals as a cathode material, including metals such as silver, iron and copper that have much higher theoretical capacities.
Dr. YU Yau Wai Denis, Miss WANG Huimin
  • Lithium-ion
  • Battery
  • Chloride
  • High Energy Density
  • Energy storage
  • Mobile device
  • Renewable energy
  • Cell Phone
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FritzBot: A Data-driven Conversational Agent for Physical-computing System Design
FritzBot is a data-driven conversational agent or “chatbot” that supports novice users in creating physical-computing systems through natural language interaction.
Dr. ZHU Kening , Mr. XU Lantian , Mr. CHEN Taizhou
  • Physical Computing
  • Circuit Design
  • Microcontroller Programming
  • Chatbot
  • Natural Language Interaction
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Dual-fed Dual-frequency Hollow Dielectric Antenna
Tests show that the new antenna system offers high efficiency for both antenna types. The millimeter-wave antenna attains an efficiency as high as 87.3% at 24 GHz.
Prof. LEUNG Kwok Wa, Dr. FENG Liying
  • Antenna
  • Dual Frequency
  • Wireless communication
  • Frequency Ratio
  • Dual Fed
  • Radar
  • Wireless
  • 5G
  • Telecommunications
  • Broadcasting
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Solid Zinc Electrolyte Interlayer for Commercial Aqueous Batteries
The researchers performed quantitative assessment of the hydrogen evolution in Zn metal batteries via in-situ battery gas chromatography mass analysis.
Prof. ZHI Chunyi , Dr. MA Longtao
  • Zinc Metal Anode
  • Solid Electrolyte Interface
  • Parasitic Hydrogen Evolution
  • Aqueous Battery
  • Rechargeable Battery
  • Green Energy
  • Electric Vehicle
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Novel Ultra-Effective Anti-Viral Respirators (UARs) for Healthcare Practitioners
The inventors developed an ultra-effective anti-viral respirator (UAR) that integrates five major components.
Dr. WANG Steven , Dr. YE Ruquan, Ms. DENG Wei
  • Personal Protective Equipment(PPE)
  • Respirator Mask
  • Face Mask Design
  • COVID-19
  • Ultra-Effective Anti-Viral Respirators
  • Healthcare Workers (HCW)
  • Infectious Disease
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Coordinate Descent Techniques for Unit-Modulus Least Squares and Unit-Modulus Quadratic Program
A coordinate descent (CD) technique is proposed here to solve UMLS and UMQP problems more efficiently. Four coordinate selection rules, namely cyclic, randomized, randomly permuted and greedy are devised.
Prof. SO Hing Cheung, Mr. ZENG Wenjun , Dr. CHEN Jiayi, Prof. ZOUBIR Abdelhak M.
  • Unit Modulus Least Square (UMLS)
  • Unit Modulus Quadratic Program (UMQP)
  • Coordinate Descent (CD)
  • 5G Communications
  • MIMO Detection
  • Source Localization
  • Phase Synchronization
  • Radar Waveform Design
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Photo-activatable Platinum(IV) Prodrug, Preparation Thereof and Therapeutic Use Thereof
The invention covers not only the preparation of the photoactivatable compounds and their inhibitory activities against tumor cell growth but also a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one photo-activatable prodrug and a type of drug carrier.
Dr. ZHU Guangyu, Dr. WANG Zhigang , Mr. XU Zoufeng
  • Anticancer Prodrug
  • Photoactivatable
  • Chemoresistance
  • Cisplatin
  • Drug Carrier
  • Cancer Treatment
  • Chemotherapy
  • Anticancer drug
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Clinical
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Protonated Halide Organics with Strong Host-Guest Chemisorption for Fast and Durable Aqueous Redox Battery Chemistry
This invention describes a series of Zn-halogen batteries with fast and durable redox performance.
Prof. ZHI Chunyi , Mr. LI Xinliang, Mr. CHEN Ze, Mr. HUANG Zhaodong
  • Zn-halogen battery
  • Cathode
  • Halide Organics
  • Electrochemical Reversibility
  • Energy storage
  • Electrochemical Energy
  • Battery
  • Electric Vehicle
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Logic-controlled Active EMI Reducing Apparatus
This patent describes how electromagnetic interference (EMI) can be mitigated in switching mode power converters, whilst also reducing filter size and enhancing filter performance.
Prof. CHUNG Shu Hung Henry, Mr. WANG Kewei
  • Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
  • Switching mode power converters
  • Filter Size
  • Filter Performance
  • EMI Noise Filtering
  • Power conversion
  • Power supply
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Drug and Gene Therapy to Treat Inherited Buphthalmos and Juvenile Myopia
The inventors developed an in vivo gene therapy to treat congenital high myopia and buphthalmos. This invention was based on their scientific discovery of a novel molecular mechanism controlling animal eye size.
Dr. XIONG Wenjun, Dr. MAI Shuyi
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Apparatus and Methods for Dual-Module Automated High-Throughput Microinjections of Adherent Cells
This invention utilized two motorized micro-robotic arms (dual-module micromanipulators), where each is equipped with a micropipette, on the same cell handling platform to inject cells cooperatively to improve productivity.
Prof. SUN Dong, CHEN Shuxun, Miss JIAO Yang, PAN Fei
  • Automated cell manipulation
  • Robotic Microinjection
  • Cell image processing
  • High-throughput Microinjection
  • Deep Learning
  • Cell Detection and Segmentation
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Detection of Analyte Using a Visual Bar Formed by Accumulated Micro Particles on Microfluidic Platform
In this invention, magnetic micro particles (MMPs) and polystyrene micro particles (PMPs) are surface-functionalized with linker-binding probes, which can bind with molecular linkers and lead to the formation of sandwich structures, MMPs-linkers-PMPs
Dr. CHEN Ting Hsuan, ZHAO Zichen
  • Microfluidic Detection Platform
  • User readable detection of chemical and biochemical molecules
  • Magnetic Micro Particles (MMP)
  • User readable detection of chemical and biochemical molecules
  • Environmental contaminant detection
  • Health diagnostics
  • Polystyrene Micro Particles (PMP)
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Itaconic Acid Production by Methylorubrum Extorquens AM1
The inventors successfully engineered M. extorquens AM1 to produce itaconic acid using acetate and methanol as feedstock, by expressing a heterologous codon-optimized gene that encodes cis-aconitic acid decarboxylase derived from Aspergillus terreus from a pTE101-based plasmid.
Dr. LEE Patrick Kwan Hon, Mr. LIM Chee Kent
  • Itaconic acid
  • Methanol feedstock
  • Acetate feedstock
  • Biotechnology
  • Biosynthesis
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Device and Method for Visual Quantification of an Amount of Target Species in a Sample Solution
In this invention, magnetic micro particles (MMPs) and polystyrene microparticles (PMPs) are surface-functionalized with linker-binding probes, which can bind with molecular linkers and lead to the formation of sandwich structures, MMPs-linkers-PMPs.
Dr. CHEN Ting-Hsuan, Mr. ZHAO Zichen
  • Microfluidic Detection Platform
  • User readable detection of chemical and biochemical molecules
  • Magnetic Micro Particles (MMP)
  • Polystyrene Micro Particles (PMP)
  • Environmental Contaminant Detection
  • Health Diagnostics
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Deep Learning-based Optimal Power Flow Solution with Applications to Operating Electrical Power Systems
This invention solves AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems using a deep neural network.
Prof. CHEN Minghua, HUANG Wanjun, PAN Xiang
  • AC-OPF
  • Optimal power flow
  • DeepOPF-V
  • Deep neural network
  • Energy
  • Power supply
  • AC
  • Deep learning
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A Microsphere Hydrogel Sponge for Drug Delivery
The inventors developed a microsphere hydrogel sponge as a novel drug delivery material for the delivery of both lipophilic and hydrophilic drugs.
Prof. Andrey ROGACH, Mr. LAI Wing Fu
  • Microsphere hydrogel
  • Drug delivery system
  • Drug delivery material
  • Multidrug therapy
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Drug development
  • Therapeutics
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Hsc70 is a Drug Target for Antiviral and Hsc70 Inhibitors are Antiviral Agents
The inventors showed for the first time that Hsc70 (heat shock cognate protein 70) plays a pivotal role in viral infections, specifically in EV-A71 replication, pointing to a target for antiviral drug development.
Prof. HE Mingliang
  • Antiviral treatment
  • Antiviral drug
  • Hsc70 inhibitor
  • Coronavirus
  • SARS-CoV
  • Viral infection
  • Enterovirus infection
  • Flavivirus infection
  • Enterovirus A71
  • Zika virus infection
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Adenine Deficient Yeast: A Fluorescent Biosensor for Detection of Labile Zn(II) in Aqueous Suspension
The invention is a biosensor based on adenine deficient yeast (Ade(-) yeast) cultured to quantify labile Zn2+ in an aqueous suspension.
Prof. WANG Wenxiong, Miss SUN Anqi
  • labile Zinc(II)
  • Adenine deficient yeast
  • Adenine deficiency
  • Fluorescent biosensors
  • Chemical testing
  • Biomonitoring
  • Aqueous suspension
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A Facile Method for The Large Area Synthesis of Geometrically Two Dimensional Metals And Ceramics
This invention uses the interfacial cleavage enabled synthesis (ICES) method for the fabrication of free-standing nanomembranes.
Prof. YANG Yong , WANG Tianyu, Dr. HE Quanfeng, Mr. DING Zhaoyi
  • Interfacial Cleavage Enabled Synthesis (ICES)
  • 2D Nanomebranes
  • High aspect ratio 2D Nanomembranes
  • New semiconductor material
  • New ceramic material
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Wideband Doherty Amplifier with High Efficiency
The main function of the invention is to achieve high efficiency Doherty power amplifiers (DPAs) over a wide frequency range.
Dr. CHAN Wing Shing, Dr. ZHOU Xinyu, Dr. ZHENG Shaoyong , Dr. Derek HO
  • Doherty Power Amplifier
  • DPA
  • Wide bandwidth DPA
  • Wideband DPA
  • High Efficient DPA
  • 4G/5G communications
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Substrate Integrated Waveguide-fed Fabry-Perot Cavity Filtering Wideband Millimeter-wave Antenna
This invention presents a Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) antenna with a filtering response. The filtering antenna source has a simple configuration involving two separate substrates as well as one piece of bonding film in between.
Prof. Chi Hou CHAN, Haotao HU
  • Filtering antenna
  • Directional antenna
  • High-gain antenna
  • Fabry-Perot cavity filtering antenna
  • Substrate integrated waveguide
  • 60-GHz band antenna
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A Pre-seeding Strategy for Stable Zn Anode
Unlike typical cathodes of Lithium-ion batteries, which are in a discharged state initially, typical cathodes of RZBs are naturally in a charged state.
Prof. ZHI Chunyi , LI Qing
  • Batteries
  • Zinc Metal Anode
  • Dendrites
  • Stripping/plating
  • Pre-seeding strategy
  • Energy storage
  • Wearables
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A Browser-based Security Framework against Malicious Extensions
The invention has three main components: 1) a javascript library to help developers build secure Web applications; 2) middleware that enables Web application providers to conveniently deploy the novel security mechanism; and 3) a browser extension to enable individual users to isolate and protect their sensitive data on Web applications.
Prof. WANG Cong, Mr. WANG Xinyu, Mr. DU Yuefeng
  • Browsers
  • Malicious extensions
  • Web applications
  • Software enclave
  • User data
  • Web security
  • Online banking
  • Online advertising
  • Cyberattacks
  • User privacy
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A Bi-layer Liquid Optical Clear Adhesive to Improve the Strength of Screens in Smartphones
The invention is a bi-layer liquid optical clear adhesive.
Dr. NIU Xinrui, Mr. XU Bo
  • Bi-layer liquid optical clear adhesive
  • Adhesive
  • Smart Phone
  • Tablet
  • Flexible electronics
  • Soft robotic
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A Compact Membrane-based Absorption Heat Pump
This invention is a novel membrane-based, combined solution/refrigeration unit.
Dr. WU Wei, Mr. DING Zhixiong, SUI Yunren, Mr. SUI Zengguang, ZHAI Chong
  • Heat pump
  • Absorption cooling
  • Membrane-based absorber
  • Membrane-based desorber
  • HVAC
  • Greenhouse gas
  • GHG
  • Carbon neutrality
  • Energy efficiency
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Development of Cyclized L-RNA Aptamer and Application Thereof
This invention provides a universal, easy-to-operate method of cyclizing L-RNA oligos with mild reaction conditions and high efficiency.
Dr. KWOK Chun Kit, Miss JI Danyang
  • Aptamers
  • L-RNA aptamer
  • Antibodies alternative
  • Oligonucleotide synthesis
  • Antibody market
  • Aptamer therapeutics
  • Diagnostics
  • Therapeutics
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Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Model for 3D Prostate Zonal Segmentation
To reduce the domain gap between the different data sets, this invention also dynamically translates labeled source data to target data using a domain-specific feature translation method. This helps prevent performance degradation.
Dr. YUAN Yixuan, Miss GUO Xiaoqing
  • 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Diagnosis
  • Prostate Zonal Segmentation
  • Pathomorphology
  • Cancer Diagnosis
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Wednesday
Jun 2022
IPHatch HK 2022 - Webinar on 1 June
IPHatch is an open-innovation challenge for innovative minds to strengthen technological edges and scale up business by commercialising the IP/ technology portfolios from CityU, Nokia and Panasonic.
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Monday
Apr 2022
CityU and ASTRI strengthen collaboration to support HK TECH 300 start-ups
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), deepening their collaboration to develop new research projects by integrating their research and development (R&D) capabilities and intellectual property (IP).
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Tuesday
Mar 2022
CityU’s huge success at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days 2022; top among local universities for the second year
Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) received tremendous accolades at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED) 2022 by winning a total of 22 awards, the highest number among local institutions for two years in a row, including one Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, six Gold Medals, 13 Silver Medals and two Bronze Medals. Their success keenly demonstrates CityU’s outstanding research achievements.
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Monday
Jan 2022
[ONLINE ONLY] - Patent Utility Challenge Awards & HK Tech 300 Networking
The Patent Utility Challenge Award Presentation will be moved ONLINE ONLY to converge with public sector recommendation and practice to cope with the recent surge of COVID-19 community infections . You are welcome to join us online to minimize social contact.
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