Feature Stories

Therapeutics based on the controlled use of ribonucleic acid (RNA) was seldom heard beyond the confines of the world’s leading laboratories only a decade ago. However, it has been thrown into the spotlight owing to mRNA -based vaccines against the CoV-Sars-2 virus in the COVID-19 pandemic from the start of 2020. Understanding and applying RNA-based technology is core to a believe that this will help the world get back up on its feet again.

When you have acquired some valuable and interesting knowledge, you may come up with inventive and practical applications and develop a product. With such a new invention, you may want to share with the world.

“If we can attract people who are visually impaired (VI) to the field of Phonetics, then we could work together to add an edge to the field and elevate it to a higher level”. So says Dr Jackie Yan, who first had this “extraordinary” idea when she struggled with her phonology class while pursuing her PhD programme in the United States.

AmaZinc Energy Limited is a start-up co-founded by Professor Zhi Chunyi and Ph.D graduate Dr Tang Zijie, Zane, of CityU’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Eyeing on top safety, this exciting fledgling firm specialises in developing next-generation flexible batteries and energy storage systems. The former has widespread application in the world offering unsurpassed energy densities.