Harvesting sunlight to address energy and environmental challenges has been fascinating and long sought-after in building a sustainable society. One tangible example is the maintenance of cleaner indoor environment by degrading air pollutants via photocatalysis. The key to an efficient and effective photocatalytic process is the design and development of good photocatalysts which represents a hot research area. Dr. Jin Shang Group in School of Energy and Environment has contributed to this endeavour and some recent results were published as back cover in the Flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemical Science. In an edge article entitled “Isocyanate Group-Functionalized Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF-8) for Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Gaseous Formaldehyde”, a facile thermal treatment strategy is initiated to convert one of the most well-known porous metal-organic framework, i.e., ZIF-8, to visible light driven photocatalyst exhibiting excellent performance in formaldehyde degradation. This strategy could unleash the potential of the design and development of MOF-based photocatalysts with broad-spectrum responses for efficient air purification operations. Given a myriad of porous MOFs created and documented by chemists in the past 30 years, this work may unlock a new toolbox for scientists and engineers in the field of photocatalysis to explore and develop next-generation photocatalysts.
Environmental scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have proposed a new pathway for the formation of sulfate, providing new insights for improving haze prediction to address air pollution problems.
As one of the largest international conferences in waste management field, the 15th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT15) was organized by UNEP, Basel Convention Regional Center for Asia and Pacific and Tsinghua University, between June 28th to 30th, 2020. The theme of this year was zero-waste cities promotion in the globe. Due to the covid-19, the conference was organized online with more than 4500 participants. Affiliated with ICWMT15, Dr Dong organized session entitled “Eco-industrial development support zero-waste cities: a global perspective”, and invited scholars from China, Japan, and South Korea to share the up-to-date progress in this field. The session was awarded to “Excellent Session Award”, with over 2800 participants.
Miss Wylie CHUNG Wai Yi, a 2019 SEE UG Graduate, received the Best Final-Year Environmental Project Award 2019 (1st Runner-up) presented by The HKIE Environmental Division in the Annual Reception held on 8th January 2020.
Professor Chak K Chan, Dean of the School of Energy and Environment, gave a plenary talk on “Gas-Particle Interactions: Hygroscopic Properties, Phase Transformation and Heterogeneous Reactions of Atmospheric Aerosols” in the 15th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Application to Air Quality (ASAAQ) in Kuala Lumpur on October 28, 2019.
As a Co-PI, Dr. Alicia An, in collaboration with Prof. Guanghao Chen at HKUST (the PC) and other Co-PIs (HKU, PolyU, and CUHK) successfully joined the 9th round of the TRS.
An environmental scientist at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has been awarded US$100,000 by Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE), an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a novel way to cultivate 10 distinct probiotic bacteria simultaneously.
Aerosol science and technology is the focus of a major international conference that coincides with the 10th anniversary of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
Dr. Alicia An’s research group in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong has proposed a novel membrane distillation (MD) system for the efficient treatment and sustainable treatment of textile wastewater.
