The following SEE PhD students and research assistants formed into a team and won the 1st runner up in the PG session in Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition 2021 (https://booth.ietypec.org/).
Dr. Edwin Tso, Assistant Professor, was recently invited by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) of the HKSAR Government to give a presentation on “Daytime Passive Radiative Cooling in Hong Kong: Past, Present, and the Future” on 14 July 2021 at the lecture theatre of Hong Kong Science Museum. To promote energy saving and conservation, Dr. Tso introduced an advanced building energy-saving technology, namely daytime passive radiative cooling, to the government officials from various bureau/departments in the presentation.
The Research Grants Council (RGC) has just announced the results of the GRF and ECS exercises for 2021/22. In this latest competition, SEE faculty members received an overall success rate of 48%, with 12 out of 25 applications awarded for GRF or ECS.
Dr. Edwin Tso’s group recently developed a hydrated MAPbI3−xClx thermochromic perovskite smart window, which demonstrates a smart and thermally responsive optical regulation ability. Notably, a low transition temperature, narrow transition hysteresis width, and short transition time are also achieved successfully, showing great potential for use in energy-efficient buildings.
Lithium-ion batteries are indispensable in our daily life. We use them all the time in cell phones, laptops and even electric vehicles to store energy. Most of us have probably experienced the anxiety when our cell phone battery is running low and wish that the battery can be charged within minutes.
Dr. Alicia An has recently received the Marine Conservation Enhancement Fund for the project “Removal of Micro/Nano Plastic from Marine Environments Using Nanobubble”.
Under the supervision of Dr. Edwin Tso, three SEE PhD students, namely, Mr. Martin Zhu, Mr. Johnny Lin and Kelly Chen participated in the entrepreneurship proposal scheme of the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, organised by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association (HKNGCA).
Fixing atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia is essential for sustaining life on earth. Today, nitrogenase in nature supplies half of such fixed nitrogen, while the other half is contributed by industrial Haber–Bosch process at elevated temperature and pressure. The Haber–Bosch process is not sustainable in that it uses hydrogen sourced from steam reforming of methane to reduce nitrogen, consuming huge amount of fossil fuels and co-producing massive carbon dioxide emissions.To help secure a sustainable ammonia production, SEE’s two research groups, led by Dr. Jin Shang and Prof Michael Leung, join
The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) of HKSAR Government and the Energy Market Authority (EMA) of Singapore held a bilateral energy workshop on 11 May to strengthen energy cooperation. Dr. Yun Hau Ng, Associate Professor from SEE, presented his research on clean hydrogen generation using artificial photosynthesis approach at this Workshop. The Director of EMSD, Mr. Eric Pang, said EMSD is looking forward to introducing roadmap for carbon neutrality.
