Research Interest
We focus on research of sustainable energy, bio, and environmental technologies. In particular, energy conversion and storage devices including batteries, fuel cells and capacitors are of our primary concern. Both experimental and simulation techniques are applied to advance the technology from materials to system level.
Research projects include lithium batteries, redox flow batteries and super-capacitors, which are applied from portable electronics to electric vehicles and home energy storage.
Research projects include the investigation of the methanol fuel cell, microbial fuel cells, and thermal energy recycling technology. Bio-energy conversion is also one of our research focus.
Our simulation skill spans from ab-initio to continuum scale. Topics ranging from lithium-ion battery thermal runaway and ageing to polysulfide transport and reaction in Li-S batteries are investigated.
The plant factory has been attracting increasing interest due to the aggregate of climate change. We focus on integrating green energy sources such as methanol fuel cells and plant-microbial fuel cells to enhance the efficacy of plant factories.
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Disease control and detection via DNA technology is of increasing interest. We aim to use electrochemical methods to largely increase the efficiency of quantification of pathogens.
Design and study sediment microbial fuel cells for use in the field to ​remove fertilizer derived ammonia and converted to nitrate.