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Developing a Sustainable Environment:
Smart Solar Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Utilization
Smart Solar Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Utilization
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Professor Jimmy Chai-mei YU, Professor Jianbin XU and Professor Xudong XIAO established a multi-disciplinary team consisted of more than 20 enthusiastic scholars for a research project “Smart Solar Energy Harvesting, Storage and Utilization”. The project is honored to be supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s (RGC) Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS), with a total project fund of HK$76 million. This project aimed at addressing the urgency of developing clean and renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, given the fast-growing demand for energy and the recognition of man-made global climate change…
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The large equipment CIGS Evaporation Chamber System established by the research team at Department of Physics at CUHK (The TRS scheme sponsored around HK$ 600,000 for some parts of this equipment).
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The stability of perovskite material prepared through the NABR methodology is significantly boosted from one week into two months.
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Diagram showing the production of hydrogen from water via micro-fibrous phosphorus/SiO2.