News

A warm welcome to our new Ph.D candidate - Baojie.

Aug 2026

Congratulations to Liangpang on starting his faculty position at South China University of Technology!

July 2026

We report recent advances in electrochemical capture and conversion of low-concentration CO2, from catalyst design to electrolyzer engineering.

July 2026

Congrats Weixing on the Postgraduate Research Output Award 2025!

July 2026

We provide a systematic overview of doping strategies for RuO2 catalysts in acidic OER.

June 2026

Congratulations to Yi on receiving the RGC Junior Research Fellow Scheme.

May 2026

Congrats Dr. Bichao Wu on taking up a faculty position in CSU.

May 2026

Our article was selected as the Front Cover of ICM.

May 2026

We report recent advances in Ti4O7 anodes for efficient, low-energy electrochemical PFAS degradation.

April 2026

We highlight recent advances in non-thermal plasma catalysis for converting CO2 and CH4 into value-added oxygenates.

March 2026

We elucidate the superiority of Ru-based compounds for zinc-air batteries from two perspectives: reasons for developing Ru-based composite catalysts and strategies for designing efficient Ru-based composite catalysts.

Jan 2026

We reports on the latest advances in Ru-based materials as bifunctional catalysts in the field of zinc-air batteries.

Dec 2025

By integrating a wide-field microscope with a custom-designed electrolyzer, nanoscale temperature changes can be recorded in situ during electrolysis process without interfering with ongoing electrochemical reactions.

Dec 2025

Ying, Yi and Birou attended the 23rd National Congress on Electrochemistry in 2025.

Nov 2025

Congratulations to Ying on receiving the China Youth Awards of Electrochemist!

Nov 2025

Our team advances to the Top 32 in The 14th China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition-Qianhai, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Competition.

Oct 2025

By utilising nanoclusters in a bipolar membrane electrolyser, we've achieved selective and stable methane production.

Sep 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Wu!

Aug 2025

A warm welcome to our new students: Qisheng, Zhuohan, Wenzhe, and Renzhong!

Aug 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!

July 2025

Welcome Bichao to joining us!

May 2025

Grain boundary engineering enhances RuO2's acidic OER acitivity and stability.

April 2025

We won a Gold Medal at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.

April 2025

Weixing gave an oral presentation at the 2025 International Symposium on Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis.

March 2025

Weixing gave an oral presentation at ACS Spring 2025, winning the Gold medal of ENFL student Award.

March 2025

Metallic Ru on RuO2 creates Ru4+-O-Ru0 interface, boosting acidic oxygen evolution activity and stability.

March 2025

Using Au-Au RRDE and SI-SECM, we gain insight into the proton donor identity of CO2RR under acidic condition.

March 2025

Grateful for ACS Energy Letters for Featuring Ying at the "Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research Series"!

Jan 2025

We won the third prize in the Hong Kong roadshow of the "China Merchants Cup" Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

December 2024

Check out our recent work on enhancing CO2-to-C2+ activity through catalyst layer design.

December 2024

We are delighted to invite you to the 2025 International Symposium on Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis & Electrochemical Forum for Young Scholars, Chinese Chemical Society!

November 2024

We are organizing the Symposium on CO2 Conversion & Utilization-1: Novel Materials and Methods in ACS Spring 2025 with Prof. Chunshan Song, Prof. Angela Dibenedetto and Prof. Susie Dai. We look forward to your participation!

September 2024

Congrats to Dr. Xu on a successful PhD defense!

September 2024

Ying is listed among the "World's Top 2% Scientist 2024" by Stanford Univeristy and Elsevier data repository.

September 2024

Check out our recent work on CO2-to-CH4.

September 2024

We prepared multiple-metal oxides catalysts for CO2 reduction to HCOOH in acid condition with high selectivity and long-term stability.

August 2024

Welcome Mingzhu and Birou to joining us!

August 2024

Congratulations to Yi on the Young Scholars Thesis Award 2023!

July 2024

Congratulations to Xinyuan on the Outstanding Poster Award at the 21st ICCDU 2024!

June 2024

The group attended the 21st Internatinal Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU 2024) at Dalian.

June 2024

How to address the carbonate issue by acidic CO2 electrolysis? We provide a thorough review of recent advances from catalyst design to device engineering.

May 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Guangchao Li for taking up a faculty position at Central South University!

April 2024

Check out Yi's review about the future of low temperature bipolar membrane electrolyser for CO2 reduction.

March 2024

We construct a single-phase catalyst with dual-atoms-induced bifunctional catalytic centers to explore highly efficient rechargeable Zn-air batteries.

March 2024

Our group has been selected among the top 32 projects in the third TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition from the 450 projects representing 11 countries and regions!

26 Feb 2024

By regulating the mass transport and charge transfer, we alleviated the carbonate issue in acidic CO2 reduction.

Jan 2024

How to selectively produce multicarbon in active carbon solutions? Our recent paper with Prof. Wang from Soochow University on investigating the local environments could provide guidances.

Dec 2023

Congratulations to Weixing on the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 1st ICE3SCN!

Dec 2023

Invited by JCP, we published a tutorial review on Tafel analysis.

Nov 2023

Ying received the Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. N. Cheung Research Excellence Award. We thank the support from the United College and Mr.&Mrs. Cheung!

Oct 2023

Welcome Hui to joining us!

Sep 2023

Congratulations to Yi on the Postgraduate Research Output Award 2022!

Aug 2023

Congratulations to Ying on the CUHK Young Researcher Award 2022!

Aug 2023

Welcome our new stduent: Xinyuan!

Aug 2023

Check out Liangpang's review about recent advances on bismuth oxyhalides for photocatalytic CO2 reduction!

Congratulations to Dr. Xie!

Jun 2023

Yi has been awarded the "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award"(2022-23, Term 2)!

May 2023

Check out Qian's review about next-generation Zn-air batteries!

By regulating active sites on monodisperse copper-based catalysts, we obtained efficient electromethanation of CO2.

We are thrilled to have Guangchao on board!

10 May 2023

Warmest welcome to Qian!

6 Mar 2023

Zhanyou won 2nd Runner-up Oral Presentation Award in 2022-2023 Science Faculty Postgraduate Research Day.

Feb 2023

To pave the way for coupling with renewable energy, we investigated the role of pause mode electrolysis for acidic CO2RR.

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Ying becomes the Committee Member of Women Chemists of the Chinese Chemical Society.

Dec 2022

Zhongshuo gave a talk at ACEPS'11.

Dec 2022

Check out the establishment of JIAMGER for a greener future!

We are glad to have Jiping from CSU joining us.

1 Dec 2022

Congratulations to Wenbo's work published on Journal of Power Sources!

Ying is selected among 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific by MIT Technology Review!

Nov 2022

Ying gave a talk at "CUHK Innovation Day 2022".

Oct 2022

Ying received the award from the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) (2022)!

Congratulations to Dr. Yu's work published on Journal of Materials Chemistry A!

Our work is highlighted in different news media : 人民网, CUHK News Center and 京港學術交流中心!

Congratulations to Weixing's work published on Journal of Electrochemistry!

Making use of cations, we steered the product distribution of CO2RR in acidic media.

Our paper has been selected as the "Excellent Papers Award 2021" by Chinese Chemical Letters. Thanks, CCL!

How efficient can we use the CO2? Can CO2RR beat HER in the acidic condition? Our recent work with UofT on Nat. Catal. is trying to answer these questions.

Hot and fresh! Check out our paper by Zhongshuo on the next step for e-CO2RR.

Writing with Lejing, we report a simultaneously full cell production of H2O2 at 66 umol/min at 140 mA.

Check out our recent work on water splitting with TJUT!

Yi won first runner-up in 2021-2022 Science Faculty Postgraduate Research Day. Congratulations on her nice presentation!

Image by CUHK Science, Dec 2021

Check out our recent work on Silicane anode with UofT and SYSU!

Congratulations to Liangpang and Yi's work published on Materials Today Physics!

Welcome our new Ph.D stduents: Weixing and Zhongshuo!

Aug 2021

Congratulations to Yi's collaborative work with Xue, Pengfei and Josh got accepted on Nature Communications!

Check out our recent review about solar water splitting!

Congratulations to Qi and Yi on their work regarding rational design of single atom catalysts for CO2RR!

Welcome the 2020er - Wenbo and Zhanyou!

Aug 2020

Welcome Xu to joining us!

Jan 2020

Warmest welcome to our first year Ph.D students!

Aug 2019

Ying officially started at CUHK at July 8th 2019

Yes! We are finally here! Check out the beautiful campus of CUHK! Are you ready to join us to make this green campus greener and to make a greener future?

Ying gave an invited talk at "2019SEMDC”(中国化学会2019能源材料与缺陷化学学术研讨会)

Ying was invited to give a talk about Electrocatalytic CO2 conversion at the "2019 SEMDC" at Changsha, Hunan at 18th-20th June, 2019. Thanks for the kind invitation!​