EI Recipients of Research Impact Fund and RGC Collaborative Fund (CRF) 2023/2024
Three cross-institutional multidisciplinary projects led by Energy Institute faculty were awarded a total of around HK$17.3 million under the under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2023/24 and Research Impact Fund (RIF) 2023/24 of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). These include one Research Impact Fund, one Collaborative Research Project Grants and one Young Collaborative Research Grants. All three studies will be conducted over a three-year period. The CRF projects will be conducted over a three-year period while the RIF project over four years.
Research Impact Fund 2023/24
Project title: Development of Solid State Lithium Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Principal coordinator: Prof. SHAO Minhua, Director of Energy Institute, Head and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Collaborative Research Fund 2023/24: Collaborative Research Project Grant
Project title: High-Energy-Density All-Solid-State Lithium-Metal Batteries
Principal coordinator: Prof. Yoonseob KIM, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Collaborative Research Fund 2023/24: Young Collaborative Research Grant
Project title: Perovskite Opto-Ionics for In-Sensor Computing
Principal coordinator: Prof. ZHOU Yuanyuan, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Congratulations to Prof. Minhua SHAO, Prof. Yoonseob KIM and Prof. ZHOU Yuan yuan!
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