Prof.Minhua Shao
Electrochemical Energy Laboratory HKUST
September/2023 Our proposal on fuel cell was funded by Key R&D Project of Guangdong.
August/2023 Prof. Shao was appointed Technical Editor of Journal of Electrochemical Society.
August/2023 Congrats to Yian Wang and Jixiang Yang on their successful PhD defense exams.
July/2023 Congrats to Dr. Jingjie Ge on starting the tenure-track Assistant Professor position at PolyU Hong Kong.
June/2023 Our proposal on electrolyte additives for high-voltage Li batteries was funded by RGC.
May/2023 Prof. Shao was elected ECS Fellow 2023.
April/2023 Congrats to Dr. Shangqian Zhu on starting the independent academic career at Southeast University as a Full Professor.
November/2022 Our proposal on sulfide-based high-energy density solid-state lithium batteries was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme.
September/2022 Prof. Minhua Shao has been named Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Energy Engineering and Environment, and Chair Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
June/2022 The work on durable fuel cell hybrid electrocatalyst was published in Nature Catalysis.
March/2022 Our proposal on developing water splitting catalysts was funded by the Guangdong-Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme of ITF.
January/2022 Our group received ~HKD 9M from Green Tech Fund to develop fuel cells.
December/2021 Professor Minhua Shao was appointed as the Director of HKUST Energy Institute.
October/2021 Usman Bin Shahid won the 2021 Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis Competition.
September/2021 Welcome new RPG students Connie Liu, Yongjun Kwon, Hyeongwoo Kim, Xiaoyi Qiu, Alberto Cantagalli, Onyeka Okwundu, Guimei Liu, Fangzhen Liu, and Chen Dai.
June/2021 Congrats to Fei Xiao (Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Best PG Award for Excellent Research) and Kumar Siddharth (CBE Best PG Award) for winning 2021 Best PG Awards of the CBE department.
April/2021 Congrats to Hyeongwoo Kim for winning the Asian Future Leaders Scholarship Program.
March/2021 Congrats to Kumar Siddharth for receiving a Postdoctoral Fellow position from Harvard University.
March/2021 Our ITF proposal on cathode materials for lithium ion batteries was funded.
December/2020 Our CRF proposal on alkaline fuel cell was funded.
November/2020 Congrats to Yao Yao for winning the “Po Lock YUE Best PG Award for Excellent Research” of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.
October/2020 Congrats to Usman Bin SHAHID for winning the Champion and Best Innovative Award, and Gabriel Sikukuu NAMBAFU for winning the 1st Runner Up Award in the 2020 Postgraduate Category of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Young Professionals Exhibition and Competition.
September/2020 Welcome RGC Postdoc Fellow Dr. Qinglan Zhao.
September/2020 Welcome new RPG students Yinuo Wang, Zhiwen Xu, Yingdan Cui, Juhee Jang, Ran Tao, Daniel Wan.
April/2020 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for receiving the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.
March/2020 Prof. Shao was appointed as the Director of the HKUST Collaborative Innovation Center (HCIC).
March/2020 The 1st International Conference on Electrocatalysis is postponed to July 15-17, 2021.
March/2020 The 1st GRC on Electrochemical Interfaces in Energy Conversion and Storage is postponed to July 18-23, 2021.
January/2020 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for winning the SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2019-20.
January/2020 The 1st International Conference on Electrocatalysis will be held at HKUST on June 24-27, 2020.
January/2020 The 1st GRC on Electrochemical Interfaces in Energy Conversion and Storage will be held at HKUST on June 28-July 3, 2020.
January/2020 Welcome Hong Kong Scholar Dr. Jian Tian from Shandong University of Science and Technology.
October/2019 Welcome Research Manager Dr. Wenyan Tao.
October/2019 Welcome Postdoc Dr. Guangyu Chen.
September/2019 Welcome new MSc students Zhiwen Xu, Yuchen Feng, Zixi Wan, Yufa Lu, Yibo Tian, Jiayu Dong, and Linlin He.
August/2019 Welcome new RPG students Yian Wang, Fei Yang, Jixiang Yang, Lucia Zhou, Stuart Robertson, Tiehuai Li, and Jiadong Li.
July/2019 Usman Bin Shahid won the 1st Runner up place in the post-graduate presentation section of the IET YPEC 2019 and was also the winner of the “My Favorite Poster Award”.
June/2019 Prof. Shao was promoted to Full Professor.
June/2019 Our 2018/19 GRF proposal on CO2 electrochemical reduction was funded by RGC.
June/2019 The Hong Kong Scholar, Dr. Jiangan Wang was promoted to Full Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University.
May/2019 Prof. Shao was elected to be the Treasurer of the Energy Technology Division, The Electrochemical Society.
May/2019 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for winning the Best PG Award for Excellent Research of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.
May/2019 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for winning the ECS Travel Grant to attend the 235th ECS Meeting in Dallas, US.
April/2019 Congrats to Kumar Siddharth on winning the championship and People’s Choice Award of the HKUST Three Minute Thesis Competition, and to Usman Bin Shahid on winning the 1st Runner-up place.
March/2019 Prof. Shao join the Editorial Board of Electrocatalysis.
December/2018 Prof. Shao was appointed as the Vice Chair, Division 5 (Electrochemical Process Engineering and Technology) of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE).
December/2018 JES Focus Issue on Electrocatalysis-in honor of Radoslav Adzic published.
November/2018 The group gave a Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop in the HKUST Alumni Reunion.
November/2018 Welcome visiting scholars and students Prof. Lili Zhang, Dr. Lu Wang, Wei Hua, and Zhipeng Liu.
September/2018 Welcome new MSc students Mingrang Yuan, Qianhan Luo, Siyao Wu, Peishan Chen, Chenxi Xu, and Yifang Jiang.
August/2018 Welcome new RPG Students SHAHID Usman Bin (HKPFS), DELMO Ernest (HKPFS), OLU Solomon Chukwunonso (HKPFS, Spring 2019), Jing Wang (HKUST-SUSTech joint PhD Program), Fei Xiao, Caihong Liang (Co-supervised with Prof. Ping Gao), and Yikai Peng.
August/2018 Prof. Shao was invited to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
August/2018 Prof. Shao was appointed as the Director of the CBME Master of Science (MSc) program.
August/2018 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for winning the ECS Travel Grant to attend the 234th ECS meeting in Cancun.
August/2018 EI-PCOSS Joint Workshop: Energy Conversion and Storage, August 4, 2018.
August/2018 Congrats to Lulu Zhang and Fei Xiao for the successful thesis defences.
June/2018 The 2017/18 GRF proposal on CO2 electroreduction was funded by RGC.
June/2018 Croucher Advanced Study Institute: Frontiers in Energy Storage, June 6-8, 2018
May/2018 Congrats to Lulu Zhang for winning the ECS Travel Grant to attend the 233rd ECS Meeting in Seattle.
May/2018 Congrats to Lulu Zhang for winning the Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Best PG Award for Excellent Research of the CBE Department.
April/2018 Energy Day on April 24, 2018.
March/2018 Congrats to SHAHID Usman Bin (McGill Universtiy), DELMO Ernest (University of Philippines Diliman) and OLU Solomon Chukwunonso (Federal University of Technology) for winning the HKPFS award. They will join the group in Fall 2018.
February/2018 Congrats to Shangqian Zhu for winning the Catalysts 2018 Travel Award.
January/2018 EI-CBE Joint Workshop on Advanced Battery Technologies
November/2017 CBE-EI Joint Workshop on Fuel Cells, Electrolysers and Flow Batteries
October/2017 The RGC-NSFC joint Research Scheme proposal on single atom electrocatalysts was funded.
October/2017 Prof. Shao received the Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award of School of Engineering 2016/17.
October/2017 Prof. Shao was elected as a member of the Young Academy of Science of Hong Kong.
September/2017 Congrats to Fangzheng Liu, Tao Zhang for the Ford-HKUST Awards!
August/2017 Prof. Shao was appointed as Associate Editor of Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
August/2017 Welcome new RPG Students Hsi-wen Wu, Yuze Yao, Gabriel Sikukuu Nambafu (HKPFS), Tiehuai Li, Sitong Jia, Anson Yeung, and Yat Tung Chan!
August/2017 Welcome new MSc Students Yunfeng Hang, Binzhong Li, Tao Zhang, Jianan Mao, and Fangzhen Liu.
August/2017 Congrats to Jordy Evan Sulainman on winning the first place award in the 4th ASPIRE Undergraduate Research Academy 2017 held in KAIST.
July/2017 Dr. Jiangan Wang was selected as the Hong Kong Scholar and will join our group in December 2017.
July/2017 The Theme-based Research Project on E-fules led by Prof. T.S. Zhao was funded by UGC. Prof. Shao is Co-PI.
July/2017 The Thirteen Five Key Plan Project on long-life fuel cell engine led by Prof. Shijun Liao was funded by MOST. Prof. Shao is Co-PI.
June/2017 The 2016/17 RGF proposal on shape-controlled ORR electcrocatalysts was funded by RGC.
June/2017 Dr. Fang Fu left our lab and started her new academic position at Huaqiao University!
May/2017 Shangqian Zhu and Lulu Zhang won the ECS Student Travel Awards and gave oral presentations in 232nd ECS meeting in New Orleans, USA.
May/2017 Prof. Shi-Gang Sun visited our lab and gave an IAS/SENG lecture.
May/2017 Congrats to Wen Liu and Jordy Evan Sulaiman on winning the Best UG Research Award 2017 of CBME!
May/2017 MPhil student Qiaowan Chang left our lab to pursue PhD degree at UCSD. Good Luck!
April/2017 Congrats to Jordy Evan Sulaiman on winning the Second Runner-up of the 2017 Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award!
April/2017 Prof. Shao was appointed as Director of Sustainable Energy Program (UG).
March/2017 Prof. Shao was appointed as Guest Professor of South China University of Technology.
March/2017 Prof. Shelley Minteer visited our lab and gave an IAS/SENG lecture.
February/2017 Prof. Shao was appointed as the Associate Director of the HKUST Energy Institute.
February/2017 Welcome new MPhil Student Jiadong Li!
January/2017 Profs. Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan visited our lab and gave department seminars.
December/2016 Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from USTC and Prof. Shengli Chen from Wuhan University visited our lab and gave department seminars.
November/2016 “Development of high performance cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries” was funded by the Innovation and Technology Fund Hong Kong.
November/2016 Our group successfully held the Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop for Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers and JA Engineering Discovery Day.
September/2016 Prof. Shao attended the International Symposium on Electrocatalysis (ECAT2016) and gave an invited talk.
September/2016 Prof. Shao was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.
September/2016 Congrats to Wenjie Ma, Yilu Zhang, Jing Huang and Sitong Jia for the Ford-HKUST Awards!
August/2016 Welcome new MS Students Shitong Jia, Jing Huang, Chenkai Feng, Yilu Zhang and Wenjie Ma!
August/2016 Welcome new RPG Students Fei Xiao and Kumar Siddharth!
August/2016 Congrats to Zelong Xing, Shangqian Zhu and Qiaowan Chang on successful MPhil defense!
August/2016 Prof. Shao attended the EEST2016 and gave a Keynote talk.
July/2016 Our group successfully held the Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop for SENG Summer Camp and WISE Summer Camp.
July/2016 Prof. Shao attended the 30th CCS Annual Meeting in Dalian and gave an invited talk.
June/2016 Prof. Daniel Scherson from Case Western Reserve University visited our group gave a lecture.
June/2016 Prof. Shao visited Chinese Academy of Sciences Lihua Institute of Technology and gave an invited talk.
June/2016 Prof. Shao attended the 229th ECS Meeting in San Diego and the DOE AMR Meeting in Washington DC.
June/2016 Congrats to MSc students Zhida Liu, Ruiwen Xue, Yubing Du and Jiayu Tang on graduation!
May/2016 The HKUST ECS Student Chapter was established!
February/2016 Welcome Hong Kong Scholar Dr. Haiyan Wang!
February/2016 The invited Pd Review was accepted by Nano Energy. Congrats to Lulu Zhang, Qiaowan Chang, Huimei Chen!
February/2016 The invited ORR Review was accepted by Chemical Reviews. Thanks the collaborators Qiaowan Chang, Jean-Pol Dodelet, and Regis Chenitz!
January/2016 Prof. Shao attended the workshop on electrocatalysis for fuel cells in Zhejiang University and gave a Keynote presentation.
January/2016 Prof. Shao visited Kunshan Innovation Institute, Nanjing University and gave an Invited talk.
October/2015 Prof. Shao visited Peking University, Institute of Physics (CAS) and Wuhan University, and gave Invited talks.
October/2015 Prof. Shao attended the 31st Chinese Academic Annual Conference of Chemical and Physical Power Sources in Tianjin and gave an Invited presentation.
October/2015 Prof. Shao attended the ISE Annual meeting in Taipei and gave an Invited presentation.
October 1-3, 2015 The ISE Satellite Meeting: New Devices for Energy Conversion and Storage was successfully held at HKUST.
September/2015 Dr. Nenad Markovic of Argonne National Laboratory visited our lab and gave three lectures.
September/2015 MSc students Ruiwen Xue and Jiayu Tang won the Ford-HKUST Conservation and Environmental Research Grants. Congrats!
September/2015 Welcome MSc students Ruiwen Xue, Jiayu Tang, Yubin Dou and Zhida Liu!
August/2015 Prof. Shao attended the EEST2015 meeting in Vancouver and gave a Keynote presentation.
August 11, 2015 Prof. Shao joined the Editorial Board of Catalysts.
August 11, 2015 The paper about ORR on high-index Pt surfaces was accepted by J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
August/2015 Prof. Shao was appointed as an Associate Editor of Science Bulletin.
August/2015 Welcome PGs Xueping Qin, Zelong Xing, Yuze Yao and Mickey Chan!
July 11, 2015 Group BBQ, farewell to Dr. Jeffrey Yue
July/2015 Prof. Shao visited Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and gave a talk.
June/2015 Prof. Shao visited Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Visiting Scientist.
May/2015 Prof. Shao visited Ford Motor Company and gave a talk.
May/2015 Prof. Shao visited Department of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and gave a talk.
May/2015 Prof. Shao gave an Invited talk at the ECS meeting, Chicago. He also (co)organized two symposia.
May/2015 Group hiking, farewell to visiting scholar Huimei Chen.
January/2015 Prof. Patrick Unwin from University of Warwick, UK visited our group.
January/2015 Prof. Shao visited Fudan University, USTC, Chongqing University, and gave invited talks.
December/2014 Prof. Chuanjian Zhong from SUNY-Binghamton, USA visited our group.
October/2014 Prof. Shao visited Ballard Power Systems and gave a talk.
October/2014 Prof. Shao gave an invited talk at the International Symposium on Electrocatalysis 2014, Whistler, BC, Canada.
September/2014 Welcome PGs Lulu Zhang, Qiaowan Chang and Shangqian Zhu!
August/2014 Prof. Shao gave an invited talk at the 29th Chinese Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Beijing.
July/2014 Welcome Dr. Jeffrey Yue!
May/2014 Prof. Shao visited University of Connecticut and gave a talk.
May/2014 Prof. Shao visited Brookhaven National Laboratory and gave a talk.
May/2014 Prof. Shao gave the “Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award Presentation” at the ECS meeting, Florida.