Group News

2025:

July 2025: Qi You and her teammates (undergrads, Han, Haoyuan, Yutong and Ghani) won the provincial bronze medal at the 第四届高校电气电子工程创新大赛(广东省赛) where they built a system to generate green hydrogen in arid area. Congratulations!

July 2025: Suijing joined our group as PhD student for fall 2026.Welcome onboard and Good luck!

July 2025: Dr. Zeng gave an invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2025) at HKUST clear water bay campus.

June 2025: Congratulations to Peigong, Yuji and Yantian in Winning the national bronze medal in the 中国青年碳中和创新大赛！

April 2025: Our team won the gold medal in the 中国青年碳中和创新大赛华南区决赛 and made its way to the national final. Congratulations to Yuji, Peigong and Tianyan (UG student). Always cheer for every milestone achieved on our way to sustainble future!

April 2025: Our group is expanding fast. Welcome Jianchen, Bin, Xinyao, Tingting, Yu and Caiyi onboard and Good luck!

March 2025: Motsun Inc. visited the the BEST Lab at HKUST(GZ) and lauched our joint effort to promote low-carbon data center technologies.

Feb 2025: Xi Yuan joined our group as research assistant. Welcome onboard and Good luck!

2024:

Dec 2024: Weichen and xiaohang joined our group as PhD student and research intern. Welcome onboard and Good luck!

Dec 2024: Welcome Jiaxin to join our group as a PhD student. She will work on porous media for direct air capture of carbon dioxide. Good luck!

Nov 2024: Congratulations to Peigong and Yuji, along with their team members on winning a bronze award in the highly selective HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition, which will assit in our HKUST(GZ) based startup in promoting the carbon capture technology. 香港科技大学百万奖金创业大赛

Nov 2024: Dr. Zeng gave a talk at the 2024 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress about non-contact Operando diagnostic of transport phenomena in porous media. 2024 ASME IMECE

Aug 2024: Welcome Qi You to join our group as Mphil student. Best of luck for your research endeavor!

July 2024: Dr. Zeng gave a talk at the Thrid Asian Conference on Thermal Science in Shanghai about carbon capture.

April 2024: Dr. Zeng gave an invited talk at the 2024 μFIP conference in Hong Kong about solar energy.

April 2024: Dr. Zeng gave a talk at the 2024 MRS conference in Seattle (USA) about carbon capture.

2023:

Nov 2023: Dr. Zeng was invited to the 南沙区新能源产业联合会 for a panel discussion on the development of novel energy storage technology.

Nov 2023: Dr. Zeng was invited to give a talk at the Thermal Science For Health, Energy and Information Lab (microfluidics.whu.edu.cn) in Wuhan University.

Oct 2023: Zeng group in HKUST(GZ) officially kicks off! Welcome our first cohort of students: Mr. Yuji Qin, Mr. Peigong Liu and Mr. Yuan Li. Best of luck for everyone!