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Sung-Fu leaves the Sargent group

24 May 2020

Sunday 

Today is the day Sung-Fu leaves the Sargent group. He hopes that what he has learned in this duration will benefit for his mentorship in his own group and his research regarding renewable energy.  

Invited talk in Annual Meeting of Catalysis Society of Taiwan 

16 Jul 2020

Thursday 

Dr. Hung will give a brief talk "Flow System Enables CO2 Reduction Reaction to be Commercialized"

Abstract:

Renewable energy will dominate most global electricity in the future (~70% in 2050). Carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) is regarded as a promising and potential approach to employ the massive renewable energy to generate products with high economic value, such as ethylene and ethanol, as well as plummet the concentration of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere. However, the low solubility of CO2 in the electrolyte makes the conventional H-type reactor incompatible with considerable energy. The low conversion rate (several ~ tens mA cm-2) is much lower than the criteria of commercialization (100 mA cm-2), according to Techno-economic analysis (TEA). Recently, the flow system (flow cell) can create a three-phase interface to increase the CO2 concentration around the catalysts and enhance the overall catalytic activity. The flow-cell reactor achieves 75% FE and over 1 A cm-2 for ethylene; 52% FE and 156 mA cm-2 for ethanol; 64% FE and 128 mA cm-2 for methane. In these cases, the CO2RR performances in the flow system enable them to be commercialized shortly.

Welcome, Prof. Sung-Fu.

1 Aug 2020

Saturday 

This is the day Dr. Sung-Fu become an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry in National Chiao Tung University. Hope that he can never forget his original intention. A teacher is to teach us the fundamental relationship between oneself and the society, to tell us the knowledge and skills for our careers, and to help us answer questions in the learning process.

Welcome Pei-Hsuan to join our group

3 Aug 2020

Monday 

We appreciate Pei-Hsuan's brave to join a newbie's lab as the first member. Let's see her growth and her understanding to the chemistry after two years.

She writes the wishes "She desires to explore the mysteries of chemistry, expecting herself to perform admirably in her specialization." We hope she can accomplish her wishes.

Welcome Feng-Yi to join our group

24 Aug 2020

Monday 

We welcome Feng-Yi to join a newbie's lab. He also exhibits his brave and decides to learn everything in the lab. We hope that he can grow remarkably and acquire the professional knowledge as much as he can in two years. 

He writes "He is interested in Chemistry and believes that knowledge is power." We also hope that his advisor can keep his enthusiasm and accomplish his belief.

Prof. Sung-Fu's first corresponding paper in NCTU is accepted.

31 Aug 2020

Monday 

A collection of peer-reviewed articles by past winners of the IUPAC and IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Diamond Jubilee Issue: Hung S-F: Electrochemical Flow Systems Enable Renewable Energy Industrial Chain of CO2 Reduction

Dear Prof. Hung:

I am pleased to inform you that your revised manuscript has been passed for publication in Pure and Applied Chemistry, subject to the customary copy editing during proof preparation.
I appreciated your detailed and meticulous responses to reviewers' recommendations

The manuscript has been entered in the queue for copy editing and advance web publication, and you can expect to receive proofs shortly before web publication and DOI assignment.
Please direct any inquiries about the status of pre-publication preparations to pac@degruyter.com.
Many thanks for your fine contribution to this project!

Regards
Scientific Editor, Pure and Applied Chemistry

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First lab gathering

1 Sept 2020

Tuesday 

Today is the first day the students come into the lab. Although we are still constructing the lab, the students still believe Prof. Hung and join his group. We hope that the students achieve their wishes and fruitful results when they receive their degrees. We appreciate our students Pei-Hsuan and Feng-Yi for attending this lab gathering. We also thank Semiconductor Master Dr. Shao-Hui, Calculation Master Prof. Chun-Chih, and Synchrotron Master Dr. Ying-Rui for joining our first lab gathering.

 

The restaurant: Le CaSa in Hsinchu 

Welcome Yi-Hsuan to join our group

10 Sept 2020

Thursday 

We welcome Yi-Hsuan to join a newbie's lab. She is the third student joining this group, and we hope that the students can get along with each other well and happily. We also hope that the group we construct can help Yi-Hsuan gain what she desires to learn.

She writes "she wishes that she learn more about how to deal with things, communicate with people, and solve the problems in this period" We hope that her advisor can accomplish her wishes as she receive her degree here.

Welcome Guan-Lin to join our group

11 Sept 2020

Friday 

We welcome Guan-Lin to join a newbie's lab. He is the fourth and the last student joining this group, and we hope that all of them can get along with each other well and happily. We encourage ourselves that we can help Guan-Lin dig more in Chemistry and learn more to come up against the difficulties and problems in the future.

He writes "He believes that learning is endless, and as long as we learn more, the encountered problems can be resolved competently." We hope that his advisor can teach him as much as possible in his period as a master student.

First Birthday celebration

11 Sept 2020

Friday 

Today is our first birthday celebration. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FENG-YI!!! He wishes the students in our lab can graduate successfully in time. We hope that Feng-Yi can help other students for their graduations when he grows remarkably. Let's see what happens two years later.   

Happy Teacher's Day and Moon Festival

28 Sept 2020

Monday 

Today is our lab gathering for Prof. Hung's first Teacher's Day and Moon Festival. This is also the first lab gathering of all group members. We were eating BBQ because it is the traditional activity for Moon Festival in Taiwan. We have eaten lots of meats and seafood. At the near ending, the group members prepared a gorgeous card for Prof. Hung, full of sentences in it. Prof. Hung has been touched. He thanks for his students' trust and sweet. He also received decent presents: Starbucks bottles, throat lozenge, and chalk clips for his teaching course. SO SWEET!!! Prof. Hung hopes all of his students get along with each other, do experiments, and graduate well and happily.

2020 Merry Christmas

25 Dec 2020

Friday 

Today is our 2020 Christmas Party. We had many delicious food and the gift-exchange activity. Every members received the satisfied gift. The students have the smiles until now. We hope that they can keep themselves happy and learning the research skill gladly in our lab. We will do our best to maintain this delighted situation. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!  

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