Welcome to the Tian research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan

News

• ^News 2024/09 – Congratulations to Prof. Tian on being selected as an Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF: 10.7).
  
• ^News 2024/09 – Congratulations to Prof. Tian for receiving the 2024 Chemical Engineering Masterpiece Award (化工傑作獎) from the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (TwiChE, 台灣化學工程學會)!
  
• ^News 2024/09 – We are glad to have Prof. Yumi Yakiyama from the Division of Applied Chemistry at Osaka University (日本大阪大學應用化學系) visit our group! We had fruitful discussions about our previous collaboration work and future collaborations.
  
• ^News 2024/09 – Congrats to Ming-Yuan Hung (洪名遠, D1 student) for getting the 2nd Best Student Project at the Eindhoven Semicon Summer School held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 08/26-08/30 (News, YouTube)! This summer school is co-organized by ASML, TSMC, NXP, ASM, Axelera, Neways, and Smart Photonics.
  
• ^News 2024/09 – Congrats to Jing-Yan Wu (吳敬焱, B4 undergraduate student) for getting the 成大大專生專題成果海報競賽 材化組 特優獎.
• ^News 2024/08 – Welcome a new administrative assistant, Ya-Hsin Hung (洪亞歆), to join our group.
• ^News 2024/08 – Congratulations to Hong-Kai Chen (陳弘凱), whose first-author independent work was accepted and published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF: 10.7)!
• ^News 2024/08 – Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, You-Cheng Kuo (郭祐丞), for receiving a Ph.D. fellowship from Delta Electronics (台達電子). The fellowship provides a total of 1,500,000 TWD over 3 years. Upon graduation, You-Cheng will join Delta Electronics.
• 2024/07 – Our proposal (成大國際合作計畫) with Prof. Ken Sakaushi at the University of Tsukuba has been awarded! (title: 探索有機金屬骨架電催化觸媒的最佳雙金屬組成與活性:結合實驗、理論計算與機器學習模型). Prof. Tian and 3 Ph.D. students will be visiting the University of Tsukuba, the National Institute for Materials Science, and Tokyo Tech this October.
• 2024/07 – We are glad to invite and host Prof. Hui-Chia Yu from the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (CMSE) at Michigan State University (美國密西根州立大學) to visit our group and give a talk at NCKU ChemE departments. We also had a fruitful discussion about numerical simulations of electrochemical cells.
  
• ^News 2024/07 – Congrats on our collaborative work with Prof. Jih-Jen Wu on multi-scale simulations of the vacancy-tuned piezo-electric properties in ZnIn2S4 photocatalysts has been accepted and published in Advanced Materials (IF: 27.4). This great work is done by Ming-Yuan Hung (D1 student) and Yen-Ting Kuo (graduated student).
• ^News 2024/07 – Congrats on Yu-Ting Tai’s (D1 student) collaborative work with Prof. Wei-Ren Liu and Prof. Chung-Wei Kung on the 2D MOF with superior O2/H2O resistance for anticorrosion applications has been accepted and published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF: 8.3).
• ^News 2024/07 – Congrats to our M2 students, Hong-Kai Chen (陳弘凱), Yen-Ting Kuo (郭彥廷), and Zih-Lie Huang (黃子洌), for successfully defending their Master’s Theses. We wish them all the best.
  
• ^News 2024/07 – Welcome new Master’s students, Kuan-Lun Chen (陳冠綸), Yu-Hsuan Lin (林昱萱), Wei-Xiang Zhou (周維祥), Bing-Xun Zhong (鍾秉勳), and Li-Lun Lin (林立倫), to join our group.
• ^News 2024/07 – Congratulations on our proposal being awarded a 3-year grant from NSTC, totaling 4.5 million NTD funding. (結合機器學習勢能與多尺度模擬技術深入解析全固態電池的動態機械性衰退現象)
• ^News 2024/07 – Congratulations to Jing-Yan Wu (B4 student), whose proposal was awarded an NSTC undergraduate grant (國科會大專生專題計畫). He will be working on sulfide solid electrolytes and the doping strategy for enhancing stability (利用機器學習勢能與第一原理計算探索提升硫化物固態電解質大氣穩定性的摻雜策略).
• ^News 2024/07 – Welcome two undergraduate students, 林正光 (B4 student) and 黃慶維 (B3 student), to join our group!
• 2024/06 – Congrats to Hong-Zhang Huang (M2 student) and You-Cheng Kou (D1 student) for getting the best English oral presentation award (英文口頭報告特優) and the honorable poster award (海報競賽佳作) at TWCIS2024 conference (2024界面科學年會)
  
• 2024/06 – Congrats to Ming-Yuan Hung (D1 student) on being selected with full funding to attend an NCKU AISSM semiconductor summer school in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He will be visiting Eindhoven and ASML for a week in late August.
• 2024/06 – We are glad to invite and host Prof. Ken Sakaushi from NIMS, Japan (日本國立物質材料研究機構), to visit our group and HiGEM and give talks at NCKU and NTHU ChemE departments. We also had a fruitful discussion about our ongoing collaborations on MOF and High-entropy electrocatalysts for hydrogen energy.
  
• 2024/06 – Prof. Tian was invited to give a talk at TICC2024 in NTUST. Also, Rui-Tong Kuo gave an English oral presentation about activity predictions of bi-metal catalysts via first-principles calculations and machine-learning potential. Also, Prof. Tian was glad to reunite with his Master’s degree advisor, Prof. Ben-Zu Wan.
  
• 2024/06 – We are glad to host Prof. Masashi Kotobuki (MCUT Battery Research Center of Green Energy) for visiting our group and discussing the experimental/computational collaborations on Na-ion conducting solid electrolytes.
  
• 2024/06 – Prof. Tian and Prof. Tzung-Fang Guo were glad to host Prof. Yan Yao (University of Houston) and Prof. Bin Hu (University of Tennessee) for their visit to NCKU.
  
• 2024/05 – Congrats to Yen-Ting Kuo (郭彥廷, M2)’s recent work collaborating with Prof. Ken Sakaushi (NIMS, U of Tsukuba, Japan) about the 2D NiFe-BHT MOF electrocatalysts for OER has been accepted and published on Small!
• 2024/05 – Prof. Tian and two graduate students, Ming-Yuan Hung (洪名遠, D1) and Hong-Zhang Huang (黃泓璋, M2), attended the ACEPS12 conference in Osaka, Japan, and all gave oral talks. Prof. Tian also visited Prof. Yumi Yakiyama‘s lab at Osaka University (大阪大學) and discussed the previous collaboration progress and future work.
  
• 2024/05 – Congrats to our Master students (M1), Yu-Ting Tai (戴郁庭) and You-Cheng Kou (郭祐丞), for getting direct admissions to the Ph.D. programs (逕讀博士班) of the Chemical Engineering (化工所) and the Program of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing (智慧與永續製造學程), respectively, at NCKU with Ph.D. scholarships.
• 2024/05 – Congrats to Hong-Kai Chen (陳弘凱, M2), Hong-Zhang Huang (黃泓璋, M2), and Rui-Tong Kuo (郭瑞桐, M1)’s recent work on upconversion nanomaterials and efficiency enhancement mechanisms has been accepted and published in Advanced Materials (IF: 29.4)! This is a collaborative work with Prof. Cheng-Shen Yeh and Prof. Wei-Peng Li.
• 2024/05 – Congrats to Hong-Zhang Huang (黃泓璋, M2) for getting the NCKU scholarship (成大跨國雙向研修獎助學金, 59,000 NTD) to further support his internship at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan from 2024/08 to 2024/11.
• 2024/05 – Congrats to Ming-Yuan Hung (洪名遠, D1) for getting the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2024 Symposium on Thermodynamics and Process Systems Engineering (熱力學暨程序系統工程研討會).
  
• 2024/04 – Prof. Tian gave a talk at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle, USA. Prof. Tian also gladly reunited with Prof. Yue Qi (Brown University)and Prof. Yoshitaka Tateyama (Tokyo Tech) and discussed recent research work and potential student exchange/visit between our groups.
  
• 2024/04 – Congrats to our graduate students, Ming-Yuan Hong (洪名遠, D1) and Hong-Zhang Huang (黃泓璋, M2), for getting the travel grant from NSTC for supporting their attendance at ACEPS12 in Osaka, Japan. They will both give oral presentations about the modeling of interphase and geometry effects in all-solid-state batteries.
• 2024/04 – Prof. Tian attended Frankfurt, Germany, for the annual DE-TW Battery Project meeting (台德雙邊電池計畫會議) and had fruitful discussions with battery experts (both computational and experimental). It is the 7th annual meeting for this DE-TW battery project. Also, many thanks to Prof. Felix Richter for hosting us and giving tours to Prof. Jürgen Janek‘s group at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
  
• 2024/04 – Our proposal (成大敏求學院-AI永續發展未來之星計畫) has been awarded! Through this proposal, we will be developing Machine-Learning interatomic potentials via DFT calculations to enable large-scale simulations of interphase formation and focus on the dendrite problems in all-solid-state batteries.
• 2024/03 – Two Industrial cooperation grants (產學計畫) with ITRI (工研院) have been awarded from 2024/03 to 2024/12. (Project titles: 鈣鈦礦量子點合成與塗佈技術開發; 釩離子擴散與平衡研究)
• 2024/03 – Congrats to Yu-Ting Tai (戴郁庭, M1) for getting the poster presentation award at the 2024 International Conference on Hierarchical Green Energy Materials (2024HIGEM)
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• 2024/03 – Congrats to Prof. Tian for getting the Rising Star Award in the College of Engineering of NCKU (成大工學院明日之星獎助).
• ^News 2024/03 – Our industrial Cooperation Grant (產學計畫-成大李國鼎科技與人文講座) with Delta Electronics-Cyntec (台達電子-乾坤科技) has been awarded. We will conduct continuum simulations via Finite Element Analysis to study the inhomogeneous lithium deposition behaviors on uneven lithium metal anodes.
• 2024/03 – Congrats to Hong-Zhang Huang (黃泓璋, M2) for getting a fully-funded internship offer at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. He will be working in Dr. Randy Jalem‘s group from 2024/08 to 2024/10.
• 2024/02 – Welcome a new undergraduate student (專題生), Zhe-An Zheng (鄭哲安), to join our group.
• 2024/01 – Congrats to Feye-Feng Lu (陸飛鳳) for successfully defending her Master thesis!
  Also, congrats to her for getting a Ph.D. offer in Prof. Yoshitaka Tateyama’s group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大學). She will start her Ph.D. journey in Sep. 2024. We wish her all the best!
  
• 2024/01 – Congrats to Prof. Tian for getting the 永續跨領域整合型研究優良獎 (15 selected teams out of total 86 teams) with Prof. Chuan-Feng Shih (施權峰教授) and Prof. Vincent Wing-hei Lau (劉詠熙教授) for the collaborative work of developing lead-free perovskite solar cells. It should also be credited to our graduate student Zih-Lie Huang (黃子洌) for his excellent work on this project.