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------June 25, 2021------Haoran successfully passes his Ph.D. thesis defense. He is now very close to becoming Dr. Li. Congratulations!!!

------September 11, 2020------Our group has published a paper of Matters Arising type in Nature Communications entitled “Pitfalls in identifying active catalyst species”. “Matters Arising are exceptionally interesting and timely scientific comments and clarifications on original research papers published in Nature Communications”. 

------May 29, 2020------Mr LI Haoran receives 3rd prize at the 6th HK University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

------April 28, 2020------Jiazheng successfully passes his Ph.D. thesis defense. He is now very close to becoming Dr. Ren. Congratulations!!!

------October 13-17, 2019------Prof. Chen leads a conference  travel to Chongqing to attend the 19th National Congress on Catalysis of China and gives a presentation.

------May 25-26, 2019------Miss LI Ming receives Innovation Third-class Award at the 5th HK University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

------April 26-29, 2019------Prof. ZHAO Zhen from Shenyang Normal University (沈阳师范大学) pays a back visit to our lab and gives a seminar titled "Design, Preparation, and Catalytic Performance of the Macropore-based Catalysts for Soot Oxidation".

------April 01-06, 2019------Prof. Chen leads a research trip to Shenyang Normal University (沈阳师范大学) to conduct X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and gives presentations as follow:

Prof. Chen-"Measuring carbon deposition rate in methane dry reforming: a mission impossible";

Dr. Cheng-"CO2 self-poisoning of a CuO/Al2O3 catalyst for CO oxidation";

Miss Li-"Controlling the reduction extent for optimal performance of a Ni/Al2O3 dry reforming catalyst".

------July 02-August 19, 2018------CUHK Summer Research Placement for Mainland and Taiwan Students

Students visit from Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学) and Tsinghua University (清华大学).

------July 20-23, 2018------Dr. CHENG Kai participates in the 11th Environmental Catalysis Session in China and gives a presentation titled "​​A Combination of Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Low Temperature NH3-SCR Activity of FeTiOx Catalysts via Cu Doping". 

Click the link for details: http://11ncecm.synu.edu.cn/intro.php

------July 16-19, 2018------Mr. Ren Jiazheng (2nd year PhD student) attends the 9th International Conference on Hydrogen Production in Croatia and gives a presentation titled "Infrared (IR) Spectroscopic Measurement of Hydrogen Production Kinetics in Methane Dry Reforming". 

Click the link for details: http://2018.ich2p.com/

------January 21-26, 2018------Dr. Alex Chinghuan Lee participates in the 42th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites(ICACC) and gives a presentation titled "​​Formation mechanism of critical microstructures in ceramics by infrared spectroscopy". 

Click the link for details: http://ceramics.org/icacc2018

------April 22, 2016------Prof. Chen leads a research trip to SPring-8 Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Japan to conduct X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) spectroscopy.

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