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2025

  • Dr. Qinfen Gu, the Principal Scientist of powder diffraction beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, visited our lab in November 2025.
  • Prof. Ocean Cheung, Associate Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Uppsala University, visited our lab in November 2025.
  • Prof. Youn-Sang Bae, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University, visited our lab in November 2025.
  • Jin Shang is invited to give a seminar in Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in November 2025.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Zeyu Tao on publishing breakthrough study on Zero-emission NO2 Capture in Nature Communications!
  • Congratulations to Mr. Daisong Chen on publishing breakthrough study on Gas Separation in Nature Communications!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Sun, a PhD graduate of our group, on being appointed Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham (QS ranking 79)!
  • Jin Shang’s team won Gold Medal at Silicon Valley International Invention Festival (SVIIF) in August 2025.
  • Jin Shang served as Conference Chair of International Conference on Carbon Capture Science and Technology 2025 (CCST2025) in August 2025.
  • Prof. Alexandre Filipe Porfírio Ferreira, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Porto, visited our lab in July 2025.
  • Prof. Guoping Hu, Ganjiang Innovation Academy of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited our lab in July 2025.
  • Prof. Wenfu Yan, College of Chemistry at Jilin University, visited our lab supported by Tin Ka Ping Education Fund in July 2025.
  • Jin Shang gave invited talks at 3 consecutive conferences in zeolites: Pre-School of 21st IZC & 2025 Workshop on Functional Nanoporous Materials – Changchun; 21st International Zeolite Conference (IZC) – Dalian; Post-conference Forum of 21st IZC & Emerge–Enhance–Enrich Workshop – Qingdao in July 2025.
  • Jin Shang gave a keynote lecture on the topic of Advancing the Development of the Molecular Trapdoor Mechanism for Gas Separation at the 15th Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA15) conference in Porto in May 2025.
  • Jin Shang gave a keynote lecture in The 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Porous Materials, Marrakech, Morocco in May 2025.
  • Jin Shang’s team won Gold Medal at 50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in April 2025.
  • Jin Shang is invited to give a seminar at EPFL in April 2025.
  • Dr. Qinfen Gu visited our lab in April 2025.
  • Prof. Youssef Belmabkhout, Director of the Applied chemistry and Engineering Research Centre of Excellence (ACER CoE) at Mohamed VI Polytechnic University, visited our lab in January 2025.
  • Congratulations to Mr. Daisong Chen on publishing breakthrough on porous materials in Journal of the American Chemical Society!

2024

  • Congratulations to Ms. Yuying Wang on publishing our group’s Latest Review on NO2 Removal in Advanced Materials!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Shanshan Shang, a PhD graduate of our group, on being awarded the Inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award (sole recipient) of School of Energy and Environment at CityUHK.
  • Jin Shang and Tianqi Wang attended Shenzhen IP Forum 2024 in December 2024.
  • Jin Shang is invited to give a seminar, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore, in December 2024.
  • Jin Shang gave an invited talk at The 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference in December 2024.
  • Jin Shang gave an invited talk at “111” Project Workshop on New Perspectives on Functional Nanoporous Materials, Soochow University, Suzhou, China, in November 2024.
  • Prof Rahul Banerjee, Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Kolkata, visited our lab in October 2024.
  • Jin Shang presented as a keynote speaker in IACC2024 Integrated Hydrogen Production with Carbon Capture and Utilisation, Surrey, UK, in September 2024.
  • Prof Bin Xu, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at Tongji University, visited our lab in August 2024.
  • Prof Bor-Yi Yu, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University, visited our lab in July 2024.
  • Prof Banglin Chen, Distinguished University Chair Professor at Fujian Normal University, visited CityU and our lab in July 2024.
  • Dr. Qinfen Gu visited our lab in July 2024.
  • Prof Monique van der Veen, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, visited our lab in July 2024.
  • Jin Shang presented as a keynote speaker in the 2nd International Congress on Separation and Purification Technology (ISPT 2024) in Zhengzhou, China, in July 2024.
  • Prof Wen-Yueh Yu, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University, visited our lab in June 2024.
  • Jin Shang gave 3 consecutive invited seminars in School of Environment and Energy, School of Emergent Soft Matter, and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in July 2024.
  • Jin Shang gave invited seminar in School of Chemistry at Sun Yat-sen University in July 2024.

2023 and Earlier

  • Prof Ilich A. Ibarra, Associate Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico, visited our lab in December 2023.
  • Prof Jianwen Jiang, Professor at National University of Singapore, visited our lab in November 2023.
  • Jin Shang was invited to attend the Nobel Prize Symposium 193 in Karlskoga, Sweden in September 2023.
  • Prof Mei Hong, Associate Professor at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, visited our lab in August 2023.
  • Dr. Shouliang Yi, Team Lead & Principal Research Scientist in National Energy Technology Laboratory (US DOE), visited our lab in July 2023.
  • Prof Alex Yip, Professor in Chemical and Process Engineering at University of Canterbury, visited our lab in June 2023.
  • Dr. Qinfen Gu visited our lab in April 2023.
  • Dr. Harvey Huang, Reader of Materials Chemistry and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, visited our lab in March 2023.
  • Jin Shang presented as a keynote speaker in the Asia Pacific Biochar Conference (APBC2021) organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2021.
  • Jin Shang presented as a keynote speaker in the 2nd Engineering Sustainable Development Conference (virtual), co-organized by AIChE's Institute for Sustainability & the Association of Pacific Rim.
  • Dr. Jin Shang and Dr. Lin Zhang published an article "In the fight against climate change, hydrogen could be the answer to Hong Kong’s quest for greener fuel" on SCMP on September 24, 2019.
  • Jin Shang was invited as a keynote speaker in the International Conference on Biological Waste as Resource 2019 (BWR 2019) in Pusan, South Korea in December 2019.
  • Ms. Lisa Sun was nominated by CityU to participate in the Global Young Scientists Summit 2020 in Singapore.
  • Ms. Lisa Sun and Ms. Shanshan Shang obtained the Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students/ Research Tuition Scholarship 2019.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Dongyuan Zhao from Fudan University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited CityU and our lab in May 2019.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Huabin Xing, Dean of College of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Zhejiang University, visited our lab in November 2018.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Xiaodong Zou, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and FRCS at Stockholm University, visited our lab in September 2018.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Philip Llewellyn, Research Director of the Gas Storage and Separations Group in CNRS-MADIREL, visited our lab in May 2018.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Jihong Yu from Jilin University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited CityU and our lab in March 2018.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Jungkyu Choi from Korea University visited our lab in February 2018.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Dr. Zhe Liu, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, visited our lab in December 2017.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Prof Paul Webley, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, visited our lab in December 2017.
  • As invited by Dr. Shang, Dr. Kevin Li, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia, visited our lab in April 2016.

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