Dr. Kwun Nam Hui is an associate professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of Macau and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since 2021, Dr. Hui has also been recognized among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University/Elsevier. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2009. Following the completion of his doctorate, he pursued a postdoctoral research position at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2009, Dr. Hui joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Pusan National University in South Korea. Throughout his career, Dr. Hui has focused on developing innovative materials and devices for energy storage and conversion. Since 2015, he has been a part of the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of Macau. His current research efforts are dedicated to designing and synthesizing advanced energy storage materials, including metal-organic frameworks, porous carbon materials, layered oxides, polyanion compounds, disordered compounds, and single-atom catalysts for various energy storage and conversion applications such as supercapacitors, batteries, and water electrolyzers. Dr. Hui's work has led to significant advancements in understanding the structural and chemical properties of these materials, fostering the development of novel materials and technologies for energy storage and conversion. He has published over 300 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, with more than 60 as the corresponding author in prestigious titles such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Powder Materials, ACS Catalysis, Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy, and Carbon Energy. His research has received over 13,600 citations and an H-index of 65 on Google Scholar, and he holds 36 patents. Moreover, Dr. Hui has served as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Materials, Smart Materials and Devices, and Material Science & Engineering International Journal. He is also on the advisory board of Materials, Chemistry and Physics: Sustainability and Energy, and is an Editorial Board Member for several other journals, including Journal of Energy Science and Technology, Journal of Energy and Sustainability, Catalysts, and Crystals. Additionally, he has acted as Guest Editor for special issues such as Research and Applications of Supercapacitors and Advanced Research in 2D Materials for Crystals. Title: Update Soon
Wang Geng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, High-level Talents of Sichuan Province, Expert of Tianfu Elite A-card, Expert of China Science and Technology City A-card, Director of Henan Instrumentation Society, Assessment Expert of National and Provincial Scientific Research Funds, Member of IEEE Society. He won the Science and Technology Progress Award of Henan Province, and the Science and Technology Award of China Coal Society. Title:Update Soon
Prof. J A Esfahani (PhD), he is graduated from UNB Canada, 1998, and have academic experience about 34 years. His current position are Lishui university, China and Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Iran. His major is energy conversion and management. He already have 15 graduated PhD and 100 graduated Msc. His publication is about 240 ISI Journal. He is a member of Combustion Institute (international), Iranian combustion society, Solar energy Society, Director of Center of Excellence in Energy Management (Certified by NIOC), Centre of excellence in linear and non linear system at Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Centre of excellence in energy conversion at Sharif university of Technology. Editorial experience is Iranian combustion Journal, International Review of Chemical Engineering, Journal of Heat and mass transfer research, and Tarbiet Modaress Journal. He is top 1% researchers by WOS, 2020 till now. He has 10 industrial research, among them a national ones. He obtain several awards nationally for his achievement on book, top researchers, and best supervisor, among them Brain pool award, South Korea, 2019-2020, and Talent awards by Zhejiang province, China, 2022.
Prof. Dr. Shahid Hussain by national: Pakistan, is currently working as Professor (Full) at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, China. He completed his PhD degree in Chongqing University, 2015, after started Post-Doctoral research fellowship 2015-2017. He joined Jiangsu University as Associate Professor in July 2017 and based on his outstanding achievements and experiences, he was promoted as Full Professor in July, 2020, and was approved by the state, Govt of China. Research foundation and working conditions At present, Dr. Shahid Hussain and the project team have executed a lot of work in the field of metal oxide, sulfides, MXenes and metal-organic based gas sensors, supercapacitors and LiS Batteries. He has published high quality research articles, and also has a wealth of experience, which laid a solid foundation for the project related research. Dr Shahid Hussain has excellent working experience on gas sensors and has been working on sensor device fabrication since 2011. He has published more than 330+ SCI indexed journal research articles with h-Index is 56 and i-10 index 215 in Google Scholar with 11000 citations (~ January 2025) and 11 book Chapters including Nano Energy, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Sensors and Actuators B, Chemosphere, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Surface Science, Electrochemica Acta, Materials Science and Engineering, etc and has impact factor ~ IF>2500. He is also working as an Editor for 17 SCI indexed journals (Elsevier, Springer, Frontiers, Hindawi, American Scientific Publishers and MDPI). Moreover, he has appeared as Keynote speaker in 28 international conferences and as Conference Chair in 3 international conferences. He also has an honorserving as a Coordinator for Materials Science Society of Pakistan (MSSP). He is also member for International Think Tank Institute of Peace and Development (INSPAD-UNO) since August 2020. Besides, he has successfully completed three projects during his PhD and Post Doctorate on Gas sensor with team collaboration program as follows: 1-Chongqing Graduate Student Research Innovation Project (2014), "SnO2 structure, fabrication for Gas-Sensing applications”, 2-Fundamental Research Projects for Central Universities (2016-2017) “To study electrical behavior of ZnS nanowires gas sensor for different agarwood oil grades” and team collaboration project at Jiangsu University “Zhenjiang Science and Technology Innovation Fund (2018). One project 2020.01-2021.12 of National Natural Science Foundation of China, International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program has been successfully completed with excetional outcomes. One additive project with NSFC under short-term based funding of 2020 Research Fund for Foreign Young Scholars, Foreign Specialist Program Introduction of high-end foreign experts (Industry Technology Innovation Category) both in 2020.01-2020.12 (Grant No. QNJ20200214011) and 2021.01-2021.12 (Grant No. QNJ2021014004) under National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Prof. Shahid Hussain, also has gained an International Project by "Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2020.08-2022.08. He has good team that holds divergent fabrication and testing conditions at Jiangsu University Center for Analysis and Testing, Intelligent Sensor System at Najran University Saudi Arabia, Chongqing University, China, Tianjin University, Biomaterial Research Centre China, Jiangsu University Material Science and Engineering Experimental Center, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory. Jiangsu University multifunctional materials and devices group has a high temperature vacuum contact angle measuring instrument (QCA15LHT-1800, the German data physics), multi-purpose high-temperature furnace (High Multi-5000, Japan), high-performance computer cluster (CPU: Intel Xeon E5- 2670v2, 92 cores, Dell) and other equipment, Jiangsu University, analytical testing heart has SEM, TEM, XRD, XPS, Raman spectroscopy and other analytical tools. Title: Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of advanced heterogeneous materials