Research

Research Interests

Thermoelectric Materials
Energy Storage Materials
Energetic Materials
Nanostructured Materials
Materials Characterization (Processing-Microstructure-Property Relationship)

Research Funding

Energy Conversion

PI - "Engineering Hetero-nanojunctions for Energy Conversion" funded by MoE Tier 2 (Sept 2010 - Sept 2013, $761,070)
PI - “Nano-enhanced Thermoelectric Materials” funded by DRTech (Jun 2010 - Dec 2013, $496,000)
PI - “High Performance Skutterudites-Type Thermoelectric Materials” funded by A*STAR SERC (Jan 2007 – Jan 2010, $424,117)
PI - “Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials” funded by NTU Academic Research Fund (Research Manpower) (Mar 2007– Mar 2010, $120,000)
PI - “Thermoelectric Materials” funded by DSO National Laboratories (Aug 2007 – Feb 2009, $232,000

Energetic Materials

PI - “Nanoenergetics” funded by MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (Aug 2007 – Aug 2010, $50,000)
PI - “Exploratory research on processing and characterization of thermal and micro-structural properties metal alloy and hydrides for energy storage” funded by MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (Jul 2004 – Jul 2005, $50,000)

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Co-PI - "Constitutive modelling aand experimental studies of constrained sintering for fabrication of solid oxide fuel cells" funded by NTU-Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems Pte Ltd (RRFCS) Research Collaboration (Sep 2008 - Sep 2010, $199,500)

Nanostructured Materials

PI - “Magnetic Annealing of Alloys” funded by MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (Mar 2003 – Mar 2004, $50,000)
Co-PI - "Quantum Confined Zinc Oxide Thin Film for UV lasers applications” funded by A*STAR SERC (Nov 2002 – Nov 2005, $334,040)