Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy

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Address: Hong Kong, HK
Telephone: +85234003037

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Thanks to the generous donation of Otto P**n Charitable Foundation, the research institute aspires to be a leading institute that advances and transfers knowledge on smart and sustainable energy, for the benefit of Hong Kong, the nation and the world.

02/06/2026

🤩We are excited to share with you that Professor Ye ZHU, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Physics and RISE member, collaborating with international institutions, i.e. University of California-Irvine and City University of Hong Kong, published a research paper “Intrinsic polar vortex crystals in A-site layer-ordered perovskites” in Nature.👏👏

Professor Zhu dedicated to the development cutting edge microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, and their applications on emerging materials. He and his team published papers in different high-quality journals, like Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy and Physical Review Letters.

Read the full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10470-2

For more detail: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2026/prof-ye-zhu_nature/

07/05/2026

🎥🎥Professor Meng NI concludes successful debut at Innovation Zero World Congress 2026

Professor Meng NI, RISE Management Committee member, Chair Professor of Energy Science and Technology and head of Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, was interviewed by Feng Shows and European Times at the Innovation Zero World Congress 2026, the UK’s largest low‑carbon innovation event.

It is PolyU’s first participation at this Conference. Different innovative technologies and devices are showcased, such as renewable energy utilization, advanced cooling solutions, and smart materials.

Furthermore, Professor Ni also shared his valuable insights in clean-energy research and policy developments in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong during the panel session.

Congratulations to the great success of the PolyU team in Innovation Zero World Congress 2026!

For more detail: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2026/prof-meng-ni_rthk/

30/04/2026

🥳🥳We are pleased to announce that Professor Wai-Yeung WONG Raymond, our RISE Associate Director, was elected as the Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS), for his significant contributions to the development and progress of the discipline of chemistry!👏👏

In this round, according to the “Regulations on the Fellows of the Chinese Chemical Society”, 50 Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) members have been promoted to Fellows for the year 2025, and Professor Wong is the only one from the institutions in Hong Kong.

For more detail:
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2026/prof-raymond-wong_fccs/

22/12/2025

Congratulations to Professor Meng NI, our RISE Management Committee member, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Construction and Environment, Head and Chair Professor of Energy Science and Technology of the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, his project was awarded NSFC/RGC CRS Scheme.

Project: Development of high performance and durable solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) for coupling with Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reactor for green synthetic liquid fuel production

For more detail, please refer to: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/prof-meng-ni_nsfc-rgc-crs/?sc_lang=en

17/12/2025

Congratulations to Prof. Raymond WONG Wai-yeung, Associate Director of Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), Dean of Faculty of Science, Clarea Au Professor in Energy and Chair Professor of Chemical Technology on his election as a new member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences (ASHK).

Prof. Wong is a distinguished scholar in the field of advanced materials and energy science. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of molecular functional materials and one‑ and two‑dimensional metallopolymers with photofunctional properties and energy applications. His team is committed to transforming cutting-edge chemistry research into meaningful solutions for sustainable energy.

Explore more about Prof. Wong’s research: https://polyu.hk/HRubO

For more detail ➡️ https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/prof-raymond-wong_ashk/?sc_lang=en

28/10/2025

🥳🥳We are delighted to share with you that Professor Zhonghua QIAO, our RISE member has been named a 🌟Fellow of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM)!

The Fellowship is the highest academic honour conferred by the CSIAM in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in the field of industrial and applied mathematics.

Congratulations to Professor Qiao!👏👏

For more detail: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/prof-zhonghua-qiao_csiam-fellow/

13/10/2025

Stanford University has released an update for science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in September 2025.

According to the latest two rankings, 🌟37 RISE scholars were included based on their career-long citation impact. Together with the scholars named for their single-year citation impact, 48 RISE scholars were recognised.👏👏

It is prepared by a team of experts led by Professor John P.A. loannidis of Stanford University. The publicly available database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). By being included in this list, scientists receive global recognition for advancing knowledge and influencing their scientific communities.

Congratulations to our RISE top scholars!🥳🥳

Read more: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/2025-2-percent-scholars/

30/09/2025

🥳🥳We are pleased to share the good news to all of you! Three of our RISE members are awarded for the PolyU Patents Achievement Award 2024!

The PolyU Patents Achievement Award continues to honour the exceptional achievements of departments and inventors who actively contribute to IP filing. This year, to recognise the contributions and achievements in creating impact through IP commercialisation, a new category“ Licensing ” has been launched.

⭐️Professor Xinyan HUANG is awarded for the Top Patents Filing Award and Most Active Patents Filing Award.

⭐️Professor Xiaoming TAO and ⭐️Professor Hongxing YANG are awarded for the Outstanding IP Commercialisation Award.

Congratulations to Professor Huang, Professor Tao and Professor Yang for their remarkable achievement and contributions!👏👏

Read more: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/polyu-patents-achievement-award-2024/

23/07/2025

🎉🎉We are delighted to share with you that the World Fuel Cell Conference 2025 (WFCC 2025) was successfully held on 9-12 July 2025!

This year, Hong Kong which is a cosmopolitan and energetic city, was selected to oragnise the WFCC 2025! The conference was chaired by Prof. Meng Ni, the Head of Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering and a member of the management committee of Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE) of PolyU, and was co-chaired by Prof. Liang An (PolyU), Prof. Mengying Li (PolyU), Prof. Jian Wang (CityU), Prof. Weihong Li (CityU), Prof. Xianguo Li (University of Waterloo) and Prof. Jianbo Zhang (Tsinghua University). Miss Kate Fung served as the secretariat for the conference.

It is our honour to have Ir Professor Christopher Chao, our Vice President (Research and Innovation) and Mr Arthur Lee, Commissioner for Climate Change in the Environment and Ecology Bureau of HKSARG to deliver the welcome speech and the opening speech.

In the Conference, more than 300 speakers and participants from 15 different countries and regions, such as United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Italy, France, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India, New Zealand, South Korean, and Mainland China etc. shared their valuable insights towards the recent developments in hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, and innovative systems.

Besides, the conference also features a 3MT competition for research postgraduate students.

In the closing ceremony, we had award presentation session, more than 50 awardees are awarded with Best Poster Awards, Best Presentation Awards and 3MT Competition Awards. Congratulations to all of the awardees! At the end, Professor Xianguo LI are invited to announce an existing news which is the next World Fuel Cell Conference would be held in Japan! More information will be provided later.

We’d like to thank all participants to join our Conference and look forward to the next conference!

Conference detail: https://www.iahe-fcd.org/wfcc2025

For more detail: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/wfcc-2025/?sc_lang=en

07/04/2025

🥳🥳Prof. Shengwei Wang, Director of Research Institute for Smart Energy, Chair Professor of Building Energy and Automation, and Otto P**n Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart Buildings, has been awarded the “ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter Technology Award 2025” in the category of “Commercial Buildings (Existing)”.

Prof. Wang and his team have been collaborating with the International Commerce Centre (ICC) management team to implement the life cycle retro-commissioning (LC-RCx) technologies aiming at optimizing the large and complex air-conditioning systems. This initiative involves analyzing the building's energy consumption and developing strategies to enhance energy performance. As a result, ICC has achieved significant improvements in energy efficiency, realizing approximately 39% energy savings from July 2023 to June 2024 compared to the energy use in 2012.

For more detail: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/rise/news-and-events/news/2025/ashrae-hong-kong-chapter-technology-award-2025/

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