{"id":1170,"date":"2023-01-12T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2023-01-13T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:40:21","slug":"prof-meng-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/prof-meng-ni\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor. Meng Ni"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1170\" class=\"elementor elementor-1170\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14f7b6e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14f7b6e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa34c3c\" data-id=\"aa34c3c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-67046db elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67046db\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6fc921\" data-id=\"c6fc921\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93f43a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"93f43a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Meng-Ni-211x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1160\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Meng-Ni-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Meng-Ni-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Meng-Ni-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Meng-Ni.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-0badbeb\" data-id=\"0badbeb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5263ab9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5263ab9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Title: <em>Fuel flexible solid oxide fuel cell for efficient power generation<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/h3><p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p><p>Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical devices for clean power generation<sub>,<\/sub> especially for combined heat and power cogeneration.\u00a0 As the cathode usually causes the highest overpotential loss in SOFC, efforts have been made in developing nanostructured SOFC cathodes by infiltration or developing new cathode materials.\u00a0 In this talk, research activities conducted at HK PolyU will be presented, including modeling and testing of nanostructured SOFC cathode, development of a series of perovskite oxides, the thermal expansion offset approach for composite cathode, and testing of SOFC using hydrogen, biogas, plastic waste, and solid carbon.\u00a0 The future development of SOFC will also be discussed.<\/p><p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p><p>Prof. Meng Ni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2007.\u00a0 Then Prof. NI stayed in HKU as a Post-doctoral researcher for 2 years, before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.\u00a0 Prof. Ni was promoted to Associate Professor (2012) and then Full Professor (2016). After serving as an Associate Head for BRE for 5 years (2016-2021), he started to serve as an Associate Dean in July 2021.\u00a0 Prof. Ni worked as a Humboldt Fellow at the Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich, Germany in 2017.<\/p><p>Prof. Meng Ni\u2019s research interests include fuel cells and rechargeable metal-air batteries.\u00a0 In particular, Prof. Ni has developed a series of multi-physics models for fuel cells to optimize the fuel cell electrode microstructure and fuel cell stack configuration. He also developed perovskite oxides for use as fuel cell cathodes.\u00a0 He served as an Associate Editor for Science Bulletin in 2015-2017.\u00a0 Currently, he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Energy Reviews (Elsevier), a Senior Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) and E-Primes (Elsevier), and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor &amp; Francis) and Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley).\u00a0 He is an active reviewer for over 80 journals, including Science, Nature Communications, Joule, Advanced Materials etc.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Fuel flexible solid oxide fuel cell for efficient power generation\u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract: Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical devices for clean power generation, especially for combined heat and power cogeneration.\u00a0 As the cathode usually causes the highest overpotential loss in SOFC, efforts have been made in developing nanostructured SOFC cathodes by infiltration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invited_speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}