HKU Robocon Virtus Team secured the 1st Runner-up at ABU Robocon 2025 The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2025 (ABU Robocon 2025) successfully concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on August 24. The HKU Robocon team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University …
Quantifying Electron and Ion Transfers in Contact Electrification with Ionomers Professor Dong-Myeong Shin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his team, worked on the research for the topic “Quantifying Electron and Ion Transfers in Contact Electrification with Ionomers”. The …
HKU Team Secures the Third class honour in RAICOM National Final’s “Treasure Hunter – Semi-Autonomous Mission” A team from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has distinguished itself by winning in the “Treasure Hunter – Semi-Autonomous Mission” at the RAICOM …
Flexoelectric manipulation of ferroelectric polarization in self-strained tellurium Prof. Yang Lu’s group and collaborators recently published an article in Science Advances, demonstrating a novel flexoelectric strategy to enhance ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties in self-strained tellurium (Te) nanowires. By leveraging ultrafast …
Innovation and Technology Fund Professor Yang Lu had received the Innovation and Technology Fund for the project “Laser fabrication of large scale high-performance carbon-based transistors”. This project will develop a laser-assisted method to fabricate wafer-scale, high-performance carbon-based transistors from semiconducting …
Highly Cited Researchers 2024 Among the fifty-three academics of the University of Hong Kong being named “Highly Cited Researchers of 2024” by Clarivate Analytics, two were from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. They are: Category: Cross-Field Professor Yuguo Li, Department …
50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva HKU Engineering shines bright at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 10 awards, including two Golds, four Silvers and four Bronze medals. The International Exhibition of Inventions …
Harnessing screw dislocations in shell-lattice metamaterials for efficient, stable electrocatalysts Professor Yang Lu and his collaborators developed a dislocation-mediated 3D printing strategy to simultaneously synthesize macroscale architectures with nanoscale chiral surface structures, eliminating weak heterointerfaces that plague conventional catalysts. As …
“Strong crystalline thermal insulation induced by extended antibonding states”, a paper in Nature Communications Professor Yue Chen of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his collaborators worked on the research for the topic “Strong crystalline thermal insulation induced by extended …
A breakthrough in revealing the mechanosensitive mechanism of microtubules A research team led by Prof. Yuan Lin and Prof. Jeff Ti, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biomedical Sciences respectively, at the University of Hong Kong has …