CityUHK researchers and entrepreneurs had an outstanding showing at the 2024 Silicon Valley International Invention Festival (SVIIF) held from July 26 to 28 in the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, bringing home 5 prestigious awards, including 1 Semi-Grand Prix and 4 Gold Medals.
We're proud to share that they made a big splash at the 2024 Silicon Valley International Invention Festival!
Our teams debuted 4 groundbreaking projects in healthcare, sustainability, clean energy, and biomedical research are:
1. The “Solar-Electrocatalytic System for Hydrogen Generation from Seawater” project, led by Professor Johnny C. Ho, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, won the Semi-Grand Prix and the Gold Medal. The team has engineered a 3D porous micro-nanostructure surface to perform solar-driven seawater evaporation to freshwater and solar-driven electrocatalytic hydrogen production from pre-evaporated seawater. This enables large-scale deployment for eco-friendly and low-cost solar-driven hydrogen fuel production from local seawater.
2. The “Design and Nanofabrication of Highly Sensitive Plasmonic Sensors for Biomedical Cell and Molecule Detection” project, led by Professor Stella W. Pang, Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering, won the Gold Medal. The team developed a high-sensitivity plasmonic biosensor for early disease screening and diagnosis, with the unique capability to detect nanometer-sized filopodia and biomolecules. Nanofabrication technology is applied to produce an integrated microsystem that is compact, user-friendly, and portable for point-of-care applications at low cost.
3. The “Key Components for EV: Next-generation High-power Nanocrystalline Smart Wireless EV Charger” project, led by Professor Derrick C.Q. Jiang, in the Department of Electrical Engineering, won a Gold Medal. For the first time across the globe, the team has applied a hybrid nanocrystalline core, successfully breaking through the limitations of traditional ferrite cores, and achieving high AC system efficiency of over 97%. The team responsible for developing the wireless EV charger, "NanoIPT", is supported by HK Tech 300.
4. The “Artificial Intelligence Immunostaining for Diagnostic Pathology” project, led by Professor Condon Lau, in the Department of Physics, is also a start-up incubated by HK Tech 300. This project won a Gold Medal under ITsci Company Limited. The AI invention is considerably faster, less expensive and easier to use than current staining methods. The invention is currently undergoing clinical trials at CityUHK’s Veterinary Medical Centre.
Congratulations to our brilliant researchers for these outstanding achievements! CityUHK continues to shine on the global innovation stage.
