Prof. Meng Ni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2007.  Then he stayed at HKU as a Post-doctoral researcher for 2 years, before joining the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE), Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.  Prof. Ni served as Associate Head (Research) of BRE from July 2016 to June 2021.  He was appointed as Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Construction and Environment in July 2021.  Prof. Ni conducted collaboration research at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany in 2017, as a Humboldt Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).  He received the RGC Senior Research Fellow award in 2023.  

Prof. Meng Ni’s research interests include fuel cells, hydrogen energy, rechargeable metal-air batteries, and electrochemical systems for low grade waste heat utilization.  His research has been supported by various research grants, including RGC (Research Grants Council) ECS/GRF, PROCORE-France/Hong Joint Research Scheme, Scottish Funding Council (SFC)/RGC Joint Research Scheme, NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) (as PC: Project Coordinator), RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) (as Co-I), RGC Senior Research Fellow, ITF, and ECF.  Prof. Ni is serving as an active reviewer for over 80 academic journals including Science, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Joule, Advanced Materials etc.  He served as Associate Editor for Science Bulletin in 2015-2017.  Currently, he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Energy Reviews (Elsevier), a Senior Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) and e-Prime (Elsevier) and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Green Energy(Taylor & Francis), Energy Storage (Wiley) and Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley).         

Selected 10 Publications in Recent 3 Years (# Corresponding Author):

1. Jian Wang, Yunze Zhang, Ying Wang, Junsic Cho, Ting-shan Chan, Yang Ha, Shu-Chih Haw, Cheng-wei Kao, Ziyi Wang, Jia Lei, Min Ju, Jiayi Tang, Tong Liu, Siyuan Zhao, Yawen Dai, Aleksandra Wanda Baron-Wiechec, Fu-Rong Chen, Wei-xiong Wang, Chang Hyuck Choi, Zongping Shao (#), Meng Ni (#), Heterostructure boosts a noble-metal-free oxygen-evolving electrocatalyst in acid, Energy & Environmental Science, 17(2024)5972-5983. 

2. Xi Chen, Na Yu, Yufei Song, Tong Liu, Hengyue Xu, Daqin Guan, Zheng Li, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Zongping Shao, Francesco Ciucci (#), Meng Ni (#), Synergistic bulk and surface engineering for expeditious and durable reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells air electrode, Advanced Materials, 36(32)(2024)2403998. 

3. Na Yu, Idris Temitope Bello, Xi Chen, Tong Liu, Zheng Li, Yufei Song (#), Meng Ni (#), Rational design of Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite ferrites as air electrode for highly active and durable reversible protonic ceramic cells, Nano-Micro Letters, 16(1)(2024)177.  

4. Daqin Guan, Hengyue Xu, Qingwen Zhang, Yu-cheng Huang, Chenliang Shi, Yu-chung Chang, Xiaomin Xu, Jiayi Tang, Yuxing Gu, Chih-wen Pao, Shu-chih Haw, Jin-ming Chen, Zhiwei Hu, Meng Ni (#), Zongping Shao (#), Identifying a universal activity descriptor and a unifying mechanism concept on perovskite oxides for green hydrogen production, Advanced Materials, 35(44)(2023)2305074. 

5. Daqin Guan, Bowen Wang, Jiguang Zhang, Rui Shi, Kui Jiao, Lincai Li, Yang Wang, Biao Xie, Qingwen Zhang, Jie Yu, Yunfeng Zhu, Zongping Shao (#), Meng Ni (#), Hydrogen society: from present to future, Energy & Environmental Science, 16(11)(2023)4926-4943. 

6. Yang Wang, Chengru Wu, Siyuan Zhao, Zengjia Guo, Minfang Han, Tianshou Zhao, Bingfeng Zu, Qing Du (#), Meng Ni (#), Kui Jiao (#), Boosting the performance and durability of heterogeneous electrodes for solid oxide electrochemical cells utilizing a data-driven powder-to-power framework, Science Bulletin, 68(5)(2023)516-527. 

7. Siyuan Zhao, Tong Liu (#), Yawen Dai, Jian Wang, Ying Wang, Zengjia Guo, Jie Yu, Idris Temitope Bello, Meng Ni (#), Pt/C as a bifunctional ORR/iodide oxidation reaction (IOR) catalyst for Zn-air batteries with unprecedentedly high energy efficiency of 76.5%, Applied Catalysis B: Envirnmental, 320(2023)121992. 

8. Shuo Zhai, Heping Xie (#), Ping Cui, Daqin Guan, Jian Wang, Siyuan Zhao, Bin Chen, Yufei Song, Zongping Shao (#), Meng Ni (#), Combined ionic Lewis acid descriptor and machine learning for predicting efficient oxygen reduction electrodes for ceramic fuel cells, Nature Energy, 7(2022)866-875. 

9. Yuan Zhang, Bin Chen, Daqin Guan, Meigui Xu, Meng Ni, Wei Zhou (#), Ryan O'Hayre, Zongping Shao (#), Thermal-expansion offset for high-performance fuel cell cathodes, Nature, 591(2021)246-251.  

10. Chun Cheng, Sijia Wang, Peng Tan, Yawen Dai, Jie Yu, Rui Cheng, Shien-Ping Feng (#), Meng Ni (#), Insights into the thermopower of thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle for low grade heat harvesting, ACS Energy Letters, 6(2)(2021)329-336.  

 Fuel cells; Hydrogen energy; Rechargeable metal-air batteries; Electrochemical water-splitting; and Electrochemical systems for low grade waste heat utilization.

BSE2216 - Engineering Thermodynamics;

BRE294 - Construction Technology and Structure; 

BRE2031 - Environmental Science; 

BRE453 - Building Services II; 

BRE587 - Research Methods for Construction and Real Estate; 

BRE632 - Advanced Energy Technologies and Analytics; 

BRE666 - Numerical Methods for Engineers; 

BRE680 - Advanced Research Methods for Real Estate and Construction.