A/P. George Zhou's Research Team receives over S$2.5 Million Funds for Materials Research

Associate Professor Zhao George’s research team has been awarded over S$2.5 million external grants to support two research projects on water technology and energy storage.

The first project supported by NRF-EWI aims to add innovative features to the current UV disinfection technology to enable a sustainable water technology. The team will work on mesostructured composite materials with both photocatalytic and antibacterial properties. Eventually, the developed material will be used as thin films to achieve total disinfection of various pathogenic microorganisms and complete mineralization of organic matters present in water.

The second project is funded by MoE and aims to improve the performance of supercapacitor devices in terms of energy density (in particular) and power density (in general) by tailoring the physical and chemical properties of electrodes. The eventual goal is to develop specific carbon-based materials to address the needs focusing on issues such as manipulating mesopore and micropore distributions to balance total surface area with ion transport requirements.