Energy production, conversion, and utilization profoundly impact the progress, evolution, and prosperity of human societies, e.g., fire to cook, electricity to light, and vehicle to travel, to name a few. The current generation of energy scientists and engineers is faced with unprecedented challenges concerning human-environment interactions, including but not limited to
- reducing global greenhouse emissions while maintaining energy equality,
- enabling clean and affordable air and space transportation, and
- meeting the skyrocketing energy demand in the era of big data and machine intelligence.
Our research aims to address these challenges by exploring new energy conversion principles and associated technological concepts. We believe in fundamental and relevant scientific research and its potential to revolutionize the current energy paradigm. Some of the research topics we have worked on in the past, are currently pursuing, and would like to go after in the future, include
- detonation dynamics, kinetics, and applications,
- sustainable fuels, from hydrogen and ammonia to biofuel,
- carbon nanomaterials synthesis from fossil resources,
- non-equilibrium energy conversion and propulsion,
- carbon capture and storage, and
- reacting flow dynamics in internal combustion engines.
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