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Building Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Center 
Taiwan imports 97% of its energy needs.  To improve this situation, in addition to aggressively developing renewable energy sources, the most important measure is none other than saving energy.  Adequate application of energy-conserving technologies and equipment can not only reduce peak power consumption but also help protect the environment.  As a result, how to reduce the energy consumption quotient of buildings and sufficiently utilize renewable energy has become the focus of the center's research.
Director of Building Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Center


Bing-Joe Hwang

Office Room: E2-511
Tel: 886-2-2737-6624
Fax: 886-2-2737-6644
E-mail: bjh@mail.ntust.edu.tw
| Education 
  • Ph. D., National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

| Research 
  • The quest for development of clean energy devices world-wide has demanded realization of advanced materials particularly with novel nanostructures which can endow superior properties to their applications. Areas of current research include the development of nano-architectured materials for lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, and solar cells. The improved performance of clean energy devices is achieved by the design and development of advanced energy materials via experimental and computational approaches. Our strategy in developing nano-architectured materials involves establishing the nano-scale characterization technologies to realize the key properties which play an important role in their applications, developing structure-controllable synthesis strategies by studying their formation mechanism, and manipulating the morphology, size, structure and composition of advanced materials at different length scales for clean energy conversion reactions. We have developed wide-varieties of in-situ techniques, such as in-situ XAS, in-situ XRD, in-situ AFM, in-situ SERS, in-situ IR and in-situ EQCM to follow the mechanism of clean energy conversion reactions and nanoparticle formation process and also to get more insights into their atomic and electronic structure of materials. XAS methodologies to determine the atomic distribution and estimation of surface and core composition in nanoparticles have been successfully developed. The group has been experienced in designing and developing advanced energy materials for the next generation Li-ion batteries, fuel cells and solar cells.

| Professional Experience
  •  Current:
  1. Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Past:
  1. Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  2. Adjunct Researcher, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
  3. Visited Scholar, Institute for chemical process and Environmental Technology, National Science Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
  4. Visited the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, U.S.A..
  5. Visited the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Heirich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  6. Visited the Chemistry Department of Purdue University, U.S.A .
  7. Served as an associate professor in National Taiwan Institute of Technology.
  8. Served as a project engineer in Energy Consultant Center.

| Honors and Awards 
  1. 2007.8~2009.7 Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2006 Excellent teaching award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 2005~2007 Fellow of National Science Council, Taiwan, R. O. C.
  4. 2005 Outstanding research award from Association of Chemical Sensors of Taiwan
  5. 2002~2005 Served as a member in International Advisory Board of Editors of Bulletin of Electrochemistry, India.
  6. 2002~2004 Outstanding research award from National Science Council of Taiwan.
  7. 1999~2000 Outstanding research award from National Science Council of Taiwan.
  8. 1997~1998 Outstanding research award from National Science Council of Taiwan.
  9. 2000 Best paper award from Chinese Association of Chemical Sensors of Taiwan.
  10. 1996 Best paper award from Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers.
  11. 1991 Best paper award from Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers.



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