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 Green Building Materials Center 
The center was founded to bring together Taiwan Tech faculty involved in research on "green materials" and "construction and building materials."  The center focuses its research on high-performance green building materials (GBM), healthy GBM, recycled GBM, and eco-friendly GBM. The center has already achieved excellent results in its basic research to develop high-performance GBM with new functions. Moreover, the center has applied this basic research in the development of 3-in-1 opto-electronic glass.

This type of glass has solar energy production and renewable energy features and generates more power than traditional solar cells do. The key technology involved has already been successfully licensed to industry. In addition, the center is developing high-performance structural materials, environmentally friendly materials, and functional building materials in collaboration with the Energy and Environment Research Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and the Architecture and Building Research Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of the R.O.C. The purpose of this research is to reduce consumption of building materials, lessen the burden on the environment, and save energy. It is estimated that effectively reducing waste from civil engineering and increasing the recycling and reuse of materials will reduce the amount of materials used by 2 million tons a year.
Director of Green Building Materials Center 

Po-Da Hong

Office Room: E1-101
Tel: 886-2-2737-6539          
Fax: 886-2-2737-6544
E-mail: poda@mail.ntust.edu.tw
Related Link: http://homepage.ntust.edu.tw/PODA/
| Education 
  • Ph.D., Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JapanResearch Structure and Properties of Organic Materials, Functional Polymer Gels, Multicomponent, Organic Materials, Soft Matter Science, Green Materials

| Professional Experience 
  • Current:
  1. Director, Green Building Materials, TBTC, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan
  2. Chairman and Profsseor, Dept. of Polymer Engineering and Graduate Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan

| Honors and Awards 
  • The Excellent Research and Creativity Award, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan, 2006~2009

| Teaching 
  • Structure and Analysis of Polymers, X-ray Diffraction in Polymeric Materials, Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering, Advanced Polymer Physics, Introduction to Soft Matter Science

| Publications 
  1. Po-Da Hong and Che-Min Chou, 2000, "Effects of phase separation on structural characteristics of poly(vinyl chloride) physical gels", Macromolecules, Vol. 33, 9673-9681 (SCI).
  2. Po-Da Hong, Wei-Tsung Chung and Ching-Fu Hsu, 2002, "Crystallization kinetics and morphology of polytrimethylene terephthalate", Polymer, Vol. 43, 3335-3343(SCI).
  3. Che-Min Chou and Po-Da Hong, 2003, "Novel aspect on structural formation of physical gels", Macromolecules, Vol. 36, 7331-7337(SCI).
  4. Che-Min Chou and Po-Da Hong, 2004, "Nucleation, growth, fractal aggregation, and late-stage coarsening on structural development of polymer physical gels", Macromolecules, Vol. 37, 5596-5606 (SCI).
  5. Wei-Tsung Chuang, Po-Da Hong, Chih-Hua Chen, Hwo-Shuenn Sheua and U-Ser Jeng,, 2007, "Melting behavior of polymorphic crystals of poly(trimethylene 2,6-naphthalate) by simultaneous synchrotron X-ray scattering and thermal analysis", J. Applied Crystallography,2007, Vol. 40, s637-s641. (SCI).