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RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH PROJECTS
IC Nano-Engineering Lab
B21 LAB
Welcome to Lab B21
Lab B21, led by Dr. Cheng, investigates the manufacturing of nanoporous metals by various methods of dealloying.
This website gives a brief introduction to our current research projects and publications.
Feel free to reach us through the email address provided below should you have any doubts!
News and Events
2024.09.14
Ph.D. student, Wen-Han Tsai, has published a paper "Evaluating diffusivity for efficient electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into multicarbon products using dealloyed hierarchically nanoporous copper" in Applied Surface Science. Congratulations!
2024.08.30
Master's degree student, Fu-Chun Sheu, received the Dean's Award for COE Graduate Students. Congratulations!
2024.07.25
Master's degree student, Chen-Tse Chuang, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2024.07.11
Master's degree student, Wei-Ting Lin, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2024.07.09
Master's degree student, Po-Kuan Ho, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2024.06.24
Undergraduate student, Yi-Xiang Chen, received the Research Grant for University Student, NSTC. Congratulations!
2024.04.18
Prof. Dr. I-Chung Cheng delivered a talk at the NIMS-NTU Joint Symposium 2024 Spring.
2023.12.01
Master's degree student, Daniel Yu-Hung Lai, received the students' paper Honorable Mention award in the 40th National Conference on Mechanical Engineering of CSME 2023. Congratulations!
2023.08.31
Ph.D. student, Wang-You Zeng, has published a paper "Pore evolution and size effect of nanoporous silver on SERS for malachite green detection" in Applied Surface Science. Congratulations!
2023.08.24
Ph.D. student, Wang-You Zeng, received the Dean's Award for COE Graduate Students. Congratulations!
2023.08.24
Master degree students, Chih-Chen Lee and Li-Yu Chen received the Dean's Award for COE Graduate Students. Congratulations!
2023.07.21 Master degree student, Fu-Chun Sheu, successfully defended her master thesis. Congratulations!
2023.07.21 Ph.D. student, Wen-Han Tsai, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
2023.07.21 Master degree student, Li-Yu Chen, successfully defended her master thesis. Congratulations!
2023.07.20 Ph.D. student, Wang-You Zeng, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
2023.07.08
Master degree student, Jun Yi Lok has published a paper "A hybrid machine learning-genetic algorithm (ML-GA) model to predict optimal process parameters of nanoporous Cu for CO2 reduction" in Materials Today Energy. Congratuations
2023.06.30 Master degree student, Chih-Chen Lee, successfully defended her master thesis. Congratulations!
2023.06.19 Master degree student, Jun Yi Lok, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2022.11.17
Master degree student, Yu-Shuo Lee get the best students paper award in the 13th Recent Progress in Graphene and Two-dimensional Material Research Conference. Congratulations!
2022.11.09
PhD student, Wen-Han Tsai, has published a paper "Dealloying kinetic and catalytic applications of hierarchical porous copper via hot-dip galvanization and subsequent vapor phase dealloying" in Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
2022.11.05
PhD student, Wang-You Zeng and Prof. I-Chung Cheng obtained the Poster essay competition honorable mention award with "Regulating nanoporous silver film structure as a SERS substrate for malachite green detection" in Taiwan Association for Coatings and Thin Films Technology. Congratulations!
2022.10.06 Master degree student, Sheng-Rong Hsieh, has published a paper "Morphology, ligament strength, and energy absorption of nanoporous copper via vapor phase dealloying" in Journal of Materials Science and Engineering:A
2022.08.10 Master degree student, Jia-Hao Lai, receiving the Dean's Award for COE Graduat Students. Congratulations!
2022.08.08 Prof. I-Chung Cheng is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Congratulations!
2022.08.02 Master degree student, Sheng-Rong Hsieh, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2022.07.25 Master degree student, Jia-Hao Lai, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2022.03.22
Master degree student, Cheng-Wei Hung, has published a paper "Synthesis of Bimetallic Catalysts Using Ag Extracted from End-of-Life Solar Modules Supported on Nanoporous Cu for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction" in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solid. Congratulations!
2022.02.21 Prof. Dr. I-Chung Cheng, has published a paper "Degradation Observations
of Protective Coatings: An Improved version of Coating Impedance Detector" in IEEE Access.
2021.11.10 PhD student, Wang-You Zeng, has published a paper "Effect of dealloying time and post-annealing on the surface morphology and electrocatalytic behavior of nanoporous copper films for CO2 reduction reaction" in Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
2021.10.19 Bachelor degree student, Yu-Shuo Lee, has published a paper "Self-organizing
Ag-decorated nanoporous Cu by dealloying process" in Scripta Materialia.
2021.09.16 PhD student, Wang-You Zeng, has published a paper "Effect of Atmospheric-
Pressure Helium Plasma-Jet Treatment on Electrocatalysis of CO2 Reduction Reaction using Nanoporous Copper Films" in Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
2021.08.31 Master degree student, Shih-I Chien, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2021.07.27 Master degree student, Cheng-Wei Hung, successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
2021.07.06 Bachelor degree student, Yu-Shuo Lee, received Honorable Mention Awards
from Chinese Institute of Engineers for her study. Congratulations!
2021.05.01 Professor I-Chung Cheng has been selected as one of the recipients of the
2021 Mork Family Department Early Career Achievement Award.
Congratulations!
2021.04.19 Bachelor degree student, Yu-Shuo Lee, successfully defended her bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
2021.03.22 PhD student, Wen-Han Tsai, has published a paper "The mechanical and catalytic behavior of nanoporous copper film on octet-truss lattice via
magnetron sputtering" in Thin Solid Films.
2021.01.11 Master degree student, Tung-Hua Wu, successfully defended his master thesis.
Congratulations!
2020.12.22
Master degree student, Yan-Rung Su, has published a paper "Synthesis and catalytical properties of hierarchical nanoporous copper from θ and η phases in CuAl alloys" in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solid. Congratulations!
2020.07.01 Undergraduate student, Winson Widyanata, has received Undergraduate Research Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology.
2020.07.01 Undergraduate student, Yu-Shuo Lee, has received Undergraduate Research
Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology.
2020.04.01 "Refinement of renewable energy module materials" project with ITRI has
started.
2020.03.02 Master degree student, Yu-Zhen Lee, has published a paper "Synthesis and
characterization of nanoporous copper thin films by magnetron sputtering and
subsequent dealloying" in Thin Solid Films.
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