NTU-KU Joint Funding
Final Report

Section 1

NTU principle investigator
Name (last name, first name)Wu, Kevin C.-W.

Position

Professor

Faculty/Department

Department of Chemical Engineering

KU principle investigator
Name (last name, first name)

Furukawa, Shuhei

Position

Professor

Faculty/Department

Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences

Visiting ECR*
Name (last name, first name)Han, Po-Chun

Position

student

Faculty/Department

Ph.D. Program of Green Materials and Precision
Devices*Please complete this section if the KU principal investigators hosted ECRs from NTU.

Host researcher*
Name (last name, first name)
Position
Faculty/Department*Please complete this section if the host researcher is different from the KU principal
investigator.
Section 2Project title
Controlled Functionalities of Metal-Organic Polyhedra(MOP) for Fructose Dehvdration to
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Section 3

Period of project
From dd/mm/yy to
dd/mm/yy

From 01/April/2022 to 28/February/2023

Section 4

Summary of the project (approx. 100 words)*KU PIs are required to submit a summary of the project in Japanese in addition to theEnglish summary (approx. 200–300 characters).
(Please enter the summary of the project)
Despite the pandemic preventing foreign professors from attending, the PI from NTU stillorganized the Taipei International Conference on Catalysis (TICC) in order to facilitate thecommunication of knowledge related to catalysis. Additionally, the ECR was sent to KU
with the acquired knowledge of catalysis to learn more about chemical synthesis techniquesfrom the PI at KU. By leveraging the expertise of both professors from NTU and KU, ourcollaboration resulted in the successful development of a multivariate nanomaterial with thepotential to catalyze multiple types of biomass conversion simultaneously. (as shown inSection 6.)
Section 5 (Please complete this section if ECRs from NTU participated in collaborative research at KU)

Achievements and Outcomes of ECRs’ Stay (approx. 100–250 words)*This section should be filled by each of the ECR(s) (one paragraph per ECR) based on
his/her experience of staying in Japan.
(Please enter the achievements and outcomes for each of the ECR(s).)
As a chemical engineering student, the opportunity to join Prof. Furukawa's renownedmaterial chemistry group at KU was like discovering a gateway to a completely new realmof knowledge. To summarize my newfound knowledge and accomplishments during my visit,
I have compiled a few takeaways below:
1.

2.

3.

I have acquired several techniques for synthesizing and characterizing metal-organic
polyhedral (MOPs), including column chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR),
and dynamic light scattering (DLS).
After going back to NTU, we applied the MOPs for the passivation of perovskite, developing a
new strategy to create a high performance and stable perovskite solar cell. The resulting
outcome was published in the international journal. (J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 1454214548)
Pursuing a multivariate porous material based on the MOPs is ongoing in KU, I started sometrials in this research when I was in KU and kept cooperating with their researchers after myvisit. Finally, a new type of colloidal gel with high chemical complexity was successfully
discovered and well-studied. The resulting outcome was published in the international
journal. (Small Struct., 2022, 3, 2100197)
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Section 6Photographs with captions*Please submit digital files (such as JPEG or GIF files) of the photographs used in yourreport as attachments. The size of each image should be at least 4MB, so that it can be used
for printed materials. Please ensure that none of the photographs submitted will cause any
issues relating to portrait rights.

URL at which project outcomes can be viewed (Optional)*E.g. workshop notifications/programs/reports, evidence of academic papers published orotherwise made available, etc.
URL:
https:/ /doi.org/10.1039/D2TC0211 OB
https:/ /doi.org/_10.1002/sstr.202100197

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