Dr Jiayong Tang, Dr Ping Chen and Dr Masud Rana have been awarded prestigious industry fellowships through the latest Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships (AQIRF) round.
Dr Jiayong Tang has gained this grant to strengthen his research into 'Developing critical minerals for high-energy-density and low-cost lithium-ion batteries. This project aims to develop high-nickel content cathode materials by using Australian critical minerals for high-performance lithium-ion batteries with superior energy densities, longer lifespans and lower cost, which support relevant battery industries in Queensland with advanced manufacture and stable supply.
Dr Ping Chen will partner with QHeart Medical, a Brisbane-based company, to enhance the performance of medical balloons. This project is targeted to create a low-cost, non-toxic and an easy to manufacture medical balloon with improved performance, which will be installed in the medical device manufactured by our industry partner for the treatment of resistant hypertension and hypertensive heart failure.
Dr. Masud Rana is an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland. He is acting as a lead researcher to develop a commercial Redox flow battery in collaboration with the industry partner. He is an established researcher in the field of energy storage batteries and has major expertise in redox flow batteries (RFBs-Zinc Bromine flow battery, Iron Flow battery and Zinc-iron flow battery). His major research interests include commercial electrode design for RFBs materials synthesis, characterisations, battery assembling and testing, electrochemical property testing and analysis.
