International Doctoral Innovation Centre

Research Bio

I am currently a PhD student at International Doctoral Innovation Centre, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. My research expertise is the materials fabrication, characterisation and electrochemistry. My research topic is: Controllable synthesis and novel high efficient manufacturing technology for producing high performance lithium battery ion powdersLiFePO4 with different morphology has been synthesized by different methods. The influence of fluid dynamics on the morphology and electrochemistry of the energy storage materials is investigated in this research.

Research interest:

Improvement of low carbon manufacturing technologies

Development of greenhouse gas emission reduction technologies

Agglomeration of particles

Energy storage material

Awards

1. 2015: 2nd Prize for Oral Presentation at EPSRC International Summer School, Harbin, China
2. 2014: Best Group Prize in Pusan National University 2014 Summer School, Pusan, South Korea

Conferences

1. May, 2017 Synthesis By Two-step Growth Scheme For Fabrication of Hierarchical Micro/Nano-structured Mesoporous FePO4 Particles for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries, Nanotech 2017 Conference & Expo, Washington D.C, USA (Poster and 4 pages paper are Accepted)
2. March, 2017 Synthesis By Two-step Growth Scheme For Fabrication of Hierarchical Micro/Nano-structured Mesoporous FePO4 Particles for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries, Nanotech 2017 Conference & Expo, Washington D.C, USA Synthesis of FePO4·2H2O nanocomposites for fabrication of Lithium Ion Battery using impinging stream reactor, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology 2017, Madrid, Spain (Oral presentation, Accepted)

Patents

1. 2017 一种控制溶液pH与调节进料速率合成类球形多孔结构磷酸铁前驱体及磷酸铁锂正极材料的新方法
2. 2017 一种两步水热法制备椭圆形微/纳多孔结构磷酸铁前驱体与磷酸铁锂正极材料的新方法
3. 2016 一种撞击流反应器、超声与共沉淀法相结合的两步制备微/纳多级多孔结构磷酸铁锂的方法 (Accepted)

Publication List

1. 2017 Synthesis of Hierarchical Micro/Nano-structured porous FePO4 for high performance Lithium-Ion Batteries using a two-step heterogeneous growth technology
2. 2017 Synthesis By Two-step Hydrothermal Growth Scheme For Fabrication of Hierarchical Micro/Nano-structured Mesoporous FePO4 Particles for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries
3. 2017 Synthesis of FePO4·2H2O nanocomposites for fabrication of Lithium Ion Battery using impinging stream reactor
4. 2016 Preparation of LiFePO4/C composites with outstanding electrochemical performance from mesoporous FePO4 precursor synthesized by ultrasonic-assisted impinging jet reaction

Research Bio

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. I received my B.Eng from School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University in 2014. My research interests involve data processing and algorithm developing on multi-frequency GNSS data. My past research focused on development of the methods on searching the optimal combined signals for geometry-free and geometry-based three-carrier ambiguity resolution for GPS. The main areas of the research include the development of cycle slip detection techniques, in particular for the cases under ionospheric scintillation. 

Publication List

Zhao, D.; Roberts, G.W.; Lau, L.; Hancock, C.M.; Bai, R. A Theoretical and Empirical Integrated Method to Select the Optimal Combined Signals for Geometry-Free and Geometry-Based Three-Carrier Ambiguity Resolution. Sensors 2016, 16, 1929

Research Bio

I am a fourth year PhD candidate (2014-2018 Cohort) from NVidia Joint Lab on Mixed Reality based on School of Computer Science. I have particular interests to involve in the complexity science (an interdisciplinary discipline of Physics, Economics, Computer Science and etc.), because our world is a complex system governed by a couple of simple rules. As Socrates’s words “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”, which always inspires me to cherish time and do good research. It is a great honour to serve the research communities as a member of CCF and complex society, being external reviewers of International Journal of Modern Physics C, Physica A and other related conferences.

This PhD project aims to understand the essential mechanisms leading to formation of communities on heterogeneous networks, which contribute to better understand the complex system from mesoscopic views. Furthermore, we also have particular interests to investigate the set of most influential spreaders and super blockers who closely relate to information/disease/rumour diffusion on community networks. Our work will serve to uncover controllable key nodes of complex systems in diffusion processes. It has potential impacts on disease control, valuable business information propagation and financial risks prediction.

Publication List

SCI Journal Papers

1. H.L. Sun, E. Ch’ng, X. Yong, J. M. Garibaldi, S. See, D.B. Chen, An Improved Game-theoretic Approach to Uncover Overlapping Communities, International Journal of Modern Physics C (SCI, JCR Q3) (https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183117501121)
2. H.L. Sun, E. Ch’ng, X. Yong, J. M. Garibaldi, S. See, D.B. Chen, A Fast Community Detection Method in Bipartite Networks by Distance Dynamics, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (SCI, JCR Q1) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.099)
3. H.L. Sun, E. Ch’ng, S. See, Influential Spreaders in the Political Twitter Sphere of the 2013 Malaysian General Election, Industrial Management and Data System (SCI, JCR Q2) (Under Review)
4. H.L. Sun, J.L. He, E. Ch’ng, J. M. Garibaldi, S. See, D.B. Chen, Identifying Multiple Influential Spreaders on Weighted Networks by Voting, EuroPhysics Letters (SCI, JCR Q1) (Finished)

Conference Papers

1. Y. Xi, H. L. Sun, and J. Li. "Entanglement plays an important role in evolutionary generalized prisoner's dilemma game on small-world networks." Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IMCEC), 2016 IEEE. (EI, IEEE) (DOI: 10.1109/IMCEC.2016.7867225)
2. H.L. Sun, E. Ch’ng, S. See. A Proposition for Visualisation of Evolving Virtual Communities as Large Social Networks, Special Session on Big Data in the Digital Economy, The Ninth International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Ningbo, China, July 13-15,2015 (Published)

Research Bio

My name is Jingsha Xu, I’m currently a PhD student from International doctoral innovation center (IDIC) of chemical and environmental engineering department

Publication List

1. Xu, J., Tai, X., Betha, R., He, J., Balasubramanian, R. Comparison of physical and chemical properties of ambient aerosols during the 2009 haze and non-haze periods in Southeast Asia. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 2015, 37: 831-841.
2. Xu, J., Xu, H., Xiao, H., Tong, L., Snape, C., Wang, C., He, J. Aerosol composition and sources during high and low pollution periods in Ningbo, China. Atmospheric Research. 2016， 178-179: 559-569
3. Gao, J., Thai, P.K., He, J., Lai, F.Y., O’Brien, J., Muller, J., Xu, J. Could wastewater analysis be a useful tool for China? - A review.  Journal of Environmental Sciences. 2015, 27: 70-79.
4. K, Chen; JS, Xu; J, He. Book chapter- Urban Air Pollution Control, Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, Elsevier Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences.

My name is Lucen Li and I am IDIC second year student. My research is part of theLUCAS project whose leader is professor Darren Robinson in UNUK. My research title is Modeling of future urban climate for sustainability assessment. The main question is to find out how climate will change in the future given the fact that city land use and even its function will be changed. The future here is up to 2050 and the case city will be Shanghai. For now I am looking at an existing model called WRF which is short for wether research and forecasting model. It will be possible for me to undertake a regional climate simulation which is helpful for my research.

Research Bio

Massive utility networks are buried underneath the ground surface to provide essential services for society’s daily life such as water, sewerage, electricity, gas, telecommunications, etc. How to detect and make a precise 3-dimensional survey of underground utilities has become a focused issue, particularly in urban areas where is not ideal for GNSS techniques. My PhD research includes establishing a controlled environment to evaluate the availability and positioning accuracy of different GNSS constellations in urban environments and assembling 4 low-cost MEM IMUs and one odometer on a carrier to travel inside a test pipeline to estimate the pipeline position.

Publication List

1. Hancock, C.M., Zhang, P., Lau, L., Roberts, G.W., De Ligt, H. (2016) Satellite Mapping in Cities, How good is it now?. Proceedings Institution of Civil Engineers; Civil Engineering. Accepted 2016
2. Zhang, P., Hancock, C.M., Lau, L., Roberts, G.W., De ligt, H. and Quan, Y. (2016) Positioning Buried Utilities in Difficult Environments. 1st International Conference on GNSS+, 27-30 July, Shanghai, China.
3. Zhang, P., Hancock, C.M., Lau, L., Roberts, G.W. and Xu, C. (2016) Integration of Low Cost IMU and Odometer for Underground Pipeline Mapping. Proceedings of the China Satellite Navigation Conference 2016, 18-20 May, Changsha, China.
4. Hancock, C.M. and Zhang, P. (2016) Using Quality Control Parameters to Assess Ionospheric Error on GNSS. Proceedings of the China Satellite Navigation Conference 2016, 18-20 May, Changsha, China

Research Bio

With the high demand of medical treatment, laser Doppler flowmetry and oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurement are two techniques applied on medical and daily lives. In most treatment, wound dresses are still pulled off to check if wounds are healed. There exist infection risks that wounds might get worse again and it is also a waste of time and cost to roll it back. Therefore, to avoid these happening, optical fibres based measurement within textiles or wound dresses are studied. Two main parameters will be discussed in this project. Laser Doppler Effect is used to test the blood flow velocity and SpO2 will be measured with the help of two wavelengths, red and infrared lights.

Research Bio

I am a PhD candidate with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, where he has been since 2014. I received both his M.S. and B.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

My research lies at the interface of operations research, machine learning and logistics, specifically, stochastic integer programming.

My PhD project concerns scenario grouping for service network design with uncertain demands. To properly account for uncertainties in service network design problems, stochastic programming as the existing mainstream methodology harnesses a finite set of scenarios. Current scenario decomposition strategies like progressive hedging generate multiple single-scenario sub-problems. My research is focused on how to do scenario clustering and turn single-scenario sub-problems into multi-scenario sub-problems in a manner that significantly improve efficiency.

Publication List

Xiaoping Jiang; Ruibin Bai; Atkin Jason; Kendall Graham. A scheme for determining vehicle routes based on Arc-based service network design. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 55 (1): 16-37, 2017.

Research Bio

To achieve the target, novel technologies for instance skewed stator and rearrangement of damper bars are employed. In addition to that, new types of materials will be considered as another for increasing the efficiency of a synchronous generator. Thirdly, winding configuration is another aspect that will be explored to determine whether it helps reducing the loss in a synchronous generator.

Research Bio

It investigate how consumers will response to the brand crisis and how their attitudes towards the brand would change; how brand would intervene and how their actions may further shape their brand image. This research will capture the data from key social media platform (e.g. twitter) to explore what people are talking about during company’s sensitive time (i.e. its brand crisis), how they response toward ongoing responses from companies and how the brand image may change during such process. Text mining techniques may be applied to capture the evolvement of topics and identify important factors shaping consumers’ attitudes.

Awards

1. 2010/2011 Head Scholarship for academic performance in NUBS
2. 2012/2013 Head Scholarship for academic performance in NUBS
3. 2014 Nottingham Advantage Award for employability development programme of UNNC
4. 2014 IACMR student grant of the conference

Publication List

1. Liu, M. J., Huang, J., Yee-loong Chong, A., Guan, Z., & Yannopoulou, N. (2015). Fellow-townsmenship as the mechanism for exploring and exploiting business opportunities: A longitudinal reflection of the nineteenth century Ningbo entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Business History, 57(6), 773-799.
2. Liu, M. J., Huang, J., Yee-loong Chong, A., Guan, Z., & Yannopoulou, N. (2013). Fellow-townsmenship as the resource pool for achieving ambidexterity: A Reflection on the modern Entrepreneurs from the social network analysis perspective. IACMR 2014 Roundtable session, Beijing.
3. Li, B., Hou, F., Guan, Z.,Yee-loong Chong, A. and Pu, X. (2017) Evaluating Online Review Helpfulness Based on Elaboration Likelihood Model: the Moderating Role of Readability. 21st PACIS 2017, Langkawi, Malaysia.