CHI held a CHI Grant Ceremony in conjunction with the launch of the NUS CHI-SEAS SCALE CET Course on 20 August 2025, graced by our Guest-of-Honour, Mr Eugene Kwok, Director of the New Energies Division, Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI). He gave a keynote address, followed by the grant award ceremony. This year’s grant call focused on hydrogen energy — a key enabler for deep decarbonisation across industrial, power, and mobility sectors. 

🎓 Newly awarded projects: 

(A) Third Grant Call Type II (second stage) 

🏅 Graphene-based membranes for CO₂ separation from industrial gas mixtures PI: Prof Antonio H. Castro Neto, NUS (represented by Dr Juan Carrio) 

🏅 Scalable high-entropy alloyed catalysts facilitating up to 2.0 A/cm2 current density by proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser PI: A/Prof Huang Yizhong, NTU School of Materials Science and Engineering 

🏅 Ammonia-hydrogen fusion marine engine with single ammonia fuel supply, A/Prof Wenming Yang, NUS 

🏅An integrated system for hydrogen and freshwater production through indirect seawater electrolysis PI: Prof Ho Ghim Wei, NUS 

(B) Fourth Grant Call 

🏅Catalysis-assisted ammonia combustion for decarbonised power generation PI: A/Prof Huangwei Zhang, NUS 

🏅Phase-selective CO₂ capture using clathrate hydrate crystallisation in blue hydrogen production systems PI: Prof Praveen Linga, NUS 

🏅Development of advanced polymer composites for liquid hydrogen storage with integrated smart sensing PI: Dr Ice Tee, A*STAR Future Energy Acceleration & Translation (FEAT) 

🏆 Congratulations to the awarded teams from NUS, NTU, and A*STAR for their pioneering work in ammonia combustion, hydrogen membranes, marine engines, CO₂ capture, and more! Let us keep pushing the boundaries of clean hydrogen energy innovations! 💡🔋 

Following the CHI Grant Ceremony event, Ms Kavita Gandhi (Executive Director, SEAS) gave an opening address and launched the inaugural run of the CHI-SEAS SCALE CET course on “Introduction to Hydrogen Energy” (https://hydrogen.nus.edu.sg/continuing-education-and-training/). 13 learners from diverse backgrounds including market analysts, marketing and sales executives, engineers from construction/energy and professionals from trade associations, enrolled in this two-day course. They learnt from academics and industry veterans, like Asst Prof Wang Lei, Ms Li Huiqi and Mr Shivesh Tyagi, about the fundamentals of hydrogen energy technologies, policies, and the global markets with particular focus on the US, Europe and Southeast Asia. For interested learners, please look out for the announcement of the next run expected to be held next January 2026!