Dr Shangfeng Du, a Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, was the 2016 recipient of the RSC - CSCST-UK travel grant. This collaborative grant between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology based in London (CSCST-UK) enables a UK-based early career scientist to travel to China to seek further collaboration opportunities in China. 

Dr Du has written a personal trip diary covering his trip to China from the 5-9 April 2016. A summary of his trip diary is published below. 

Sponsored by the RSC - CSCST-UK travel grant, I visited Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPE-CAS) on 6-8 Apr 2016. During this visit, I gave a seminar and had discussions with a few groups in the Institute. Several potential research collaborations were established between both institutes based on the strong research resources of CHFCR in fuel cell devices and the IPE-CAS in materials research. 

I arrived at Beijing Jiannianhua Hotel in the evening on 5th April, where I stayed for the whole visiting period. After supper, I got my talk prepared for the next day.


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Dr Xu is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University with research experiences in smart materials, nanotechnology, functional composites, energy materials, flexible electronics, bio-MEMS device. He is currently the vice-chairman of The Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology (CSCST-UK) and one of the 2015 recipients of the RSC-CSCST Emerging Talent travel grant. As part of his trip to China, he attended and chaired the UK-Sino Forum on Clean Energy and Environmental Engineering Technology, which was co-organized by University of Nottingham Ningbo campus and CSCST-UK. He gives a brief account of his trip to China below. 

Dr Ben Xu (Northumbria University, UK)
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