Improvement of current Li-ion batteries and development of next-generation batteries have been a most important issue for future renewable energy society.

Multiphase chemical processes of oxidants and aerosol particles are of central importance in aerosol effects on outdoor and indoor air quality and public health.

Typhoon are responsible for severe fatalities and damage to Asian countries, with China being a typical example.

Heatwaves are among the most dangerous of natural hazards, but rarely receive adequate attention. They often lack the spectacular and sudden violence of other hazards, such as tropical cyclones or flash floods.

Fuel cell technologies have seen extraordinary advances over more than two decades. However, two challenges still facing these technologies, the oxygen cathode and liquid fuels anodes.

Different from regular PM machines, flux modulation machines are with different stator and rotor pole number, and produce steady torque based on the so called flux modulation effect.