Grants & Projects

Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings in Sarawak: Development of Smart Energy Savings Scheme in Heating-Ventilation-Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Systems; Basil T. Wong (PI), Chong Kok Hing, Victor N-S Bong, Christopher J. Boniface; Catalyst Grant by Sarawak Research and Development Council (SRDC), Awarded Amount, MYR 240,000; 2020 - 2024. 

Study of Black-Silicon Thermophotovoltaics for Waste-Heat-to-Electricity Harnessing via Novel Fundamental Modeling at Nanoscale; Basil T. Wong (PI), Jaka Sunarso, and Saulius Juodkazis; Sponsored by Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) – Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) (Malaysia); Awarded Amount MYR 68,000 (3 years); January 2019 - December 2021.

Pilot automation for advanced manufacturing of high performance graphene superbatteries; Baohua Jia (PI at Hawthorn Campus), Basil T. Wong (PI at Sarawak Campus); Sponsored by Melbourne-Sarawak Research Collaboration Scheme (MSRCS), Awarded Amounts MYR 119,000 (@Sarawak) & AUD 149,805 (@Melbourne); 2017 - 2019. 

Development of A Novel Software for Simulating Nanoscale Electrical-Thermal Responses of Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Cell for Sustainable Renewable Energy Conversion and Future Code Commercialization; Basil T. Wong (Principal Investigator); Sponsored by ScienceFund by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTi) (Malaysia); Awarded Amount MYR 197,000; 2014 - 2017.

Fundamental Study and Software Development For Simulating Heat Distribution Inside Nanostructures with Irregular Shapes/Boundaries; Basil T. Wong (Principal Investigator); Sponsored by Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) – Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) (Malaysia); Awarded Amount MYR 109,500 (3 years); September 2012 - August 2015.

The Effect of Water Droplets on Propagation of Air‐Pressure Waves: A Numerical and Experimental Approach to Fundamental Development in Oceanography Study; Basil T. Wong (Principal Investigator) and Riady Siswoyo Jo; Sponsored by Swinburne Sarawak Research Grant (SSRG), Awarded Amount MYR 20,000 (1.5 years); October 2013 - March 2015.

Thermal Conduction/Phonon Transport inside Thin Films and Nanostructures; Basil T. Wong (Post-Doctoral Scholar).

Exploration of Nanoscale Melting; Prof. M. Pinar Menguc (Principal Investigator), Assistant Prof. Steven Rankin (Co-Principal Investigator), Basil T. Wong (Post-Doctoral Scholar); Sponsored by Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation (KSEF) (USA); Awarded Amount USD 100,000; 2007–2009.

Modeling of Ultra-Fast Heating in Metallic Thin Film using Two-Temperature Model & Electron-Phonon Hydrodynamic Modeling inside Metal-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MESFETs); Basil T. Wong (Post-Doctoral Scholar).

Modeling of Electron-Beam Scattering and Secondary Electron Generation inside a Specimen; Basil T. Wong (Post-Doctoral Scholar).

Staggered Nanotube Probes for Integrated Nanomachining and Metrology; Prof. M. Pinar Menguc (Principal Investigator), Assistant Prof. Robert Vallance (Former Principal Investigator), Prof. Kazi Javed (Co-Principal Investigator), Associate Prof. Apparao Rao (Co-Principal Investigator), Prof. M. Pinar Menguc (Former Co-Principal Investigator), Basil T. Wong (Ph.D. Student/Post-Doctoral Scholar); Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) – Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) (USA); Awarded Amount USD 1,000,000; 2002–2008.

Doctoral Dissertation – Thermal Heat Transport at the Nanoscale Level and Its Application to Nanomachining; Basil T. Wong (Ph.D. Student); Dissertation Advisor: Professor M. Pınar Mengüç.

Light Scattering by Participating Media; Basil T. Wong (M.S. Student); Thesis Advisor: Professor M. Pınar Mengüç.

Monitoring and Characterization of Fine Particulates from Combustion Sources and On-line, Non-Destructive, Rapid Characterization of Nanopowders and Agglomerates at University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, sponsored by Synergetic Technologies Inc., (STI), Albany, New York (an advanced particle characterization start-up company); Basil T. Wong (Research Assistant).

Master’s Thesis - Monte Carlo Techniques for the Solution of the Transient and Steady Radiative Transfer Equation; Basil T. Wong (M.S. Student).