Facing the urgent demand for net-zero carbon emissions and the transition to green energy, accelerating the development of hydrogen energy technologies has become a critical issue.

The interdisciplinary team from the Smart Sustainable New Agriculture Research Center (SMARTer) at NCHU has successfully integrated artificial intelligence 🤖 with high-entropy materials to establish an optimized model for catalytic materials. This innovation drastically shortens the traditional trial-and-error research and development process by approximately 99.3%.

The achievement was featured on the cover of the prestigious international journal ACS Catalysis, a highly influential academic journal published by the American Chemical Society, with an impact factor of 13.1 as announced in 2025. 🌟

In the global pursuit of net-zero carbon emissions, hydrogen energy stands out as one of the most promising forms of green energy. The NCHU research team has leveraged artificial-intelligence machine-learning algorithms 🤖, combined with electrocatalyst synthesis techniques, to successfully develop an innovative “process optimization model” that dramatically boosts the efficiency of hydrogen production through water splitting! 🚀

This groundbreaking achievement has been published in the prestigious international journal Journal of Materials Chemistry A 🧪, and was featured as an inside-cover article, showcasing NCHU’s world-class research excellence in energy science and technology! 🌟

Supervised undergraduate students "Li-Yun Liu" and "Yi-Ting Luo" in the “2025 Technology Thesis Competition” and won 2nd Place in the University Division, Artificial Intelligence and Information Security Category.

Honored as an Outstanding Mentor of the College of Engineering at National Chung Hsing University.

Supervised undergraduate students "Li-Yun Liu" and "Yi-Ting Luo" in the 2024 Academic Year College of Engineering “Undergraduate Research Project Competition” and received an Honorable Mention. 

Won the International Track Outstanding Paper Award at the 36th International Conference on Information Management.