We are excited to share the news that our Hub Chief Investigator, Dr Jin Zhang, has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.

Her project, High-Performance and Evaporative Triboelectric Nanogenerators aims to develop high-performance triboelectric nanogenerators with outstanding moisture wicking and thermal-moisture stability, providing a comfortable platform for biomechanical energy harvesting and self-powered sensing. The project is expected to generate new knowledge on enhancing the output power and moisture management capability of tribo-textiles, overcoming the bottleneck of output deterioration of TENGs under humid conditions. This will offer an attractive renewable energy source for driving low-power sensors in the era of IoT and open new opportunities in healthcare, sports, virtual reality and smart homes. We extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Jin Zhang on this tremendous recognition!

Jin is also a key research lead on this year’s successful round 14 of the Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P). The project includes Hub Director Prof Chun Wang and Partner Organisation Santevation on Innovative Development of Biodegradable Healthcare Packaging Products. More details on the CRC-P projects can be found on the business.gov.au site—a great example of academy working with industry.

Sha Z, Boyer C, Li G, Yu Y, Allioux F, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Wang C, Zhang J. Nano Energy, Vol 92, 2022, 106713