NEWS & UPDATES

Welcome to our news and updates page. We provide regular posts monthly here and please feel free to also follow our links in Linkedln, ReseachGate for further information. This section presents updates on research activities, key events, partnerships, scholarly visits and exchanges. Materials on this page can only be reshared or redistributed upon approval by our website owner (i.e. Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, email: anthony-cy.yuen@polyu.edu.hk).

Late Updated by 7 Sep 2023

2023

The 5th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering (AOFSM'5) conference was successfully organised and closed.

26-29th Aug 2023

Keynote and Organising of the AOFSM'5 Conference

We sucessfully frA vanillin-based porphyrin (VPR) was designed and synthesized to impart PLA with enhanced mechanical, anti-UV, and flame retardant properties.

8th June 2023

Discovery of a VPR/PLA Bio-composite

Dr Yuen was invited to deliver a seminar in The HKIE Fire Division 14th Annual Symposium 2023 on lithium-ion battery fire safety and mitigation technologies.

24th May 2023

The HKIE Fire Division 14th Annual Symposium 2023 Invited Talk

Visited by Dr Meng Shi (Associate Professor) and her students @South-Central Minzu University at the PolyU Fire Eng lab.

15th April 2023

Visit to Sichuan University

Dr Yuen is invited to attend and deliver a talk at the 2023 Fire Safety and Evacuation Modelling Workshop by Prof Ma, YI.

15th April 2023

Visit to Sichuan University

As one of the local organising committee members of the 5th Asia-Oceania Fire Safety Materials Symposium to be hosted in Sydney Australia, it is my honour to share with you this great networking opportunity.

12nd April 2023

Less than 150 days till the AOFSM'5 Conference Sydney

Our paper published in Fire and Materials entitled "Evaluating the fire risk associated with cladding panels: An overview of fire incidents, policies, and future perspective in fire standards" was awarded top downloaded paper in 2022.

11th April 2023

Top Downloaded Paper on Fire and Materials

Invited to the HKIE Fire Division Annual Dinner. After the global pandemic years, it is great to have a major event for fire engineers and students of HKIE to gather and network. A good start for the fire safety community in 2023.

31st March 2023

15th Anniversary HKIE Fire Division Annual Dinner

Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University gave an online seminar on March 02 titled "Advanced Computational Material Synthesis Approach for Fire Resilience Building Materials".

2nd March 2023

SFPE Webinar Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen

We developed a chitosan-based N/B/P tri-element hybrid to improve the fire safety performance and mechanical properties of PLA biocomposites.

15th Feb 2023

Self-assembled biobased chitosan hybrid carrying N/P/B elements for polylactide

BEEE, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is pleased to announce a new Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Scholar, Dr Anthony Chun Yin YUEN, starting on 12 January 2023.

12th Jan 2023

Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen has joined Hong Kong PolyU

Timeline of Key Activities and Events

This section presents updates on research activities, key events, partnerships, scholarly visits and exchanges. Materials on this page can only be reshared or redistributed upon approval by our website owner (i.e. Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, email: anthony-cy.yuen@polyu.edu.hk).

29 August 2023

The 5th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering (AOFSM'5) conference was successfully organised and concluded at UNSW

24 May 2023

Dr Yuen was invited to deliver a seminar in The HKIE Fire Division 14th Annual Symposium 2023 on lithium-ion battery fire safety and mitigation technologies.

26 April 2023

Visited by with Assocaite Professor Dr Meng, SHI (South-Central Minzu University) and Research Postdoctorate Dr Joe Ruifeng, CAO (CityU). (link)

26-29 August 2023

Less than 150 days to the 5th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering (AOFSM'5) Conference Symposium. (link)

31 March 2023

Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen and Dr Xinyan Huang from the BEEE Fire Laboratory were invited to the 15th Anniversary HKIE Fire Division Annual Dinner.

02 March 2023

12 January 2023

New Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Scholar) - Dr Yuen Anthony Chun Yin has joined the Department of Building Energy and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (see external news link)