Under the recommendation of the Chinese Embassy in Ireland, 6 Scientists in Ireland have recently been invited to become members of the 'Overseas Expert Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council'. They are Professor Bing Wu (DIT), Prof Liming Wang (UCD), Prof Sanbin Shen (UCG), Prof Xinmin Zhan (UCG) and Prof Chaoshen Zhang (UCG), who are members of the Association of China-Ireland Academics (ACIA). The sixth invitee is a professor of UCD.

Dr. Xiaopu Zhang, a Chinese researcher in Prof. John Boland's group in CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, published a research paper in Science. The paper reported the grain rotation and surface tilting induced by the grain boundary relaxation in nanocrystalline copper films, which is a completely new observation using a scanning tunneling microscope. The phenomena could impact electrical, thermal and reliable properties of copper nanowires in smartphone chips and hence the efficiency of electronics. The fundamental mechanism uncovered will help material design and engineering in future. Paper can be accessed in http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6349/397

 

 

On 2 July, ACIA AGM was successfully concluded in Dublin. Mr. Dawei Zheng and Mr. Xiaochuang Wu, both from Chinese Embassy in Dublin attended this AGM.

 

ACIA co-hosted a seminar delivered by the honorary guest, Mr Bin Qi, vice General Manager of China Investment Co. Ltd on 24 Jan 2017