Humans generate a large amount wastewater, approximately 1 trillion tons per year. Wastewater treatment is an energy-intensive, consuming about 1~3% of the world's total energy. Wastewater treatment also results in large greenhouse gas emissions, reaching 14.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in China. However, it's possible to transform the wastewater treatment process into an energy-sustainable, clean water producing, and carbon sequestration process, with innovative and thoughtful design.

人类每年产生大量废水，可达约1万亿吨。废水处理是一个能源密集型过程，此过程会消耗全球总能源的1~3%。废水处理还会造成温室气体大量排放，在中国可达1490万公吨的二氧化碳当量。然而，通过我们的研究和创新设计，有望将废水处理过程转变为一个生产可持续能源、清洁水和碳固定的过程。

Our research group aims to develop novel wastewater treatment technologies, which can treat wastewater and simultaneously recycle wastewater, produce hydrogen, or covert carbon dioxide to value chemicals.

我们的研究旨在开发新型废水处理技术，通过这些技术处理废水，并同时回收废水、产生氢气或将二氧化碳转化为有价值的化学品。

Now, our research group focus on:

    Hydrogen production using wastewater by microbial electrochemical processes;

    CO₂ conversion to valuable chemicals by microbial electrochemical processes;

    Hydrogels for wastewater recycle and desalination;

    3D printing for efficient water-gas-solid three-phase interface construction.

我们的研究主要关注：

    通过微生物电化学过程用污水中制氢；

    通过微生物电化学过程将二氧化碳转化为有价值的化学品；

    水凝胶用于污水和海水转化；

    3D 打印技术用于高效固-液-气三相界面的构建。