Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao
Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao is PhD student at Cornell known for his project HI-Light that converts CO2 into fuel such as syngas or methanol.
Education[edit]
Xi’an Jiaotong University[edit]
Cao obtained his joint Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Energy and Power, and English Literature in 2013 from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. [1]
McGill University[edit]
In 2014, Cao started studying at McGill University towards Master of Engineering in Materials Engineering with a joint training by MIT during his last year. He worked in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering along with Professor Michael Short & Professor Matteo Bucci, on developing ways to prevent accidents such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster from 2011. At McGill, he worked under the supervision Professor Roderick Guthrie & Dr. Mihaiela Isac, on developing a way to detect micro-bubbles enabling a clean steel production. [2]
Cornell University[edit]
Cao is currently earning his PhD at Cornell University and working in the Erickson Lab,[3] which is led by Prof. David Erickson, at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is majoring in Micro and Nanoscale Engineering with minors in Energy and Sustainability, Infection and Immunity, and Entrepreneurship. His thesis is on HI-Light – A new way of converting CO2 into fuels. He is also working on FeverPhone, a smartphone that can detect six acute febrile illness. [4]
HI-Light[edit]
HI-Light is a project being developed by Cao during his PhD. Cao is working with Prof. David Erickson, the Mechanical Engineering professor in charge of the Erickson Lab and Tobias Hanrath, another professor of Cornell and a private company Dimensional Energy.[5] HI-Light is a solar thermal chemical reactor technology for converting CO2 with water to hydrocarbons such as methanol.[6] The reactor consists of tubes to guide the light into the reactor that acts as a photothermal catalyst thus allowing faster reaction rates and selectivity of higher hydrocarbons.[7] This technique could reduce the carbon footprint of producing fossil carbon and use the carbon waste already present in our atmosphere. It was mentioned by Cao during an interview that another possible application for HI-Light could be to produce fuel on Mars, as there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thus maybe enabling people to go to Mars.[8]
FeverPhone[edit]
FeverPhone is a portable disease diagnosis kit to work with a smartphone or a tablet enabling a differential diagnosis of acute febrile illnesses such as Dengue, Malaria and others in less than 15 minutes, when in the US it can take one day to get the results and in some countries they can't tell the difference.[9] One drop of blood is taken by finger stick and placed on a test strip which is then inserted in a portable station which can test for the following six diseases : Dengue, malaria, chagas, leptospirosis, chikungunya, typhoid.[10][11] This new technology would be efficient and inexpensive making it very attractive for the countries mostly affected by those diseases, this is why some are working in Ecuador.
In 2016, National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop FeverPhone.[12]
Achievements[edit]
Future Energy Leader[edit]
In October 2019, Cao was name a Future Energy Leader[13] by BP.
INK Fellow[edit]
In October 2019, Xiangkun Cao was selected as an INK fellow and spoke at INK Conference in 2019.[14]
Honorable Mentions[edit]
Forbes 30 under 30[edit]
Cao was in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019 in the Energy Category for his work on HI-Light. [15]
AACYF Top 30 under 30[edit]
Cao is part of the All America Chinese Youth Federation Top 30 under 30, in 2019, for his work on both HI-Light and FeverPhone in the Art, Culture, Science domain.[16]
EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation[edit]
In 2019, Cao was in EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation list.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "XJTU alumnus Cao Xiangkun listed on the Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Energy-Xi'an Jiaotong University". en.xjtu.edu.cn. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "McGill Alumnus Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Energy". Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "Erickson Lab @ Cornell University". ericksonlab. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "HI-Light – Global Grad Show". Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ University, Cornell (2019-01-15). "Doctoral student fights climate change by converting carbon dioxide into clean fuel". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ↑ "HI-LIGHT - Solar Thermal Chemical Reactor Technology for Converting CO2 to Hydrocarbons". contest.techbriefs.com. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "HI-Light". HI-Light. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ University, Cornell (2019-01-15). "Doctoral student fights climate change by converting carbon dioxide into clean fuel". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ↑ Resila, Alex (2016-07-08). "FeverPhone could help you diagnose diseases". WSTM. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ↑ "FeverPhone". FeverPhone. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ↑ "FeverPhone presentation at Cornell's 2017 3MT Competition". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ↑ "Future energy leaders | News and insights | Home". BP global. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "MAE's Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao Named "INK Fellow" Spoke at INK Conference 2019 | Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering". www.mae.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ admin. ""AACYF Top 30 under 30" list released, Class of 2019 Elites – The Los Angeles Post". Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "30 Under 30 winners". American Conservation Coalition. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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