On November 1, Academician Tien-Chien Jen of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa visited Shandong Jianzhu University. Yu Dehu, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the University, met with Academician Ren Tianjian. Li Qing, member of the Party Committee and vice President attended the meeting.

Yu Dehu extended a warm welcome to Academician Ren Tianjian. He introduced the basic situation of the university and hoped to take this visit as an opportunity to carry out extensive and in-depth academic exchanges and cooperation. Academician Ren Tianjian expressed gratitude for the warm reception and arrangement of the university, and pointed out that the two sides can carry out joint training of high-quality talents and scientific research cooperation in the fields of fuel cell and hydrogen energy, new energy utilization technology, and precision construction of nanomaterials. On behalf of the university, Yu Dehu awarded the visiting professor appointment letter of Shandong Jianzhu University to Academician Ren Tianjian.

At the subsequent conference, Academician Ren Tianjian gave an academic report on atomic layer deposition (ALD) and its unique behavior and optimization. He shares numerical methods for describing nanoscale precision properties of thin film products in the manufacturing process, such as computational fluid dynamics, lattice Boltzmann method, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics. At the same time, he also analyzed the challenges of device optimization, such as improving device efficiency, stability and scalability, and ALD applications in thin film batteries.

After the lecture, Academician Ren Tianjian and Professor NzondeleloBingwa of the University of South Africa visited the Green Energy Materials and Energy Storage Engineering Laboratory of the School of Thermal Engineering and spoke highly of the research work of the laboratory.

Prof. Tianjian Ren is the Chief Scientist of Green Hydrogen (SARChI) of the South African Department of Science and Technology, a member of the South African National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Director of the first Atomic Layer Deposition Research Center (ALD Center) in South Africa. He was Chairman of the Department of Mechanics and acting Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The Department of Talent Work, the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of International Exchange and Cooperation, the College of Thermal Energy Engineering and related personnel participated in the above activities.