Jue Hou

Dr. Jue Hou

Research Fellow

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Jue Hou received his BS degree in Materials Chemistry at Peking University in 2011 and PhD degree in Materials Science at ICCAS in 2016. He worked as a postdoc in Prof. Huanting Wang's group at Monash University from 2017 to 2019 and CSIRO from 2019 to 2022. His research interests include metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), membrane separation, photonic crystals, sensors, and bio-inspired superwettability materials. He joins RMIT as a DECRA Fellow & Senior Research Fellow to keep developing MOF-based membranes for separation applications and MOF-based photonic sensors for intelligent packaging, environmental monitoring, and biosensing.

Supervisor projects

  • Photonic Crystal Sensors for Intelligent Packaging
  • 14 Aug 2025
  • Development of ammonium-selective membranes to recover ammonium from wastewater
  • 8 Apr 2025
  • Subnanofluidic membranes for lithium extraction
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Design and Investigation of Stable Polyelectrolyte Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Applications.
  • 18 Jan 2023

Teaching interests

PROC2088 Process System Design
OENG1167 and OENG1168 Capstone Project

Research interests

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), membrane separation, photonic crystals, sensors, and bio-inspired superwettability materials.
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