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ChemChallenge - a video game for studying and teaching chemistry.

Organic Synthesis Mediated by Carbon Nitride Photocatalysis and Photocharged Carbon Nitrides ConspectusOrganic synthesis mediated by graphitic carbon nitrides (g-CNs) became a research hotspot primarily due to a combination of the following aspects: (1) the simple and convenient preparation o...

We round off 2025 with the publication in Accounts of Chemical Research. Many thanks to former group members and our collaborators from all over the world!👏👏👏
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Commendation in Pedagogical Innovation at Expo The “Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo” (the Expo) is one of the major events held annually at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 2007. This year, we presented our edu…

🏆🏆We are thrilled to receive a commendation in Pedagogical Innovation at the Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2025 for the development of @ChemChallenge – a video game for studying and teaching chemistry.🕹️🧑‍🏫
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ChemChallenge: A Video Game for Teaching and Studying Thermodynamics Featuring In-Game Currency, Shopping, Customization of Laboratory, and Photochemistry Digital learning and gamification make studying chemistry more exciting and engaging. Interactive digital tools allow students to understand the fundamental concepts of chemistry more easily. However,...

#ChemChallenge – a video game for studying and teaching chemistry. Now, we publish in the Journal of Chemical Education development of this software and its application in teaching at the undergraduate level.
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Photochemical and photocatalytic dehydrogenation of alcohols. (ChemChallenge application tip No. 5) YouTube video by SavateevLab

🕹️📺 This episode of #ChemChallenge explains, from a thermodynamic perspective, why shining light on chemical substances can enable a non-spontaneous chemical reaction.
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🧑‍🔬🧪We're excited to put these boys to work—stay tuned for some cool yet air-sensitive stuff!

Introducing Yunfei Li Yunfei Li received her BEng degree from the East China University of Science and Technology and the MSc degree from the National University of Singapore. She joined the group through the MPhil-PhD …

This round of recruitment for MPhil-PhD in Chemistry 2024-25 is complete. Yunfei Li started her studies and research project in the group.
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Yiyi Fu joined the group Yiyi Fu received her BSc degree in Chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Now, she continues her studies and conducts research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong thr…

A new MPhil-PhD student has just joined the group. Welcome aboard, Yiyi! We are looking forward to work with you! 🤝🤝
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SavateevLab Research groups at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Gamification of education and research in chemistry.

🎉📺We are on YouTube! 📺
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ChemChallenge Application Tip 4 In most cases, heat is released when a chemical substance is formed from elements. However, there are substances whose formation requires an input of energy. This…

🕹️📺 This #ChemChallenge application tip explains why using chemical compounds with a positive enthalpy of formation as reactants makes a chemical reaction more exothermic.
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🕹️📺 Start of the week and a new episode of #ChemChallenge application is released. In this episode, you will learn how coupling a nonspontaneous reaction with a spontaneous one can enable synthesis of a target chemical.⚗️
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🕹️📺Check out episode 2 of #ChemChallenge video game application tips. It explains why cooling in some cases enables chemical reactions and how to use it to complete certain levels in the game. Stay tuned for more!
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Summer camp for early postgraduate admission 2025 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Application deadline 9 May 2025.👇
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🎮🕹️Game release is not the end, but just a beginning. Check out the game application tip No. 1. Stay tuned for more! #ChemChallenge
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📚Our review on photocatalytic dehydrogenation of organic compounds tinyurl.com/27fbu2bm is now published in Chin. J. Catal.:
✅>300 references
✅Online database tinyurl.com/4v798e8a
✅Photocatalytic reactions and photocatalysts
✅Homogeneous & heterogeneous systems

ChemChallenge The application software is intended for using mainly by chemistry students and chemical engineering. Knowledge about reactions stoichiometry and thermodynamics are required to understand the game …

📢 #ChemChallenge v1.0 – a video game for studying and teaching chemistry was released!
✅100 levels
✅In-game 💰& 🛍️
✅Customization of your virtual lab🧪
✅Your score depends on how well you can apply your chemistry knowledge
✅ Powered by AI
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Application Software (Video Game) for Teaching and Studying Thermodynamics Digital learning and gamification make studying chemistry more exciting and engaging. Interactive digital tools allow students to understand fundamental concepts of chemistry more easily. However, app...

📢We are finalizing #ChemChallenge. Do not miss the release date 1st of March 2025. Meanwhile, check out the article preprint that describes all feature of the game.👇
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🙀Studying and teaching chemistry by playing video games?🕹️🎁Delighted to present our innovative project – a video game #ChemChallenge! 🆓Available soon for download for free from savateevgroup.com/chemchallenge. Check the trailer below.👇
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📢Present group’s achievements in organic synthesis using carbon nitrides at 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference. Many thanks to Prof. Jie WU for the invitation!🙏