Time：April 18, 2014(Friday), 9:00am
Location ：Conference Room of Basic Energy Science Building
Lecturer：Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong
Department of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University
Abstract：
Metallated and metal-free molecules have become a field of intense activities in the optoelectronic research. They hold great promise as versatile functional materials for use in energy interconversions. These include systems where light is transformed into electricity and vice versa. This lecture highlights the recent progress in the advances of numerous functional metal-organic and organic molecules with tunable photofunctional and electronic traits. Focus is placed on examining their potential as efficient emitters in light-emitting applications and semiconductors in photovoltaic cells (both organic and dye-sensitized solar cells) for solar power generation. The strategies based on structural modifications of the organic groups to tune the emission and photovoltaic properties of these materials will be presented and discussed.
References：
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(12) W.-Y. Wong, X.-Z. Wang, Z. He, K.-K. Chan, A. B. Djuri？i？, K.-Y. Cheung, C.-T. Yip, A. M.-C. Ng, Y. Y. Xi, C. S. K. Mak, W.-K. Chan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14372.
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(20) C.H. Cui, W.-Y. Wong and Y.F. Li, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4EE00446A, in press.
Introduction Wai-Yeung Wong received BSc (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Hong Kong. After a postdoctoral year with Prof. F. Albert Cotton in Texas A&M University in 1996, he worked for Profs. The Lord Jack Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He joined Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor in 1998, rising through the academic ranks to Chair Professor in Chemistry in 2011 at the age of 40. Professor Wong is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules with energy functions and photofunctional properties.
Professor Wong has a distinguished publication record of > 420 scientific articles to date and his current h-index is 56. He becomes the first Chinese scientist to be presented with the Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. He has won the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012. Recently, he received the State Natural Science Award (Second-class) of China in 2013. Professor Wong is currently the Regional Editor of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and serves on the editorial/international advisory boards of Polymer Chemistry, Chemistry: An Asian Journal, Dalton Transactions, Dyes and Pigments, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics, etc. At present, he is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society.
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