Time: 9:30 am on Aug. 30th, 2014
Location: 3rdfloor meeting room at the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis
Reporter: Prof. Wong, Wai-Yeung, Full Professor and chairman of Dept. of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Biography:
Professional Appointments:
？Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong
？Chairman, Hong Kong Chemical Society
？Guest professor of Jilin University, Wuhan University, South China University of Technology, East China University of Technology, andChangchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of CAS.
？Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Chartered Chemist;
？Member of American Chemical Society;
？Secretary of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Hong Kong Section);
He is the Editor and Editorial Board Member of several journals.His research is focused on Inorganic/Organometallic and Polymer Syntheses, Molecular Functional and Metal-organic Materials for Optoelectronic Devices, Functional Metallopolymers for Light-emitting Diodes, Solar Cells, Lithographic Patterning and Nanotechnology, Metal Cluster Chemistry and Nanomaterials, X-Ray Crystallography.He has gained following Awards:
？Second Class Prize, State Natural Science Award of P.R. China (rank first)
？Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation
？Distinguished Lectureship Award, The Chemical Society of Japan
？FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Federation of Asian Chemical Societies
？HKBU President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work
？First Class Prize, Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, P.R. China (rank first)
？RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
Over 400 research papers by Professor Wong have been published in various academic journals to date with more than 9500 citations (H index: 58) and he was listed among the world’s top 1% in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) list of most-cited chemists and materials scientists.
Abstract：
This talk highlights recent progress in the development of some multifunctional molecular materials which can exhibit interesting photofunctional properties and biological activities. Considerable focus is placed on the evaluation of their suitability as semiconductors for organic solar cells and organic light-emitting devices, precursors to metal alloy nanoparticles for magnetic data storage application, agents for anticancer treatment and molecular probes for chemosensing and cell imaging. The approaches based on structural modification of the organic chromophore to tune the functional properties of these molecular materials will be presented.
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