Research at FAST

68 Prof. WONGWai Yeung Raymond Clarea Au Professor in Energy Chair Professor of Chemical Technology Dean of Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles Research Overview The research of Prof. Wong focuses on the design and synthesis of molecular functional materials and metallopolymers (1D and 2D) with photofunctional properties and energy functions. His work ranges from innovative basic research to application studies. Currently, his team aims at developing sustainable energy sources and improving the technologies for energy conversions in order to meet the world’s future energy demand while working towards a cleaner environment. The materials developed have wide applications as sensors and nonlinear optical materials, as converters for light/electricity signals in organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes, as energy storage materials, and as patternable precursors to magnetic metal alloy nanoparticles for magnetic data storage. Prof. Wong has produced over 700 research papers in leading scientific journals including Nature Materials and Nature Communications . He is featured among the world’s top 1% on the ISI list of most-cited chemists and materials scientists. He was named on the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2014–2020 published by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. At present, he is Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society and plays leadership roles by taking on the editorships of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances and Topics in Current Chemistry . Prof. Wong was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2005 and a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences in 2018. He has earned a number of international and national awards. He became the first Chinese scientist to be presented with the RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award in 2010, and won the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the Natural Science Award (First Class) of the Ministry of Education, the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, the JPA Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) of the State Council and the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship of the Ministry of Education, RGC Senior Research Fellowship, among others. Qualification BSc (HKU) PhD (HKU) Postdoc (Texas A&M U; U of Cambridge) ORCID ID 0000-0002-9949-7525 Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology