Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, visited Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) at the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry on March 27th, 2014. While staying at FJIRSM, Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong delivered a seminar report entitled “Metallated and Metal-free Molecular Dyes for Light/Electrical Energy Conversion”, and carried out detailed discussion with the research staff at FJIRSM.

Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong received BSc (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Hong Kong with the PhD work under the tutelage of Prof. Wing-Tak Wong. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor in 1998, rising through the academic ranks to Chair Professor in Chemistry in early 2011. Prof. Wong is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules with energy functions and photofunctional properties. He has made profound contributions in the field of organometallic optoelectronics and photovoltaics. His research focuses on synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry and structural chemistry, with special emphasis on developing novel molecular functional materials and polymers containing late transition metal elements, setting a common goal especially towards advancing energy-related technologies.

Prof. Wai-Yeung Wong has a distinguished publication record of over 370 scientific articles to date and his current h-index is 46. 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 is also the recipient of the First Class Prize in Natural Science Award from Ministry of Education of China in 2010 and the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, and has won the Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan in 2012. Recently, he was also awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Science and Technology in 2012. Prof. Wong currently serves on the editorial/international advisory boards of numerous international scientific journals including Dalton Transactions, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics, Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Polymers & Materials, and Current Organic Chemistry, etc. At present, he is also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Secretary of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Hong Kong Section).