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Prof. Raymond Wai-yeung Wong
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Prof. Wong Wai-yeung, Raymond

Dean(FS), ADoRISE & Chair Professor of Chemical Technology, Clarea Au Professor in Energy

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Research Overview

My research focuses on the design and synthesis of molecular functional materials and metallopolymers (1D and 2D) with photofunctional properties and energy functions. Currently, my team aims at developing sustainable energy sources and improving the technologies for energy conversions in order to meet the world’s future energy demand.

Research Interests

  • Inorganic and Organometallic Syntheses
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Electronics
  • Nanomaterials
  • Energy Materials
  • Chemo- and Biosensing

Professional Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Chartered Chemist
  • Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • Founding Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
  • Changjiang Chair Professorship of the Ministry of Education, P.R. China 

Academic and Professional Experience

  • Chairman, Hong Kong Chemical Society
  • Associate Editor, Energy Advances (RSC) (2023 - Present)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC) (2013 - 2022)
  • Associate Editor, Materials Advances (RSC) (2020 - 2022)
  • Editor, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (Elsevier) (2013 - 2025)
  • Editor, Topics in Current Chemistry (Springer) (2015 - Present)
  • International Advisory Board Member, iScience (Cell Press)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Dalton Transactions (RSC)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (RSC)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Wiley-VCH)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Wiley-VCH)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Chemistry: An Asian Journal (Wiley-VCH)
  • International Advisory Board Member, Advanced Optical Materials (Wiley-VCH) (2016 - 2020)
  • International Advisory Board Member, The Chemical Record (Wiley-VCH)
  • Advisory Board Member, Innovation Materials (Cell Press)
  • Advisory Board Member, FlexMat (Wiley)
  • Advisory Board Member, Chemical Research in Chinese Universities (Springer)
  • Advisory Board Member, EcoMat (Wiley)
  • Advisory Board Member, Science China: Chemistry (Science China Press)
  • Editorial Board Member, EnergyChem (Elsevier)
  • Editorial Board Member, Acta Chimica Sinica (Chinese Chemical Society)
  • Editorial Board Member, Dyes and Pigments (Elsevier) (2013 - 2020)
  • Editorial Board Member, Comments on Inorganic Chemistry (Taylor & Francis)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials (Springer)
  • Editorial Board Member, Current Organic Chemistry (Bentham Science)
  • Editorial Board Member, Polymer Bulletin (Springer)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Cluster Science (Springer)

Achievements

    • Second-Class Award, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) (2022)
    • RGC Senior Research Fellow Award (2020)
    • Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist (2014)
    • Second Class Prize, State Natural Science Award, P.R. China (2013)
    • Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation (2012)
    • Distinguished Lectureship Award, The Chemical Society of Japan (2012)
    • FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (2011)
    • First Class Prize, Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, P.R. China (2010)
    • RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (2010)
    • Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award, The Croucher Foundation (2009)
  1. Wang, Y.; Jiang, X.; Liang, W.; Tawiah, B.; Wang, Y.; Jia, H.; Wong, W.-Y. Directionally Modulated Zinc Deposition by a Robust Zincophilic Cu-Phthalocyanine Protective Layer in Dendrite-Free Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials 2025, 37, 2503086. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202503086
  2. Qin, Y.; Wang, Y.; Lu, J.; Xu, L.; Wong, W.-Y. A Highly Conjugated Nickel(II)-Acetylide Framework for Efficient Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202418269. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202418269
  3. Qin, Y.; Lu, J.; Zhang, C.; Xu, L.; Wong, W.-Y. Auxiliary Ligand-Coordinated Nanoconfined Hydrophobic Microenvironments in Nickel(II)–Acetylide Framework for Enhanced CO2 Photoreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202505883. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505883
  4. She, P.; Qin, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Zheng, X.; Li, F.; Liu, S.; Ma, Y.; Zhao, Q.; Wong, W.-Y. Photoactivated Circularly Polarized Luminescent Organic Radicals in Doped Amorphous Polymer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63, e202403660. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202403660
  5. Luo, D.; Zhang, L.; Zeng, J.; Zhang, H.; Li, L.; Dai, T.; Xu, B.; Zhou, E.; Kyaw, A. K. K.; Chen, Y.; Wong, W.-Y. Upper Layer-Modulated Pseudo Planar Heterojunction with Metal Complex Acceptor for Efficient and Stable Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Materials 2024, n/a, 2410880. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202410880
  6. Jin, J.; Duan, C.; Jiang, H.; Tao, P.; Xu, H.; Wong, W.-Y. Integrating Asymmetric O−B−N Unit in Multi-Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters towards High-Performance Deep-Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, 62, e202218947. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202218947
  7. Fang, M.; Xu, L.; Zhang, H.; Zhu, Y.; Wong, W.-Y. Metalloporphyrin-Linked Mercurated Graphynes for Ultrastable CO2 Electroreduction to CO with Nearly 100% Selectivity at a Current Density of 1.2 A cm–2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 15143–15154. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c05059
  8. Xu, L.; Sun, J.; Tang, T.; Zhang, H.; Sun, M.; Zhang, J.; Li, J.; Huang, B.; Wang, Z.; Xie, Z.; Wong, W.-Y. Metallated Graphynes as a New Class of Photofunctional 2D Organometallic Nanosheets. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021, 60, 11326–11334. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202014835
  9. Li, J.; Chen, K.; Wei, J.; Ma, Y.; Zhou, R.; Liu, S.; Zhao, Q.; Wong, W.-Y. Reversible On–Off Switching of Excitation-Wavelength-Dependent Emission of a Phosphorescent Soft Salt Based on Platinum(II) Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143, 18317–18324. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09272
  10. Meng, Z.; Li, G.; Yiu, S.-C.; Zhu, N.; Yu, Z.-Q.; Leung, C.-W.; Manners, I.; Wong, W.-Y. Nanoimprint Lithography-Directed Self-Assembly of Bimetallic Iron–M (M=Palladium, Platinum) Complexes for Magnetic Patterning. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, 11521–11526. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202002685

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