PolyU’s Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology Dr Franco Leung receives the Croucher Innovation Award 2021

Media furthered that Dr Franco King-chi Leung, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU, has received the Croucher Innovation Award 2021 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in supramolecular and material science research. He is the first scholar at PolyU to be bestowed this award.

Dr Leung is pleased to receive the award and considers it a motivation to continue his research. Each award carries a value of up to HK$5 million over five years for the research expenses of the award winner.

Dr Leung attained both Bachelor and Master degrees from PolyU in 2011 and 2013 respectively, and joined Professor Ben L. Feringa’s group (2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, as a postdoc fellow in 2017.

In the last two years, Dr Leung and his team’s research has been designed and orientated to exploit the full intrinsic potential of synthetic organic chemistry to build new supramolecular structures, functions and hierarchical systems. The major goal is to design novel supramolecular functional systems, across length-scale, into stimuli-responsive functional soft materials.

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