Chemistry of Transition Metals Award 2010 Winner

For the synthesis of metallic conjugated polymers and the development of their application in optical devices including solar cells and optical limiters.

About the Winner

Distinguished for his innovative synthesis of metallic conjugated polymers and materials and the development of their application in optical devices including solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes and optical limiters.

Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond) received BSc (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Hong Kong with the PhD work in the area of transition metal carbonyl cluster chemistry under the tutelage of Prof. Wing-Tak Wong. 
After a postdoctoral year with the late Prof. F. Albert Cotton in Texas A&M University in 1996, he was awarded a Croucher Research Fellowship to work for Profs. The Lord Lewis and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to full Professor there in 2007. 

Raymond 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.

These metallated materials have ample applications as sensors or eye protectors against intense laser beams, as converters for light/electricity signals and as patternable precursors to magnetic metal nanoparticles. 
He has a distinguished publication record of over 300 primary papers and 12 review articles and is serving on the international advisory/editorial boards of numerous scientific journals such as Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, and Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. He is listed among the world's top 1% in the ISI list of most cited chemists.

Previous awards include the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2009 and the Asian Core Program Lectureships for 2009-10.