Prof. Chi-Ming Che, the Director of the SKL of Synthetic Chemistry, was interviewed by Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre. The content of this interview was published in Hong Kong Commercial Daily on 10 Jan 2022.

Distinguished scholar Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Dean of Science (Interim) and Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy, is a recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award – the 2022 Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry in recognition of her exceptional accomplishments in fundamental research in photochemistry. “I am humbled and honored to be a recipient of the 2022 ACS National Award, the 2022 Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry. I would like to thank my students and postdoctoral researchers, past and present, for their hard work,...

Congratulations to Professor CHE Chi Ming, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences and Head of Department of Chemistry, for his being awarded of the Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) in 2021 Honours list, in recognition of his remarkable achievements and contribution to a wide spectrum of research areas in the chemistry discipline. An award presentation ceremony will be held at Government House in November. Professor Che is a world leader in organic light-emitting diode materials. Given his meritorious achievements in anti-cancer medicines research, Professor Che is well respected and...

A research team led by Professor Chi-Ming CHE and Dr Jun YANG, from the Research Division for Chemistry and Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong, has resolved a long-standing fundamental problem in the field of metal-metal closed-shell interaction. This work has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Metal-Metal closed-shell interaction, also known as metallophilicity, has a huge impact in diverse fields of chemistry, such as supramolecular chemistry and organometallic chemistry. Early reports on...

Dr. Junzhi Liu receives Early Career Award in 2020/21 from Research Grants Council (RGC) for his project "Exploring solution-phase synthetic approaches to nonalternant ring topologies in graphene nanostructures". The Research Grants Council (RGC) organised a ceremony to celebrate the achievements of a group of outstanding researchers who received awards under the Early Career Scheme.

Professor Vivian Wing-wah Yam has been bestowed with the most prestigious The Porter Medal 2020. Professor Yam obtained both her BSc(Hons) and PhD from The University of Hong Kong, and is currently the Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong. She is an elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of TWAS and Founding Member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. She was Laureate of the 2011...

Professor Che Chi Ming, Chair Professor and Zhou Guangzhao Professorship in Natural Sciences at the Department of Chemistry of Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has received the First Class Award of 2019 Shenzhen Science and Technology Prize from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (SZSTIC). Professor Che specialises in synthesis of inorganic and organic chemistry, inorganic and metal organic photochemistry, photocatalysis and bioinorganic medicine, and has significant achievements in the studies of high-valent metal ligand multiple bond complex,...

The outputs of three collaborative laboratories that involve Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong, have been rated as “distinguished” or “good” in the Fifth Assessment of the Hong Kong-Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Joint Laboratories. There are 22 projects under assessment in total, and HKU Science made a trick in achieving eminence in the following projects: Name of Joint Lab Collaborators Principal Investigator Distinguished Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis The University of Hong...