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...

22 scientific research units in Hong Kong were approved with 1 million RMB funding, of which 5 are The Partner State Key Laboratories of the University of Hong Kong, including the Partner State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry performing research on OLED-related luminescent materials. This research project is just a trial run, while the details on such as taxation would be discussed in a later time.