Lecture: Design and Assembly Strategies Towards Photofunctional Metal-Based Molecular Materials

Lecturer: Prof. V.W.W. Yam from Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World;

Time: 10:00AM

Date: August 6, 2011

Place: Academic Hall, 1st Floor, Lihua Building

Organizer: Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources, CAS

Brief Introduction of the lecturer:

B.Sc., Ph.D. H.K.;

Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

Fellow of TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World;

CSci; C.Chem.; F.R.S.C.; Chair of Chemistry;

Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy

The major focus of Prof. Yam’s research is on the molecular design and synthesis of novel inorganic/organometallic metal complexes that may find potential applications as functional metal-based molecular materials in the areas of optoelectronic materials, spectrochemical and luminescence chemosensors and biolabels, photochromic and photoswitching materials, supramolecular assemblies and organogels, molecular electronics, nanoclusters and nanomaterials. Of particular interest are luminescent polynuclear metal complexes that show weak metal-metal interactions and luminescent metal complex and supramolecular systems of charge-transfer excited states, with d6, d8 or d10 metal centres, in particular those containing alkynyl, chalcogenido, chalcogenolato, pnictogenido and polypyridyl ligands.

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