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Shedding Light on Materials Science Research

By Prof Ben Zhong Tang

Department of Chemistry

Date:	12 Feb 2014

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Remarks:	Seats are limited and first-come-first-served. Registration starts one month before the talk.

Enquires:	2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk

Light is one of the seven most important things created by God. It turns out that light in the form of fluorescent molecules has vital but hidden uses for the modern world. They make the invisible visible—including the detection of explosives in security screening, environmental monitoring, biological sensing and the detection and diagnosis in the spread of cancer cells. With high sensitivity, superb specificity and excellent stability, a new class of fluorogenic materials developed at HKUST with “aggregation-induced emission” characteristics have attracted worldwide attention from hospitals and biotech companies. How we commercialize these high-value-added materials is a matter of great urgency and importance.

Prof Ben Zhong Tang
Department of Chemistry

Prof Tang is Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science at HKUST. Educated at the South China University of Technology with a Ph.D. from Kyoto University, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto. With more than 30 patents to his name, his research interests include polymer chemistry, materials science and biomedical engineering. The Institute for Scientific Information listed him as the “Most-Cited Scientist” with 500 peer-reviewed papers cited 15,000 times. He is also the “Most-Invited Speaker” at more than 200 scientific conferences. Best of all, he is a homegrown HKUST world-class, multiple award-winning scientific rock star honored as Academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.