Education 1985-88 Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong (Supervisor: Prof. Chi-Ming Che) 1982-85 B.Sc. (First Class Hons) Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong Teaching Experience 2010- Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy, The University of Hong Kong 2000-05 Head of Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 1999- Chair Professor in Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 1997-99 Professor (Reader) in Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 1995-97 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 1990-95 Lecturer in Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong 1988-90 Lecturer in Chemistry, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Professional Experience 2010-18 Director and Project Coordinator, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials (supported by the University Grants Committee (UGC) Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme) 2017- Director and Chief Scientist, HKU-TCL Joint Laboratory for New Printable OLED Materials and Technology 2022-26 President, International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) 2021- Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) 2019-22 Board of Directors, The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences 2019-22 Chairman (Hong Kong Region), Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Alliance of Academicians and Experts on Innovation and Enterprise 2018-22 Chair, Committee for Women Chemists, Chinese Chemical Society 2017-22 Board of Directors, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) Limited 2016-18 President, Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association 2014-18 Inaugural Vice-Chair, Committee for Women Chemists, Chinese Chemical Society 2014-22 Member, Standing Committee, Chinese Chemical Society 2013-16 Vice-President, Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association 2012- Board of Trustees, Croucher Foundation 2012 Invited Visiting Professor, Universities of Switzerland “Troisième Cycle” Lecture Tour Program, Switzerland 2011 Invited Visiting Professor, Université Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France 2007 UMPC Visiting Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS (Université Paris VI), Paris, France 2005-06 Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Lecturer & Medalist 2003-05 Chair, Hong Kong International Chemical Sciences – A Chapter of the American Chemical Society 2002- Councilor, Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association 2002-04 Visiting Professor, Université de Rennes 1, France 2001-06 Deputy Director, Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and Synthesis (supported by the University Grants Committee (UGC) Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme) 2000-01 Croucher Senior Research Fellow

The major focus of our 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. 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. Through the systematic study of the electronic spectroscopy of the newly synthesized metal complex systems, a fundamental understanding of the spectroscopic and luminescence origin as well as the structure-property relationship of these complexes could be established. Apart from their fundamental spectroscopic, mechanistic, electrochemical, photoluminescence (PL), and photochemical studies, attempts will be made to explore their potential applications as functional molecular materials in the following areas: Optoelectronic Materials Spectrochemical and Luminescence Chemosensors and Biolabels Photochromic and Photoswitching Materials Supramolecular Assemblies and Organogels Molecular Electronics and Resistive Memories Nanoclusters and Nanomaterials

Benzo[b]Germole-Fused Diarylethenes as Photochromic Organogermanium Compounds Wu, N.M.W.; Fung, T.H.C.; Ng, M.; Yam, V.W.W., ACS Materials Letters, 2024, 6, 314-320. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.3c01383 Evolution of Polynuclear Gold(I) Sulfido Complexes from Clusters and Cages to Macrocycles Yan, L.L.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 609-616. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10381 Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Tetradentate Ligand-Containing Gold(III) Complexes with Preferential Molecular Orientation and Their Application in Organic Light-Emitting Devices Au-Yeung, C.C.; Leung, M.Y.; Lai, S.L.; Cheng, S.C.; Li, L.K.; Tang, M.C.; Kwok, W.K.; Ko, C.C.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Materials Horizons, 2024, 11, 151-162. DOI: 10.1039/D3MH00910F Assembly of Luminescent Chiral Gold(I)-Sulfido Clusters via Chiral Self-Sorting Yao, L.Y.; Qin, L.; Chen Z.Y.; Lam, J.; Yam, V.W.W., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 63, e202316200. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202316200 Encoding Hole–Particle Information in the Multi-Channel MolOrbImage for Machine-Learned Excited-State Energies of Large Photofunctional Materials Chen, Z.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 24098-24107. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07766 Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Dinuclear Alkynylplatinum(II) Complexes into Highly Ordered Crystalline Hexagonal Bipyramid Superstructures Wang, H.Z.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Chen, Z.; Chen, Z.Y.; Leung, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Chem, 2023, 9, 3573-3587. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.08.002 Tetradentate C^C^N^N Ligand-Containing Gold(III) Complexes with Orange to Deep-Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) and Their Application in Organic Light-Emitting Devices Kwok, W.K.; Li, L.K.; Lai, S.L.; Leung, M.Y.; Tang, W.K.; Cheng, S.C.; Tang, M.C.; Cheung, W.L.; Ko, C.C.; Chan,M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 9584-9595. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13820 [n]Cycloparaphenylene-Pillar[5]arene Bismacrocycles: Their Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Multiple Guest Recognition Properties Xu, Y.Z.; Steudel, F.; Leung, M.Y.; Xia, B.; von Delius, M.; Yam, V.W.W., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202302978. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302978 Photo- and Temperature-Induced Reversible Structural Transformation between Dodecanuclear and Pentadecanuclear Gold(I) Sulfido Complexes Yan, L.L.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 7454-7461. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00096 Luminescent Supramolecular Assemblies Au, V.K.M.; Chan,M.H.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III, Volume 8: “Inorganic Photochemistry”, Reedijk, J.; Poeppelmeier, K. Eds., Elsevier, , 2023, Chapter 14, pp. 574-627 (ISBN: 978-0-12-823144-9). DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-823144-9.00181-3 Machine-Learned Electronically Excited States with the MolOrbImage Generated from the Molecular Ground State Chen, Z.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 1955-1961. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00014 Using Synthesis to Steer Excited States and Their Properties and Functions Yam, V.W.W., Nature Synthesis, 2023, 2, 94-100. DOI: 10.1038/s44160-022-00202-5 Realization of Long Operational Lifetimes in Vacuum-Deposited Organic Light-Emitting Devices Based on para-Substituted Pyridine Carbazolylgold(III) C^C^N Complexes Wong, C.Y.; Lai, S.L.; Leung, M.Y.; Tang, M.C.; Li, L.K.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 2638-2646. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12674 Toward the Design and Construction of Supramolecular Functional Molecular Materials Based on Metal–Metal Interactions Chan, M.H.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 22805-22825. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08551 Supramolecular Assembly of Organoplatinum(II) Complexes for Subcellular Distribution and Cell Viability Monitoring with Differentiated Imaging Li, B.N.; Wang, Y.P.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Pan, M.; Li, Y.G.; Yam, V.W.W., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202210703. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202210703 Stimuli-Induced Reversible Transformation between Decanuclear and Pentanuclear Gold(I) Sulfido Complexes Yan, L.L.; Yao, L.Y.; Ng, M.; Tang, W.K.; Leung, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 19748-19757. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c05946 Carbazolylgold(III) Complexes with Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Switched On by Ligand Manipulation as High Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Devices with Small Efficiency Roll-Offs Wong, C.Y.; Tang, M.C.; Li, L.K.; Leung, M.Y.; Tang, W.K.; Lai, S.L.; Cheung, W.L.; Ng, M.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Science, 2022, 13, 10129-10140. DOI: 10.1039/D2SC03037C Solvent-Dependent Supramolecular Host–Guest Assemblies of Platinum(II) Tweezers and a Guest System: From Discrete Molecules to High-Ordered Oligomers Yeung, J.Y.W.; Kong, F.K.W.; Hau, F.K.W.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Ng, M.; Leung, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202207313. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202207313 Photochromic Dithienylethene-Containing Four-Coordinate Boron(III) Compounds with a Spirocyclic Scaffold. Fung, T.H.C.; Wong, C.L.; Tang, W.K.; Leung, M.Y.; Low, K.H.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 4231-4234. DOI: 10.1039/D2CC00107A Molecular Alignment of Alkynylplatinum(II) 2,6-Bis(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine Double Complex Salts and the Formation of Well-Ordered Nanostructures Directed by Pt···Pt and Donor-Acceptor Interactions. Wong, E.K.H.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Tang, W.K.; Leung, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 5424-5434. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12994 Elucidation of the Key Role of Pt···Pt Interactions in the Directional Self-Assembly of Platinum(II) Complexes. Zheng, X.Y.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Chan, A.K.W.; Cao, S.Q.; Ng, M.; Sheong, F.K.; Li, C.; Goonetilleke, E.C.; Lam, W.W.Y.; Lau, T.C.; Huang, X.H.; Yam, V.W.W., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2022, 119, e2116543119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116543119 Photocontrolled Multiple-State Photochromic Benzo[b]phosphole Thieno[3,2-b]phosphole-Containing Alkynylgold(I) Complex via Selective Light Irradiation. Wu, N.M.W.; Ng, M.; Yam, V.W.W., Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 33. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27711-9 Design and Synthesis of Yellow- to Red-Emitting Gold(III) Complexes Containing Isomeric Thienopyridine and Thienoquinoline Moieties and Their Applications in Operationally Stable Organic Light-Emitting Devices. Li, L.K.; Au-Yeung, C.C.; Tang, M.C.; Lai, S.L.; Cheung, W.L.; Ng, M.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Materials Horizons, 2022, 9, 281-293. DOI: 10.1039/D1MH00821H Photo-Modulated Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Ortho-Nitrobenzyl Ester-Based Alkynylplatinum(II) 2,6-Bis(N-alkylbenzimidazol-2'-yl)pyridine Complexes. Cheung, A.S.H.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Po, C.; Hong, E.Y.H.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Communications, 2021, 57, 13708-13711. DOI: 10.1039/D1CC05754E Phosphorescent Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Enantiomers with Circularly Polarized Luminescence Properties and Their Assembly Behaviors. Li, B.N.; Li, Y.G.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 21676-21684. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10943 Incorporation of Fluorene and Its Heterocyclic Spiro Derivatives to Realize High-Performance and Stable Sky-Blue-Emitting Arylgold(III) Complexes. Lo, L.H.Y.; Tang, M.C.; Lai, S.L.; Cheung, W.L.; Li, L.K.; Ng, M.; Chan, H.T.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 57673-57683. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c15891 Stimuli-Responsive and Structure-Adaptive Three-Dimensional Gold(I) Cluster Cages Constructed via “De-aurophilic” Interaction Strategy. Yan, L.L.; Yao, L.Y.; Ng, M.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 19008-19017. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07971 Highly Efficient Carbazolylgold(III) Dendrimers Based on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Their Application in Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Devices. Li, L.K.; Kwok, W.K.; Tang, M.C.; Cheung, W.L.; Lai, S.L.; Ng, M.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Science, 2021, 12, 14833-14844. DOI: 10.1039/D1SC03690D Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes with Donor-Acceptor-Containing Bidentate Ligands and Their Application Studies as Organic Resistive Memories. Poh, W.C.; Au-Yeung, H.L.; Chan, A.K.W.; Hong, E.Y.H.; Cheng, Y.H.; Leung, M.Y.; Lai, S.L.; Low, K.H.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 2021, 16, 3669-3676. DOI: 10.1002/asia.202100897 Synthesis of Benzo[b]phosphole‐Based Alkynylgold(I) Complexes with Resistive Memory Properties Modulated by Donor–Acceptor Chromophores. Cheng, Y.H.; Hong, E.Y.H.; Leung, M.Y.; Lai, S.L.; Yam, V.W.W., SmartMat, 2021, 2, 406-418. DOI: 10.1002/smm2.1065 Supramolecular Self- assembly of Amphiphilic Alkynylplatinum(II) 2,6-Bis(N-alkylbenzimidazol-2'-yl)pyridine Complexes. Cheung, A.S.H.; Leung, S.Y.L; Hau, F.K.W.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 2021, 37, 1079-1084. DOI: 10.1007/s40242-021-1309-x Synthesis of Luminescent Phosphine-Containing Rigid-Rod Dinuclear Alkynylgold(I) Complexes and Their X-Ray Structural, Photophysical, Self-Assembly and Electroluminescence Studies. Li, L.K.; Leung, S.Y.L.; Chu, A.; Yim, K.C.; Cheung, W.L.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Polyhedron, 2021, 207, 115356. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2021.115356 Realization of Distinct Mechano- and Piezochromic Behaviors via Alkoxy Chain Length-Modulated Phosphorescent Properties and Multidimensional Self-Assembly Structures of Dinuclear Platinum(II) Complexes. Ai, Y.Y.; Li, Y.G.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Xiao, G.J.; Zou, B.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 10659-10667. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04200 Molecular Design of Efficient Yellow- to Red-Emissive Alkynylgold(III) Complexes for the Realization of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) and Their Applications in Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Devices. Au-Yeung, C.C.; Li, L.K.; Tang, M.C.; Lai, S.L.; Cheung, W.L.; Ng, M.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Science, 2021, 12, 9516-9527. DOI: 10.1039/D1SC02256C Synthesis and Characterization of Photochromic Triethylene Glycol-Containing Spiropyrans and Their Assembly in Solution. Zhang, Y.W.; Ng, M.; Chan, M.H.Y.; Wu, N.M.W.; Wu, L.X.; Yam, V.W.W., Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021, 8, 3047-3058. DOI: 10.1039/D1QO00316J Molecular Design of Luminescent Gold(III) Emitters as Thermally Evaporable and Solution-Processable Organic Light-Emitting Device (OLED) Materials. Tang, M.C.; Chan, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Chemical Reviews, 2021, 121, 7249-7279. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00936 Aggregation and Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Low-Energy Red Luminescent Alkynylplatinum(II) Complexes for RNA Detection, Nucleolus Imaging, and RNA Synthesis Inhibitor Screening. Law, A.S.Y.; Lee, L.C.C.; Lo, K.K.W.; Yam, V.W.W., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 5396-5405. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c13327 Geometrical Manipulation of Complex Supramolecular Tessellations by Hierarchical Assembly of Amphiphilic Platinum(II) Complexes. Poon, J.K.L.; Chen, Z.; Leung, S.Y.L.; Leung, M.Y.; Yam, V.W.W., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2021, 118, e2022829118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2022829118