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Fields of interest:

• Inorganic and organometallic syntheses,
• Molecular functional and metal-organic materials for optoelectronic devices,
• Functional metallopolymers for nonlinear optics, organic light-emitting
• diodes, solar cells, nanotechnology,
• Metal cluster chemistry and nanomaterials,
• X-ray crystallography
  
  
  

Recent publications:

H.-B. Wu, G.-J. Zhou, J.-H. Zou, C.-L. Ho, W.-Y. Wong, W. Yang, J.-B. Peng and Y. Cao:
“Efficient Polymer White-Light-Emitting Devices for Solid-State Lighting,
Adv. Mater., 21, 4181-4184 (2009).

W.-Y. Wong and C.-L. Ho:
Heavy Metal Electrophosphors Derived from Multi-component Chromophores (invited review),
Coord. Chem. Rev., 253, 1709-1758 (2009).

G.-J. Zhou, W.-Y. Wong, S.-Y. Poon, C. Ye and Z.-Y. Lin:
Symmetric versus Unsymmetric Platinum(II) Bis(aryleneethynylene)s with Distinct Electronic Structures for Optical Power Limiting/Optical Transparency Trade-off Optimization,
Adv. Funct. Mater., 19, 531-544 (2009).

K. Liu, C.-L. Ho, S. Aouba, Y.-Q. Zhao, Z.-H. Lu, S. Petrov, N. Coombs, P. Dube, H. E.Ruda, W.-Y. Wong and I. Manners:
Synthesis and Lithographic Patterning of FePt Nanoparticles using a Bimetallic Metallopolyyne Precursor,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 1255-1259 (2008).

C.-L. Ho, W.-Y. Wong, Q. Wang, D.-G. Ma, L.-X. Wang and Z. Lin:
A Multifunctional Iridium-Carbazolyl Orange Phosphor for High-Performance Two-Element WOLED Exploiting Exciton-Managed Fluorescence/Phosphorescence,
Adv. Funct. Mater., 18, 928-937 (2008).

W.-Y. Wong, X.-Z. Wang, Z. He, A. B. Djurišić, C.-T. Yip, K.-Y. Cheung, H. Wang, C. S. K. Mak and W.-K. Chan:
Metallated Conjugated Polymers as a New Avenue Towards High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells,
Nature Mater., 6, 521-527 (2007).

W.-Y. Wong, X.-Z. Wang, Z. He, K.-K. Chan, A. B. Djurišić, K.-Y. Cheung, C.-T. Yip, A. M.-C. Ng, Y. Y. Xi, C. S. K. Mak & W.-K. Chan:
Tuning the Absorption, Charge Transport Properties and Solar Cell Efficiency with Number of Thienyl Rings in Platinum-containing Poly(aryleneethynylene)s,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 14372-14380 (2007).

G.-J. Zhou, W.-Y. Wong, B. Yao, Z.-Y. Xie and L.-X. Wang:
Triphenylamine-Dendronized Pure Red Iridium Phosphors with Superior OLED Efficiency/Color Purity Trade-offs,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 1149-1151 (2007).

W.-Y. Wong, C.-L. Ho, Z.-Q. Gao, B.-X. Mi, C.-H. Chen, K.-W. Cheah and Z. Lin:
Multifunctional Iridium Complexes Based on Carbazole Modules as Highly Efficient Electrophosphors,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 7800-7803 (2006).

G.-J. Zhou, W.-Y. Wong, Z. Lin and C. Ye:
White Metallopolyynes for Optical Limiting/Transparency Trade-off Optimization,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 6189-6193 (2006).