2018-05-08

Chemistry PhD student receives best academic poster award
PhD student Kwan Chak-shing of the Department of Chemistry received the
best poster award for his academic poster entitled “Higher-Generation
Type III-B Rotaxane Dendrimers with Controlling Particle Size in
Three-Dimensional Molecular Switching” at the ACS Publication Forum on
Nano-, Meso-, and Micro-structured Materials for Energy, Electronics and
Biotechnology.
The forum which was held at SUSTech Shenzhen in April, attracted around
300 participants from more than 70 universities around the world, as
well as 14 journals’ Editor-in-Chief from the American Chemical Society
Publications, to present their work.
Under the supervision of Dr Ken Leung Cham-fai, Associate Professor of
the Department of Chemistry, Chak-shing’s research mainly focuses on the
design and synthesis of novel mechanically interlocked molecules,
macromolecular machines, organocatalysts, and molecular sensors. In the
poster, the synthesis and characterisation of new macromolecular
machines and their potential application as an actively controlled
anti-cancer drug delivery system were presented. He successfully made a
major breakthrough on effective synthesis of novel higher-generation
macromolecular machines.
from HKBU eNews
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