Professor Chi-Ming Che, at present the Dr. Hui Wai Haan Chair of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong, became an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China) at his early age of 38 and is the first Hong Kong citizen to receive this honor. The innovation of Chi-Ming Che’s research is based on Organic, Inorganic Chemistry and Photochemistry, and he has made important contributions to integrating Inorganic Chemistry with Materials Science, methodology, Catalysis, Biomedical Science and traditional Chinese medicine. Professor Che has been granted, accumulatively, HKD 130 million for his outstanding research activity. He published more than 700 research papers. He is listed as one of the Highly Cited Researchers worldwide by ISI HighlyCited.com (Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge, Thomson-ISI). According to the Web of Science (Thomson-ISI), Prof. Che has an H-index of 76. Prof. Che is currently International Advisory Board Member of high impact journals including Chemistry - A European Journal, Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Trends in Inorganic Chemistry and etc.

Prof. Che has received the following prizes and awards in recognition of his achievements. In 1995, he received the Sixth National Natural Science Award of China for his contributions in the area of Oxidation Chemistry of High-Valent Ruthenium-Oxo Complexes. At the age of 38, he became an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and was the youngest academician in the history of CAS at that time. In 2003, he received the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) Foundation Lectureship Award and in 2004 Visiting Scientist Award of National Research Council of Italy. He is the recipient of the First Class National Natural Science Award of China (2006) and is the first and only Hong Kong scientist and one of the few Chinese chemists on whom this honor has been bestowed by People’s Republic of China. He also received a number of awards, including TWAS Prize in Chemistry from the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2006); Seaborg Lectureship at the University of California at Berkeley (2007); Edward Clark Lee Lectureship at University of Chicago (2008); RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Centenary Prize (2013); Foreign Associate of the USA National Academy of Sciences (2013).

His excellent researches on materials development have been recognized by not only the academics but also the industry, as proven by the sponsorship in terms of HKD 4 million cash and 5 million instruments.

Organic electronics material development is one of the Prof. Che’s most successful research areas. Since 1998, Prof. Che published more than 50 papers in this field; developed more than 8 classes of phosphorescent emitting materials for OLED application. Most of these materials show good device performance (up to 52 cd/A) and long device lifetime (up to more than 77,000 hours).

We are now focusing on printing technology for PLED and going to develop new and patentable materials for printable electronics, demonstrate PLED prototype devices from printable materials and transfer the know-hows to industry.