Professor Guangyu Zhu, Professor from the Department of Chemistry, and Professor Zonglong Zhu, Associate Professor from the same department, have been awarded the Collaborative Research Project Grants under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) in 2023/24.

The Research Grants Council (RGC) granted HK$7,052,916 to Professor Zonglong Zhu’s project, entitled “Fundamental Understanding of Stability for Halide Perovskite Electronics: from Materials Design to Device Engineering”. Professor Guangyu Zhu’s project entitled “Controllable Activation of Anticancer Prodrugs in Vivo” received HK$6,090,000 CRF grant from RGC.

Moreover, Professor Kenneth Leung, Chair Professor from the Department of Chemistry and also the Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Education) of the College of Science, were awarded RGC’s Young Collaborative Research Grant together with his Co-PI, Professor Zhiyuan Zeng from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Their project titled “Electrochemical Lithium Intercalation & Exfoliation for Mass Production of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides” obtained HK$4,832,040 grants from RGC in 2023/24.

The Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) supports multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary projects in order to encourage more research groups to engage in creative and high-quality cross-disciplinary/cross-institutional projects.

The success in obtaining several CRF grants demonstrated the remarkable research capabilities of our faculty members. Congratulations to all awardees!