OVERVIEW

Being the first of its kinds in Hong Kong, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is established to develop internationally competitive and leading-edge research and provide a professional education curriculum that equips graduates to contribute to Hong Kong, the Greater China, and the whole world in materials science and engineering and related sectors. The Department serves as a collaboration platform for developing cross-disciplinary academic programmes and interdisciplinary research projects. More about us...

News & Recent Achievements

23.06.2021 Prof. Andrey Rogach elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea

23.04.2021 Prof. Chunyi Zhi’s work on the development of a highly stable organic electrode for aqueous electrolyte batteries was published in Nature Communications

09.04.2021 Dr. Dangyuan Lei selected as one of 35 awardees of the Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) Awards in Two-dimensional Materials

17.03.2021 MSE faculties listed among official authors of Top 50 Nature Communications Articles in 2020

10.03.2021 Research team led by Prof. Andrey Rogach developed a 2D perovskite material for production of highly efficient LEDs

05.03.2021 CityU Ranked 25th in QS World University Rankings by Subject: Materials Sciences

22.02.2021 21 MSE faculty members listed among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists

04.02.2021 Prof. Alex Jen and Prof. Angus Yip featured in TVB’s special TV show on future clean energy

27.12.2020 Prof. Andrey Rogach featured in Croucher Foundation News – Shedding Light on Novel Nanomaterials

14.12.2020 Dr. Dangyuan Lei and research collaborators developed eco-friendly advanced coating materials for cooling in large-scale building applications

20.11.2020 Eight MSE faculty members have been named the Highly Cited Researchers 2020

19.11.2020 Prof. Johnny Ho and his collaborators have published an article titled ‘Artificial visual systems enabled by quasi–two-dimensional electron gases in oxide superlattice nanowires’ on Science Advances

16.11.2020 Research team led by Prof. Chain-Tsuan Liu discovered new approach for making high-strength and ductile alloys

04.11.2020 Dr Tao Yang, featured in a Nature Spotlight article, shares his view as a young materials scientist in China’s Greater Bay Area

16.10.2020 Miss Wen Di CHAN (MSE), won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (Hong Kong Heat) 2020

12.10.2020 Prof. Alex Jen and his research team’s breakthrough in making solar power more efficient and environmentally friendly

24.09.2020 The 1st Greater Bay Area Materials Research Union Conference

29.04.2020 Prof. Jr-Hau He and his team develop novel device and new photoelectrochemical system for renewable energy

24.04.2020 SARS-CoV-2 Detection

28.03.2020 Prof. David Srolovitz, Head of MSE, delivered his talk as part of the President’s Lecture Series at CityU and online in real-time