Eligible Field -
New Materials and New Energy
To meet the challenges of global energy demand and the need for new advanced materials for applications in the fields of energy, health and environment, this subcommittee will embrace nominations within the broad area of New Materials and New Energy, which includes but is not limited to the discovery of new organic/ organometallic molecular materials, inorganic/ solid-state materials, polymers/ macromolecules, nanomaterials, two-dimensional materials, quantum materials, colloids, hybrid/ composite materials, soft/ supramolecular materials, bio-/ bioinspired materials etc. with novel functional properties. Original innovative contributions that demonstrate novel ideas/ concepts/ conceptual advances on forefront, fundamental and impactful translational research at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology/ medicine, engineering, and materials science to achieve new functional materials and new sources of energy are welcome. These can include but are not limited to new synthetic strategies and designs, synthesis/ preparation methods, new phenomena/ mechanisms/ properties, new theories and methods, new energy conversion and storage mechanisms, and new devices to achieve efficient and clean utilization of energy.
Prof. Vivian Wing-Wah Yam
- Chair Professor of Chemistry, HKU
- Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences
- Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
- Fellow of TWAS
- Founding Member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
Prof. Zhenan Bao
- Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
- Founder and Director of Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative
- Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member, National Academy of Inventors
Prof. Peidong Yang
- S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Member, U.S. Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Yi Cui
- Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
- Director of Precourt Institute for Energy
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.
- FAAAS, FRSC, FMRS, FECS
Prof. Takuzo Aida
- Deputy Director for the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
- Distinguished Professor, The University of Tokyo
- Foreign Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Foreign Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering
