08/2024 |
Reunite with Prof. Yung-Fu Chang and co-supervised PhD students. Time flies!
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06/2024 |
Gathering at Chinese Chemistry Society Annual Meeting.
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02/2024 |
Our team members (Prof. Yao, Dr. Xu, Liqing and Xuejiao) participated in the International Symposium of Superwettability+ at Singapore. Liqing won the best poster award, congratulations!
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01/2024 |
BBQ gathering at Sai Kung.
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09/2023 |
Congratuations to Chunyan and Dong for their successful PhD defence! Chunyan will report duty at Nantong University, and Dong will stay in our lab as a postdoc. Best wishes! |
09/2023 |
Xiaoya joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
08/2023 |
Congratuations to Xuejiao and Xin on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships! |
08/2023 |
Hok Sze joined our group as Research Assistant, Welcome! |
05/2023 |
Our group members received multiple awards in BMS Research Gala. Congratulations.
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01/2023 |
Zhaoling joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
11/2022 |
Xiubin joined our group as Visiting Fellow, Welcome! |
09/2022 |
Yannan, Mengyi, Zhixuan and Zhicheng joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
09/2022 |
Congratuations to Chunyan, Liqing and Xuejiao on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships! Big congrats to Dong for the awarding of the pretigious CYCSGS Scholarship! |
06/2022 |
Congratuations to Changshun for his successful PhD defence! Changshun will join Huawei at Shenzhen. Best wishes! |
03/2022 |
Our technology won the Silver Medal at International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2022. |
10/2021 |
Prof. Yao was listed in the Top 2% most highly cited scientists released by Stanford University. |
09/2021 |
Yaxiu, a co-supervised student joined our lab for PhD study. Welcome! |
08/2021 |
Lunch gathering of the whole group, and farewell to Xin, Bo and Wilson. Wilson will join NAMI at HKSTP.
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08/2021 |
Congratuations to Xin and Bo for their successful PhD defence! Xin will join the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics at Sichuan. Bo will join the Midea Group at Zhuhai. Best wishes! |
06/2021 |
Xin joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
05/2021 |
Our technology won the Gold Medal at International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2021. Dr. Yao was invited to attend a reception hosted by Chief Executive of Hong Kong in HKSTP. Congratulations!
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02/2021 |
Congratuations to Zhaoyue on her successful PhD defence! Zhaoyue will join the Centre of PanorOmic Sciences, University of Hong Kong. Best wishes! |
02/2021 |
Prof. Yao received Outstanding Research Award from the University, Congratulations! |
02/2021 |
Xuejiao joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
12/2020 |
Prof. Yao received Outstanding Supervisor Award from the University, Congratulations! |
09/2020 |
Yuanyuan and Yuhan joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
08/2020 |
Congratuations to Bo, Xin, Changshun and Chunyan on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships! |
08/2020 |
Congratuations to Jianqiang on his successful PhD defence! Jianqiang will join the China University of Petroleum (East China) as a lecturer. Best wishes! |
08/2020 |
Liqing joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
04/2020 |
Wenqing's paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces was highlighed on C&EN! |
12/2019 |
Prof. Yao received Outstanding Supervisor Award from the University, Congratulations! |
12/2019 |
Yangsheng joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
11/2019 |
Our work has won the Gold Award of Asia International Innovative Invention Award organized by the Hong Kong Federation of Innovative Technologies and Manufacturing Industries (FITMI) |
10/2019 |
Dong joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
10/2019 |
Ling joined our group as Postdoc, Welcome! |
09/2019 |
Congratuations to Jianqiang, Gang and Xin on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships! |
08/2019 |
Shuang joined our group as Postdoc, Welcome! |
08/2019 |
Congratuations to Wenqing on his successful PhD defence! Wenqing will join the BYD Company (比亚迪) for R&D at Shenzhen. Best wishes! |
07/2018 |
Rui joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
05/2019 |
Chunyan joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
03/2019 |
Wilson joined our group as Postdoc, Welcome! |
03/2019 |
Congratuations to Akos and Peng on their successful PhD defence! Both of them will join in the Hong Kong local biotech industry. Best wishes! |
12/2018 |
CityU Congregation 2018, Cangratulations Dr. Liu!
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11/2018 |
Our team won Silver Prize in the Entrepreneurship Competition at the ‘National Challenge Cup’
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10/2018 |
Xin joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
09/2018 |
Peng has been nominated by CityU and successfully selected to attend the the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) happening in Singapore (NTU) on 20-25 January 2019. Congratulations! |
09/2017 |
Congratuations to Wenqing, Jianqiang and Gang on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships! |
08/2018 |
Congratuations to Meijin and Jieke on their successful PhD defence! Meijin will stay to work as a postdoc, and Jieke will pursue postdoc training at the University of Twente. Best wishes to both of them! |
06/2018 |
Changshun joined our group for PhD study, Welcome. Changshun will be involved in the joint program with Cornell University. |
05/2018 |
Our team won Top Prize under the Innovation category at the ‘Challenge Cup’ National Competition Hong Kong Regional Final – Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2018. The winning project was also awarded the first-class award of the ‘Life Science’ group. Big Congratulations to Gang Lu, Zhaoyue Wang, Peng Liu and Wenqing He.
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05/2018 |
Bo joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
11/2017 |
The Yao group members attended MRS 2017 Fall Meeting at Boston. Jieke delivered oral presentation in Symposium BM 10, Peng and Wenqing presented posters. Peng's poster was nominated for best poster award.
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09/2017 |
Jianqiang joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
08/2017 |
Congratuations to Peng, Wenqing, Akos and Zhaoyue on the awarding of Institutional Postgraduate Scholarships!
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07/2017 |
Our recent paper on Advanced Healthcare Materials was selected as Inside Front Cover in publication!
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06/2017 |
Yao group members visited Beihang University via Mainland 10000 exchange program! |
03/2017 |
Congratuations to Jieke for awarding Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Scholarship for School of Veterinary Medicine 2016/2017! |
02/2017 |
Our recent paper on Advanced Healthcare Materials was highlighed on Advanced Science News! |
01/2017 |
Gang joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
04/2016 |
Wenqing joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
02/2016 |
Hengdi joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
09/2015 |
Meijin joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
08/2015 |
Jieke Jiang joined our group for PhD study, Welcome. Jieke will be involved in the joint program with Cornell University. |
08/2015 |
Peng Liu joined our group for PhD study, Welcome! |
08/2015 |
The renovation of our Lab was just finished! |
07/2015 |
Yingxuan Li joined our group as RA, Welcome! |
06/2015 |
Dr. Yao delivered a presentation at the joint research meeting with the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy of Sichuan University. |
11/2014 |
Dr. Yao and faculty members of the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) visited the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute to discuss potential collaboration. |