About Maochun Hong’s work
Maochun Hong held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from June to November 1999. At the time, Hong was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
HONG Maochun received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Fuzhou University in 1978, Master's in Chemistry from Fujian Institute of Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Nagoya University in 1998. He was awarded the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1998, became the Director of the Fujian Institute of Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002, and was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2005. Hong's research interest is in inorganic chemistry research, and has prepared a variety of new atomic clusters by chemical self-assembly method to design and synthesize metal-organic nanocages, tubes and line macros, systematically synthesized metallic graphitic polymers, metal-organic polymers with nanopores and new rare earth and transition metal hybrid polymers, and studied their structure and their properties.