About Xiaozeng You’s work
Xiaozeng You held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from March to May 1995. At the time, You was based at Nanjing University.
Biography
You Xiaozeng graduated from Wuhan University; after graduating from Nanjing University in 1957 for his master's degree, he stayed on to teach. In 1984, he became the Director of the Institute of Coordination Chemistry of Nanjing University. In 1986, he first proposed the research on the new discipline branch of "optoelectronic functional complexes" in China. In 1991, he was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. You has devoted his life to the basic research of inorganic Chemistry, especially the synthesis, structure, bonding, properties and photoelectric functional molecular materials of coordination compounds. He comprehensively uses modern physical methods and theories to elucidate microstructure and macroscopic properties.