Index - X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor Dean, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries, AIMBE College of Fellow

Name

TANG, Ben Zhong

Title

X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor

Dean, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries, AIMBE College of Fellow

Education Background

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada

PhD, Kyoto University, Japan

Bachelor, South China University of Technology, China

Research

Materials science, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical theranostics

Personal Website

https://www.x-mol.com/groups/tang-benzhong-cuhksz

tangbenz@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Phone

Teaching Area

Chemistry, Materials, New Energy Science and Engineering

Other

Biography

Prof. Tang received his BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto in 1989–1994. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 1994 and was promoted to Chair Professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in 2020. In 2021, he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering, with a concurrent appointment of X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor.

Prof. Tang has published >2,000 scientific papers, which have been cited >243,000 times. His h-index is 216. He has delivered >500 invited talks at international conferences and has been granted >100 patents. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Aggregate published by Wiley.

Prof. Tang is mainly engaged in the study of materials science, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical theranostics. He coined the concept of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), and his labs are spearheading the AIE research in the world.

Prof. Tang has received a series of awards, scholarships and honors, e.g., Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award in 2007, Honorary Citizen of Guangzhou City in 2015, National Natural Science Award (1st Class) in 2017, Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation) in 2017, Nano Today Award in 2021, Biomaterials Global Impact Award in 2023, CCS–SINOPEC Award (the Chinese Chemical Society) in 2024, and Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025.

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Awards and honors

Publications

Selected Examples of Invited Review Articles (in recent five years)

1. "A Holistic Perspective on Living Aggregate" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 5030.
2. "Expanding Our Horizons: AIE Materials in Bacterial Research" Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 10.1002/adma.202407707.
3. "X-yne Click Polymerization" Aggregate 2023, 4, 10.1002/agt2.350.
4. "Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE), Life and Health" ACS Nano 2023, 17, 14347.
5. "Molecular Motion and Nonradiative Decay: towards Efficient Photothermal and Photoacoustic Systems" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202204604.
6. "Aggregate Materials beyond AIEgens" Acc. Mater. Res. 2021, 2, 1251.
7. "Through-Space Interactions in Clusteroluminescence" JACS Au. 2021, 1, 1805.
8. "Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from Organic Aggregate" Nature Rev. Mater. 2020, 5, 869.
9. "Aggregation-Induced Emission: New Vistas at Aggregate Level" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 9888.
10. "Aggregate Science: from Structures to Properties" Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2001457.

Selected Examples of Recent Publications (in recent five years)

1. "Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Near-Infrared Phosphorescence in both Solution and Aggregate" Nature Photon. 2024, 10.1038/s41566-024-01538-4.
2. "Efficient Organic Emitters Enabled by Ultrastrong Through-Space Conjugation" Nature Photon. 2024, 10.1038/s41566-024-01527-7.
3. "Is the Whole Equal to, or Greater than, the Sum of Its Parts? The Similarity and Difference between Molecules and Aggregates" Matter 2024, 7, 2551.
4. "Aggregative Luminescence from CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Precursors" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, 10.1002/anie.202408586.
5. "Turning Nonemissive Schiff Bases into Aggregate Emitters" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, 10.1002/anie.202402175.
6. "Modulation of Heterotypic and Homotypic Interactions to Visualize the Evolution of Organic Aggregates in a Fluorescence Turn-on Manner" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 4851.
7. "Room Temperature Phosphorescent Nanofiber Membranes by Biofermentation" Adv. Sci. 2024, 10.1002/advs.202405327.
8. "Bright, Photostable and Long-Circulating NIR-II Nanoparticles for Whole-Process Monitoring and Evaluation of Renal Transplantation" Nat. Sci. Rev. 2024, 11, nwad286.
9. "AIEgen-Based Smart System for Fungal-Infected Wound Monitoring and On-demand Photodynamic Therapy" Matter 2023, 6, 3449.
10. "Aqueous Circularly Polarized Luminescence Induced by Homopolypeptide Self-assembly" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 27282.
11. "Multistimuli-Responsive and Cell Membrane Camouflaged Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanogels for Precise Chemophotothermal Synergistic Therapy of Tumors" ACS Nano 2023, 17, 25205.
12. "ASBase: The Universal Database for Aggregate Science" Aggregate 2023, 4, e263.
13. "Solution-processed AIEgen NIR OLEDs with EQE Approaching 15%" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202204279.
14. "One-Pot Synthesis of Customized Metal-Phenolic-Network-Coated AIE Dots for in-Vivo Bioimaging" Adv. Sci. 2022, 9, 2104997.
15. "Molecular Core–Shell Structure Design: Facilitating Delayed Fluorescence in Aggregates toward Highly Efficient Solution-Processed OLEDs" Aggregate 2022, 3, e164.
16. "Turning on Solid-State Luminescence by Phototriggered Subtle Molecular Conformation Variations" Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2006844.
17. "Molecular Motions in AIEgen Crystals: Turning on Photoluminescence by Force-Induced Filament Sliding" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14608.
18. "Planar plus Twisted Molecular Structure Leads to High Brightness of Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for NIR-IIa Fluorescence Imaging" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15146.

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