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Biography

Prof S Y Tong is a leading figure internationally in the area of surface structure determination. He developed quantitative low energy electron diffraction (q-LEED), photoelectron diffraction and holography, high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and applied these techniques to determine surface structure. Prof Tong is also a prominent figure internationally in areas of crystal growth, heteroepitaxy, surface catalysis and use of hydrogen as a fuel.

Prof Tong was the founding Dean of the Graduate School from 2015-2021. From 2011-2014, Prof Tong was Chair of the Academic Committee and leading professor at SUSTech. From 2004-2014, Prof Tong was Director of the National Laboratory of Materials at the Microscale of the Chinese University of Science and Technology, Hefei. From 2004-2009, Prof Tong was Deputy President of the City University of Hong Kong and in 2002-2003, Prof Tong was the Vice-President of Academic Affairs of the City University of Hong Kong. From 1994-2001, Prof Tong was Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong. From 1988-2000, Prof Tong was Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. From 1988-1990, Prof Tong was Director of the Condensed Matter Physics Program at the National Science Foundation.

Prof Tong received the Croucher Award in 1997. He was elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 and Fellow of the American Physical Society in the same year. In 2010, he was elected member of the World Academy of Sciences. In 1986, he was elected Chair of the American Vacuum Society.


Publications
  1. Recent 10 papers:
    1. Zhu, C.#, Tian, H.#, Tan, P., Huang, ... Tong, S. Y.* & Li, M. R.* (2024). Ruthenate perovskite with face-sharing motifs for alkaline hydrogen evolution. Chem Catalysis, 2024, 101132
    2. Zhao, C.#, Tian, H.#, Zou, Z., Xu, H.*, & Tong, S. Y.*. Understanding oxygen evolution mechanisms by tracking charge flow at the atomic level. iScience, 2023, 26(7).
    3. Zhang, Z.#, Tian, H.#, Sun, J., Meira, D. M., Zhang, M., Ding, X., ... Wang, L.*, Tong, S. Y.* & Zou, Z.* Light-enabled coupling of tandem ethane dehydrogenation and CO2 hydrogenation. Chem Catalysis, 2023, 3(6).
    4. Tian, H.#, He, Y.#, Zhao, Q.#, Li, J., Shao, X., Zhang, Z., ...Xu, H.*, & Tong, S. Y.*. Avoiding Sabatier’s conflict in bifunctional heterogeneous catalysts for the WGS reaction. Chem, 7(5), 2021, 1271-1283.
    5. Tian, H.#, Zhang, J.# Q., Ho, W., Xu, J. P., Xia, B., Xia, Y., ... Xu, H.,* Xie, M.,* & Tong, S. Y.*. Two-dimensional metal-phosphorus network. Matter, 2020, 2(1), 111-118.
    6. Wang, R., Zhao, J. Z., Jin, Y. J., Du, Y. P., Zhao, Y. X., Xu, H.*, & Tong, S. Y.*. Nodal line fermions in magnetic oxides. Physical Review B, 2018, 97(24), 241111.
    7. Deng, B., Shi, X. Q., Chen, L.*, & Tong, S. Y*. Preserving half-metallic surface states in CrO2: Insights into surface reconstruction rules. Physical Review B, 2018, 97(16), 165404.
    8. Zhao, J. Z., Fan, W., Verstraete, M. J., Zanolli, Z., Fan, J., Yang, X. B., ... Xu, H.*, & Tong, S. Y.* Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal-Insulator Transitions in Compound Semiconductor Surfaces. Physical Review Letters, 2016, 117(11), 116101.
    9. Xu, H., Dong, L., Shi, X., Liu, Y., Van Hove, M. A., Lin, N., & Tong, S. Y.*. Observation and analysis of ordered and disordered structures on the ZnO (0001) polar surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120(47), 26915-26921.
    10. Fan, J., Zhao, J. Z., Xu, H.*, & Tong, S. Y.*. Comment on “Interplay between Water and TiO2 Anatase (101) Surface with Subsurface Oxygen Vacancy”. Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115(14), 149601.
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