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Wang Group
Organometallic and Luminescent
Materials Chemistry
The Wang Group is an active and international research team
comprised of about a dozen students and led by Professor Suning Wang
in the
Department of Chemistry at
Queen's University.
The group has broad research interests throughout
inorganic/organometallic chemistry, with particular emphasis on the
discovery of novel organoboron and transition metal systems for
applications in advanced materials. As such, the Wang Group is
involved in several multidisciplinary collaborations around the
globe with mutual international exchange opportunities available for
both students and visiting scholars (Prof.
Holger Braunschweig,
Prof.
Shigehiro Yamaguchi,
Prof. Matthias Wagner,
Prof. Zheng-Hong Lu, etc).
Professor Suning Wang is currently recruiting students
interested in undertaking graduate studies at Queen¡¯s University. If
you are a highly motivated individual keen on pursuing application
driven organic/inorganic synthesis, please contact Prof. Dr. Suning
Wang (suning.wang@chem.queensu.ca)
for additional information.
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Dr. Wang Awarded Killam Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts
February, 2012
Dr. Wang has been selected as one of 15 outstanding
Canadian scientists to be named Killam Research Fellows for 2012.
Among the most distinguished research awards in Canada, the awards
provide $70,000 in funding for two years, and allow the recipient to
focus full-time on research. Congratulations Dr. Wang!
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Zac Hudson Wins Graduate Research Award from the Chemical Institute of
Canada
January, 2012
Zac Hudson is the recipient of the 2012 Award for
Graduate Work in Inorganic Chemistry from the CIC. Each year, this
award recognizes the top student in Inorganic Chemistry in Canada
with an award lecture at the national meeting of the Canadian
Society for Chemistry. Great work Zac!
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Jiasheng Lu Wins International Crystallography Prize
December, 2011
Wang group Ph.D. candidate Jiasheng Lu has won the
2011 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship from the International
Centre for Diffraction Data. 2011 marks the third year in a row that
the prize has gone to a member of the Wang group. Congratulations,
Jiasheng!
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Wang Group Work Featured on the Cover of Dalton Transactions
August, 2011
An invited review by Zac Hudson and Dr. Wang is
this month's cover article for RSC's Dalton Transactions. This review examines the properties and applications of
metal-containing boron compounds, particularly as efficient
phosphorescent materials.
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Alex Stewart Wins Undergraduate Thesis Prize
April, 2011
Congratulations Alex, winner of the 2011 Smith
Prize for the top undergraduate thesis in chemistry! Alex will be
starting graduate studies at the University of Toronto next year.
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Christina Wins Best Oral Presentation at IDW
September, 2010
Christina Sun has won best oral presentation at
the 43rd Regional Inorganic Discussion Weekend for her talk on the
isolation of a boron-stabilized enol. Excellent job, Christina!
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Hot article in Advanced Functional Materials
October, 2010
Zac's paper on enhancing the phosphorescence
efficiency of Pt(II) compounds with triarylboron has been
highlighted as a hot paper in Advanced Functional Materials,
and was selected by the editors for the frontispiece of the journal. |
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Zac Wins TA Award for CHEM 312
September, 2010
Zac Hudson has won the Fisher Scientific
Teaching Assistant Award for upper year chemistry tutorials. Great
work Zac! |
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Welcome to the Wang Group!
September, 2010
Maria Varlan and Christina Sun have joined the
lab in the M.Sc. program after completing their B.Sc. degrees at
Queen's last year. Also, Barry Blight has joined the group as an
NSERC postdoctoral fellow, and we welcome back Yingli Rao, who has
returned to start her Ph.D. after a year back home. Best of luck to
you all! |
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Wang Group Student Wins Poster Prize at CSC
August, 2010
Zac Hudson has won an Inorganic Division poster
prize for his presentation on enhancing the phosphorescence of
Pt(II) compounds at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference in
Toronto. |
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Wang Group Research Appears on the Cover of Inorganic Chemistry
May, 2010
Dr. Sun's recent work on boron-functionalized platinum bipyridines was selected as the cover page for Inorganic Chemistry!
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Wang Lab Honours Student Wins Undergraduate Thesis Prize
April, 2010
Congratulations to Christina Sun, who was awarded the Smith Prize for the best undergraduate thesis project. Christina will be starting her M.Sc. in the Wang group in September. Great work!
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Hot Article in Chemistry: A European Journal
April, 2010
Hazem Amarne's work has been highlighted as a hot
article in Chemistry: A European Journal and was selected
by the editors as the frontispiece of the journal.
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Dr. Wang is Chemistry Professor of the Year!
April, 2010
The undergraduate class of 2010 has voted Dr. Wang
as professor of the year. Dr. Wang currently teaches CHEM 312:
Transition Metal Chemistry. Congratulations!
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Congratulations Sanela and Yingli!
October, 2009
Sanela Martic (Ph.D. '09) and Yingli Rao (M.Sc. '09) graduated from the
Wang group. Best of luck to you both!
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Sanela Martic Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship
June, 2009
Sanela Martic was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of
Western Ontario, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
She will be joining the group of Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz in September.
Congratulations!
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Shu-Bin Zhao wins Governor General's Gold Medal
June, 2009
Doctoral student Shu-Bin Zhao has been awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal as the top graduate student at Queen's. Shu-Bin will take up an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Michel Gagne at the University of North Carolina. Excellent work, Shu-Bin!
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Wang Lab Research Highlighted on the Cover of Chemistry: A European Journal
June, 2009
Zac's recent research on switchable singlet-triplet dual emission in triarylboron-Pt(II) compounds has been selected as the cover article for Chemistry: A European Journal!
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Zac Leaves for Six-Week Exchange to China
May, 2009
Zac Hudson heads off to Jilin University in Changchun, China, where he will investigate electron-transport materials for OLEDs in the laboratory of Dr. Yue Wang.
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Shu-Bin's Research Selected as the Cover of Dalton Transations
November, 2008
Shu-Bin Zhao's work on bis(7-azaindolyl) complexes of Pt(II) has been selected as the cover article of Dalton Transactions. Great work, Shu-Bin!
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Zac wins Best Oral Presentation at IDW
November, 2008
Zac Hudson has won best oral presentation at the 41st Inorganic Discussion Weekend at Brock University for his talk entitled "Molecular Shape and Light: Switchable Singlet-Triplet Dual Emission in Three-Coordinate Organoboron Compounds"
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Congratulations Wang Lab Graduates!
October 2008
Congrats to Theresa McCormick and Shu-Bin Zhao on completion of
their Ph.D.s from the Wang group. Theresa will take up a position
with Richard Eisenberg at the University of Rochester, and Shu-Bin
with Michel Gagne at the University of North Carolina, both as NSERC
PDFs. Nan Wang has also completed her M.Sc. with Prof. Guojun Liu,
and will join the Wang group as a Ph.D. student this fall. Best of
luck to you all!
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Zac Hudson wins Governor General's Silver Medal
June, 2008
Wang Lab Honours student Zac Hudson has won several awards at graduation, including the Society of Chemical Industry Merit Award, the Chemistry Medal, the Prince of Wales Prize, and the Governor General's Silver Medal as the top undergraduate student at Queen's. Zac will join the Wang group in the Ph.D. program in September. Great Work!
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Dr. Wang awarded the Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research
October, 2007
Dr. Wang has been given the 2007 Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research, the highest award given by the university to recognize exceptional research among its faculty.
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