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Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Chemistry
China
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
111
Citations
44456
World Ranking
855
National Ranking
13

Chemistry

D-Index
115
Citations
47757
World Ranking
637
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2015 - Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Vivian Wing-Wah Yam is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science, focusing particularly on Materials Chemistry. Their research spans subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Biomaterials, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials

Among notable recent papers authored by Vivian Wing-Wah Yam are:

  • Charge-transfer processes in metal complexes enable luminescence and memory functions (2020), Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Luminescent d8 metal complexes of platinum(II) and gold(III): From photophysics to photofunctional materials and probes (2020), Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Additional influential papers coauthored with other researchers include works published in leading journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Reviews.

Frequent collaborators of Vivian Wing-Wah Yam include:

  • Ming-Yi Leung
  • Michael Ho-Yeung Chan
  • Liao-Yuan Yao
  • Mei-Yee Chan
  • Maggie Ng

The scientist has published numerous articles in highly regarded venues including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Science

Vivian Wing-Wah Yam has also contributed to book publications, notably the title Photochemistry published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021.

Recognition of their work includes a series of awards and honors:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2015)
  • Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2015)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2005)

Best Publications

  • Light-Emitting Self-Assembled Materials Based on d(8) and d(10) Transition Metal Complexes.

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Vonika Ka-Man Au;Sammual Yu-Lut Leung

  • Luminescent polynuclear d10 metal complexes

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo

  • Luminescent metal complexes of d6, d8 and d10 transition metal centres

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Keith Man-Chung Wong

  • Solvent-Induced Aggregation through Metal···Metal/π···π Interactions: Large Solvatochromism of Luminescent Organoplatinum(II) Terpyridyl Complexes

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Keith Man-Chung Wong;Nianyong Zhu

  • Recent advances in metallogels

    Anthony Yiu-Yan Tam;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • Self-Assembly of Luminescent Alkynylplatinum(II) Terpyridyl Complexes: Modulation of Photophysical Properties through Aggregation Behavior

    Keith Man-Chung Wong;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • A novel class of phosphorescent gold(III) alkynyl-based organic light-emitting devices with tunable colour.

    Keith Man-Chung Wong;Xiuling Zhu;Ling-Ling Hung;Nianyong Zhu

  • Highlights on the recent advances in gold chemistry--a photophysical perspective.

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng

  • Molecular design of transition metal alkynyl complexes as building blocks for luminescent metal-based materials: structural and photophysical aspects.

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • Controlled synthesis of monodisperse silver nanocubes in water.

    Dabin Yu;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • Synthesis, Luminescence, Electrochemistry, and Ion-Binding Studies of Platinum(II) Terpyridyl Acetylide Complexes

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Rowena Pui-Ling Tang;Keith Man-Chung Wong;Kung-Kai Cheung

  • Luminescence platinum(II) terpyridyl complexes—From fundamental studies to sensory functions

    Keith Man-Chung Wong;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • Photochromic and Luminescence Switching Properties of a Versatile Diarylethene-Containing 1,10-Phenanthroline Ligand and Its Rhenium(I) Complex

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Chi-Chiu Ko;Nianyong Zhu

  • Unusual Luminescence Enhancement of Metallogels of Alkynylplatinum(II) 2,6-Bis(N-alkylbenzimidazol-2′-yl)pyridine Complexes upon a Gel-to-Sol Phase Transition at Elevated Temperatures

    Anthony Yiu-Yan Tam;Keith Man-Chung Wong;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • RECENT ADVANCES IN UTILIZATION OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES AND LANTHANIDES AS DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo

  • Luminescent polynuclear metal acetylides

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo;Keith Man-Chung Wong

  • Luminescent gold(I) complexes for chemosensing

    Xiaoming He;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • Impact of marine fish farming on water quality and bottom sediment: A case study in the sub-tropical environment

    R.S.S. Wu;K.S. Lam;D.W. MacKay;T.C. Lau

  • Design of luminescent polynuclear copper(I) and silver(I) complexes with chalcogenides and acetylides as the bridging ligands

    Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo;Wendy Kit-Mai Fung;Chun-Ru Wang

  • Metal coordination-assisted near-infrared photochromic behavior: a large perturbation on absorption wavelength properties of N,N-donor ligands containing diarylethene derivatives by coordination to the rhenium(I) metal center.

    Penny Ho-Man Lee;Chi-Chiu Ko;Nianyong Zhu;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Man-Chung Wong
Keith Man-Chung Wong Southern University of Science and Technology
Kung-Kai Cheung
Kung-Kai Cheung University of Hong Kong
Mei-Yee Chan
Mei-Yee Chan University of Hong Kong
Chi-Ming Che
Chi-Ming Che University of Hong Kong
Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo
Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo City University of Hong Kong
Lixin Wu
Lixin Wu Jilin University
Wing-Tak Wong
Wing-Tak Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Xiaoming He
Xiaoming He Shaanxi Normal University
Chunru Wang
Chunru Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Lee Phillips
David Lee Phillips University of Hong Kong

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