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16 November 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming "2021 Highly Cited Researcher" again by Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics. This is his 3rd consecutive year in receiving this prestigious recognition. In 2021, fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. In Malaysia, there are a total of 16 scientists who have been named to this list. Xiamen University has a total of 8 scientists, who received this recognition. Well done, Dr. Ong!
18 November 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming "2020 Highly Cited Researcher" again by Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics. This is his 2nd consecutive year in receiving this prestigious recognition. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. In Malaysia, there are a total of 13 scientists who have been named to this list. Xiamen University has a total of 6 scientists, who received this recognition. Well done, Dr. Ong!
11 August 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Ong for his recent invited publication in Solar RRL. The first impact factor of Solar RRL is 7.527. This is an invited contribution to a special issue (Volume 4, Issue 8) - Nanomaterials for Light-Driven Reactions. Thanks to the Editor for inviting Prof. Ong to be the Lead Guest Editor of this special issue together with Prof. Kazuhiko Maeda from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. This work has also been featured as the special issue's Back Cover!
8 June 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Ong for his recent publication in Chemistry-A European Journal. This is an invited contribution to a special issue - Young Chemist 2020 to feature young and emerging scientists globally. It is an excellent recognition by Wiley publisher! This work has also been featured as the issue's Frontispiece!
10 February 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Ong in receiving special invitation from Frontiers in Nanotechnology to become Editor-in-Chief in the specialty section Nanotechnology for Energy Applications.
3 February 2020: Congratulations to Mr. Wenhao Zhang, who is an undergraduate student from Xiamen University Malaysia working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong, in publishing an invited review on Z-scheme photocatalytic CO2 reduction in Angewandte Chemie! This work is recognized as "Very Important Paper (VIP)" by the reviewers. This work was also featured in 催化计 and 材料人. Well done for his first VIP publication in XMUM!
27 November 2019: XMUM featured Dr. Ong's success - "2019 Highly Cited Researcher" in WeChat news!
19 November 2019: Congratulations to Prof. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming "2019 Highly Cited Researcher" by Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics. In 2019, fewer than 6,300, or 0.1%, of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. Xiamen University has a total of 6 scientists, who received this recognition. This is very prestigious and well done, Dr. Ong!
13 September 2019: Congratulations to Prof. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming the Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). This is a huge recognition to Dr. Ong in view of his contribution in research!
25 May 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in winning the National Outstanding Educator/Reviewer Award 2019 in the field of Nanotechnology in conjunction with the Private Education Excellence Awards 2019.
15 April 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in winning the Materials Horizons 2018 Outstanding Review award. The award was reviewed and chosen by the journal's Editorial and Advisory Board members based on the science presented and potential future impact. It is very prestigious and well done, Dr. Ong!
5 March 2019: Congratulations to Yijie Ren, who is an undergraduate student from Xiamen University Malaysia working under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong, in publishing an invited review on g-C3N4 photochemistry in Chinese Journal of Catalysis. This work was also featured in 催化学报CJCatal and 研之成理! It is featured in the XMUM news and XMU China news. Well done for his first publication in XMUM!
1 March 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in representing Malaysia and Xiamen University Malaysia for the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which will be held in Lindau, Germany from 30 June to 5 July 2019. He was acknowledged and selected by the scientific review panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Only 580 young scientists from 88 countries have received their invitation to come to Lindau this summer to meet 42 Nobel Laureates! Well done!!
15 February 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming one of the Top 25 Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Impact Factor: 9.931) in 2018 recognized by the Editors.
15 February 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in becoming one of the Top 10 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons (Impact Factor: 9.391) in 2018 recognized by the Editors.
13 February 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in publishing the 50th peer-reviewed accepted work.
17 January 2019: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in publishing a high-impact work on a self-healing hydrogel together with Prof. Quan Xu (China University of Petroleum-Beijing) in Materials Horizons (Impact Factor: 13.183). We are invited to submit a cover art for this work.
15 January 2019: Dr. Ong's recently published Forum article in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces has been selected as the Front Cover of the upcoming Forum, which will be published online in the early February 2019. Stay tuned for more details!
9 January 2019: Congratulations to Team Sungai Savers (Tan Jen Yen, Tay Yi Jiun, Lye Kit Wing, Eric Chan Kah Wai and Michelle Lau Yu Ling) to receive 4th place in the "Alliance Islamic Bank Eco-Biz Dream Project 3". Assistant Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong is the lecturer advisor for this innovation competition.
21 December 2018: Congratulations to Assist. Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong in publishing an invited work for the upcoming Forum "Artificial Photosynthesis: Harnessing Materials and Interfaces for Sustainable Fuels" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
3 December 2018: Assistant Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong received the prestigious 2018 Merdeka Award Grant from the Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, who is also the royal patron of the Merdeka Trust Award. Dr. Ong is featured in the media press (The Star, Bernama, StarTV).
25 November 2018: Assistant Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong's recent achievements on his local/international awards were featured in the Malaysian newspaper (The Star) under the Education section (Page 9). Huge congratulations to Dr. Ong for his remarkable achievement!
21 November 2018: Assistant Prof. Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was featured as 听厦 · 人物 "王伟俊老师-为梦想而战". Thanks to the editorial team who interviews and writes the news of my life as an educator. Link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/reXyTAdQcZXjeNbYWu_ZhQ
29 October 2018: Xiamen University China featured Dr. Wee-Jun Ong's recent achievements in the 厦门大学新闻网 website. Congratulations to Dr. Ong for his excellent achievement!
17 January 2017: Our invited review article on g-C3N4-based photocatalysts in Chemical Reviews published online in June 2016 is for the first time categorized as Top 0.1% Hot Paper and Top 1% Highly Cited Paper in July-August 2016 by Web of Science. It is indeed an excellent achievement. Congrats!
10 January 2017: Our research article on heteroatom nitrogen- and boron-doping of reduced graphene oxide photocatalysts for H2 evolution was accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Well done!
10 January 2017: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was invited to become the Associate Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Congratulations for another milestone and achievement!
1 January 2017: Happy New Year to everyone! Let's aim for greater success this year!
24 November 2016: Our invited research article on the metal-free carbon nanodots-decorated g-C3N4 photocatalysts for CO2 reduction has been accepted in Nano Research. Many congratulations to all!
10 November 2016: Materials Horizons has just published the blog online, highlighting all the new Community Board Members. Well done to Dr. Wee-Jun Ong as one of the Community Board Member for Materials Horizons. Congrats!
10 October 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was invited and officially served as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Materials (Carbon-based materials specialty section). First time of becoming an Associate Editor! Congrats on the recognition from the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Materials!
7 October 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was appointed to be the Community Board Member for Materials Horizons. Materials Horizons receives its first impact factor of 9.095 in 2016. Congrats on such an excellent honour and recognition from the Editors and Editorial Board Members of Materials Horizons!
5 October 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was invited to serve as the organizing committee member for 4th World Congress and Expo on Nanotechnology and Materials Science, which will be held from April 5-7, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Congrats on becoming the committee member! For more details, you can directly contact me.
1 October 2016: We are pleased that a total of our 9 articles published in Chemical Communications, Nano Energy, Dalton Transactions, Nano Research, Nanoscale, ChemSusChem, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental and Chemical Engineering Journal is selected as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. Well done on such achievements!
22 September 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was invited to join Frontiers in Chemical Engineering as a Review Editor in the Editorial Advisory Panel. Congrats on the invitation from the Editorial Office!
16 September 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong received an invitation to join the Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Chemistry discipline), a journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), the publisher of Nature. Congrats on the invitation from the Editor! I am feeling excited to get involved in the Editorial work.
15 September 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong received an outstanding reviewing status for Journal of CO2 Utilization and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Congrats on the dedicated reviewing process for the past few years!
12 September 2016: Our research article on the process and kinetic studies of photocatalytic reduction of CO2 with H2O over graphene oxide-supported oxygen-rich TiO2 was accepted and published online in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congrats on the new paper publication!
6 September 2016: Our research article on oxygen deficient BiOBr was accepted and published online in ChemCatChem. Congrats on the new paper publication!
29 July 2016: Dr. Wee-Jun Ong was selected as the Finalist for the 'Young Researcher Award 2016' by Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Congrats on the past few years of huge success!
23 June 2016: Our Nano Research article was recognized as "Top Paper Award 2016" by the editorial board of Nano Research and the Tsinghua University Press (TUP) according to the citation in the latest year and the contribution of the papers! Congrats on this excellent achievement!!!
10 June 2016: X-MOL and 材料牛 have reported and highlighted our research achievement on g-C3N4-based photocatalysts published in Chemical Reviews!
20 May 2016: Our invited review article on g-C3N4-based photocatalysts is published online in Chemical Reviews!
26 April 2016: Our mini-review article on exploring the unique properties of graphene oxide toward visible-light-driven photocatalysis is accepted for publication in Applied Materials Today! Applied Materials Today is a new sister journal of Materials Today. Congrats!!
22 April 2016: Our invited review article on the state-of-the-art development of g-C3N4-based photocatalysts for energy and environmental remediation is accepted for publication in Chemical Reviews! Chemical Reviews is ranked 3rd in all ISI journals, having a superior impact factor of 46.568. Well done on this outstanding work!!!
14 April 2016: Our 2nd book chapter on the graphene-based semiconductor photocatalysts (Chapter 22) is finally published online in CRC Press. Congrats!
1-4 April 2016: Participated in the 2nd International Symposium on Energy and Environmental Photocatalytic Materials (EEPM2) in Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. The conference is organized by Prof. Jiaguo Yu and Prof. Mietek Jaroniec. It is our first time visiting the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Material Synthesis and Processing in Wuhan University of Technology.
18 March 2016: Top 10% of highly cited authors in the Materials portfolio of RSC journals (Nanoscale). Our article published in Nanoscale in 2014 is highly cited (Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 1946-2008). Congrats!
1 March 2016: We are pleased that a total of our 7 articles published in Chemical Communications, Dalton Transactions, Nano Research, Nanoscale, ChemSusChem, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental and RSC Advances is selected as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. Well done on such achievements!