Professional Services

1. Journal Editorship


2. Guest Editor of Journal Special Issue / Thematic Series / Focus Collection

-Contents under update-


  • Nano Research (2021-present) (Editor: Wee-Jun Ong, Yujie Xiong)

  • Environmental Chemistry Letters (2021-present) (Editor: Wee-Jun Ong, Shaohua Shen)

  • Small (2021) (Editor: Wee-Jun Ong)

Special Issue: Nanoengineering Carbonaceous Materials for Energy

  • Nanoscale (2021) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Nanfeng Zheng, Markus Antonietti)

Special Issue: Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

  • Solar RRL (2020) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Kazuhiko Maeda)

Special Issue: Nanomaterials for Light‐Driven Reactions

  • Processes (2019) (Editors: Xiaoguang Duan, Wee-Jun Ong, Sergio Navalon)

Special Issue: Sustainable Catalytic Processes Driven by Functional Nanomaterials

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2019, vol. 11, Issue 6) (Editor: Wee-Jun Ong)

Special Issue: Artificial Photosynthesis - Harnessing Materials and Interfaces for Sustainable Fuels

  • Chemistry - A European Journal (2018, vol. 24, issue 69) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Xinliang Feng, Liming Dai)

Special Issue: Renewable Energy

[All manuscripts are free to read until Jan 31, 2019]

  • Particle & Particle Systems Characterization (2017) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Zhiqun Lin, Kazunari Domen)

Special Issue: Artificial photosynthesis: Mimicking nature for renewable energy production

Featured on Advanced Science News (Media News)

  • Nanotechnology (2016-2017) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Zhigang Zou, Rongchao Jin)

Focus Collection: CO2 reduction

  • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology (2016-2017) (Editors: Wee-Jun Ong, Rengui Li, Xiaobo Chen)

Thematic Series: Energy conversion, storage and environmental remediation using nanomaterials


3. Postgraduate (Master/PhD) Thesis Examiner

  • PhD Thesis: Edith Cowan University, Australia (2020)

  • PhD Thesis: University of Newcastle, Australia (2022)


4. Research Grant Panel/Reviewer

  • European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2018

  • IPT Evaluation Panel for Ministry of Education (MOE) national grant: Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) 2020, 2021

  • National Science Center, Poland 2020

  • Grant evaluator for the Phase 2 Excellence in Africa Junior Faculty Development (EXAF-JFD) program (2020)

  • Grant evaluator/Independent expert for the “2nd Call for Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.)’s Research Projects", Greece (2021)

  • Grant evaluator for EduHK Dean's Research Fund, Hong Kong (2022)

  • Grant evaluator for KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium (2022)

5. Conference / Congress Committee Organizer


Conference: Symposium on Nanomaterials for Environmental Purification and Energy Conversion (SNEPEC) (February 20–21 2018, Sapporo, Japan)


  • Scientific Committee Member

Conference: Advanced Engineering Colloquium (November 27 2017, Monash University, Malaysia)

  • Co-chair and Session Chair (keynote and invited speakers for photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis)

Conference: Energy and Environment Symposium under Optofluidics 2017 conference (July 25–28 2017, Singapore)

  • Organizing Committee Member

Conference: 4th World Congress and Expo on Nanotechnology and Materials Science 2017 (April 5-7 2017, Barcelona, Spain)


6. Journal Peer and Adjudicative Reviewer (more than 700 times in total since 2013)

- Nature Chemistry (Nature)

- Nature Communications (Nature)

- Nature Protocols (Nature)

- Nature Sustainability (Nature)

- Joule (Cell Press)

- iScience (Cell Press)

- 2D Materials (IOP)

- Angewandte Chemie (Wiley)

- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS)

- ACS Applied Nano Materials (ACS)

- ACS Energy Letters (ACS)

- ACS Nano (ACS)

- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (ACS)

- Advanced Electronic Materials (Wiley)

- Advanced Energy Materials (Wiley)

- Advanced Functional Materials (Wiley)

- Advanced Materials Interfaces (Wiley)

- Advanced Materials (Wiley)

- Advanced Materials Technologies (Wiley)

- Advanced Science (Wiley)

- Advanced Optical Materials (Wiley)

- AIP Advances (AIP)

- APL Materials (AIP)

- Applied Catalysis A: General (Elsevier)

- Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Elsevier)

- Applied Physics Letters (AIP)

- Carbon (Elsevier)

- Catalysis Science & Technology (RSC)

- Catalysis Today (Elsevier)

- Chemical Communications (RSC)

- Chemistry: An Asian Journal (Wiley)

- ChemCatChem (Wiley)

- ChemPlusChem (Wiley)

- ChemSusChem (Wiley)

- Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier)

- Chemistry: A European Journal (Wiley)

- Chemosphere (Elsevier)

- Chinese Journal of Catalysis (Elsevier)

- CrystEngComm (RSC)

- Dalton Transactions (RSC)

- Energy & Environmental Science (RSC)

- Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (RSC)

- Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC)

- Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)

- Journal of Catalysis (Elsevier)

- Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier)

- Journal of CO2 Utilization (Elsevier)

- Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier)

- Journal of Materials Chemistry A (RSC)

- Journal of Materials Chemistry B (RSC)

- Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC)

- Journal of Physical Chemistry C (ACS)

- Journal of Power Sources (Elsevier)

- Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

- Materials Science & Engineering C (Elsevier)

- Materials Horizons (RSC)

- Nano Energy (Elsevier)

- Nanoscale (RSC)

- Nanoscale Horizons (RSC)

- Nanotechnology (IOP)

- New Journal of Chemistry (RSC)

- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (RSC)

- Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier)

- Royal Society Open Science (RSC)

- RSC Advances (RSC)

- Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)

- Small (Wiley)

- Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (Elsevier),

- Sustainable Materials and Technologies, etc.