Aug 24, 2017
Wai Fen Yong, one of 25 winners of the international competition for young research talent initiated by the BMBF, she selected her one-month research stay in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry group lead by Professor Stefan Kaskel at the TU Dresden
Wai Fen Yong is a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on developing sustainable materials and membrane technologies for biogas separation, industrial air purification, CO2 capture, haze removal and air quality control. Because of her scientific achievements in the sustainability research, Wai Fen Yong was awarded a Green Talent in 2016. As one of 25 winners of the international competition for young research talent initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), she had the opportunities to visit important German research institutions, universities and companies in the two-week Science Forum in October 2016 and conduct a research stay up to three months at a German research institute of her choice and to continue to work there in the following year. Thereafter, she selected her one-month research stay in the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I group lead by Professor Stefan Kaskel at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden. During her research stay, she carried out research on the flexible metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and with the aim to incorporate it into the polymer matrix as mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for CO2 capture.