Michael H W Lam

Biography

Prof. Michael Hon-Wah Lam received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 1990 and did his post-doctoral with the Nobel laureate (the late) Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson in the Johnson Matthey Laboratory of the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, UK. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong in 1994, he has also worked as a forensic scientist in the Government Laboratory of Hong Kong and as a water scientist in the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong.

Research Interest

Special water-soluble photoisomerizable functional monomers are developed for the imprinting of pharmaceuticals and bio-molecules into bio-compatible cross-linked polymer matrices. The resultant molecularly imprinted polymer materials are able to specifically release and uptake the imprinted molecular species under designated photo-excitations. In this example, a photo-regulated molecularly imprinted hydrogel material is capable of selectively release and uptake paracetamol in neat aqueous solutions upon photo-excitation at 353 and 440 nm respectively.