Dr Chin Ken Wong

I am a currently a postdoc in the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney. Prior to this appointment, I held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2019-2020) at the University of Münster in Germany.

My research interest primarily focuses on innovating approaches to self-assemble block copolymers into complex architectures. Some self-assembly concepts/topics, which I have expertise in, include (i) polymersome (polymer vesicle) shape transformation, (i) hierarchical self-assembly at nanometre to micrometre length scale, and (iii) inverted polymer morphologies such as cubosomes and hexosomes. More recently, I have ventured into using continuous flow setups to explore end-to-end manufacturing of polymer nanoparticles.

Besides my knowledge in block copolymer self-assembly, I have years of experience in soft matter electron microscopy (cryo-TEM, cryo-ET, 3D reconstructions, polymer staining) and a strong personal interest in topological defects in polymer particles.

I am open to collaborations and peer review requests in any of the area of studies listed above.

Below are some of my recent selected publications (in no particular order):

• Wong* et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 10989–10995
  • Paper on the discovery of topological defects in polymer hexosomes - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.0c02009
• Wong et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 7335 –7340
  • Paper describing a methodology to encapsulate molecules into two separate compartments which are only tens of nanometres apart -https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.201901880
• Wong* et al. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019, 48, 4019-4035
  • Tutorial review on non-spherical polymersomes - https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/CS/C8CS00856F
• Wong et al. Prog. Polym. Sci. 2020, 102, 101211
  • Review on making internally ordered microparticles from block copolymers - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079670020300046
• Qiang, Wong* et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 21668-21672
  • Paper describing a method to produce size-controlled janus polymer discs - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202105235