Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Professor, Zhengtang Luo, is honored as the 2025 Polymer Program Distinguished Alumni Seminar Speaker.

UConn polymer program alumnus, Prof. Zhengtang “Tom” Luo returned to IMS on March 28, 2025, to give his talk, “Tailor the Structure of Two-dimensional Materials towards semiconductor Application”. He was honored as the 2025 Distinguished Polymer Alumni Seminar Speaker and celebrated by his former teachers, major advisor, and current polymer program students.

Prof. Luo is currently a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and serves as the Associate Editor for ACS applied Materials & Interfaces.  He has obtained his bachelor degree from South China University of Technology in polymer science.  Under the advisement of Prof. Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, he completed his Ph.D. in Polymer Science at University of Connecticut in 2008. Afterwards, he completed postdoctoral training in physics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focus was materials chemistry and physics, with the development of edge-epitaxy and seeded growth concept of chemistry of two-dimensional materials, and electronic and biomaterial product development for chemical industry. In 2010, he has co-founded multiple startup companies and has attracted many investors. His continued success in research has built an expanding research lab that includes 15 graduate students.