Huang Weiyang has long focused on basic and applied research in the design, synthesis and application of metal-organic polymers/complexes, and has made a series of innovative achievements. He has published over 630 papers in renowned academic journals includingNature Mater., Nature Commun., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy & Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater.,andACS Energy Lett., which have been cited by peers at home and abroad for 23,000 times (over 26,000 citations in total) with an H-index of 80, thus being selected as a highly cited scientist on the list published by Thomson Reuters from 2014 to 2019. In 2009, he won the "Senior Research Fellowship" from the Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong. As the first Chinese, he won the "Transition Metal Chemistry Award" of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010; in the same year, he won the first prize of the National Ministry of Education for Natural Sciences (ranking first) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Overseas and Hong Kong and Macao Scholars Cooperation Research Fund" "(previously known as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars B). He won the Outstanding Young Chemist Award from the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies in 2011, the "Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award" in 2012, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award (ranking first) in 2013, and the Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist (Eikohsha Award) from the Optical Society of Japan in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded the title of “Changjiang Scholar” as a chair professor by the Ministry of Education.