Shie-Ming PENG，professor at the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, visited Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) on July 21, 2011. During his visit, Prof. PENG gave a lecture at the CIAC on nanoelectronics, which focused on molecular metal wires and related molecular materials.

Shie-Ming PENG received his BS from National Taiwan University in 1970, and his PhD from University of Chicago in 1975. After finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University, he became an Associate Professor (1976-1980) and a Full Professor (1980) of the National Taiwan University.  He was the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1987-1990) and the Vice President of the National Taiwan University (1999-2002). He also served as the President of the Chemical Society Located in Taipei (2001-2002). In 1998, he was elected as the Academician of Academia Sinica. Professor PENG is a synthetic and structural coordination chemist. His research work is recently centered on developing metal string complexes and investigating their applications in molecular electronics.