Research Expertise

Low Dose 3D atomic resolution electron tomography
Soft materials dynamics imaging
Quantum electron microscopy
Solar energy tunable (SET) glass

Fu-Rong conducts research on atomic resolution dynamics for the soft materials imaging with aberration corrected environmental TEM equipped with a femto-second pulse electron gun with a  laser for sample stimulus  and a fast read-out camera.

Honors and Awards

1986        Research Award of Stony Brook
2005        The Highest Research award from NSC, Engineering division
2005-2007   The Highest award from NSC, Engineering division.
2011        Award for excellent professor (administration of Education & NTHU)
2012        The Highest Research award  from MOST
2012        The Distinguished Professor of Tsing Hua University
2013        European Microscopy Society Outstanding paper Award
2013        MOST:『Excellent Research and Academic Award in Nanotechnology』 
2013        MOST:『Excellent Start-Up Company award in Nanotechnology』and『Excellent Start-Up Company Award』 
2015        Institute for Biotechnology and Medicine Industry: 『The 12th national prize for enterprise innovation』(Nereuscope : fluid/ fluorescent confocal electron microscope)
2016        The 51th San-Yat Sen Academic and Cultural Foundation Award: Science Category

Recent Publications

1. Yue Lu, Wen-Jin Yin, Kai-Lin Peng, Kuan Wang, Qi Hu, Annabella Selloni, Fu-Rong Chen, Li-Min Liu, Man-Ling Sui, “Self-hydrogenated shell promoting photocatalytic H2 evolution on anatase TiO2”, Nature Comm. (2018)) 9:2752 , DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05144-1 | .
2. Shih-Yi Liu, Pijus Kundu, Tsu-Wei Huang, Yun-Ju Chuang, Fan-Gang Tseng, Yue Lu, Man-Ling Sui, Fu-Rong Chen , Quasi-2D Liquid Cell for High Density Hydrogen Storage, Nano Energy., 31 (2017) 218-224
3. Zhenhua Zhang, Hua Guo, Wenqiang Ding, Bin Zhang, Yue Lu, Xiaoxing Ke, Weiwei Liu, Fu-Rong Chen*, & Manling Sui* , Nanoscale Engineering in VO2 nanowires via Direct Electron Writing Process,  Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04118 ( 2017)
4. Yue Lu, Jiguo Geng, Kuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Wenqiang Ding, Zhenhua Zhang, Shaohua Xie, Hongxing Dai, Fu-Rong Chen, and Manling Sui, Modifying Surface Chemistry of Metal Oxides for Boosting Dissolution Kinetics in Water by Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy,  ACS Nano, 11, 8018?8025 (2017)
5. Chun-Ying Tsai, Yuan-Chih Chang, Ivan Lobato, Dirk Van Dyck, Fu-Rong Chen* . “Hollow Cone Electron Imaging for Single Particle 3D Reconstruction of Proteins. “ Scientific Reports, (2016) 6:27701, DOI: 10.1038/srep27701,P.1-9.
6. F.-R. Chen*, D. Van Dyck, C. Kisielowski,  In-line three-dimensional holography of nanocrystalline objects at atomic resolution. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10603 (2016) p.1-11
7. Dirk Van Dyck*, Joerg R. Jinschek, Fu-Rong Chen* ,  'Big-Bang' tomography as a new route to atomic-resolution electron tomography. Nature, 486, (2012) p.243-246. (SCI) 
8. Wei-Yu Chang, Fu-Rong Chen* , Wide-range tunable magnetic lens for tabletop electron microscope. Ultramicroscopy,  171, (2016) p.139-145.
9. T. K. Chen*, C. C. Chang, H. H. Chang, A. H. Fang, C. H. Wang, W. H. Chao, C.M. Tseng, Y. C. Lee, Y. R. Wu, M. H. Wen, H. Y. Tang, F. R. Chen, M. J. Wang, M. K. Wu*, and D. Van Dyck. Fe-vacancy order and superconductivity in tetragonal β-Fe1-xSe. Proceeding National Academic Science, 111, (2014)  63-68.