The National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) chemistry professor Sue-Lein Wang won the Outstanding Scholar Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship for her exceptional achievements in chemistry, inorganic structure and materials science. She will receive funding for five consecutive years.

Professor Wang began teaching at the Department of Chemistry in August 1986. In addition to installing a first rate nanoporous materials chemistry laboratory, she also directs the Single Crystal Difraction Laboratory at NTHU's Instrument Center. She has published more than 250 research papers since she joined NTHU. Her specialties span from crystallography, single crystal x-ray diffraction, x-ray powder diffraction to inorganic solid state chemistry. In recent years her focus has been on inorganic materials synthesis research, and had achieved breakthrough and innovative results. Her research papers were published by the Journal of American Chemical Society and received fervent response internationally. In 2001 Professor Wang became the first scientist to synthesize porous gallium phosphate containing 24-ring channels (NTHU-1), thereby cementing her leading role in the field of inorganic microporous structure. In 2005 she also became the first to synthesize white light luminescent nanoporous materials of high quantum efficiency (NTHU-4), and thus reaching eminent status in the field of photonics in the international community. Her achievements were reported in feature articles by renowned international journals such as Photonics Spectra and Materials World. In 2007 Professor Wang's laboratory once again broke the international record in nanoporous structure research by reporting the first 26-ring-channel structure constructed from bimetal phosphate helical chains (NTHU-5). In early 2008, Professor Wang further reported the first inorganic-organic compound nanoporous materials (NTHU6) that are yellow florescent with high quantum efficiency. The discovery was published in Journal of American Chemical Society and the American magazine Science ("Bright Yellow Glow, Editor's Choice, Science, 2008, 319, 387).

Recently Professor Wang took the helm in the experimental use of green solvent to synthesize nanoporous materials. Mixing the inexpensive and environmental friendly solids oxalic acid and choline cholide to form a deep-eutectic solvent, she discovered the first inorganic-organic compound (NTHU-7) containing small radius nanotube structure. She proceeded to use NTHU-7 on UV LED and blue LED to produce LED devices in green and white light. This marked the first successful application of inorganic-organic compound nanoporous materials on LED in the world, a proof that the non-florescent nanoporous materials could become a brand new color conversion phosphor in solid state LED light technology.

Professor Wang's laboratory has for many years synthesized a number of new solid state materials with special magnetism, mixed-valence, mixed metal and chiral. Her team especially named the new structures with diameter over 1nm after NTHU. NTHU-n have for many times appeared in review articles of top journals in the world. Due to her distinguished research achievements, Professor Wang has been presented the 2006 National Science Council Outstanding Research Award, Sun Yat-Sen Academic Award, Y. Z. Hsu Award, Outstanding Scholar Award. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Chemistry.