Cheng Yee Leong
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Novel Visible-Light-Induced Photocatalyst of Hydrophobic Copper doped Titanium Dioxide for Antibacterial Application
Biography
Leong Cheng Yee is a full-time Ph.D. student at the University of Technology Malaysia, after completing her undergraduate study (B.Sc. Chemistry) in 2018 from the same university. In her undergraduate research project, she carried out research on photocatalysis for dye photodegradation. Later in 2020, owing to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked together with her supervisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr Lee Siew Ling, and a local textile industry, CSC Screen Process Supplies Sdn. Bhd. to invent a new photocatalytic antibacterial face mask. Since then, her research study focuses on the utilization of photocatalytic material for antibacterial application, aiming to reduce the use of antibiotics in order to combat the rapid generation of multidrug-resistant bacterial strains. During her postgraduate study, she completed a 7-months internship with Prof. Fabio Cicoira from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada, working on the fabrication of an ion-gated transistor for pH sensing.