A former Dupont OLED chemist has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from Dupont.
MENG was formerly employed by DuPont as a Senior Research Chemist. During his tenure at DuPont, MENG was involved in research in the field of Organic Light Emitting Diodes , and specifically the organic synthesis of molecules used in OLED technology.
Forty-four-year-old Hong Meng was sentenced Wednesday.
He then transferred information about DuPont’s work with OLED displays to his Peking e-mail account and his personal computer.
Authorities say Meng also lied to investigators about sending DuPont chemical samples, some considered trade secret compounds, to a colleague at Northwestern University with instructions to forward them to China.
