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Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research and Entrepreneurship

• Biosensing

PhD, MS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanical Engineering

BS

Peking University

Theoretical Mechanics

NSF Innovation Corps

National Science Foundation

NORA Meets BASF Challenges Best Poster Award

Northeast Research Alliance

Pappalardo Fellowship

Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Boeing Scholarship

Peking University

National Scholarship

Peking University

A fieldable process for sensitive detection of airborne viruses via electrophoresis-based RNA enrichment

Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X

The ultra-low concentrations of virus in the air when compared to those in nasal swabs of sick patients pose a unique challenge to the biosensing problem. We characterized in a laboratory setting the performance of an RT-qPCR-based biosensing process incorporating an electrophoretic step for nucleic acid enrichment. We opted for cost-effective technologies for each step of the process, thus making continuous monitoring in low-resource areas viable.

Skin-electrode iontronic interface for mechanosensing

Nature Communications

We leveraged the ionic transport in living systems which provide a simple mode of iontronic sensing. A simple skin-electrode mechanosensing structure (SEMS) and SEMS-based glove are constructed, exhibiting high pressure-resolution and millimeter-spatial-resolution, being capable of feeling touch and detecting weak physiological signals. This hold great promise of diverse healthcare applications, such as pulse detection and recovering the sensory capability in patients with tactile dysfunction.

Nano-kirigami with giant optical chirality

Science Advances

We demonstrate a one-step and on-site nano-kirigami method that avoids the prescribed multistep procedures in traditional mesoscopic kirigami or origami techniques. The demonstrated nano-kirigami, as well as the exotic 3D nanostructures, could be adopted in broad nanofabrication platforms and could open up new possibilities for the exploration of functional micro-/nanophotonic and mechanical devices.

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