Group Members

Prof. Huifeng Du

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Prof. Du leads MechaniX, a research group using mechanics as a design language to connect geometry, interfaces, materials, fields, transport, and function across scales. The group works across nano-kirigami surfaces, soft and interfacial mechanics, polymer networks, soft robotic systems, wearable sensing, advanced manufacturing, and translational technologies.

Dr. LI Chang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. LI Chang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong in 2024 and his master’s degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2018.

His main research interests include colloidal self-assembly, photonic structures, materials engineering, and liquid-liquid phase separation.

His main responsibilities in this project involve experiment design and data analysis.

ZHAO Peiran

Ph.D. Student

ZHAO Peiran is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his master’s degree from the School of Automatic Control and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University.

His research interests include functional fluids, magnetic materials, and magnetically actuated robotics.

YE Ximin

Ph.D. Student

YE Ximin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology.

His research interests include multiscale simulation, surface and interface mechanics, and nanoscale material fabrication and characterization. His main responsibilities in this project will be multiscale modeling, simulation, and mechanics analysis.