Publications

Publications in reversed chronological order

Symbols: † group member; * corresponding author; # equal contribution.

After joining PolyU (2025–present)

2026

  1. Printable optical meta-assemblies bridge nanoscale order and metre-scale manufacturing
    Chang Li† , Huifeng Du*, and Nicholas Fang*
    International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2026
    In Press
  2. Advances in Strategies for Colloidal Self-Assembly
    Chang Li† , Dan Guo , Huanqing Cui , Ruotong Zhang , Huifeng Du, Kaixuan Li , Tiantian Yang , Tianrui Zhai , Yanlin Song , and Ho Cheung Shum
    Chemical Reviews, 2026
  3. Control-Oriented Local Second-Order Magnetic Force Equivalence for Cylindrical Permanent-Magnet-Driven Droplet Robots
    Peiran Zhao† , Ximin Ye† , Xiaoshan Gao , and Huifeng Du*
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2026
    Accepted

Before joining PolyU (2024 and earlier)

2024

  1. A fieldable process for sensitive detection of airborne viruses via electrophoresis-based RNA enrichment
    #Huifeng Du , #Simone Bruno , #Kalon J Overholt , #Sebastian Palacios , Hsin-Ho Huang , Carlos Barajas , Ben Gross , Cindy Lee , Haley K Evile , Nuno Rufino Sousa , Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs , and Domitilla Del Vecchio*
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2024

2023

  1. 3D Printing of Interpenetrating Network Flexible Hydrogels with Enhancement of Adhesiveness
    #Lei Zhang , #Huifeng Du , Xin Sun , Feng Cheng , Wenhan Lee , Jiahe Li , Guohao Dai , Nicholas Xuanlai Fang* , and Yongmin Liu*
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023
  2. Broadband thermal management using smart cooling films
    Chang Liu , Zhiguang Liu , Sang Hoon Nam , Huifeng Du, Xuanhe Zhao , and Nicholas X Fang*
    Available at SSRN 4315402, 2023
  3. Anisotropic Metallic Microlattice Structures for Underwater Operations
    Chen Shen , Charles Rohde , Colby W Cushing , Junfei Li , Zheng Jie Tan , Huifeng Du, Xiuyuan Peng , Preston S Wilson , Michael R Haberman , Nicholas X Fang , and  others
    Advanced Engineering Materials, 2023

2022

  1. Engineered 3D-printed artificial axons
    Daniela Espinosa-Hoyos , Anna E Jagielska , Huifeng Du, Krystyn J Van Vliet , and  others
    Dec 2022
    US Patent 11,535,826
  2. In situ wide-field visualization of palladium hydrogenation
    #Xiaoyi She , #Huifeng Du , Yang Shen , Nicholas X Fang* , and Chongjun Jin*
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Dec 2022
  3. Dynamic Studies of Instability-Triggered Intersonic Surface Detachment Waves in Soft Material Sliding
    Huifeng Du
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Sep 2022

2021

  1. Intersonic Detachment Surface Waves in Elastomer Frictional Sliding
    #Huifeng Du , #Emmanuel Virot , Liying Wang , Sam Kharchenko , Md Arifur Rahman , David A Weitz , Shmuel M Rubinstein , and Nicholas X Fang*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13425, Sep 2021
  2. Skin-electrode iontronic interface for mechanosensing
    #Pang Zhu , #Huifeng Du , #Xingyu Hou , Peng Lu , Liu Wang , Jun Huang , Ningning Bai , Zhigang Wu , Nicholas X Fang* , and Chuan Fei Guo*
    Nature Communications, Sep 2021
  3. Characterization of an underwater metamaterial made of aluminum honeycomb panels at low frequencies
    Colby W Cushing* , Preston S Wilson , Michael R Haberman , Chen Shen , Junfei Li , Steven A Cummer , Zheng Jie Tan , Chu Ma , Huifeng Du, and Nicholas X Fang
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Sep 2021
  4. Electromechanically reconfigurable optical nano-kirigami
    #Shanshan Chen , #Zhiguang Liu , #Huifeng Du , #Chengchun Tang , Chang-Yin Ji , Baogang Quan , Ruhao Pan , Lechen Yang , Xinhao Li , Changzhi Gu , and  others
    Nature communications, Sep 2021

2020

  1. Printing optical materials
    Xinhao Li , Huifeng Du, Zhiguang Liu , and Nicholas Xuanlai Fang*
    In Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts prime2020 , Sep 2020
  2. Continuous 3D printing from one single droplet
    Yu Zhang , Zhichao Dong , Chuxin Li , Huifeng Du, Nicholas X Fang , Lei Wu* , and Yanlin Song*
    Nature communications, Sep 2020
  3. Finite element analysis of adhesive contact interface in continuous 3D printing
    Huifeng Du
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology , May 2020
  4. Echoes of fluid spin
    Huifeng Du, Chu Ma , and Nicholas X Fang*
    National Science Review, May 2020

2019

  1. Mechanical metamaterials and their engineering applications
    James Utama Surjadi , Libo Gao , Huifeng Du, Xiang Li , Xiang Xiong , Nicholas Xuanlai Fang* , and Yang Lu*
    Advanced Engineering Materials, May 2019

2018

  1. Bioinspired ultra-low adhesive energy interface for continuous 3D printing: reducing curing induced adhesion
    #Lei Wu , #Zhichao Dong , Huifeng Du, Chuxin Li , Nicholas Xuanlai Fang* , and Yanlin Song*
    Research, May 2018
  2. Invited Article: Nano-kirigami metasurfaces by focused-ion-beam induced close-loop transformation
    Zhiguang Liu , Huifeng Du, Zhi-Yuan Li , Nicholas X Fang , and Jiafang Li*
    Apl Photonics, May 2018
  3. Microarchitected stretching-dominated mechanical metamaterials with minimal surface topologies
    Oraib Al-Ketan , Rachid Rezgui , Reza Rowshan , Huifeng Du, Nicholas X Fang , and Rashid K Abu Al-Rub*
    Advanced Engineering Materials, May 2018
  4. Nano-kirigami with giant optical chirality
    #Zhiguang Liu , #Huifeng Du , Jiafang Li* , Ling Lu , Zhi-Yuan Li , and Nicholas X Fang*
    Science advances, May 2018
  5. Engineered 3D-printed artificial axons
    #Daniela Espinosa-Hoyos , #Anna Jagielska , Kimberly A Homan , Huifeng Du, Travis Busbee , Daniel G Anderson , Nicholas X Fang , Jennifer A Lewis , and Krystyn J Van Vliet*
    Scientific reports, May 2018

2017

  1. Poly (HDDA)-based polymers for microfabrication and mechanobiology
    Daniela Espinosa-Hoyos , Huifeng Du, Nicholas X Fang , and Krystyn J Van Vliet*
    MRS Advances, May 2017