17 April 2024. Ying Zhou, Wenchang Zhao and Shiyu Wang won the 1st runner up for the best student poster awards  in the MNE research day 2024. Congratulations!

19 March 2024. Dr. Pingan Zhu was recognised as an outstanding reviewer for Lab on a Chip in 2023. Congratulations!

01 March 2024. Mingxia Zhou joined our group. Welcome!

12 January 2024. Ying Zhou received Microfluidic Award 2023. Congratulations!

01 September 2023. Yutong Zheng joined our group. Welcome!

04 September 2023. Ying Zhou's paper entitled “Suppression of hollow droplet rebound on super-repellent surfaces” was published on Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read More

21 June 2023. Dr. Pingan Zhu was selected as an Associate Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

04 April 2023. Dr. Pingan Zhu won the Micromachines 2022 Young Investigator Award. Congratulations!

21 March 2023. Dr. Pingan Zhu was recognised as an outstanding reviewer for Lab on a Chip in 2022. Congratulations!

01 February 2023. Dr. Chao Wang joined our group as postdoc fellow. Welcome!

18 January 2023. Dr. Pingan Zhu was selected as a member of the 2023 Early Career Advisory Board for Biomicrofluidics. Congratulations!

29 August 2022. Dr. Zhiqiang Zhu from USTC joined our group as visiting fellow. Welcome!

01 August 2022. Dr. Yufang Liu and Shuxian Tang joined our group. Welcome!

23 July 2022. Dr. Pingan Zhu was awarded IAAM Young Scientist Medal by International Association of Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

01 June 2022. Yanhong Li joined our group. Welcome!

11 May 2022.  Dr. Pingan Zhu was invited to serve as a Youth Editor of Soft Science. Congratulations!

21 April 2022. Our paper entitled “ Progress in all-aqueous droplets generation with microfluidics: Mechanisms of formation and stability improvements” was published in Biophysics Reviews and highlighted by Scilight. Congratulations! Read More

14 March 2022. Our book entitled "Microfluidics-Enabled Soft Manufacture" was published by Springer Nature.  Congratulations! Read More

04  March 2022. Dr. Pingan Zhu started to serve as a Youth Editor of The Innovation. Congratulations!

04  March 2022. Our paper entitled "A paradigm shift in liquid cooling by multitextured surface design" was published in The Innovation. Congratulations! Read More

09 February 2022. Dr. Pingan Zhu was invited to be the Guest Editor for a special issue entitled “Droplet-Based Microfluidics: Design, Fabrication and Applications” by Micromachines. Read More

17 December 2021. Our paper entitled "Microfluidics-Enabled Soft Manufacture of Materials with Tailorable Wettability" was published in Chemical Reviews. Congratulations! Read More

06 November 2021. Dr. Pingan Zhu won the Outstanding Achievement Award for China Rising Star in Science and Technology. Congratulations!

17 September 2021. Our paper entitled “Three-dimensional capillary ratchet-induced liquid directional steering” was published in Science. Congratulations! Read More

01 September 2021. Shiyu WANG and Ying ZHOU joined our group. Welcome!

18 June 2021. Our paper entitled “Microfluidic generation of ATPS droplets by transient double emulsion technique” was published in Lab on a Chip and featured in a themed collection of Lab on a Chip HOT Articles 2021. Congratulations! Read More

01 June 2021. Wenchang ZHAO joined our group. Welcome!

24 May 2021. Our paper entitled “Superhydrophobicity preventing surface contamination as a novel strategy against COVID-19” was published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Congratulations! Read More

16 April 2021. Our paper entitled “Bioinspired soft microactuators” was published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations! Read More

06 April 2021. Our paper entitled “Citrus-peel-like durable slippery surfaces” was published in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations! Read More

19 February 2021. Our paper entitled “Asymmetric fibers for efficient fog harvesting” was published in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations! Read More

21 December 2020. Our paper entitled “Non-specular reflection of droplets” was published in Small and selected as the Inside Front Cover. Congratulations! Read More

06 November 2020. Our new website was launched!