Jicheng Feng

Group Leader, Principle Investigator, Assistant Professor

Dr. Jicheng Feng obtained his PhD with Prof. A. Schmidt-Ott from Delft University of Technology in 2016 on “Scalable spark ablation synthesis of nanoparticles: fundamental considerations and applications”. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. M. Koper at Leiden University for about 2 years. In 2018, he joined the group of Prof. M. Choi at Seoul National University, where he was employed as research assistant professor. Since September 2020, he has worked as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (PI) at ShanghaiTech University, where he leads the Aerosol Intelligence Laboratory (AIL). 

Binyan Liu

PhD student

Our main focus lies on the metamaterials. Micro/nano optics pushes the development of nanostructured materials that respond to light of short wavelengths. Such development has reached the limit with respect to the material types and their manufacturing. To overcome these problems, our group relies a new nanomanufacturing technology, which can be adapted to show the ability of materialization and structuring. With that, we are busy to understand the light-matter response, exploring the resulting new phenomena. This study can lead to an opportunity of breaking through the diffraction limit. 

Our research mainly focuses on the creation and understanding of the behaviors of atomic clusters, also named as superatoms. For nanoparticles below a critical size (∼100 nm), their properties are not sensitive to the addition or removal of a single atom. As for atomic clusters, their properties change abruptly and nonpredictively, a stage in which even the addition of a single atom or electron may cause a drastic change. In this regime, the electron wavelength becomes comparable to the cluster size. The fact that properties of matter at this length scale are fundamentally different from their bulk behavior can be effectively used to produce materials with tailored properties. Such cluster-assembled materials, with their unique properties, can expand the scope of materials science.

Yaochen Han

Master student

We mainly focus on the printing of memory alloy nanostructures, thus adding a new dimension to our 3D printing technique. The appearance of memory alloys represents a paradigm shift in materials science. In distinct from the conventional ways, my project will implement aerosol systems to dig out new physics underlying such new possibilities. Despite the challenging tasks, the interdisciplinary research marks a frontier direction in 4D nanoprinting. 

Jingui Ai

Master student

We focus on the design and creating of nanoelectronics that were incapable by other techniques. Again, we stress the strong ability of Faraday 3D printing in miniaturization and materialization. Such important features open new pathways for printing the new generation of nanoelectronics. Doing so is expected to develop a wholly new field. 

Yueqi Zhang

Master student

We are working on developing the new generation of nanoelectronics. Such an interdisciplinary research relies on our Faraday 3D printing technique, particularly its strong abilit in printing 3D metal nanostructures with a feature size of sub-100-nm and in unlimited choice for materials.  We expect that our research will open uncharted area in printed nanoelectronics. 

Yuxiang Yin

Master student

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