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01/2026

Zhecheng was enrolled as a PhD student. Congrats!


12/2025

Our PhD student Yanyan has received the Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award and was invited to present her work on "Wearable e-Nose for Breath Monitoring" at the Research Symposium.


Our nano-printing work is attracting widespread attention!

Media coverage:

https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_28854.html    

https://www.eee.hku.hk/20251103-3/

https://www.bhkaec.org.hk/a/147510-cht

https://www.wenweipo.com/a/202512/29/AP6952318ce4b08fa936e78c91.html


11/2025

Our PhD student Zhuoyang has been awarded the Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship (YS & CL PGS). Congrats, Zhuoyang!


10/2025

Our paper entitled "Ligand-exchange-assisted printing of colloidal nanocrystals to enable all-printed sub-micron optoelectronics" has been published in Nature Communications. Congrats to Zhixuan and co-authors!


Our paper entitled "Chemically Programmable Fano Resonances via Colloidal Nanocrystal‐Ligand Chemistry for Ultra‐Sensitive Ion Detection" has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats to Ran and co-authors!


07/2025

Our review article entitled "Low-dimensional metal chalcogenides for wearable gas sensing" has been published in Nano Convergence. Please check it out in Publications.


Zhuoyang was enrolled as a PhD Student.

Chongyi joined the group as a PhD Student.


12/2024

Chengwei joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome on board!


08/2024

Haiyun and Xin joined the group as Postdoctoral Fellows.

Peihan joined the group as a PhD Student.

Zeqi joined the group as a MPhil Student.

Welcome on board!


04/2024

Qiyu and Yi were enrolled as PhD Students. Congrats!


01/2024

Zhecheng joined the group as a MPhil Student. Welcome on board!


01/2024

Yuqi was enrolled as a PhD Student. Congrats!


08/2023

Yanyan joined the group as a PhD Student. Welcome on board!


07/2023

Ruoqi completed her summer research programme in the group! Well done and congrats!


06/2023

Ran joined the group as a PhD Student. Welcome on board!


01/2023

Zhixuan joined the group as a PhD Student. Welcome on board!


08/2022

Leo started his new position as Assistant Professor at HKU.

Welcome to the NanoMADE Lab, where our team dedicates multidisciplinary efforts in engineering, materials, and physical sciences to push the boundaries of tunable and responsive sensing systems.


Motivated by the convergence of physical and digital realms, we are committed to exploring unconventional optical and electronic sensors and detectors. Our research is anchored in two fundamental questions:How can we design tunable materials and device structures to dynamically tailor sensor/detector characteristics?How can we enhance device sensitivity and speed to efficiently detect nuanced and intricate analyte changes?

   

Interested in joining or collaborating with us? Contact tszhao@hku.hk to embark on this exciting journey together!


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