7 October 2025: Feng Guo et al.'s paper "Neuromorphic Device Based on Material and Device Innovation toward Multimode and Multifunction" is published in Advanced Intelligent Systems (Invited Review). Congratulations!

1 October 2025: Yingjin Ma et al.'s paper "Machine Learning-Assisted 3D SERS Chip with Acoustic Enrichment for High-Accuracy Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses and Emerging Pathogens" is published in ACS Sensors. Congratulations!

20 September 2025: Zehan Wu et al.'s paper "Device Physics and Architecture Advances in Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors" is published in Interdisplinary Materials. Congratulations!

18 August 2025: Two new PhD students, Yudong Peng and Yunan Lin joined our group. Welcome!

13 August 2025: Yifei Zhao et al.'s paper "Smart phosphor with neuromorphic behaviors enabling full-photoluminescent Write and Read for all-optical physical reservoir computing" is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

7 July 2025: Qianqian Bai et al.'s paper "Plaque-Targeted Delivery of Fluoride-Free MXene Nanozyme for Alleviating Atherosclerosis via Sonocatalytic Therapy" is published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

11 June 2025: Xinyue Lao et al.'s paper "Enhanced Sonodynamic Bacterial Elimination and Wound Healing Therapy Based on Lanthanide Ion Doped Bi₂WO₆ Nanosheets and Hydrogel Platform" is published in Advanced Functional Materials.

5 June 2025: Di Zhao et al.'s paper "Transducer Materials Mediated Deep Brain Stimulation in Neurological Disorders" is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

3 June 2025: Yingjin Ma and Yuqian Zhao have succesfully defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations!

2 June 2025: Zhaoying Dang has succesfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

30 April 2025: Fumei Yang has succesfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

23 April 2025: Shun Lan was awarded RGC Junior Research Fellowship. Congratulations!

14 April 2025: Sin Yi Pang et al.'s paper "Fluoride-Free Molten Salt Hydrate-Assisted Synthesis of MXene in Air Down to 150 °C" is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

14 April 2025: Yuan Liu et al.'s paper "Intelligent Point-of-Care Biosensing Platform Based on Luminescent Nanoparticles and Microfluidic Biochip with Machine Vision Algorithm Analysis" is published in Nano-Micro Letters. Congratulations!

26 February 2025: PolyU Innovation Digest highlighted two of our group papers: Nature Materials 2021, Nature Communications 2024.

25 February 2025: Feng Guo (co-first author) et al.'s paper "In-Sensor Computing with Visual-Tactile Perception Enabled by Mechano-Optical Artificial Synapse" is published in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

21 February 2025: Xinyue Lao has succesfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

22 January 2025: Gloria Weng Fu IO has succesfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

3 December 2024: Sin-Yi Pang et al.'s paper "Two-dimensional MXene-based devices forinformation technology" is published in Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports. Congratulations!

30 November 2024: Xun Han (co-first author) et al.'s paper "Ultraweak light-modulated heterostructure with bidirectional photoresponse for static and dynamic image perception" is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

28 November 2025: Yuan Liu has succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

24 October 2024: Jianfeng Mao et al.'s paper "Strain-Engineered Ferroelectricity in 2H Bilayer MoS₂" is published in ACS Nano. Congratulations!

26 September 2024: Zhaoying Dang et al.'s paper "Object Motion Detection Enabled by Reconfigurable Neuromorphic Vision Sensor under Ferroelectric Modulation" is published in ACS Nano. Congratulations!

9 August 2024: Yuqian Zhao and Jianfeng Mao (co-first authors) et al.'s paper "A clean transfer approach to prepare centimetre-scale black phosphorus crystalline multilayers on silicon substrates for field-effect transistors" is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

11 April 2024: Haisheng Chen et al.'s paper "Frequency converting and digital modulation of light derived from lanthanide for signal encoding and logic computing" is published in InfoMat. Congratulations!

10 March 2024: Zhaoying Dang et al.'s paper "Ferroelectric Modulation of ReS₂-Based Multifunctional Optoelectronic Neuromorphic Devices for Wavelength-Selective Artificial Visual System" is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

11 November 2023: Weng Fu Io et al.'s paper "Direct observation of intrinsic room-temperature ferroelectricity in 2D layered CuCrP₂S₆" is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

24 October 2023: Xinyue Lao et al.'s paper "Plasmon-enhanced FRET biosensor based on Tm³⁺/Er³⁺ co-doped core-shell upconversion nanoparticles for ultrasensitivevirus detection" is published in Aggregate. Congratulations!

23 October 2023: Yingjin Ma et al.'s paper "Attomolar-level detection of respiratory virus long-chain oligonucleotides based on FRET biosensor with upconversion nanoparticles and Au–Au dimer" is published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congratulations!

1 July 2023: Feng Guo et al.'s paper "Achieving reinforcement learning in a three-active-terminal neuromorphic device based on a 2D vdW ferroelectric material" is published in Materials Horizons. Congratulations!

7 June 2023: Zhaoying Dang et al.'s paper "Black Phosphorus/Ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) Field-Effect Transistors with High Mobility for Energy-Efficient Artificial Synapse in High-Accuracy Neuromorphic Computing" is published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!

24 April 2023: Sin Yi Pang was awarded RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

15 February 2023: Menglin Song et al.'s paper "Rapid point-of-care detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA with smartphone-based upconversion luminescence diagnostics" is published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congratulations!

15 December 2022: Yuqian Zhao et al.'s paper "Progress in the synthesis of 2D black phosphorus beyond exfoliation" is published in Applied Physics Reviews. Congratulations!

5 December 2022: Fumei Yang et al.'s paper "Synthesis and enhanced piezoelectric response of CVD-grown SnSe layered nanosheets for flexible nanogenerators" is published in Nano Research and highlighter by EurekAlert. Congratulations!

11 November 2022: Zehan Wu was awarded PolyU Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

11 May 2022: Weng Fu Io et al.'s paper "Strong piezoelectric response inlayered CuInP₂S₆ nanosheets forpiezoelectric nanogenerators" is published in Nano Energy. Congratulations!

18 October 2021: Prof. Jianhua Hao and Sin Yi Pang were awarded the TechConnect 2021 Global Innovation Award. Congratulations!

May 2021: Zehan Wu et al.'s paper "Large-scale growth of few-layer two-dimensional black phosphorus" is published in Nature Materials. Congratulations!

April 2021: Jianhua Hao, Yang Zhang, Man-Chung Wong receive a Natural Science Award in the 2020 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science & Technology) by the Ministry of Education, P. R. China (國家教育部2020年度高等學校科學研究優秀成果自然科学獎).

April 2021: Gloria Weng Fu IO has been selected to receive a RGC Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2021/22. Congratulations!

Jan., 2021: Prof. Jianhua Hao as PC has secured RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) COVID-19 grant amounting to over $8.4M.

December 2020: Gloria Weng Fu IO has succesfully defended her MPhil thesis. Congratulations!

November 2020: Menglin Song et al.'s paper "Fluoride-free 2D niobium carbide MXenes as stable and biocompatible nanoplatforms for electrochemical biosensor with ultrahigh sensitivity" is published in Advanced Science and highlighted in Materials Views China. Congratulations!

April 2020: Shuoguo Yuan et al.'s paper "2D transition metal dichalcogenides, carbides, nitrides and their applications in supercapacitors and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction" is published in Applied Physics Reviews and selected as a Featured Article (one of the journal's best) by the Editors. Congratulations!

April 2020: Cindy Sin-Yi Pang et al.'s paper "Efficient energy conversion and storage based on robust fluoride-free self-assembled 1D niobium carbide in 3D nanowire-network" is published in Advanced Science and highlighted in Materials Views China. Congratulations!

March 2020: Yongxin Lyu has succesfully defended her MPhil thesis. Congratulations!

March 2020: Ran Ding et al.'s paper "A general wet transferring approach for diffusion-facilitated space-confined grown perovskite single-crystalline optoelectronic thin films" is published in Nano Letters. Congratulations!

February 2020: Shuoguo Yuan has succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

December 2019: Man-Chung Wong has succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

September 2019: Two new PhD students, Jianfeng Mao and Fangqing Zhao (SUSTech-PolyU PhD program) joined our group. Welcome!

August 2019: Man-Chung Wong et al.'s paper "Microplasma discharge-based nitrogen fixation driven by triboelectric nanogenerator towards self-powered mechano-nitrogenous fertilizer supplier" is accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

May 2019: Sin-Yi Pang et al.'s paper "Universal strategy for HF-free facile and rapid synthesis of two-dimensional MXenes as multifunctional energy materials" is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations!

April 2019: Shuoguo Yuan et al.'s paper "Room-temperature ferroelectricity in MoTe₂ down to the atomic monolayer limit" is published in Nature Commun. on 16 April. Congratulations!

April 2019: Prof. Jianhua Hao received the President’s Awards for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Research & Scholarly-Individual in PolyU (2017/2018) in the presentation ceremony held on 10 April.

January 2019: Wiley Materials Views interview with Prof. Jianhua Hao, Associate Editor of InfoMat. WeChat: materialsviews (19 Jan., 2019)

December 2018: Daisy Yuen-Ting Wong and Louis Hung-Lit Chan have succesfully defended their MPhil theses. Congratulations!

December 2018: Ran Ding joined our group as Postdoctoral Fellow supported by Hong Kong Scholars Program. Welcome!

November 2018: Wei Xu et al.'s paper "Strategies and progress on improving robustness and reliability of triboelectric nanogenerators" is published online in Nano Energy. Congratulations!

October 2018: Beining Zheng joined our group as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!

October 2018: Wei Xu has succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

June 2018: Yang Zhang et al.'s paper "Ferroelectric and piezoelectric effects on the optical process in advanced materials and devices" is published online in Advanced Materials (Invited Review). Congratulations!

May 2018: Our research won the “Global Innovation Award” at TechConnect World Conference and Expo 2018 staged in the United States. TechConnect grants awards to the top 15% of innovations submitted, with assessment based on the potential positive impact the submitted technology will have on a specific industry sector. Around 500 submissions from about 180 organisations were received this year. Among them, 25 are presented with global awards designated for non-US-federal-funded innovations across the world. Another 55 national awards are granted to innovations with US federal funding. The award receivers include many global-renowned institutions and premier research centres.

January 2018: Bobi Ming-Kiu Tsang and Zhibin Yang have succesfully defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations!

December 2017: Mei-Yan Tse has succesfully defended her MPhil thesis. Congratulations!

September 2017: Zehan Wu and Yongxin Lyu joined our group as PhD and MPhil students, respectively. Welcome!

August 2017: Man-Chung Wong et al.'s paper "Temporal and remote tuning of piezophotonic effect-induced luminescence and color gamut via modulating magnetic field" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

July 2017: Wenjing Jie et al.'s paper "Observation of room-temperature magnetoresistance in monolayer MoS2 by ferromagnetic gating" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations!

April 2017: Our research won the Special Merit Award and Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury at the 45th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, which has attracted 725 exhibitors from 40 countries/regions, showcasing around 1,000 new products and it is the biggest event of its kind globally.

March 2017: Zhibin Yang et al.'s paper "Wafer-scale synthesis of high quality semiconducting two-dimensional layered InSe with broadband photoresponse" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations!

December 2016: Long-Biao Huang and Wei Xu et al.'s paper "Wind energy and blue energy harvesting based on magnetic-assisted noncontact triboelectric nanogenerator“", is published in Nano Energy and highlighted by X-MOL. Congratulations!

October 2016: Shuoguo Yuan et al.'s paper "Ferroelectric-driven performance enhancement of graphene field-effect transistor based on vertical tunnelling heterostructures" is published online in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

September 2016: Our research is highlighted by PolyU Milestones (September 2016) with Cover Story of "Shining a new light on virus detection" .

August 2016: Wei XU and Long-Biao Huang et al.'s paper “Environmentally friendly hydrogel-based triboelectric nanogenerators for versatile energy harvesting and self-powered sensors", is accepted for publication in Adv. Energy Mater. and highlighted by Materials Views and Materials Views China. Congratulations!

July 2016: Gongxun Bai and Ming-Kiu Tsang et al.'s paper "Luminescent ions in advanced composite materials for multifunctional applications" (Feature Article) is accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

June 2016: Gongxun Bai et al.'s paper "2D layered materials of rare-earth Er-doped MoS₂ with NIR-to-NIR down- and up-conversion photoluminescence" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

June 2016: Supported by our ITF project, Dong Chengjun joined us as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome!

March 2016: PolyU organized a press conference in relation to the media publicity for our research “Development of novel nano biosensor for rapid detection of flu virus”. The news is covered by many media outlets, such as TVB Jade News, TVB Pearl News, RTHK Radio, Ming Pao Daily News, Sing Tao Daily, Oriental Daily News, Apple Daily, The Sun, HK Economic Times, HK Economic Journal, am730, Metro Daily, Sky Post, The Standard, Headline Daily, Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, HK Commercial Daily, HK Investment Times, China Daily Asia, Chinadaily European, Asia News Network,  Xinhua News (English), Science Daily, PhysOrg.com, and so on.

January 2016: Supported by our newly funded ITF project, SU Xiaoqian, WONG Yuen Ting, Daisy, and HO Ka Lok join us. Welcome!

January 2016: Bobi Ming-Kiu Tsang et al.'s paper entitled "Ultrasensitive detection of Ebola virus oligonucleotide based on upconversion nanoprobe/nanoporous membrane system" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations!

December 2015: Long-biao Huang et al.'s paper entitled "Magnetic-assisted non-contact triboelectric nanogenerator converting mechanical energy into electricity and light-emissions" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

August 2015: Our paper published in Adv. Mater. 27, 4488 (2015) (Frontispiece) has been highlighted as "Materials: Magnetic opportunities" by Chief Editor, Dr. Oliver Graydon in "News and Views", Nature Photonics, 9, 558 (2015).

July 2015: Mr. Wei Xu graduated from Sichuan University and Ms. Mei Yan TSE graduated from our AP, PolyU joined our group as PhD and MPhil students, respectively. Welcome!

June 2015: Man-Chung Wong et al.'s paper "Magnetic-induced luminescence from flexible composite laminates by coupling magnetic field to piezophotonic effect" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

April 2015: Zhibin Yang et al.'s paper "Field-effect transistors based on amorphous black phosphorous ultrathin films by pulsed laser deposition" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

January 2015: Wenjing Jie et al.'s paper "Layer-dependent nonlinear optical properties and stability of non-centrosymmetric modification in few-layer GaSe sheets" is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations!