Dengfeng Li

I currently work as a senior research fellow in Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Tampere University. 

Rich experience in the fields of soft robotics and flexible electronics pointed the way for my scientific research. For small-sized soft robots, my research covers those that can run, swim and fly. For flexible electronics, I mainly focus on wearable haptic interfaces for applications in robotics and virtual augmented reality (VR/AR). I am interested in distinctive and applied research projects, in which integrating technologies from multiple fields is an effective strategy to improve the application level of scientific research.

Soft robotics, flexible electronics, haptics

Post-doc, Tampere University, 2024-

Post-doc, Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2019-2024

PhD, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 2016-2019

M.Sc, Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2010-2013

B.Sc, Physics, B.B.A., Business Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2006-2010

1)       Dengfeng Li#, Jingkun Zhou#, Zichen Zhao#, Xingcan Huang#, Hu Li#, Qing’ao Qu, Changfei Zhou, Kuanming Yao, Yanting Liu, Mengge Wu, Jingyou Su, Rui Shi, Ya Huang, Jingjing Wang, Zongwen Zhang, Yiming Liu, Zhan Gao, Wooyoung Park, Huiling Jia, Xu Guo, Jiachen Zhang, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Lingqian Chang*, Zhaoqian Xie*, Xinge Yu*. Battery-free, wireless, and electricity driven soft swimmer for water quality and virus monitoring. Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadk6301.

2)       Dengfeng Li#, Jingkun Zhou#, Kuanming Yao#, Sitong Liu#, Jiahui He#, Jingyou Su, Zhen Song, Chuanlu Sha, Zhi Sun, Chunki Yiu, Libei Huang, Qing’ao Qu, Chenyu Xu, Binbin Zhang, Jian Li, Tsz Hung Wong, Xingcan Huang, Jiyu Li, Yuyu Gao, Ruquan Ye, Lei Wei, Zhengyou Zhang, Xu Guo, Yuan Dai*, Zhaoqian Xie*, Xinge Yu*. Touch IoT enabled by wireless self-sensing and haptic-reproducing electronic skin. Science Advances, 2022, 8, eade2450.

3)       Kewang Nan#*, Kiwan Wong#, Dengfeng Li#, Binbin Ying#, James C McRae#, Vivian R Feig, Shubing Wang, Kuanming Yao, Jingkun Zhou, Jian Li, Joshua Jenkins, Keiko Ishida, Johannes Kuosmanen, Wiam Abdalla Mohammed Madani, Alison Hayward, Khalil Ramadi, Xinge Yu*, Giovanni Traverso*. An ingestible, battery-free, tissue-adhering robotic interface for non-invasive and chronic electrostimulation of the gut. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 6749. 

4)       Jian Li#, Shengxin Jia#, Dengfeng Li*, Lung Chow, Qiang Zhang, Yiyuan Yang, Xiao Bai, Qingao Qu, Yuyu Gao, Zhiyuan Li, Zongze Li, Rui Shi, Binbin Zhang, Ya Huang, Xinyu Pan, Yue Hu, Zhan Gao, Jingkun Zhou, WooYoung Park, Xingcan Huang, Hongwei Chu, Zhenlin Chen, Hu Li, Pengcheng Wu, Guangyao Zhao, Kuanming Yao, Muhamed Hadzipasic, Joshua D. Bernstock, Ganesh M. Shankar*, Kewang Nan*, Xinge Yu*, Giovanni Traverso*, Wearable bio-adhesive metal detector array (BioMDA) for spinal implants. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 7800. 

5)       Dengfeng Li#, Chao Liu#, Yuanyuan Yang, Lidai Wang*, Yajing Shen*. Micro-rocket robot with all-optic actuating and tracking in blood. Light: Science & Applications, 2020, 9, 84.