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2025 - 2022

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2025

Gu, Wenxi, Shuqi Yang, Dazhe Zhao, Yiwei Zou, Chonghao Chen, Peiqi Niu, Xiangyu Liang, Chi Tat Kwok, Bingpu Zhou, Chunming Wang, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Ji Liu and Iek Man Lei*. "Concentric ice-templating of ultra-compressible tough hydrogels with bioinspired circumferentially aligned architecture." Science Advances (In press).

Yi, Jiuhong, Shuqi Yang, Liang Yue, and Iek Man Lei*. "Digital light processing 3D printing of flexible devices: actuators, sensors and energy devices." Microsystems & Nanoengineering 11, no. 1 (2025): 51.

Zou, Yiwei, Jiuhong Yi, Yunlu Dai, and Iek Man Lei*. "Architected Microalgae‐Based Matter via 3D Printing: Properties, Printing Techniques, and Applications." Advanced NanoBiomed Research (2025): 2500023.

Liao, Zhencheng, Yu Liu, Chonghao Chen, Iek Man Lei, Lei Dong, and Chunming Wang*. "A Highly Adaptable Hydrogen Bond Re‐Orientation (HyBRO) Strategy for Multiscale Vasculature Fabrication." Advanced Materials (2025): 2417734.

2024

Tan, Peng, Wenxi Gu, Yiwei Zou, Xiao Song, Zehuan Huang, Ji Liu*, and Iek Man Lei*. "Harnessing dynamic covalent chemistry in sustainable biomass-based polymers: synthesis, dynamic functionalities and potential of dithiolane-containing supramolecular polymers." Progress in Polymer Science (2024): 101920.

Zhao, Dazhe, Renkun Wang, Sen Ding, Jiaze Shan, Xiao Guan, Zhaoyang Li, Jiaming Liang, Wenxi Gu, Bingpu Zhou, Iek Man Lei*, Liwei Lin, and Junwen Zhong*. "Bio-Inspired Fast-Moving and Steerable Insect-Scale Soft Aquatic Surface Robot." IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2025).

Cai, Chengcheng, Pei Zhang, Yafei Wang, Yun Tan, Iek Man Lei*, Ben Bin Xu*, and Ji Liu*. "Sustainable three-dimensional printing of waste paper-based functional materials and constructs." Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials 7, no. 5 (2024): 156.

Gong, Yanting, Kaijun Zhang, Iek Man Lei*, Yan Wang*, and Junwen Zhong*. "Advances in Piezoelectret Materials‐Based Bidirectional Haptic Communication Devices." Advanced Materials 36, no. 33 (2024): 2405308.

Mazzaglia, Corrado, Hafsa Munir, Iek Man Lei, Magda Gerigk, Yan Yan Shery Huang, and Jacqueline D. Shields. "Modeling structural elements and functional responses to lymphatic‐delivered cues in a murine lymph node on a chip." Advanced Healthcare Materials 13, no. 18 (2024): 2303720.

Wang, Wenyu, Yifei Pan, Yuan Shui, Tawfique Hasan, Iek Man Lei, Stanley Gong Sheng Ka, Thierry Savin et al. "Imperceptible augmentation of living systems with organic bioelectronic fibres." Nature Electronics (2024): 1-12.

Zhang, Jun, Xingmei Chen, Jingseng Lin, Pei Zhang, Iek Man Lei, Yue Tao, Jiajun Zhang, Tian Luo, and Ji Liu. "Hydrogel bioadhesives harnessing nanoscale phase separation for Achilles tendon repairing." Nano Research 17, no. 2 (2024): 778-787.

Pi, Yucong, Qiutong Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Dazhe Zhao, Kaijun Zhang, Zhirui Liu, Bingpu Zhou, Iek Man Lei, Yuan Ma, and Junwen Zhong. "Scalable and eco-friendly flexible loudspeakers for distributed human-machine interactions." npj Flexible Electronics 7, no. 1 (2023): 45.

2023

Iek Man Lei*, Duo Zhang, Wenxi Gu, Ji Liu, Yunlong Zi, and Yan Yan Shery Huang*. "Soft Hydrogel Shapeability via Supportive Bath Matching in Embedded 3D Printing." Advanced Materials Technologies (2023): 2300001.

Sheng, Yaqi, Corrado Mazzaglia, Leonor Nunes Rodrigues, Iek Man Lei, Jacqueline D. Shields, and Yan Yan Huang. "Deployable 3D bioprinting for modeling pancreatic tumour microenvironment with cancer associated fibroblasts." In TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A, vol. 29, no. 13-14. 140 HUGUENOT STREET, 3RD FL, NEW ROCHELLE, NY 10801 USA: MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC, 2023.

Fu, Jingjing, Ziwu Song, Guoqiang Xu, Haoyu Wang, Xinyuan Li, Jiaqi Wang, Wenbo Ding, Wei Ren, Iek Man Lei, and Yunlong Zi. "Optical Emission from Triboelectric Gas Discharge toward Self‐Powered Gas Sensing." Advanced Optical Materials 11, no. 9 (2023): 2202697.

Mazzaglia, Corrado, Yaqi Sheng, Leonor Nunes Rodrigues, Iek Man Lei, Jacqueline D. Shields, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "Deployable extrusion bioprinting of compartmental tumoroids with cancer associated fibroblasts for immune cell interactions." Biofabrication 15, no. 2 (2023): 025005.a

Zhang, Jiajun, Lulu Wang, Yu Xue, Iek Man Lei, Xingmei Chen, Pei Zhang, Chengcheng Cai, Xiangyu Liang, Yi Lu, and Ji Liu. "Engineering electrodes with robust conducting hydrogel coating for neural recording and modulation." Advanced Materials 35, no. 3 (2023): 2209324.

Liang, Xiangyu, Guangda Chen, Iek Man Lei, Pei Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xingmei Chen, Mengze Lu et al. "Impact‐Resistant Hydrogels by Harnessing 2D Hierarchical Structures." Advanced Materials 35, no. 1 (2023): 2207587.

Fathi, Saeed, Iek Man Lei, Yang Cao, and Yan Yan Shery Huang. "Microcapillary cell extrusion deposition with picolitre dispensing resolution." Bio-Design and Manufacturing 6, no. 1 (2023): 1-11.

Dai, Nian, Iek Man Lei, Zhaoyang Li, Yi Li, Peng Fang, and Junwen Zhong. "Recent advances in wearable electromechanical sensors—Moving towards machine learning-assisted wearable sensing systems." Nano Energy 105 (2023): 108041.

Tao, Yue, Xiangyu Liang, Jun Zhang, Iek Man Lei, and Ji Liu. "Polyurethane vitrimers: Chemistry, properties and applications." Journal of Polymer Science 61, no. 19 (2023): 2233-2253.

2022

Chun Lam Clement Chan, Iek Man Lei, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Richard M. Parker, Kieran D. Richards, Rachel C. Evans, Yan Yan Shery Huang, and Silvia Vignolini. "3D printing of liquid crystalline hydroxypropyl cellulose—toward tunable and sustainable volumetric photonic structures." Advanced Functional Materials 32, no. 15 (2022): 2108566.

Iek Man Lei, Yaqi Sheng, Chon Lok Lei, Yan Yan Shery Huang. A hackable, multi-functional, and modular extrusion 3D printer for soft materials. Scientific Reports, 12, 12294 (2022).

(Selected in "Top 100 in Engineering")

Pei Zhang, Iek Man Lei, Guangda Chen, Jingsen Lin, Xingmei Chen, Jiajun Zhang, Chengcheng Cai, Xiangyu Liang, and Ji Liu. "Integrated 3D printing of flexible electroluminescent devices and soft robots." Nature communications 13, no. 1 (2022): 1-8.

Xiangyu Liang, Guangda Chen, Iek Man Lei, Pei Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xingmei Chen, Mengze Lu et al. "Impact‐Resistant Hydrogels by Harnessing 2D Hierarchical Structures." Advanced Materials (2022): 2207587.

Jiajun Zhang, Lulu Wang, Yu Xue, Iek Man Lei, Xingmei Chen, Pei Zhang, Chengcheng Cai, Xiangyu Liang, Yi Lu, and Ji Liu. "Engineering Electrodes with Robust Conducting Hydrogel Coating for Neural Recording and Modulation." Advanced Materials (2022): 2209324.

Kaijun Zhang, Zhaoyang Li, Jianfeng Zhang, Dazhe Zhao, Yucong Pi, Yujun Shi, Renkun Wang et al. "Biodegradable Smart Face Masks for Machine Learning-Assisted Chronic Respiratory Disease Diagnosis." ACS sensors 7, no. 10 (2022): 3135-3143.

Jun Zhang, Yaya Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Iek Man Lei, Guangda Chen, Yu Xue, Xiangyu Liang et al. "Robust Hydrogel Adhesion by Harnessing Bioinspired Interfacial Mineralization." Small 18, no. 31 (2022): 2201796.

Xingmei Chen, Jun Zhang, Guangda Chen, Yu Xue, Jiajun Zhang, Xiangyu Liang, Iek Man Lei, Jingsen Lin, Ben Bin Xu, and Ji Liu. "Hydrogel Bioadhesives with Extreme Acid‐Tolerance for Gastric Perforation Repairing." Advanced Functional Materials (2022): 2202285.

Duo Zhang, Yaqi Sheng, Nicholas Piano, Theresa Jakuszeit, Edward Jonathan Cozens, Lingqing Dong, Alexander K. Buell et al. "Cancer cell migration on straight, wavy, loop and grid microfibre patterns." Biofabrication 14, no. 2 (2022): 024102.

Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory

E11 - 2031

Faculty of Science and Technology

University of Macau

Avenida da Universidade

Taipa, Macau, China

Dr. Iek Man Lei

Email: ieklei@um.edu.mo

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