Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science
1. Committee member of the Flexible Bioelectronics and Wearable Medicine Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering
2. Associate editor for Advanced Bionics
3. Youth editorial board member for Wearable Electronics, FlexTech, and Chemical Research in Chinese Universities
About
ZHANG Feilong is currently a professor at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his BS degree from the University of Science & Technology Beijing (USTB, 2012) under the supervision of Prof. LI Xuqin and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS, 2018) under the supervision of Prof. WANG Shutao and Prof. JIANG Lei. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Xiaodong Chen's group at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (2018-2023).
His research focuses on the bioinspired design and fabrication of 3D devices and smart flexible electronics for plant monitoring and modulation. He has published 80 SCI papers, including 19 as first/corresponding author in journals such as Nat. Mater., Nat. Commun., PNAS, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., with over 5,500 citations.
Research Areas
1. Bioinspired Smart Adhesive Materials
2. Bioinspired Smart Deformable Materials
3. Flexible Sensor Devices
Publications
[1] Feilong Zhang#, Man Yang#, Xuetao Xu, Xi Liu, Huan Liu, Lei Jiang, Shutao Wang, Unperceivable motion mimicking hygroscopic geometric reshaping of pine cones. Nat. Mater. 2022, 21, 1357-1365.
[2] Feilong Zhang#, Dong Li#, Changxian Wang, Zhihua Liu, Man Yang, Zequn Cui, Junqi Yi, Ming Wang, Ying Jiang, Zhisheng Lv, Shutao Wang, Huajian Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Shape morphing of plastic films. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 7294.
[3] Qiannian Wang, Yinmin Cai, Peicheng Teng, Sen Zhang, Shihao Wu, Yiheng Li, Feilong Zhang*, Shutao Wang*. Strategies for Continuous Responsive Motion in a Constant Environment. Adv. Mater. 2025, 37, 2502926.
[4] Yinmin Cai#, Changxian Wang#, Man Yang, Yuepeng Li, Feilong Zhang*, Shutao Wang*. Bioinspired Programmable Biaxial Rolling Gel Sheets for Complex 3D Morphing. Adv. Mater. 2026, 38, e19226.
[5] Yiheng Li, Feilong Zhang*, Shutao Wang*, Regulatable interfacial adhesion between stamp and ink for transfer printing. Interdiscip. Mater. 2024, 3, 29-53.
[6] Qifeng Lin#, Rui Li#, Feilong Zhang#, Kazuki Kai, Zong Chen Ong, Xiaodong Chen, Hirotaka Sato, Resilient conductive membrane synthesized by in-situ polymerisation for wearable non-invasive electronics on moving appendages of cyborg insect. npj Flex. Electron. 2023, 7, 42.
[7] Feilong Zhang, Lei Jiang, Shutao Wang, Repairable cascaded slide-lock system endows bird feathers with tear-resistance and superdurability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2018, 115, 10046-10051.
[8] Shihao Wu#, Yiheng Lia#, Qiannian Wang#, Yinmin Cai#, Peicheng Teng, Wenlong Li, Feilong Zhang*, Li-Ping Xu*, Shutao Wang. Wearable Plant Sensing Devices for Health Monitoring. Wearable Electronics, 2025, 2, 100-115. (Invited Review)
[9] Peicheng Teng#*, Yinmin Cai#, Xinxin Liu#, Yulu Tuo#, Shihao Wu, Qiannian Wang, Yiheng Li, Feilong Zhang,* and Shutao Wang. Inspiration of Plant-Related Adhesion for Plant Wearable Sensor Interface Design. Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 13057-13075. (Invited Review)
[10] Man Yang, Feilong Zhang*, Shutao Wang*, Bioinspired strategies for biomimetic actuators from ultrafast to ultraslow. Nano Res. 2023, 17, 570-586.
Awards and Honors
1. 2025, UCAS Xiaomi Young Scholar
2. 2023, China Rising Star of Science and Technology Outstanding Impact Award
3. 2023, Nano Research Young Scientist Award
