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News and Presentations
In this section, we share exciting updates from all group members, including new publications, awards, outreach activities, and other professional milestones.
In this section, we share presentations at all kinds of conferences, including both academia and industry, as well as invited talks at institutions from all group members.
News
01/2026
Master student Dhanush Rendi joined our lab. Welcome Dhanush!
01/2026
Graduate student Zhihui Li began a rotation in our lab. Welcome Zhihui!
11/2025
Dr. Li visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was invited to give a talk titled "Piezoelectric Crystals for Biomedical Devices: Design and Discovery through Unconventional 2D and 3D Printing" in the department of materials science and engineering. Both Troy and PRI campus are so beautiful!
10/2025
Master student Vishnu Prasad joined our lab. Welcome Vishnu!
09/2025
Dr. Li was invited to give a talk to Biomedical Engineering students.
09/2025
High school student Irina Thomas joined our lab. Welcome Ira!
08/2025
The Li IMPACT Lab at CU Boulder is officially open! We’re so excited to begin this journey and look forward to the work ahead!
05/2025
Dr. Li was appointed as a visiting assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and will join the department as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2025 fall. Thrilled to begin this new chapter in beautiful Boulder!
Presentations & Posters
12/2025
Jun delivered two talks titled "Position-Encoded Piezoelectric Biomolecular Nanocrystal Arrays for Responsive Electronics" and "Bulk Ferroelectric Metamaterial with Enhanced Piezoelectric and Biomimetic Mechanical Properties from Additive Manufacturing ", respectively, at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston. Happy to see many new and old friends!
12/2024
Jun delivered a talk titled "Non-Centrosymmetric Single Crystalline Biomolecular Nano-Arrays for Responsive Electronics" at the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston.
12/2024
Jun attended the Meet the New Faculty Candidates Poster Session at the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston.
09/2024
Jun was invited and delivered a virtual talk titled " Synthesis, Manufacturing, and Application of Electromechanically Responsive Materials Across Multiscale" in the Center of Electron Microscopy at Zhejiang University.
06/2024
Jun was invited and delivered a virtual talk titled "Stretchable piezoelectric biocrystal thin films" at the 5th International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2024) in New Zealand.
05/2024
Jun was invited and delivered a virtual talk titled "Advanced Electromechanical Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications" in the Tang group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
05/2024
Jun delivered two talks titled "Stretchable piezoelectric biocrystal thin films" and "Bulk Ferroelectric Metamaterial with Enhanced Piezoelectric Coefficients and Biomimetic Mechanical Property from Additive Manufacturing" at the 7th International Conference of Nanogenerator and Piezotronics (NGPT) in Madison.
03/2024
Jun was invited to serve as a session chair to chair Session 3, Piezotronics, at the 7th International Conference of Nanogenerator and Piezotronics (NGPT) in Madison.
12/2022
Jun delivered two talks titled "Bulk Ferroelectric Metamaterial with Enhanced Piezoelectric Coefficients and Biomimetic Mechanical Property from Additive Manufacturing" and "3D Printing Piezoelectric Materials for Smart Tissue-Mimetic Bioelectronics" at the 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston.
06/2022
Jun was invited and delivered a talk titled "Long-term in vivo operation of implanted cardiac nanogenerator in swine" at the 2022 Swine in Biomedical Research Conference (SBR) in Madison.
12/2021
Jun delivered two talks titled "Wafer-Scale Heterostructured Piezoelectric Bio-Organic Thin Films" and "Bulk Ferroelectric Metamaterial with Enhanced Piezoelectric Coefficients and Biomimetic Mechanical Property from Additive Manufacturing" at the 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston.
10/2021
Jun was invited and delivered an Outstanding Student Lecture titled "Implanted Battery-Free Direct-Current Micro-Power Supply from in vivo Breath Energy Harvesting" at Energy Symposium, the 2021 Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) technical meeting and exhibition in Ohio.
10/2021
Jun delivered two talks titled "Multifunctional Artificial Artery from Direct 3D Printing with Built-In Ferroelectricity and Tissue-Matching Modulus for Real-Time Sensing and Occlusion Monitoring" and "Bulk Ferroelectric Metamaterial with Giant Piezoelectric Coefficients and Biomimetic Mechanical Property from Additive Manufacturing" at Additive Manufacturing Symposium, the 2021 Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) technical meeting and exhibition in Ohio.
04/2021
Jun delivered two virtual talks titled "Multifunctional Artificial Artery from Direct 3D Printing with Built-In Ferroelectricity and Tissue-Matching Modulus for Real-Time Sensing and Occlusion Monitoring" and "Implanted Battery-Free Direct-Current Micro-Power Supply from in vivo Breath Energy Harvesting" at the 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit.
09/2019
Jun was invited and delivered a talk titled "Renewable energy at your feet: exploring potential opportunities for energy harvesting polymeric flooring" at the Applied Market Information (AMI)’s Polymers in Flooring US Conference in Atlanta.
04/2019
Jun delivered three talks titled "Long-Term Biological Influence to Heart by Soft Ferroelectric Polymer Designed as Life-Long Cardiac Energy Harvester", "Implanted Battery-Free Direct-Current Micro-Power Supply from in vivo Breath Energy Harvesting", and "Effective Weight Control via an Implanted Self-Powered Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device" at the 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit in Phoenix.
08/2017
Jun was invited and delivered a talk titled "Stability, biocompatibility and in vivo performance of implantable nanogenerators" at the Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference in Ohio.
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