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News and Presentations

In this section, we share exciting updates from all group members, including new publications, awardsoutreach 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

08/2025

Xuelin, Victor, and Jun kicked off their first unofficial meeting at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery! Delicious foods and beers! Excited for the coming semester!

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05/2025

Dr. Jun 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!

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Presentations & Posters

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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