Liwei Lin (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Liwei Lin

Jong Ha Park

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2027 (Anticipated)

Zihan Wang

Visiting Scholar Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)

Zihan Wang received his dual BEng. degrees (1st class Hons.) from Xidian University and Heriot-Watt University in 2019. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Data Science and Information Technology at the Smart Sensing and Robotics (SSR) group, Tsinghua-Berkely Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University. He is currently a visiting research scholar in Professor Liwei Lin's lab focusing on liquid metal-based sensors and acturators.

Alexander Alvara

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2024 (Anticipated)

Alexander Alvara is a 5th year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering who earned his 3 BS degrees from UC Irvine '17 concurrently in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and materials science and engineering. Alexander is interested in extreme conditions applications and performance of MEMS devices as well as nanoscale materials engineering that investigates the interplay of materials with electromagnetism and light.

Nikita Lukhanin

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

BPN955: Nanoplasmonic Biosensing

Kamyar Behrouzi
2023

Access to affordable and user-friendly biosensors is crucial for advancing global healthcare. While lateral flow immunoassays have been the primary solution for decades, their limited sensitivity and suboptimal sample utilization present challenges. This project represents a systematic progression towards developing economically viable biosensors with heightened sensitivity, covering a range of diseases from viral infections to cancer. By integrating nanoplasmonics to induce visually perceptible signals and harnessing the coffee ring effect for protein pre-concentration, we achieved...

Peisheng He

Postdoctoral Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2023

Peisheng He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 2020 and 2023, respectively under the supervision of Prof. Liwei Lin. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Liwei Lin's lab as a Bakar Innovation Fellow.

Spring 2023 Research Review Presenter

Ryuichi Arakawa

Visiting Industry Fellow
NGK Spark Plug
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)

Yuan Gao

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

BPN993: Safe and Deformable Soft Batteries

Peisheng He
Jongha Park
2023

Safe and deformable soft batteries are desirable for modern products that call for good safety features such as cell phones and good conformability to be embedded onto irregular surfaces in electronics systems. Current Li-ion batteries on the commercial market are rigidly packaged and hermetically sealed to prevent: 1) the intrusion of moistures which degrade performances; and 2) the leakage of toxic and flammable electrolytes due to mechanical damages. On the other hand, various deformable/stretchable batteries have been reported in research articles and they have shown good...

BPN940: Self-Healing Materials for Sensing and Energy Harvesting Applications

Peisheng He
Zihan Wang
2023

Animal skins often possess both functions of sensing and actuating to detect external stimulations and change shapes when needed, respectively. Furthermore, many animals, such as jellyfish and leptocephalus (eel larvae) have tissues that are transparent and ultra-stretchable, which are difficult to build in synthetic sensors and actuators. Moreover, all these living skins have self-healing properties, i.e. to restore their critical functions after being damaged. On the contrary, artificial electronic systems are often brittle and non-transparent. As such, biomimetic, skin-like materials...