Dr. Jicheng Feng is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Group leader of the Aerosol Intelligence Laboratory (AIL) at ShanghaiTech University. He is a recipient of prestigious national and municipal talent programs. His research focuses on disruptive nanomanufacturing technologies, where he pioneered "Faraday 3D Printing," a novel technique that uses electric fields to assemble charged particles and atomic clusters into programmable 3D nanoarchitectures. This platform enables breakthroughs in nanoelectronics (e.g., wafer-scale interconnects, field-effect transistors) and nanophotonics (e.g., plasmonic nanoantennas, dynamic structural colors). He has served as the Principal Investigator for multiple competitive research grants, including the WRQB National Youth Talent Program, the Youth Innovation Program of Zhangjiang Laboratory, the Major Research Plan and General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as fundamental research grants from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. As the corresponding author, he has published in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, and Nano Letters, with multiple cover features and over 20 patents filed.  

• Atomic-level manufacturing

• 3D nanoprinting

• Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics

Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2012-2016)

Assistant Professor, PI, ShanghaiTech University, Sep. 2020 – Present

Research Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2018 – 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2016 – 2018

Chief Technologist, SINOPEC, China, 2010 – 2012

National Youth Talent Program (WRQB) Awardee

Shanghai High-Level Overseas Talent Program Awardee

Outstanding Tutor Award, ShanghaiTech University (2022, 2023, 2024)

2025 Shanghai High-Value Patent Operation Competition TOP 10

Silver Prize, Yangtze River Delta High-Value Patent Competition (2025)

3rd Prize, The 7th Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (2025)

Excellent Young Scholar, 4th National Metamaterials Conference (2025)

Research ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-0630

1)      B. Liu, S. Liu, V. Devaraj, Y. Yin, Y. Zhang, J. Ai, Y. Han, J. Feng*, Metal 3D nanoprinting with coupled fields, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 4920.

2)      S. Liu, J. Ai, Y. Zhang, J. Feng*, Programmable and parallel 3D nanoprinting using configured electric fields. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34(13), 2308734.

3)      Y. Yin, B. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Han, Q. Liu, J. Feng*, Wafer-Scale Nanoprinting of 3D Interconnects beyond Cu, ACS Nano, 2025, 19(18), 17878.

4)      B. Liu, Q. Liu, J. Feng*, Operando Colorations from Real-Time Growth of 3D-Printed Nanoarchitectures. Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2404977.

5)      Y. Yin, Y. Chen, J. Zhao, J. Feng*, Faraday Lithography, Nano Letters, 2025, 25(20), 8129.