2014, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering   

2009, B.E. in Chemical Engineering 

2019-present, Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China  

2017-2019, Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. George Whitesides’ Group, Harvard University, USA  

2014-2017, Marie Curie Fellow & Postdoc in Prof. Wilhelm Huck’s Group, IMM, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands  

       Microfluidics  

       Bottom-up synthetic biology   

       Protocells/Artificial cells/Synthetic cells  

       Soft active matter

       Coacervates/Liquid-liquid phase separations  

       Liposomes/Vesicles  

       Micro/Nano-robotics

For Full publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6i5ARiQAAAAJ&hl=en

Since SJTU:

18) Qi-Hong Zhao, Jin-Ying Qi, Nan-Nan Deng.* DNA nanomachine-assembled photofluids show life-like motion. Nature Materials, 2025, accepted.

17) Yao-Yao Su, Da-Wei Pan*, Tao-Xian Zhang, Rui Xie, Xiao-Jie Ju, Zhuang Liu, Nan-Nan Deng*, Wei Wang*, Liang-Yin Chu. Wetting-induced Interfacial Instability: A Mechanism for Droplet Emission at Air-liquid Interfaces. Science Advances, 2025, accepted.

16) Jia-Qi Tian, Nan-Nan Deng.* Dynamic satellite-parent liposome networks for quantitative microreactions. Chemical Science, 2024, 

15, 19619-19625. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC04925J.  

15) Jia-Qi Tian, Mu-Yueh Chang, Chen Chen, Zhen-Hong Luo, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Nan-Nan Deng.* Interfacial Energy-mediated Bulk Transport across Artificial Cell Membranes. Nature Chemical Engineering, 2024, 1 (7), 450–461.

pages https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-024-00088-4 (Free PDF access link: https://rdcu.be/dMKyA)

news & views: Controlling transport across artificial cell membranes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-024-00091-9

14) Zhen-Hong Luo†, Chen Chen†, Qi-Hong Zhao, Nan-Nan Deng.* Functional Metal-phenolic Cortical Cytoskeleton for Artificial Cells. Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadj4047. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4047

13) Dong-Yu Li, Wei Wang, Liang-Yin Chu, and Nan-Nan Deng.* Tunable Structural Coloration in Eccentric Water-in-Oil-in-Water Droplets. Nano Letters, 2023, 23, 9657-9663. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02119.(Supplementary Cover)

12) Mu-Yueh Chang, Hirotaka Ariyama, Wilhelm T. S. Huck,* Nan-Nan Deng.* Division in synthetic cells. Chemical Society Review, 2023, 52, 3307-3325. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CS00985D

11) Qi-Hong Zhao,+ Fang-Hao Cao,+ Zhen-Hong Luo, Wilhelm TS Huck, Nan-Nan Deng.* Photoswitchable Molecular Communication between Programmable DNA‐based Artificial Membraneless Organelles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, e202117500. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202117500

Before SJTU:  

10) Nan-Nan Deng,* Mahesh Vibhute, Lifei Zheng, Hui Zhao, Maaruthy Yelleswarapu, Wilhelm TS Huck.* Macromolecularly crowded protocells from reversibly shrinking monodisperse liposomes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 7399-7402. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b03123

9) Nan-Nan Deng,* Wilhelm T. S. Huck.* Microfluidic formation of monodisperse coacervate organelles in liposomes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 9736-9740. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703145

8) Nan-Nan Deng, Maaruthy Yelleswarapu, Life Zheng, Wilhelm T. S. Huck.* Microfluidic assembly of monodisperse vesosomes as artificial cell models. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 587-590. (Front Cover, highlighted by JACS Spotlight) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b10977

7) Nan-Nan Deng, Maaruthy Yelleswarapu, Wilhelm T. S. Huck.* Monodisperse uni- and multi-compartment liposomes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138, 7584-7591. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b02107

6) Nan-Nan Deng, Wei Wang, Xiao-Jie Ju, Rui Xie, Liang-Yin Chu.* Spontaneous transfer of droplets across microfluidic laminar interfaces. Lab on a Chip, 2016, 16, 4326-4332. (Front Cover)

5) Deng N.N., Sun J., Wang W., Ju X.J., Xie R., Chu L.Y. Wetting-Induced Coalescence of Nanoliter Drops as Microreactors in Microfluidics.ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 6, 3817-3821  

4) Deng N.N., Mou C.L., Wang W., Ju X.J., Xie R., Chu L.Y. Multiple-emulsion formation from controllable drop pairs in microfluidics. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2014, 17, 967-972.  

3) Deng N.N.,  Wang W., Ju X.J., Xie R., Weitz D.A., Chu L.Y. Wetting-induced  formation of controllable monodisperse multiple emulsions in  microfluidics. Lab on a Chip, 2013, 13, 4047-4052. (Back Cover)   

2) Deng N.N., Sun S.X., Wang W., Ju X.J., Xie R., Chu L.Y. A novel surgery-like strategy for droplet coalescence in microchannels. Lab on a Chip, 2013, 13, 3653-3657.  

1) Deng N.N.,  Meng Z.J., Xie R., Ju X.J., Mou C.L., Wang W., Chu L.Y. Simple and  cheap microfluidic devices for preparation of monodisperse emulsions. Lab on a Chip, 2011, 11, 3963 -3969. (Back Cover)   

2021 天府峨眉计划 （上海交大四川研究院）

2021 全球华人化工学会 “未来化工学者”

2019 国家高层次海外人才计划

2015-2017 欧盟玛丽居里奖学金（Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships）

2014 四川大学优秀博士毕业生

2013 博士研究生国家奖学金

2013 赢创奖学金

2012 宝钢奖学金

We now have multiple positions.   Applications for PhD programme from international students are always welcome. For those seeking a post-doctoral position, please send the following materials to n.deng@sjtu.edu.cn  

1). cover letter   

2). curriculum vitae