Biography

 Dr. Bo Peng is a tenure-track associate professor at the College of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Fudan University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2013 from Utrecht University’s Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science in the Netherlands, conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, U.K., 2014-2017, and served as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and Academy Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland from 2017 to 2023. Dr. Peng has led multiple research projects funded by the EU, Finland, and China, and has authored over 70 SCI-indexed publications. His current research focuses on soft matter - including anisotropic and magnetic colloids, hydrogels, and functional coatings, such as radiative cooling and super-wetting surfaces.

Education and Working Experience

• 2025-present, Tenure-Track Associate Professor, College of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Fudan University

• 2023-2025, Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University

• 2017-2023, Group leader and PI, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University

• 2014-2017, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

• 2008-2013, PhD, Soft Condensed Matter, Department of Physics, Utrecht University

• 2005-2008, M.S., Department of Materials Science, Fudan University

• 2001-2005, B.S., Department of Chemistry, Qufu Normal University

Research Interests

• Anisotropic/Magnetic Colloidal Materials

• Soft Condensed Matter

• Hydrogels

• Passive Radiative Cooling Coatings

• Superwetting Surfaces

Teaching

• Fine Chemical Engineering

Awards &Recognition

• 2019 Academy Research Fellow

• 2018 Marie-Curie Fellow

Selected Publications

• Kejin Yu#, Lan Shi#, Wanqing Xu, Bo Peng*, Limin Wu*, Advancing soft mechanosensors by colloidal design, Advanced Materials, 2025, 10.1002/adma.202508349.   

• Xiaojing Liang, Zehao Wang, Yuxi Wang, Min Chen, Shuxue Zhou, Bo Peng*, Limin Wu*, Bioinspired miniature ionic power pack using stacked liquid marbles for muscle stimulation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 10.1002/adfm.202503010.  

• Xiaojing Liang, Yuxi Yang, Yan Zheng, Zehao Wang, Min Chen, Bo Peng*, Limin Wu*, Topological design of floaters with plug-in functions, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 35, 2501920  

• Guihua Yan#, Xichen Hu#, Ziyue Miao, Yongde Liu, Xianhai Zeng, Lu Lin, Olli Ikkala, Bo Peng*, Alphabet handwriting recognition: from wood-framed hydrogel arrays design to machine learning decoding, Advanced Science, 2024, 11, 2404437.  

• Ziyue Miao, Hongwei Tan, Lotta Gustavsson, Yang Zhou, Quan Xu, Olli Ikkala*, Bo Peng*, Gustation-inspired dual-responsive hydrogels for taste sensing enabled by machine learning, Small, 2024, 20, 1305195.  

• Shaochen Zhou, Lotta Gustavsson, Gregory Beaune, Sourov Chandra, Jukka Niskanen, Janne Roukolainen, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Olli Ikkala, Bo Peng*, Robin H. A. Ras*, pH-Responsive near-infrared emitting gold nanoclusters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202312679.  

• Xianhu Liu, Hongwei Tan, Carlo Rigoni, Teemu Hartikainen, Nazish Asghar, Sebastiaan van Dijken, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Bo Peng*, Olli Ikkala*, Magnetic field-driven particle assembly and jamming for bistable memory and response plasticity, Science Advances, 2022, 8, eadc9394.  

• Shaochen Zhou, Bo Peng*, Yanyan Duan, Kai Liu, Olli Ikkala, Robin H. A. Ras*, Bright and photostable fluorescent metal nanocluster supraparticles from invert emulsions, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202210808.  

• Bo Peng*#, Xinglin Zhang#, Dirk Aarts, Roel Dullens*, Superparamagnetic colloidal nickel nanocrystal clusters with antibacterial activity and bacteria binding ability, Nature Nanotechnology, 2018, 13, 478-482.  

• Bo Peng*#, Frank Smallenburg*#, Arnout Imhof, Marjolein Dijkstra, Alfons van Blaaderen*, Colloidal clusters made using emulsions and dumbbell particles: experiments and simulations, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52, 6709-6712.