Dr. Wen received his B.S. in chemical engineering at Zhengzhou University. He obtained his doctoral degree in applied physics from Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany in 2016. He was then promoted as a senior scientist in the IMN MacroNano® (ZIK), Technical University of Ilmenau. Since 2017, he started his post-doctoral research in Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut. He was recognized with the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad on 2015 and was the recipient of PostDoc Seed Grant Funding Award from the University of Connecticut as well as Best Oral Paper Prize from CMOC (IEEE CT) on 2018. Dr. Wen joined the School of Engineering in September 2019 as an assistant professor (independent PI).

The multifunctional nanostructure device laboratory uses intelligent multi-scale imprinting and direct laser writing technologies as the main means to design and manufacture new muti-scale 3D functional structures/materials, and to study different structural units/materials at the macro-micro-nano scale synergistic coupling characteristics of components, exploring their structure-activity relationship in (1) optoelectronic devices/chips, (2) biosensor devices, (3) green energy devices and system integration of new multifunctional/high-performance devices.

1. Sisi Yan+, Jiacheng Sun+, Bin Chen, Lang Wang, Sumin Bian, Mohamad Sawan, Haibin Tang, Liaoyong Wen*, Guowen Meng*. Manipulating Coupled Field Enhancement in Slot-under-Groove Nanoarrays for Universal Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, ACS Nano, 2023. (+ contributed equally)

2. Zichen Wang+, Jiacheng Sun+, Jiye Li, Lang Wang, Zishun Li, Xiaorui Zheng*, Liaoyong Wen*, Customizing 2.5D Out-of-plane Architectures for Robust Plasmonic Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Metasurfaces. Advanced Science, 2022, 10, 2206236. (+ contributed equally)

3. Xinyu Sun+, Jiacheng Sun+, Zichen Wang, Lang Wang, Feng Qiu*, Liaoyong Wen*, Manipulating Dual Bound States in the Continuum for Efficient Spatial Light Modulator. Nano Letters, 2022. 22(24), 9982–9989.(+ contributed equally)

4. Zhongqi Liu, Xiaosong Hu, Xinyue Dong, Shu Zhao, Yinjuan Chen, Biaobiao Zhang, Liaoyong Wen*, Lei Wang*. Sustainable upcycling of post-consumer waste to metal-graphene catalysts for green chemicals and clean water. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023, 4(2), 101256.

5. Liqiang Zhang, Lang Wang, Jiye Li, Can Cui, Ziqian Zhou, Liaoyong Wen*, Surface Engineering of Laser-Induced Graphene Enables Long-Term Monitoring of On-Body Uric Acid and pH Simultaneously. Nano Letters, 2022, 22(13), 5451-5458.

6. Yanliu Dang, Tianli Wu, Haiyan Tan, Jinlong Wang, Can Cui, Peter Kerns, Wen Zhao, Luisa Posada, Liaoyong Wen*, Steven L Suib*, Partially reduced Ru/RuO2 composites as efficient and pH-universal electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution. Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 5433-5443.

7. Liaoyong Wen, Rui Xu, Yan Mi, Yong Lei*, Multiple nanostructures based on anodized aluminium oxide templates. Nature nanotechnology, 2017,12 (3), 244-250.