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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  

       Protocells/Artificial cells/Synthetic cells  

       Soft active matter

       Coacervates/Liquid-liquid phase separations  

       Liposomes/Vesicles  

       Micro/Nano-robotics

       Microfluidics  

       Bottom-up synthetic biology   

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

⁺co-first author, *corresponding author

Since SJTU:

24) Jia-Yao Wang, Ming-Di Gao, Chao-Yang Guan, Jin-Ying Qi, Nan-Nan Deng.* Ultraviolet and Visible Light-Responsive RNA Photofluids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, e202515264. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202515264

23) Jin-Ying Qi†, Qi-Hong Zhao†, Nan-Nan Deng.* A Photo-active Synthetic Cell. CCS Chemistry, 2025, 

https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.025.202506237

22) Zhen-Hong Luo, Xuan-Yan He, Nan-Nan Deng,* Monodisperse Giant Unilamellar Niosomes as Minimal Synthetic Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 27081−27088. 

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c09950

21) Muhammad Umar Farooq, Charles H. Lawrie, Nan-Nan Deng.* Solving Mazes of Organelle-targeted Therapies with DNA Nanomachines. Advanced Materials, 2025, 37, 2508047. (Review)

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202508047

20) Zhenhua Li,⁺ Qing Liu,⁺ Han Ding, Zhuojun Meng, Qi-Hong Zhao, Nan-Nan Deng,* Lifei Zheng.* Static and transient vacuolation in protein-based coacervates induced by charged amino acids. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 5837. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61340-w

19) Qi-Hong Zhao, Jin-Ying Qi, Nan-Nan Deng.* DNA nanomachine-assembled photofluids show life-like motion. Nature Materials, 2025, 24 (6), 935−944. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02202-0

News & Views:

Dúzs, B., Walther, A. DNA droplets shuffle in the spotlight. Nature Materials, 2025, 24, 816−817. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02226-6

18) Dong‐Yu Li, Nan‐Nan Deng.* Transient Structural Coloration During Dewetting Transition of Water‐In‐Oil‐In‐Water Droplets. Small, 2025, 2503654. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202503654

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, 11(12), ads1065. 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1065 

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. 

https://doi.org/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. (Supplementary Cover)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02119

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)   

2024 Second Prize in the Young Teachers' Teaching Competition, SJTU

2024 Outstanding Class Adviser in SJTU

2021 Future Scholar in ChemE, Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers

2021 Outstanding reviewer for Chemical Science

2019 Thousand Young Talents Program of China

2015-2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

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