A special issue on: Piezotronics and Piezo-phototronics Here is our cover article „Recent Advances in Piezotronics and Piezo-phototronics“, MRS Bulletin, (2025); doi.org/10.1557/s43577…

Our recent review with my colleague Qijun Sun on “Piezotronics and Tribotronics of 2D Materials” （Review）, Materials Science & Engineering R, 164 (2025) 100951; doi.org/10.1016/j.mser…

Our publication on “Electrically controlled interface state distribution for improving pyro-phototronic photosensing from UV to NIR”, Nano Energy; doi.org/10.1016/j.nano…

Our new progress on: “Revolutionizing Wearable Electronics by Triboelectric-Enabled Mechanoelectrical Conversion Fibers”， Energy& Environmental Science; doi.org/10.1039/D5EE00…

Our new progress on: ” Multimodal Finger-Shaped Tactile Sensor for Multi-Directional Force and Material Identification”, Advanced Mater.; doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

The Maxwell's equtions for a moving object/medium was developed in the last few years. Here, we derive the reduced form of the theory if the object has no translational motion for engineering applications. This is our new advances in the field „Effective fields approach for the

The Maxwell's equtions for a moving object/medium was extensively developed. Here, we report our new experiments to support the theory: “Dynamics of Electromagnetic Waves Generation by a Rotating Dielectric Disc in a Constant Magnetic Field – A Revisit to Feynman’s “Anti-flux”

Nanogenerators, since their invention in 2006, have experienced rapid growth in global research. The invention of the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) in 2012 further accelerated the expansion of this new scientific and technology discovery, which has now become an

Are you interested in smart sports? Here is our review on TENG for sports: “Advances in intelligent sports based on triboelectric nanogenerators”, Intelligent Sports and Health, 1 (2025) 51-66; doi.org/10.1016/j.ish.…

<<SmartSys>> is a new journal, and I am serving as the chief editor. This is a recent paper we published in the first issue of the journal: Pengwen Guo, Mengmeng Jia, Di Guo, Tianling Ren, Zhong Lin Wang, Junyi Zhai “Progress in Flexoelectric Effect Research and Related

Nanogenerator was invented by my group in 2006! In March issue of <<MRS Bulletin>> we published the first issue on Nanogenerators. The Aprile issue is the second issue on Nanogenerators, and all of the articles are online now: link.springer.com/journal/43577/…

Our new book on “Contact-Electrification of Matter” link.springer.com/book/978303188… This book provides a comprehensive exploration of contact electrification across solid-solid, solid-liquid, and gas-solid interfaces. It looks into the underlying physics mechanisms, offering theoretical

The 2nd edition of my book on “Elastic and Inelastic Scattering in Electron Diffraction and Imaging” link.springer.com/book/978303190… This book provides an in-depth exploration of the physics underlying electron diffraction and imaging, with a focus on their applications in materials

We have applied machine-learning in TENG research: “Machine Learning Enhanced Self-Charging Power Sources”, Adv. Func. Mater., doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…

Our new publication on: "Field emission effect in triboelectric nanogenerators", Nature Communication, 16 ( 2025) 4706 ; doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

I was pleased to discuss with Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, 1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry about our invention of the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and its impact to fundamental chemistry with our newly discovered field of contact-electro catalysis (CEC).

As for decades, we know that the piezoelectric coefficients are continuous parameters for a material. However, our new theory shows that they can be quantized. It will be very exciting to verify it experimentally: Morten Willatzen, Zhiwei Zhang, and Zhong Lin Wang “Quantization

Our new progress on the applications of TENG: “Self-Powered Sensing Platform based on Triboelectric Nanogenerators Towards Intelligent Mining Industry”，Nature Communication, 16 (2025) 5141 ; doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Our new progress on: “ Advanced Handwriting Identification： Triboelectric Sensor Array Integrating with Deep Learning Towards High Information Security”, InfMat; doi.org/10.1002/inf2.7…

Does scientific citation matters? When I was a graduate student, my supervise told me: “you do great research and publish papers, make sure the papers will be cited by others, which is a measure to the impact of your research”. I always keep this in mind. I compared my citations