Feeling relaxed on the Friday: the days of summer begin to give way to the warm glow of fall. It feels like a nice moment to pause and welcome the changing season. Sharing one of my paintings for this transition and looking forward to a refreshing and fruitful semester ahead.

🚀 We’re hiring! Friends and colleagues — we’re looking for a Research Scientist / Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong background in materials synthesis and applications. 🌿 The work focuses on environmental and sensing technologies, including water treatment and sensing, supported by our recent NIH grants. 📎 Learn more and apply via LinkedIn: 🔗 linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

🚀 Massive Microbubbles → Robotic Microtools Happy to share our latest in Nature Communications — a breakthrough in microbubble technology that create numerous bubbles as programmable, biocompatible, high-throughput micro-robots for nano- & bioassembly. For a decade, microbubbles held promise for nanomanufacturing & biomedicine, but hit barriers in scalability, efficiency & biocompatibility. We’ve made breakthrough: ✨ Key advances: • Low-intensity, light-controlled microbubble arrays • Deterministic assembly of nanocrystals, exosome vesicles, living cells • Monitoring of dynamic bacterial metabolism & drug response 🔬 Applications: Drug & antibiotic screening | Single-cell omics | Nano/biofabrication | Soft microrobotics 📄 Read: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… 🎥 Watch: static-content.springer.com/… #NatureCommunications #MicrobubbleAssembly #OptoElectrochemistry #Nanotechnology #Biosensing #SingleCellAnalysis #DrugDiscovery #Nanoassembly #Bioengineering

🎄✨ Sending warm holiday wishes with my latest painting on this special card! 2024 has been incredible: 🚀 Secured my startup’s first SBIR grant 🤖 Deepened my machine learning journey 🏅 Honored to be elected AIMBE Fellow 🎨 Created a new artwork Thank you to colleagues, friends & my X.com family for your support! Wishing you joy and success. #HappyHolidays #Startup #SBIR #ML #Art #AIBME #2024Success

linkedin.com/posts/donglei-e… Recently, I gave a Keynote Speech at The Nanomotors International Conference: 20th Anniversary in Barcelona and had the opportunity to reconnect with many friends and colleagues. Thank you all!