Lei Wei

Dr. Lei Wei received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology (China) in 2005; and the Ph.D. degree in Photonics Engineering from Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) in 2011. Then he joined the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) as a postdoctoral associate. In 2014, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as a Nanyang Assistant Professor. In 2019, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. He serves as the Director of Centre for Optical Fibre Technology (COFT). His main research interests are fiber-based devices, multi-functional fibers, bio-fiber interfaces, and in-fiber energy generation and storage.

EXPERTISE

• Chemistry, Material Science, Composites

RESEARCH CATEGORY

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering

Current Grants

• Chemistry-Independent, Fluid-Instability-Mediated and Scalable In-Fiber Manufacturing of Multi- Material Structured Particles
• IDMxS - Visiting and Travel
• Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS)
• P2.1 Artificial Muscles Enabled Robotic Arms with fully integrated Sensing and Actuation
• Self-Healing and Stretchable Optical Fibers for Wearable Distributed Strain Sensing
• Single-Crystal Semiconductor Fibers for Wearable Optoelectronics

Articles (Journal)

• U. Gibson, L. Wei, and John Ballato, “Semiconductor core fibres: materials science in a bottle,” Nature Communications 12, 3990 (2021).
• M. Chen, Z. Wang, Q. Zhang, Z. Wang, W. Liu, M. Chen, and L. Wei, “Self-powered multifunctional sensing based on super-elastic fibers by soluble-core thermal drawing,” Nature Communications 12, 1416 (2021).
• J. Zhang, T. Zhang, H. Zhang, Z. Wang, C. Li, Z. Wang, K. Li, X. Huang, M. Chen, Z. Chen, Z. Tian, H. Chen, L. Zhao, and L. Wei, “Single-crystal SnSe thermoelectric fibers via laser-induced directional crystallization: from one-dimensional fibers to multi-dimensional fabrics,” Advanced Materials 32, 2002702 (2020).
• J. Yang, Q. Zhang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, L. Kang, M. Qi, M. Chen, W. Liu, W. Gong, W. Lu, P. Shum, and L. Wei, “Rational construction of self-standing sulphur-doped Fe2O3 anodes with promoted energy storage capability for wearable aqueous rechargeable NiCo-Fe batteries,” Advanced Energy Materials 10, 2001064 (2020).
• Z. Wang, T. Wu, Z. Wang, T. Zhang, M. Chen, J. Zhang, L. Liu, M. Qi, Q. Zhang, J. Yang, W. Liu, H. Chen, Y. Luo, and L. Wei, “Designer patterned functional fibers via direct imprinting in thermal drawing,” Nature Communications 11, 3842 (2020).