Feng Research Group
We Engineer Pores for Nanorobotics & Autonomy, Circularity & Sustainability, Critical Energy & Materials
Welcome to the Feng Research Group @ Duke University
We are recruiting multiple PhD Students, Postdocs, and Visiting Scholars
Featured News
Feng Chaired Inorganic Materials Session at AMIC 2025
5 July 2025
Xiang Selected as one of the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Awards
8 May 2025
Feng Selected as 2025 US IUPAC Young Observers and invited to attend IUPAC 2025 in Kuala Lumpur
10 April 2025
Vision and Mission
We are an interdisciplinary research team in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, dedicated to developing transformative materials and mechanisms to tackle global challenges in energy, decarbonization, nanorobotics, and sustainability. Our mission is to advance experimental materials research—guided by insights from chemistry, environmental science, and emerging tools in AI and quantum science—to engineer solutions for carbon capture, critical resource recovery, and energy transformation, driving progress toward a better future.
Featured News
Xiang Selected as one of the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Awards
8 May 2025
2,712-Atom Bio-inspired Supramolecular Polyhedra:
Publication Now on Nature!
8 January 2025
Group Won Phases I and II of Bezos Earth Fund $1M Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize
20 December 2024
Feng Highlighted as Duke Trailblazer
by Pratt School of Engineering
26 August 2024
Feng Wins Early Career Award for Carbon-Capture Research
23 July 2024
Our First Collaborated Publication from Duke is on Nature Chemistry
3 September 2024
Meet the American Chemical Society’s First Sustainability Star
25 June 2024
Group Launch Officially at Duke
1 November 2023
Feng named to the prestigious
Forbes 30 Under 30 list
16 December 2021
Teaching
Spring Semester: ME 331 Thermodynamics
This course will cover fundamental principles of thermodynamics, while also addressing the critical role they play in tackling today’s global energy challenges.
Fall Semester: ME 490 & 555 Carbon Capture and Utilization
This course examines carbon cycle, greenhouse gas management, and the multifaceted materials, engineering, chemical, and environmental approaches to mitigating climate change. Students will engage in in-depth analysis of carbon cycle science across diverse organizations. The course also highlights innovation carbon management technologies, including various strategies such as point source carbon capture, carbon dioxide removal, conversion, transport & storage, as well as delving into advanced energy systems and hydrogen with carbon management.
