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Feng Research Group
We Engineer Pores for Nanorobotics & Autonomy, Circularity & Sustainability, Critical Energy & Materials
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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



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



Feng Selected on Early Career Board of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
12 January 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







Team Land Funding for Negative Emission Science Research
Feng Selected as Scialog Fellow
26 January 2024
Group Launch Officially at Duke
1 November 2023
Feng makes it into the 2022
Dream Chemistry Top 5
7 October 2022



Feng named to the prestigious
Forbes 30 Under 30 list
16 December 2021
Feng honored with two
prestigious MRS awards
21 November 2022
Active Adsorption Published on Science
21 October 2021
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
Meet the American Chemical Society’s First Sustainability Star
25 June 2024
Our Team Received 2024 ACS GCIPR Ignition Grant for
Greener Peptide Synthesis
1 October 2024
IUPAC Announces “Active Adsorption” Among 2024 Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry
18 October 2024
Our First Collaborated Publication from Duke is Now on
Nature Chemistry
3 September 2024
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