Hua Deng is currently a full-time professor at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from Queen Mary University of London. From 2008 to 2009, he worked for Nanocyl S.A. R&D department. In 2009, he joined Sichuan University as a lecturer and was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded with National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientist Fund. In 2021, he was selected as ‌the Academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province. He has been awarded with the Oustanding Schalor of Sichuan Province fund, and New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan from the Ministry of‌‌ Education.

His main research interest is in the processing and applications of functional polymer composites, including electrical/thermal conductive materials, strain/pressure sensors, and energy harvesting materials.

1. Lianhu Xiong; Yun Wei; Chuanliang Chen; Xin Chen; Qiang Fu*; Hua Deng*; Thin lamellar films with enhanced mechanical properties for durable radiative cooling, Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 6129

2. Xuezhong Zhang; Zijian Dai; Jie Chen; Xin Chen; Xiong Lin; Shuang Yang; Kai Wu; Qiang Fu*; Hua Deng*; Double-gradient-structured composite aerogels for ultra-high-performance moisture energy harvesting, Energy & Environmental Science, 2023, 16: 3600-3611

3. Xuezhong Zhang; Min Wang; Yanan Wu; Xin Chen; Kai Wu; Qiang Fu; Hua Deng*; Biomimetic Aerogel for Moisture‐Induced Energy Harvesting and Self‐Powered Electronic Skin, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 33: 2210027

4. Ke Tian; Chuanliang Chen; Qianyang Li; Xiaoyin Cao; Xin Chen; Qiang Fu; Hua Deng*; Evaporation‐Induced Closely‐Packing of Core–Shell PDMS@Ag Microspheres Enabled Stretchable Conductor with Ultra‐High Conductance, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33(49):2308799

5. Ke Tian, Tian Qin, Qianyang Li, Chuanliang Chen, Zijian Dai, Xin Wei*, Qiang Fu, Hua Deng*, Stretchable Multifunctional Polydimethylsiloxane Composites with Cage-like Conductive Architecture for Integrated Thermosensitive and Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance, Advanced Functional Materials,2024, Accepted, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202400288

6. Xuezhong Zhang; Xin Chen; Yuliang Qu; Yanan Wu; Kai Wu; Hua Deng*; Qiang Fu; Fabricating high performance multi-functional hygroelectric generator through a biomimic approach, Nano Energy, 2022, 98: 107241

7. Chuanliang Chen; Lianhu Xiong; Xuezhong Zhang; Ke Tian; Zijian Dai; Qiang Fu; Hua Deng*; Gradient heating induced better balance among water transportation, salt resistance and heat supply in a high performance multi-functional solar-thermal desalination device, Materials Horizons, 2023, 10: 5161-5176

8. Ke Tian; Chuanliang Chen; Lianhu Xiong; Xin Chen; Qiang Fu; Hua Deng*; Fast-Crosslinking Enabled Self-Roughed Polydimethylsiloxane Transparent Superhydrophobic Coating and Its Application. in Anti-Liquid-Interference Electrothermal Device, Small, 2023, Earlyview: 2308051

9. Yun Wei; Hongju Zhou; Hua Deng*; Wenjing Ji; Ke Tian; Zhuyu Ma; Kaiyi Zhang; Qiang Fu; “Toolbox” for the Processing of Functional Polymer Composites, Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 14(35)

10. Hua Deng*; Lin Lin; Mizhi Ji; Shuangmei Zhang; Mingbo Yang; Qiang Fu*; Progress on the morphological control of conductive network in conductive polymer composites and the use as electroactive multifunctional materials, Progress in Polymer Science, 2014, 39(4): 627-655

Second Prize of Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Award, Year 2023, First

2. First prize of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, Year 2015, Third

3. Early Career Award, Polymer Processing Society, Year 2019

4. ‌Top Ten Basic Research Advances of Sichuan University in 2023

5. ‌Young Scientists Award in Polymer Materials and Engineering, 2022-2023