General Information

Name: Jin GE                                               

Position: Professor

 

Contact

Email: gejin@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Corresponding Address: 

Waihuan East Road 132

Higher Education Mega Center 

510006 Guangzhou

China

Group Website: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/Ge_Jin

 

Education

2011.09-2016.06   Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

Supervisor: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu

2006.09-2010.06   B.Eng. Pharmaceutical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology

 

Experience

2021.07-present        Professor       Sun Yat-sen University

2019.04-2021.06      Postdoctoral Fellow       Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW-Dresden)

                                  Advisor: Prof. Oliver G Schmidt

2016.08-2019.03      Postdoctoral Fellow       Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

                                  Advisor: Dr. Denys Makarov

 

Course Teaching

Physical Chemistry, University Chemistry Laboratory, Modern Chemistry Experiments and Techniques, Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Drawing, Advances in Chemistry.

 

Research Interest

Bioinspired Tactile Perception Devices and Systems

Our research addresses the critical demand for tactile sensing in humanoid robotics by developing bioinspired electronic skins that replicate the mechanical compliance and sensory capabilities of human skin. We focus on a vertically integrated approach—from the synthesis of flexible electronic materials and the design of novel sensing architectures, to device integration and signal acquisition/processing. A central challenge we target is the long-standing trade-off between high sensing performance and mechanical softness. Our goal is to achieve intelligent tactile feedback that enables real-time recognition of grip status, as well as object physical properties during robotic manipulation.

Piezochromic Materials and Thin-Film

We are dedicated to the development of next-generation pressure-sensing thin films for high-precision mapping of interfacial pressure distribution, targeting applications in the manufacturing and assembly of high-end mechanical components. Our efforts center on multiple piezochromic mechanisms, including conformational changes in organic small molecules, structural transformations in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), pressure-induced chromic reactions, and pressure-triggered optical clearing. By leveraging these mechanisms, we aim to engineer thin-film sensors that afford high spatial resolution and accurate pressure readout, thereby enabling quantitative visualization of interfacial stress fields in advanced industrial settings.

 

Awards and Honors

2025: First Prize of the Natural Science Award of Anhui Province (2/4)

2019: Gold Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva

2017: Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2016: President's Excellent Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015: Xingye Global Responsibility Scholarship

2014: Postgraduate Scholarship, Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation

 

Research Publications

Professor Jin Ge focuses on flexible electronics, oil–water separation, and mechanical sensing. His research centers on the design and development of high-performance electrical and optical functional materials, with particular emphasis on nanostructure-enabled and multiscale structural engineering, as well as the underlying electro/optical–mechanical coupling mechanisms. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals, with over 10,000 citations. He has authored 25 papers as first, co-first, or corresponding author, including publications in Nat. Nanotech. (1), Nat. Commun. (3), Adv. Mater. (4), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2), Sci. Bull. (1), CCS Chem. (1), and so on. His publications include three highly cited papers, with one paper receiving more than 1,000 citations. His work has been featured or highlighted by leading journals and scientific media, including Nature, Nat. Nanotech, Nat. Rev. Mater., Nat. Sustain., and so on. His research has also been selected as a Highlight of Scientific and Technological Innovation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds nine granted Chinese invention patents, including one awarded a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. He currently serves on the Young Editorial Boards of Nano-Micro Letters, FlexMat, and Soft Science.

 

  1. Lin Zheng†, Jinhui Gu†, Junshuai Chen, Jun-Zhe Dong, Jia-Sen Xie, Ying Yang, Mingwei Gu, Xingyu Ma, Mengxing Huang, Jin Ge*, Mei Pan*, Cheng-Yong Su*, Piezochromic MOF films for interfacial pressure mapping, Soft Sci. 2026, 6, 68

  2. Yongming Wang(本科生), Jiasen Xie, Mingwei Gu, Ying Yang, Xingyu Ma, Lin Zheng, Junshuai Chen, Yunjie Lu, Jinhui Gu, and Jin Ge*, Ionic conductivity and excitation frequency effects in iontronic pressure sensing, Nano Res. 2026, 19, 94908691

     

  3. Ying Yang, Mingwei Gu, Jia-Sen Xie, Xingyu Ma, Yan-Na Lu, Lin Zheng, Jinhui Gu, Junshuai Chen, Yunjie Lu, Denys Makarov, and Jin Ge*, Precise perception of surface tackiness enabled by a soft single-sensing-element tactile sensor, Sci. Bull. 2026, 71, 2767

  4. Jiasen Xie, Xingyu Ma, Yongming Wang, Ying Yang, Mingwei Gu, Lin Zheng, Junshuai Chen, Yunjie Lu, Jinhui Gu, Jin Ge*, Wide-range and high-resolution Young’s modulus sensing enabled by a complementary indentation-protrusion architecture, FlexMat 2026, DOI: 10.1002/flm2.70105

     

  5. Jiasen Xie†, Xingyue Liu†, Yongming Wang, Ying Yang, Mingwei Gu, Xingyu Ma, Lin Zheng, Yunjie Lu, Jin-Hui Gu, Junshuai Chen, Guoyong Mao*, Jin Ge*, Simultaneous perception of Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio via a machine learning-enabled tactile sensor trained on a synthetic materials library, Nat. Commun. 2026, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73216-8

     

  6. Yuxuan Fang, Jinglin Sun, Ying Tan, Guo Yang, Huanyu Chen, Mingwei Gu, Yongbin Feng, Meifang Yang, Hong Liu, Jun Fang, Congcong Wu, Longbin Qiu, Jin Ge, Zhibin Yang, Wu-Qiang Wu*, Scalable solution soaking quenching technique unlocks efficient and durable wide bandgap perovskite solar modules, Nat. Commun. 2026, 17, 2824.
  7. Rui Su, Tiantian Ding, Hao Tang, Xueying Yang, Jie Zhang, Xiaolin Liu, Jinfu Jia, Yuan Liu*, Jin Ge, Zhilin Wu, Zhengya Dong*, Xiaojing Zhu*, Ultrafine Ru‐M Alloy@S Vacancy‐Rich MoS2 Nanosheets With Bimetallic Active Sites for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline and Acidic Media, Adv. Sci. 2025, 13, e19323.

  8. Xiang-Ru Liu, Yihao Yin, Xian-Xian Xiao, Lin Zheng, Yan-Na Lu, Jun-Shuai Chen, Jin-Hui Gu, Yunjie Lu, Jia-Sen Xie, Mingwei Gu, Zhi-Guang Xu, Jin Ge*, Bistricyclic aromatic enes with fast conformational transition for ultrathin piezochromic films, Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 7506.

  9. Yan-Na Lu#, Kai Mo#(本科生), Mingwei Gu, Jia-Sen Xie, Ying Yang, Lin Zheng, Xiang-Ru Liu, Yunjie Lu, Jun-Shuai Chen, Jin Ge*, Engineered zwitterionic hydrogel with extreme environment resilience: High ionic conductivity, subzero tolerance, and potential for multimodal sensing and optical applications, Chem. Eng. J. 2025, 510, 161390.

  10. Pavlo Makushko, Jin Ge*, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Oleksii Volkov, Yevhen Zabila, Stanislav Avdoshenko, Rico Illing, Leonid Ionov, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Jürgen Fassbender, Rui Xu* & Denys Makarov*, Scalable magnetoreceptive e-skin for energy-efficient high-resolution interaction towards undisturbed extended reality, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 1647.

                                  

  11. Yan-Na Lu, Kai Mo (本科生), Xue-Hang Liang (本科生), Jia-Sen Xie, Ying Yang, Lin Zheng, Mingwei Gu, Xiang-Ru Liu, Yunjie Lu, Jin Ge*, High Ion-Conductive Hydrogel: Soft, Elastic, with Wide Humidity Tolerance and Long-term Stability, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, 16, 60992

  12. Renwei Ye, Yunjie Lu, Jin Ge*, Piezochromism materials: research and application advancements, Sci Sin Chim, 2024, 54, 1549. 中山大学百年校庆专刊

  13. Zhe Qu, Minshen Zhu*, Yin Yin, Yang Huang, Hongmei Tang, Jin Ge, Yang Li, Dmitriy D Karnaushenko, Daniil Karnaushenko, Oliver G Schmidt*, A Sub‐Square‐Millimeter Microbattery with Milliampere‐Hour‐Level Footprint Capacity, Adv. Energy Mater.2022, 12, 2200714
  14. Gang Wang, Evgenia Dmitrieva, Benjamin Kohn, Ulrich Scheler, Yannan Liu, Valeriya Tkachova, Lin Yang, Yubin Fu, Ji Ma, Panpan Zhang, Faxing Wang, Jin Ge, Xinliang Feng*, An Efficient Rechargeable Aluminium–Amine Battery Working Under Quaternization Chemistry, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202116194
  15. Jin Huang, Yuchun Cai, Chengyuan Xue, Jin Ge, Haoyu Zhao, Shu-Hong Yu*, Highly stretchable, soft and sticky PDMS elastomer by solvothermal polymerization process, Nano Res. 2021, 14, 3636
  16. Yonghong Song, Lu‐An Shi, Hanye Xing, Kun Jiang, Jin Ge, Liang Dong, Yang Lu*, Shu‐Hong Yu*, A Magneto‐Heated Ferrimagnetic Sponge for Continuous Recovery of Viscous Crude Oil, Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2100074

  17. Lu-An Shi#, Jin Ge#, Bi-Cheng Hu, Tao Ma, Haoyu Zhao, Yong-Hong Song, Chao Li, Shu-Hong Yu*, Joule-heated carbonized melamine sponge for high-speed absorption of viscous oil spills, Nano Res. 2021, 14, 2697

  18. Jin Ge*, Minshen Zhu, Eric Eisner, Yin Yin, Haiyun Dong, Dmitriy D Karnaushenko, Daniil Karnaushenko, Feng Zhu, Libo Ma, Oliver G Schmidt*, Imperceptible Supercapacitors with High Area‐Specific Capacitance, Small 2021, 17, 2101704

  19. Minshen Zhu*, Junping Hu, Qiongqiong Lu, Haiyun Dong, Dmitriy D Karnaushenko, Christian Becker, Daniil Karnaushenko, Yang Li, Hongmei Tang, Zhe Qu, Jin Ge, Oliver G Schmidt*, A Patternable and In Situ Formed Polymeric Zinc Blanket for a Reversible Zinc Anode in a Skin‐Mountable Microbattery, Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2007497
  20. Hong-Wu Zhu, Jin Ge, Hao-Yu Zhao, Lu-An Shi, Jin Huang, Liang Xu, Shu-Hong Yu*, Sponge-templating synthesis of sandwich-like reduced graphene oxide nanoplates with confined gold nanoparticles and their enhanced stability for solar evaporation, Sci. China Mater. 2020, 63, 1957
  21. Hong-Wu Zhu, Huai-Ling Gao, Hao-Yu Zhao, Jin Ge, Bi-Cheng Hu, Jin Huang, Shu-Hong Yu*, Printable elastic silver nanowire-based conductor for washable electronic textiles, Nano Res. 2020 13, 2879
  22. Xu Wang, Guoyong Mao, Jin Ge, Michael Drack, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Daniela Wirthl, Rico Illing, Tobias Kosub, Lothar Bischoff, Changan Wang, Jürgen Fassbender, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Denys Makarov*, Untethered and ultrafast soft-bodied robots, Commun. Mater. 2020, 1, 67

  23. Jin Ge#, Hong-Wu Zhu#, Yuan Yang, Yufang Xie, Gang Wang, Jin Huang, Lu-An Shi, Oliver G Schmidt, Shu-Hong Yu*, A General and Programmable Synthesis of Graphene-Based Composite Aerogels by a Melamine-Sponge-Templated Hydrothermal Process, CCS Chem. 2020, 2, 1-12.

  24. Haixia Zhong, Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Khoa Hoang Ly, Jichao Zhang, Jin Ge, Mingchao Wang, Zhongquan Liao, Denys Makarov, Ehrenfried Zschech, Eike Brunner, Inez M Weidinger, Jian Zhang, Arkady V Krasheninnikov, Stefan Kaskel, Renhao Dong*, Xinliang Feng*, Synergistic electroreduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide on bimetallic layered conjugated metal-organic frameworks, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 1409
  25. Fei Li, Jiang Qu, Yang Li, Jinhui Wang, Minshen Zhu, Lixiang Liu, Jin Ge, Shengkai Duan, Tianming Li, Vineeth Kumar Bandari, Ming Huang, Feng Zhu*, Oliver G Schmidt*, Stamping Fabrication of Flexible Planar Micro-Supercapacitors Using Porous Graphene Inks, Adv. Sci. 2020, 7, 2001561

  26. Jin Ge*, Xu Wang, Michael Drack, Oleksii Volkov, Mo Liang, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Rico Illing, Changan Wang, Shengqiang Zhou, Jürgen Fassbender, Martin Kaltenbrunner*, Denys Makarov*, A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time, Nat. Commun.2019, 10, 4405. Highlighted by Nat. Rev. Mater.              

                                       

  27. Xu Wang, Larysa Baraban, Anh Nguyen, Jin Ge, Vyacheslav R Misko, Jacques Tempere, Franco Nori, Petr Formanek, Tao Huang, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Jürgen Fassbender, Denys Makarov*, High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors, Small 2018, 14,1803613

  28. Hong-Wu Zhu#, Jin Ge#, Yu-Can Peng, Hao-Yu Zhao, Lu-An Shi, Shu-Hong Yu*, Dip-coating processed sponge-based electrodes for stretchable Zn-MnO2 batteries, Nano Res. 2018, 11, 1554

  29. Wenya Song, Gungun Lin, Jin Ge, Jürgen Fassbender, Denys Makarov*, Encoding Microreactors with Droplet Chains in Microfluidics, ACS Sens. 2017, 2, 1839
  30. Chuan-Ling Zhang, Fu-Hu Cao, Jin-Long Wang, Zhi-Long Yu, Jin Ge, Yang Lu, Zhi-Hua Wang, Shu-Hong Yu*, Highly Stimuli-Responsive Au Nanorods/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) Composite Hydrogel for Smart Switch, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 24857

  31. Jin Ge#, Lu-An Shi#, Yong-Chao Wang#, Hao-Yu Zhao, Hong-Bin Yao, Yin-Bo Zhu, Ye Zhang, Hong-Wu Zhu, Heng-An Wu, Shu-Hong Yu*, Joule-heated graphene-wrapped sponge enables fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill, Nat. Nanotech.2017, 12, 434. Front Cover. Highlighted by Nature. Editorial:"Think Bigger", Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017, 12, 395. News & Views:  "Oil spill recovery: Graphene heaters absorb faster" by Despina Fragouli and Athanassia Athanassiou. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017, 12, 406.

                             

  32. Jin Ge, Hao‐Yu Zhao, Hong‐Wu Zhu, Jin Huang, Lu‐An Shi, Shu‐Hong Yu*，Advanced sorbents for oil‐spill cleanup: recent advances and future perspectives, Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 10459. Invited Review, Special Issue. Highlighted by MaterialsView China.

  33. Huai-Ling Gao, Yin-Bo Zhu, Li-Bo Mao, Feng-Chao Wang, Xi-Sheng Luo, Yang-Yi Liu, Yang Lu, Zhao Pan, Jin Ge, Wei Shen, Ya-Rong Zheng, Liang Xu, Lin-Jun Wang, Wei-Hong Xu, Heng-An Wu, Shu-Hong Yu*, Super-elastic and fatigue resistant carbon material with lamellar multi-arch microstructure, Nat. Commun. 2016, 7, 12920
  34. Lei-Lei Lu, Jin Ge, Jun-Nan Yang, Si-Ming Chen, Hong-Bin Yao, Fei Zhou, Shu-Hong Yu*, Free-standing copper nanowire network current collector for improving lithium anode performance, Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 4431
  35. Xiao-Fang Yu, Li-Bo Mao, Jin Ge, Zhi-Long Yu, Jian-Wei Liu, Shu-Hong Yu*, Three-dimensional melamine sponge loaded with Au/ceria nanowires for continuous reduction of p-nitrophenol in a consecutive flow system, Sci. Bull. 2016, 61,700

  36. Zhuo-Rui Jiang#, Jin Ge#, Yu-Xiao Zhou#, Zhiyong U Wang, Dongxiao Chen, Shu-Hong Yu*, Hai-Long Jiang*, Coating sponge with a hydrophobic porous coordination polymer containing a low-energy CF3-decorated surface for continuous pumping recovery of an oil spill from water, NPG Asia Mater. 2016, 8, e253. Highlighted by NPG Asia Materials

  37. Jin Ge, Li Sun, Fu-Rui Zhang, Ye Zhang, Lu-An Shi, Hong-Wu Zhu, Hao-Yu Zhao, Hai-Long Jiang, Shu-Hong Yu*, A Stretchable Electronic Fabric Artificial Skin with Pressure-, Lateral Strain- and Flexion- Sensitive Properties, Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 722-728. Inside Back Cover

                                   

  38. Jin‐Long Wang, Jian‐Wei Liu, Bing‐Zhang Lu, Yi‐Ruo Lu, Jin Ge, Zhen‐Yu Wu, Zhi‐Hua Wang, Muhammad Nadeem Arshad, Shu‐Hong Yu*, Recycling nanowire templates for multiplex templating synthesis: a green and sustainable strategy, Eur. J. Chem. 2015, 21,4935

  39. Jin Ge#, Xu Wang#, Hong-Bin Yao, Hong-Wu Zhu, Yu-Can Peng, Shu-Hong Yu*, Durable Ag/AgCl nanowires assembled in a sponge for continuous water purification under sunlight, Mater. Horiz. 2015, 2, 509

  40. Wang Zhang, Yingli Hu, Jin Ge, Hai-Long Jiang*, Shu-Hong Yu*, A facile and general coating approach to moisture/water-resistant metal–organic frameworks with intact porosity, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16978
  41. Huai‐Ling Gao, Liang Xu, Fei Long, Zhao Pan, Yu‐Xiang Du, Yang Lu, Jin Ge, Shu‐Hong Yu*, Macroscopic free‐standing hierarchical 3D architectures assembled from silver nanowires by ice templating, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 126, 4649

  42. Jin Ge, Yin-Dong Ye, Hong-Bin Yao, Xi Zhu, Xu Wang, Liang Wu, Jin-Long Wang, Hang Ding, Yong Ni, Ling-Hui He, and Shu-Hong Yu*, Pumping through Porous Hydrophobic/Oleophilic Materials: An Alternative Technology for Oil Spill Remediation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 3612. Hot Paper. Highlighted by Daily Fusion and Materials Views.

  43. Ping Chen, Li-Kun Wang, Gan Wang, Min-Rui Gao, Jin Ge, Wen-Jing Yuan, Yu-Hua Shen, An-Jian Xie, Shu-Hong Yu*, Nitrogen-doped nanoporous carbon nanosheets derived from plant biomass: an efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction, Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7, 4095
  44. Liang Wu, Feng-Jia Fan, Ming Gong, Jin Ge, Shu-Hong Yu*, Selective epitaxial growth of zinc blende-derivative on wurtzite-derivative: the case of polytypic Cu2CdSn(S1−xSex)4 nanocrystals, Nanoscale 2014, 6, 3418

  45. Hong‐Bin Yao#, Jin Ge#, Li‐Bo Mao, You‐Xian Yan, Shu‐Hong Yu*, 25th anniversary article: artificial carbonate nanocrystals and layered structural nanocomposites inspired by nacre: synthesis, fabrication and applications, Adv. Mater. 2014, 26, 163

                               

  46. Hong‐Bin Yao#, Jin Ge#, Chang‐Feng Wang, Xu Wang, Wei Hu, Zhi‐Jun Zheng, Yong Ni, Shu‐Hong Yu*, A flexible and highly pressure‐sensitive graphene–polyurethane sponge based on fractured microstructure design, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 6692. VIP Paper.

                               

  47. Jin Ge#, Hong‐Bin Yao#, Xu Wang, Yin‐Dong Ye, Jin‐Long Wang, Zhen‐Yu Wu, Jian‐Wei Liu, Feng‐Jia Fan, Huai‐Ling Gao, Chuan‐Lin Zhang, Shu‐Hong Yu*, Stretchable conductors based on silver nanowires: improved performance through a binary network design, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 1654. Selected as frontispiece paper.

                                      

  48. Jin Ge#, Hong-Bin Yao#, Wei Hu, Xiao-Fang Yu, You-Xian Yan, Li-Bo Mao, Hui-Hui Li, Shan-Shan Li, Shu-Hong Yu*, Facile dip coating processed graphene/MnO2 nanostructured sponges as high performance supercapacitor electrodes, Nano Energy 2013, 2, 505. Selected as Front Cover. Most Downloaded Articles.