• Soft Electronics

  • Microrobotics

  • Living Materials

  • Soft Electronics

  • Microrobotics

  • Living Materials

  • Soft Electronics

  • Microrobotics

  • Living Materials

  • Soft Robotics

  • Soft Electronics

  • Soft Electronics

  • Microrobotics

About the LI Lab

We combine precision manufacturing, biomaterials, and emerging biophysics to develop bio-integrated technologies that allow us to precisely record, understand, and modulate biology. We are particularly interested in applying these technologies to interrogate the complex nervous circuits and microbial activities.

We hope these technologies and findings will eventually contribute to both human and planetary health through the creation of new diagnostics, therapeutics, and sustainable materials.

Work in our lab can be broadly divided into the following interconnected domains:

  1. Micro/nanorobotics and soft robotics.

  2. Soft bioelectronics and neural interfaces.

  3. Engineered living materials.

Learn more by reading our Research.

Lab Openings

We always welcome talented postdoctoral scholars and Ph.D. students.

Graduate students can apply for admission through the Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Neuroscience, and BioMolecular Gateway programs.

We also welcome undergraduate students to join the lab.

Particularly, we welcome people from different educational and cultural backgrounds and encourage the participation of scientists from diverse underrepresented groups.

Contact: jl@msu.edu

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI/DCSD/EFMA/ECCS
DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) HESTIA/IGNIITE
NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Henry Ford Health+Michigan State University Health Sciences (HFH+MSU HS)
Spartan Innovations
MSU Office of Research and Innovation’s Global Impact Initiative

Media Highlights

Jinxing Li receives DOE ARPA-E IGNIITE New Innovator Award at National Academies in DC. July 2024

Congratulations to Li Lab Postdoc Dr. Liuxi Xing for winning Spartan Innovations Entrepreneurship Postdoctoral Fellowship! He will be developing wearable electronics for translational use. Jan. 2024

LI Lab undergrad Charlie Meilinger (MechE) presents soft electronics at 2023 BMES Meeting, Seattle. Oct. 2023

LI Lab receives the HFH+MSU Health Sciences Center Cancer Pilot Grant Award for developing Microrobotic Cancer Therapy. July 2023

LI Lab receives a grant from NSF Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics (DCSD) to study Microrobots in Complex Fluids. July 2023

LI Lab receives an EAGER grant from NSF Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) to make Biosensors. July 2023

Congratulations to LI Lab undergrads Bella Rodrigues (Engineering Sciences) and Michael Ngatio (Biochemistry) for winning FIRST PLACE AWARD in the 2023 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) for their work on microrobotics! April 2023

LI Lab presents “Tiny Robots“ at MSU Science Festival. April 2023

Congratulations to Vittorio Mottini for being selected by the MSU BME department as an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Award of 2023! March 2023