Our first biohybrid research paper is published in Science Advances!
Fig. 1, panels A and B, from Yang et al., Science Advances (2026), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aef4504. CC BY-NC 4.0.Our group’s first biohybrid research paper, “An anoxygenic photosynthesis-inspired dual biohybrid for light-enhanced chemical production,” has been published in Science Advances! Congratulations to Ying Yang, Zipeng Zhu, and all our collaborators! We extend our sincere thanks to Prof. Xiang Gao and Prof. Yuanyuan Wang for their collaboration and support throughout this work.
Inspired by anoxygenic photosynthesis, we combined extracellular conjugated polymer nanoparticles as light-harvesting antennae with intracellular CdS nanoparticles in E. coli. The dual biohybrid couples light capture with intracellular redox chemistry and increases malate production by nearly 30-fold relative to unmodified cells. This study marks a milestone for our group’s biohybrid research and provides a modular design strategy for light-assisted microbial chemical production.
Ying Yang
Research Fellow
My research interests mainly focus on microbe-polymer semiconductor biohybrids
Yiliang Lin
Assistant Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
My research interests include soft matter engineering, wearable electronics, biointerfaces and living materials.