The Ouyang Group – Innovating Biofabrication for Engineering Living Systems

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Advanced Materials paper featured as Inside Cover

Paper published in Advanced Materials featured as Inside Cover https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.71105

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Off-the-shelf granular microtissue bioink paper published in Advanced Materials

Our research article entitled “Off-the-shelf Granular Microtissue Bioinks: Long-term Preserved Cellularized Porous Microgels with Enhanced Cell Activity for Shelf-ready Biofabrication” has been published in Advanced Materials in July 2025. Access to the paper via https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202506616 Congratulations Read more…

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Small paper selected as Frontispiece

Paper published in Small selected as frontispiece https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smll.202570212

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DNA data storage paper published in Advanced Science

Our research article entitled “Primer-Disk-Enabled DNA Data Storage System with Index and Record-Many-Read-Many Features” has been published in Advanced Science in June 2025. Access to the paper via https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202502367 Congratulations to Jiaxiang and the team. Jiaxiang Read more…

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Dynamic hydrogel biofabrication review published in Biomaterials

Our review article entitled “Dynamic Hydrogels for Biofabrication: A Review” has been published in Biomaterials in March 2025. Access to the paper via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2025.123266 Congratulations to Runze and the team. Runze is a PhD student co-supervised by Prof. Read more…

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Microfiber-embedded bioink work published in Small

Our research article entitled “Microfiber-Templated Porogel Bioinks Enable Tubular Interfaces and Microvascularization Down to the Building Blocks for 3D Bioprinting” has been published in Small in March 2025. Access to the paper via https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202501594 Congratulations Read more…

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Research Topics

My research interests include the design, fabrication, and application of complex biomaterial and cellular systems, with a central focus on the development of 3D bioprinting and advanced biofabrication technologies for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Enabling Technologies of Biofabrication (e.g., Bioprinting)

Novel approaches to the printing and assembling of living building blocks (e.g., cellular biomaterials). Keywords: Bottom-up (additive) manufacturing, 3D bioprinting, microfabrication, hierarchical structure.

Soft Biomaterials for Cell Niche Engineering (e.g., Hydrogels)

Novel biomaterials strategies to advance 3D cellular environment towards better cell-material interaction. Keywords: Bioinks, hydrogels, bioactive materials, microgels.

Applications of In Vitro Living Systems (e.g., Tissue Engineering)

Practical solutions to the engineering of functional in vitro living systems towards biological function. Keywords: tissue engineering, organ-on-a-chip, drug testing,

Selected Publications

L. Ouyang*, Pushing the Rheological and Mechanical Boundaries of Extrusion-based 3D Bioprinting. Trends in Biotechnology 2022

L. Ouyang et al. Expanding and Optimizing 3D Bioprinting Capacities Using Complementary Network Bioinks. Science Advances 2020.

L. Ouyang et al. Void‐Free 3D Bioprinting for In Situ Endothelialization and Microfluidic Perfusion. Advanced Functional Materials 2020.

L. Ouyang et al. A Generalizable Strategy for The 3D Printing of Hydrogels From Non-viscous Photocrosslinkable Ink. Advanced Materials 2017

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Dr. Liliang Ouyang

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

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