Kaiyu Fu
Assistant Professor
- Office
- 140D McCourtney Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-1853
- kfu@nd.edu
Research Areas
- Biochemistry
- Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Research Specialties
- Materials
- Measurement
- Medicine
Prospective Graduate Students
Biography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2022-present | Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame |
| 2018-2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University |
| 2018 | Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Notre Dame |
| 2014 | M.S. in Polymer Chemistry, Fudan University, China |
| 2011 | B.E. in Polymer Science & Engineering, Sichuan University, China |
Selected Awards
2026 NSF CAREER Award
2026 Rising Star in Measurement Science, ACS Measurement Science Au
2018 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship
2014-2015 J. Peter Grace Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
Research in the Fu lab overlaps three disciplines: electrochemistry, nanoscience, and synthetic biology. Several emerging and exciting topics derived from these fields have emerged over the past decade, such as instrumentation advancement, cutting-edge nanotechnology, and novel commercial biomedical devices. Recently, our research has been particularly focused on: 1) nanoscale electrochemistry, which paves the way for the development of ultra-sensitive analytical platforms reaching a single-entity detection level; 2) electrochemical biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics and chronic disease management; and 3) nanobiotechnology, e.g., DNA nanotechnology and directed evolution of nucleic acids, aiming to manipulate molecular recognition with unprecedented precision and efficiency.
Selected Publications
- Zhang, X. C.; Cao, Q.; Wang, L. Y.; Zhang, T. K.; Fu, K. X.; Li, Z.; Abate, A.; Li, M. and Li, G. X. "Defect-Healing in Perovskite Photovoltaics Driving Long-Term Reliability and Performance" 2026 Advanced Functional Materials, 36 (20), e23417. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202523417.
- Trowbridge, A. J.; Huldin, G. F.; Pyo, M.; Jordan, K. M.; Rincon, M. A.; Kim, T.; Webber, M. J.; Gao, H. F.; Park, C. H. and Fu, K. X. "Zwitterionic Polymer Brushes Inside Nanoporous Gold Electrodes Enable Fouling-Resistant Electrochemical Biosensing" 2025 ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 7 (22), pp.15241–15254. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.5c02297.
- Chen, Y. H.; Fu, K. X.; Cotton, R.; Ou, Z. H.; Kwak, J. W.; Chien, J. C.; Kesler, V.; Nyein, H.; Eisenstein, M. and Soh, H. T. "A Biochemical Sensor with Continuous Extended Stability in Vivo" 2025 Nature Biomedical Engineering, 9 (9), pp.1517-1530. DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01389-6.
- Huldin, G. F.; Huang, J. M. and Fu, K. "Nanoconfined Constructs for Electrochemical Aptamer-Based in Vivo Biosensing" 2025 Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 51, 101695. DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2025.101695.
- Mcgowan, M. P.; Trowbridge, A. J.; Reitemeier, J.; Jordan, K. M. and Fu, K. X. "Surface Charge Effects of Monovalent and Zwitterionic Monolayers to Differentiate Structurally Similar Aminoglycosides with Electrochemical Aptamer Biosensors" 2025 Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 276, 117229. DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2025.117229.
- Huldin, G. F.; Huang, J. M.; Reitemeier, J. and Fu, K. "Nafion Coated Nanopore Electrode for Improving Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Biosensing" 2025 Faraday Discussions, 257 (0), pp.316–332. DOI: 10.1039/d4fd00144c.