Yan Lu is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Wenlong Cheng in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, Australia.  He received his BE in 2016 from the Nanjing Institute of Technology and MS in 2019 from the Nanjing Tech University. His main research interests include the synthesis of multifunctional nanomaterials and development of assembly methods at soft matrices for the applications of soft plasmonics, wearable SERS sensors and stretchable energetic devices.