Professor Deng Hongzhang (School of Life Sciences and Technology) together with Professor Chen Xiaoyuan (National University of Singapore) and Professor Zhou Yongfeng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), published a joint paper in the Accounts of Chemical Research (CAS Region 1 TOP, IF: 24.466). In this paper, the recent achievements of cooperative research on surface interface nanofabrication and biological applications are reviewed.