41. Chemical Auxiliary for Photocatalytic Active Colloids

Wendi Duan, Yijiang Mu, Xiaoyong Mo, Zhisheng Wang, Tianran Zhang, Yannis Yan Lum Ho, Dengping Lyu, Dongwei Zhang, Runkai Zhao, Edmund Chun Ming Tse, Yongxiang Gao, Hao Wu, Yufeng Wang
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c10100

40. Nanoscopic Imaging of Self-Propelled Ultrasmall Catalytic Nanomotors

Zhiheng Lyu, Lehan Yao, Zhisheng Wang, Chang Qian, Zuochen Wang, Jiahui Li, Chang Liu, Yufeng Wang, Qian Chen
ACS Nano, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c12590

39. Side-Chain-Promoted Polymer Architecture Enabling Stable Mixed-Halide Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes

Benzheng Lyu, Hong Lin, Dongyu Li, Aleksandr Sergeev, Qiang Wang, Zhengyan Jiang, Lijun Huo, Haibin Su, Kam Sing Wong, Yufeng Wang, Wallace CH Choy
ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9, 5, 2118–2127. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c00355

38. Metallo-supramolecular branched polymer protects particles from air-water interface in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

Yixin Xu, Yuqi Qin, Lang Wang, Yingyi Zhang, Yufeng Wang*, Shangyu Dang*
Communications Biology, 7, 65 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05752-8

37. Colloidal synthesis of metallodielectric Janus matchsticks

Yijiang Mu, Wendi Duan, Yuxuan Dai, Patrick A Sullivan, Leila F Deravi, Yufeng Wang, Daeyeon Lee*
Chemical Communications, 2024, 60, 5534-5537

36. Janus Particles with Tunable Patch Symmetry and their Assembly into Chiral Colloidal Clusters

Tianran Zhang#, Dengping Lyu#, Wei Xu#, Xuan Feng, Ran Ni*, Yufeng Wang*
Nature Communication, 14, 8494, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44154-6

35. Biomimetic Thermoresponsive Superstructures by Colloidal Soft-and-Hard Co-Assembly

Dengping Lyu, Wei Xu, Nansen Zhou, Wendi Duan, Zhisheng Wang, Yijiang Mu, Renjie Zhou, Yufeng Wang*
Science Advances 9,eadh2250 (2023). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh2250

Press release: HKU Press    TOPick      physorg_com      Miragenews      Nano Digest  

34. Photochromism from wavelength-selective colloidal phase segregation

Jing Zheng, Jingyuan Chen, Yakang Jin, Yan Wen, Yijiang Mu, Changjin Wu, Yufeng Wang, Penger Tong, Zhigang Li, Xu Hou, Jinyao Tang*
Nature 617, 499–506 (2023)

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33. Cell-Mimic Directional Cargo Transportation in a Visible-Light-Activated Colloidal Motor/Lipid Tube System

Salah Eddine Ghellab, Xinyuan Zhang, Yicheng Yang, Shuo Wang, Majid Basharat, Xuemao Zhou, Lijie Lei, Ye Zhou, Yufeng Wang, Hui Fang, Yongxiang Gao*
Small 2023, 19, 2204260.

32. Light-Activated Colloidal Micromotors with Synthetically Tunable Shapes and Shape-Directed Propulsion

Yijiang Mu, Wendi Duan, Ka Yuen Hsu, Zhisheng Wang, Wei Xu, and Yufeng Wang*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 51, 57113–57121

31. Engineering Shapes of Active Colloids for Tunable Dynamics

Zhisheng Wang#, Yijiang Mu#, Dengping Lyu, Ming Wu, Jia Li, ZuochenWang, Yufeng Wang*
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 101608, 2022

30. Low-Dimensional Assemblies of Metal-Organic Framework Particles and Mutually Coordinated Anisotropy

Dengping Lyu, Wei Xu, Jae Elise L. Payong, Tianran Zhang and Yufeng Wang*
Nature Communications, 13, 3980, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31651-3

29. Block Co-PolyMOC Micelles and Structural Synergy as Composite Nanocarriers

Lang Wang,# Zhongmin Geng,# Yannis Y. L. Ho, Jiayu Zhou, Nicola Judge, Yafei Li, Weiping Wang,* Jinyao Liu,* and Yufeng Wang*
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c06205

28. Binary Phases and Crystals Assembled from Active and Passive Colloids

Yijiang Mu#, Lijie Lei#, Jing Zheng, Wendi Duan, Zhisheng Wang, Jinyao Tang, Yongxiang Gao* and Yufeng Wang*
ACS Nano, 16, 4, 6801–6812, 2022

26. Polyhedral Micromotors of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Symmetry Breaking and Propulsion

Zhisheng Wang, Wei Xu, Zuochen Wang, Dengping Lyu, Yijiang Mu, Wendi Duan and Yufeng Wang*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09439.

25. Programming Self-Assembled Materials With DNA-Coated Colloids

Tianran Zhang, Dengping Lyu, Wei Xu, Yijiang Mu and Yufeng Wang*
Frontiers in Physics 19 July 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.672375

24.Efficient and Stable Red Perovskite Light‐Emitting Diodes with Operational Stability> 300 h

Hanming Li, Hong Lin, Dan Ouyang, Canglang Yao, Can Li, Jiayun Sun, Yilong Song, Yufeng Wang, Yanfa Yan, Yong Wang, Qingfeng Dong, Wallace CH Choy*
Advanced Materials 33 (15), 2008820 (2021)

23. Polymerization‐Mediated Multifunctionalization of Living Cells for Enhanced Cell‐Based Therapy

Chao Pan, Juanjuan Li, Weiliang Hou, Sisi Lin, Lu Wang, Yan Pang, Yufeng Wang, Jinyao Liu*
Advanced Materials 33 (13), 2007379 (2021)

22. Directional and Reconfigurable Assembly of Metallodielectric Patchy Particles

Zuochen Wang, Zhisheng Wang, Jiahui Li and  Yufeng Wang*
ACS Nano, 2021.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c00104

21. Photo-Triggered Nucleus Targeting for Cancer Drug Delivery

Yafei Li, Wen Lv, Lang Wang, Yaming Zhang, Lipeng Yang, Tianyi Wang, Linyong Zhu, Yufeng Wang, Weiping Wang*
Nano Res. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3264-0

20. Polymer Brush-Induced Hollow Colloids via Diffusion-Controlled Silication

Lei Tian*, Bei Li, Qiuyu Zhang* and  Yufeng Wang*
Langmuir, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02255

19. Active Colloidal Molecules Assembled via Selective and Directional Bonds

Zuochen Wang, Zhisheng Wang, Jiahui Li, Changhao Tian and Yufeng Wang*
Nature Communications. 11, 2670, 2020.  (Featured in Editor’s highlight).

18. Active Patchy Colloids with Shape-Tunable Dynamics

Zuochen Wang, Zhisheng Wang, Jiahui Li, Simon Tsz Hang Cheung, Changhao Tian, Shin-Hyun Kim, Gi-Ra Yi, Etienne Ducrot and Yufeng Wang*
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 37, 14853, 2019.

17. Polymer‐Brush‐Grafted Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Triggered Drug Delivery

Li Zhang, Ho Pan Bei, Yun Piao, Yufeng Wang, Mo Yang, Xin Zhao*
ChemPhysChem 19 (16), 1956-1964 (2018)

16. Molecular Engineering of Metal-Organic Cycles/Cages for Drug Delivery

Nicola Judge , Lang Wang, Yannis Yan Lum Ho, and Yufeng Wang*
Macromolecular Research. (2018) 26: 1074. (Invited review)

Prior to HKU

15. ABC Supramolecular Triblock Copolymer by ROMP and ATRP

Diane S Lye, Yan Xia, Madeleine Z Wong, Yufeng Wang, Mu-Ping Nieh, Marcus Weck,
Macromolecules , 50, 4244–4255, 2017

14. Star PolyMOCs with Diverse Structures, Dynamics, and Functions by Three-Component Assembly

Yufeng Wang, Yuwei Gu,  Eric G. Keeler, Jiwon V. Park, Robert G. Griffin and Jeremiah A. Johnson,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609261.

13. Block Co-polyMOCs by Stepwise Self-assembly

Yufeng Wang, Mingjiang Zhong, Jiwon. V. Park, Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, Weichao Shi and Jeremiah, A. Johnson,
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,138, 10708-10715, 2016

12. IEG Synthesis and Assembly of Uniform Diblock Copolymers

Yivan Jiang, Matthew R Golder, Hung V-T Nguyen, Yufeng Wang, Mingjiang Zhong, Jonathan C Barnes, Deborah JC Ehrlich and Jeremiah A Johnson
J. Am. Chem. Soc.138, 9369-9372, 2016

11. Thermal Regulation of Colloidal Materials Architecture through Orthogonal Functionalizable Patchy Particles

Xiaolong Zheng, Yufeng Wang, Yu Wang, David J Pine, Marcus Weck,
Chem. Mater.28 , 3984-3989, 2016

10. High-Density PEO-b-DNA Brushes on Polymer Particles for Colloidal Superstructures

JoonSuk Oh, Yufeng Wang, David. J Pine, Gi-Ra Yi,
Chem. Mater.27 , 8337-8344, 2015

09. Synthetic Strategies Toward DNA-coated Colloids that Crystallize

Yufeng Wang, Yu Wang, Xiaolong Zheng, Étienne Ducrot, Myung-Goo Lee, Gi-Ra Yi, Marcus Weck and David J. Pine, 
J. Am. Chem. Soc.137, 10760–10766, 2015
(Editor’s Choice paper; highlighted by JACS Spotlights)

08. Crystallization of DNA-coated colloids

Yu Wang*, Yufeng Wang*, Xiaolong Zheng, Étienne Ducrot, Jeremy S. Yodh, Marcus Weck & David J. Pine, 
Nature Communication, 6, 7253, 2015
(* Equal contribution; Materials Highlight by Nature, “DNA Glues Particles Together”, Nature, 523, 9, 2015).

07. Patchy Particle Packing under Electric Fields

Pengcheng Song, Yufeng Wang, Yu Wang, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Marcus Weck, David J. Pine, Michael Ward, 
J. Am. Chem. Soc.137, 3069-3075, 2015

06. Three Dimensional Lock and Key Colloids

Yu Wang, Yufeng Wang, Xiaolong Zheng, Gi-Ra Yi, Stefano Sacanna, David J. Pine, Marcus Weck, 
J. Am. Chem. Soc.136, 6866-6869, 2014

05. Patchy Particle Self-Assembly via Metal Coordination

Yufeng Wang, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Sikyung Yang, Sonal Patel, David J. Pine, Marcus Weck, 
J. Am. Chem. Soc.135, 14064–14067, 2013

04. Colloids with Valence and Specific Directional Bonding

Yufeng Wang, Yu Wang, Dana R. Breed, Vinothan N. Manoharan, Lang Feng, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Marcus Weck, David J. Pine, 
Nature, 491, 51-55, 2012
(Research Article; Cover of the issue; Highlighted by: Nature News & ViewsC&E NewsCBS NewsNew ScientistSina Tech News)

03. Well-defined Poly(lactic acid)s containing Poly(ethylene glycol) Side-Chains

Jose A. Castillo, Dorothee E. Borchmann, Amy Y. Cheng, Yufeng Wang, Chunhua Hu, Andres J. Garcia, Marcus Weck, 
Macromolecules, 45, 62-69, 2012

02. Shell Cross-Linked Micelle-Based Nanoreactors for the Substrate-Selective Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Epoxides

Yu Liu, Yu Wang, Yufeng Wang, Jie Lu, Victor Pinon III, Marcus Weck, 
J. Am. Chem. Soc.133, 14260–14263, 2011

01. Efficient Synthesis and Properties of Novel Near-Infrared Eletrochromic Anthraquinone Imides

Wenqiang Qiao, Jia Zheng, Yufeng Wang, Yijun Zheng, Naiheng Song, Xinhua Wan, Zhiyuan Wang, 
Org. Lett., 10, 641-644, 2008