Theme

We are now developing researches on construction of molecular nanomaterials consisting
of π-conjugated organic molecules and polymers, and applying them into nanodevices
for photoelectric functions and energy conversion.

Selected Publications

MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY

  • Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 1469-1481.WEB
  • “Molecular and Supramolecular Designs of Organic/Polymeric Micro-photoemitters for Advanced Optical and Laser Applications”
  • Science 2022, 377, 673-677. WEB
  • Synchronous assembly of chiral skeletal single-crystalline microvessels
  • J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8772-8779.WEB
  • “Robust Angular Anisotropy of Circularly Polarized Luminescence from a Single Twisted-bipolar Polymeric Microsphere”
  • J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 4580-4586WEB
  • “From Linear to Foldamer and Assembly: Hierarchical Transformation of a Coplanar Conjugated Polymer into a Microsphere”
  • J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 870-876.WEB
  • “Spherical Assemblies from π-Conjugated Alternating Copolymers: Toward Optoelectronic Colloidal Crystals”
  • Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2009, 106, 21051-21056.WEB
  • “Ambipolar-Transporting Coaxial Nanotubes with a Tailored Molecular Graphene–Fullerene Heterojunction”
  • Science 2006, 314, 1761-1764.WEB
  • “Photoconductive Coaxial Nanotubes of Molecularly Connected Electron Donor and Acceptor Layers”

ORGANIC MICROLASERS & RESONATORS

  • Laser Photon. Rev. 2023, 2200874.WEB
  • “Pneumatically Tunable Droplet Microlaser”
  • Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2103685.WEB
  • “Photochemically Switchable Interconnected Microcavities for All-organic Optical Logic Gate”
  • Mater. Horiz. 2020, 7, 1801-1808.WEB
  • “Optical microresonator arrays of fluorescence-switchable diarylethenes with unreplicable spectral fingerprints” (Inside Back Cover)
  • Adv. Opt. Mater. 2017, 5, 1700123.WEB
  • “Low-Threshold Whispering Gallery Mode Lasing from Self-Assembled Microspheres of Single-Sort Conjugated Polymers” (Inside Cover)
  • ACS Nano 2016, 10, 5543-5549.WEB
  • “Conjugated Polymer Blend Microspheres for Efficient, Long-Range Light Energy Transfer”
  • Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5902/1–5.WEB
  • “Self-Assembled Conjugated Polymer Spheres as Fluorescent Microresonators”

ENERGY HARVESTING & TRANSFER

  • Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 12674-12679.WEB
  • “Single-crystalline Optical Microcavities from Luminescent Dendrimers”
  • Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 4396-4402.WEB
  • “π-Electronic Cocrystal Microcavities with Selective Vibronic-Mode Light Amplification: Toward Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Lasing”
  • ACS Nano 2016, 10, 7058-7063.WEB
  • “Color-Tunable Resonant Photoluminescence and Cavity-Mediated Multistep Energy Transfer Cascade”

NANOPOROUS MATERIALS

  • Commun. Chem. 2021, 4: 122.WEB
  • “Solvophobicity-directed assembly of microporous molecular crystals”
  • Commun. Chem. 2020, 3: 118.WEB
  • “Sigmoidally hydrochromic molecular porous crystal with rotatable dendrons”
  • Science 2018, 361, 1242-1246.WEB
  • “Self-assembly of lattices with high structural complexity from a geometrically simple molecule”
  • Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 2534-2537.WEB
  • “A fluorescent microporous crystalline dendrimer discriminates vapour molecules”

BIOMATERIALS

  • ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2024, published online. WEB
  • “Keratin Microspheres as Promising Tool for Targeting Follicular Growth”
  • Nanoscale 2023, 15, 19062–19068. WEB
  • “Poly(lactic acid) stereocomplex microspheres as thermally tolerant optical resonators”
  • Mater. Chem. Front. 2021, 5, 5653-5657. WEB
  • “Silk Fibroin Microspheres as Optical Resonators for Wide Range Humidity Sensing and Biodegradable Lasers”
  • ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 9996-10002.WEB
  • “Peptide Cross-linkers: Immobilization of Platinum Nanoparticles Highly Dispersed on Graphene Oxide Nanosheets with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activities”
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