Publications

Y. Jung, M. K. Khan, D. Podbevšek, T. Sudhakar, R. S. Tu, and X. Chen. Enhanced water-responsive actuation of porous Bombyx mori silk. Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 2047-2052.

A.R. Cerullo, M. B. McDermott, L. E. Pepi, Z.L. Liu, D. Barry, S. Zhang, X. Yang, X. Chen, P. Azadi, M. Holford, and A. B. Braunschweig. Comparative mucomic analysis of three functionally distinct Cornu aspersum Secretions. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 5361.

Z.L. Liu and X. Chen. Water-content-dependent morphologies and mechanical properties of Bacillus subtilis spores’ cortex peptidoglycan. ASC Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2022, 8, 5094–5100.

Q. Cheng, T. Jin, Y. Miao, Z. Liu, J. Borovilas, H. Zhang, S. Liu, S.Y. Kim, R. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Chen, L.Q. Chen, J. Li, W. Min, and Y. Yang. Stabilizing lithium plating in polymer electrolytes by concentration-polarization-induced phase transformation. Joule, 2022, 10, 2372-2389.

H. Wang, Z.-L. Liu, J. Lao, S. Zhang, R. Abzalimov, T. Wang, and X. Chen, High Energy and Power Density Peptidoglycan Muscles through Super-Viscous Nanoconfined Water, Advanced Science, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202104697.

G. Zhang, X. Chen, W. Xu, W.D. Yao, and Y. Shi. Piezoelectric property of PZT nanofibers characterized by resonant piezo-force microscopy. AIP Advances, 2022, 12, 035203.

R. Piotrowska, T. Hesketh, H. Wang, A. Martin, D. Bowering, C. Zhang, C. Hu, S.A. McPhee, T. Wang, Y. Park, P. Singla, T. McGlone, A. Florence, T. Tuttle, R.V. Ulijn, and X. Chen, Mechanistic insights of evaporation-induced actuation in supramolecular crystals, Nat. Mater., 2021, 20, 403-409.

Y. Jung, S.S. Golru, T.-D. Li, E.J. Biddinger, R.S. Tu, and X. Chen, Tuning water-responsiveness with Bombyx mori silk-silica nanoparticle composites, Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 7817-7821.

Y. Park and X. Chen, Water-responsive materials for sustainable energy applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8, 15227-15244.

Y. Park, Y. Jung, T.-D. Li, J. Lao, R. Tu, X. Chen, β-Sheet Nanocrystals Dictate Water Responsiveness of Bombyx Mori Silk, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020, 1900612.

A.H. Cavusoglu, X. Chen, P. Gentine and O. Sahin, Potential for natural evaporation as a reliable renewable energy resource, Nature Communications, 2017, 8, 617.

X. Chen, D. Goodnight, Z. Gao, A.H. Cavusoglu, N. Sabharwal, M. DeLay, A. Driks and O. Sahin, Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators, Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 7346.

X. Chen, L. Mahadevan, A. Driks and O. Sahin, Bacillus spores as building blocks for stimuli-responsive materials and nanogenerators, Nature Nanotechnology, 2014, 9, 2014.

Xi Chen, Stephen Guo, Jinwei Li, Guitao Zhang, Ming Lu and Yong Shi, Flexible piezoelectric nanofiber composite membranes as high performance acoustic emission sensors Sensors and Actuators A 199, 372-378 (2013).

J. Li, X. Chen, W. Xu, C.Y. Nam, and Y. Shi, TiO₂ nanofiber solid state dye sensitized solar cell with thin TiO2 hole blocking layer prepared by atomic layer deposition Thin Solid Films, 2013, 536, 275-276.

W. Xu, J. Li, G. Zhang, X. Chen, R. Galos, H. Hadim, M. Lu, Y. Shi, A low-cost MEMS tester for measuring single nanostructure’s thermal conductivity Sensors and Actuators A, 2013, 191, 89–98.

X. Chen, S. Xu, N. Yao, and Y. Shi, Young’s modulus determination of unpolled electrospun PZT nanofibers Science of Advanced Materials 2012, 4, 847-850. (Invited)