Selected Publications Since 2010
1. Huaizhi Li, Daniel Teal, Zexi Liang, Hyunah Kwon, David Huo, Alison Jin, Peer Fischer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Precise Electrokinetic Position and 3D Orientation Control of a Nanowire Bioprobe in Solution,” Nature Nanotechnology, 18, 1213–1221, doi: 10.1038/s41565-023-01439-7 (2023) (link). Reported by Nature Nanotechnology News and Views: electric kinetic manipulation of a nanowire.
2. Zexi Liang#*, Hyungmok Joh#, Bin Lian, and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Light-Stimulated Micromotor Swarms in an Electric Field with Accurate Spatial, Temporal, and Mode Control,” Science Advances, 9, eadi993 (2023) (link).
3. Zexi Liang, Daniel Teal, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*,”Light Programmable Micro/Nanomotors with Optically Tunable In-Phase Electric Polarization,” Nature Communications, 10, 5275 (2019) (link).
4. .Jingang Li, Yaoran Liu, Linhan Lin, Mingsong Wang, Taizhi Jiang, Jianhe Guo, Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Yuji Inoue, Donglei (Emma) Fan, Brian A. Korgel, Yuebing Zheng, “Solid-phase optical nanomanipulation via optothermally-gated photon nudging,” Nature Communications, 10, 5672 (2019) (link).
5. Zexi Liang and Donglei Fan*, “Visible-Light-Gated Reconfigurable Rotary Actuation of Electric Nanomotors”, Science Advances, 4, eaau0981 (2018). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau0981 (link), featured by UT News, Nano Today, Materials Today, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, ASEE First Bell, Science Daily, Physorg, EurekAlert, and The Daily Texan, among numerous news agencies.
6. K. Kim#, X. B. Xu#, J. H. Guo# and Donglei Fan*, ” Ultrahigh-Speed Rotating Nanoelectromechanical System Devices Assembled from Nanoscale Building Blocks”, Nature Communications, 5, 3632 (2014) (link).
7. D. Fan#, Z. Z. Yin#, R. Cheung, F. Q. Zhu, A. Levchenko, R. C. Cammarata, C. L. Chien and A. Levchenko, “Sub-cellular resolution delivery of a cytokine via precisely manipulated nanowires”, Nature Nanotechnology, 5, 545, (2010).(link)
Featured story by Nature Nanotechnology volume 5, page 481: “Nanowires have cells in their sights”, July, 2010. Highlighted by National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and news agencies including Sciencedaily, Physorg, Chemical Views, Nanotechwire, Eurekalert, etc.
8. Xianfu Luo, Weigu Li#, Zexi Liang#, Yifei Liu, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Portable Bulk-Water Disinfection by Live Capture of Bacteria with Divergently Branched Porous Graphite in High-Frequency Electric Fields,” ACS Nano, doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c12229 (2023) (link). Reported by UT-Austin News, KVEU Station, Fox4, KXAN Station, New York Post, etc.
9. Yun Huang, Jianhe Guo, Yufan Li, Huaizhi Li, Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “2D-Material-Integrated Micromachines: Competing Propulsion Strategy and Enhanced Bacterial Disinfection”, Advanced Materials, 34, 2203082, doi:10.1002/adma.202203082 (2022) (link).
10. Hyungmok Joh and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Materials and Schemes of Multimodal Reconfigurable Micro/nanomachines and Robots: Review and Perspective,” Advanced Materials, 33, 2101965 doi:10.1002/adma.202101965 (2021) (link).
11. Yun Huang, Kang Yu, Huaizhi Li, Kai Xu, Zexi Liang, Debora Walker, Paulo Ferreira, Peer Fischer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Scalable Fabrication of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanostructures and their Assembly,” Advanced Materials, 32, 2003439, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202003439 (2020) (link), featured by UT Cockrell School of Engineering, NCYT, AzoMaterials, Nanowerk, EurekAlert, Azonano, ScienMag and Phys.org.
12. Jianhe Guo#, Zexi Liang#, Yun Huang, Kwanoh Kim, Peter Vandeventer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Acceleration of Biomolecule Enrichment and Detection with Rotationally Motorized Opto-plasmonic Microsensors and the Working Mechanism,” ACS Nano, 14, 15204–15215, doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05429 (2020) (link), featured by UT Cockrell School of Engineering, Science Daily, Phys.org, The Medical News, ScienMag, EurekAlert, and AzoSensors.
13. Weigu Li, Yun Huang, Yifei Liu, Marshall Tekell, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Three Dimensional Nanosuperstructures Made of Two-Dimensional Materials by Design: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications”, Nano Today doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2019.100799 (2019) (link).
14. Weigu Li, Zheng Li, Karina Bertelsmann, and Donglei Fan*, “Portable Low-Pressure Solar Steaming-Collection Uni-system with Polypyrrole Origamis,” Advanced Materials, 31, 1900720 (2019) doi:10.1002/adma.201900720 (link), featured by UT News, UT ME News, NSF News, PBS TV station, First Bell, Phys.org, Science Daily, and ECN among many news agencies.
15. Jianhe Guo, Jeremie J. Gallegos, Ashley R. Tom, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Electric-Field Guided Precision Manipulation of Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery and Powering Nanoelectromechanical Devices,” ACS Nano, 12, 1179-1187 (2018) doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06824 (link).
16. Weigu Li, Marshall Tekell, Yun Huang, Max Lau, and Donglei Fan*, “Synergistic High-Rate Solar Steaming and Mercury Removal with MoS2/C @ Polyurethane Composite Sponges”, Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1802108 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201802108 (link), featured by The Daily Texan.
17. Weigu Li, Marshall C Tekell, Chang Liu, Jacob A Hethcock, and Donglei Fan*, “Flexible All-Solid-State Supercapacitors of High Areal Capacitance Enabled by Porous Graphite Foams with Diverging Microtubes,” Advanced Functional Materials, DOI:10.1002/adfm.201800601 (2018) (link).
18. Jianhe Guo, Andrew Chan, Weigu Li, and Donglei Fan*, “Kirkendall Effect in Creating Three-Dimensional Metal Catalysts for Hierarchically Porous Ultrathin Graphite with Unique Properties,” Chemistry of Materials, 29, 4991–4998 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01518 (link).
19. Weigu Li, Jianhe Guo, and Donglei Fan*, “Three-Dimensional Graphite-Polymer Flexible Strain Sensors with Ultrasensitivity and Durability for Real-Time Human Vital Sign Monitoring and Musical Instrument Education,” Advanced Materials Technologies, 2, 1700070 (2017) doi: 10.1002/admt.201700070 (link). (featured on the front cover)
20. X. B. Xu, K. Kim and Donglei Fan*, “Tunable Release of Multiplex Biochemicals by Plasmonically-Active Rotary Nanomotors,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54, 2525–2529 (2015) (link).
21. K. Kim, J. H. Guo, X. B. Xu and D. L. Fan*, ” Micromotors with Step-Motor Characteristics by Controlled Magnetic Interactions among Assembled Components,” ACS Nano, 9, 548–554 (2015) (link).
22. K. Kim, F. Q. Zhu, and Donglei Fan*, “Innovative Mechanism for Precision Assembling and Actuation of Arrays of Nanowire Oscillators, “ACS Nano, 7, 3476–3483 (2013) (link).
23. X. B. Xu, K. Kim, H. Li, Donglei Fan*, ” Ordered Arrays of Raman Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive and Location Predictable Biochemical Detection, “Advanced Materials, 24, 5457 (2012) (link).(Ranked top 40 most accessed articles for August 16 and featured on the backcover of the journal)
24. D. Fan*, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata* and C. L. Chien, “Electric Tweezers,” Nano Today, 6, 339 (2011) (Invited article) (link).
All Journal Publications
80. Hyungmok Joh, Bin Lian, Shaw-long Hsueh, Zhichao Ma, Keng-Jung Lee, Si-yang Zheng, Peer Fischer, and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Massively Parallel Microbubble Nano-Assembly,” submitted.
79. Kelly Shih#, Niam Zaidi#, Seung Ho Lee, Huaizhi Li, and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Nanotweezers for Manipulating Untethered Micro/Nanoscale Bio-Tools: Principles, Performance, and Highlighted Applications,” Advanced NanoBiomed Research, accepted (2025).
78. Yifei Liu and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Machine-Learning Driven Predictive 3D Ramified Foam Fabrication and Mechanistic Understanding,” Chemistry of Materials, 36, 10528–10536 (2024) (link).
77. Yifei Liu, Ajit K. Roy, and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Bio-Mimetic Hierarchies for Universal Surface Enhancement and Applications in Water Treatment,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 41, 56285–56292 (2024) (link).
76. Jingang Li, Rundi Yang, Kan Yao, Yun Huang, Yoonsoo Rho, Donglei Emma Fan, Yuebing Zheng, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, “Near-field nanoimaging of colloidal transition metal dichalcogenide waveguides,” Advanced Functional Materials, 34, 2312127 (2024) (link).
75. Zexi Liang#*, Hyungmok Joh#, Bin Lian, and Donglei Emma Fan*, “Light-Stimulated Micromotor Swarms in an Electric Field with Accurate Spatial, Temporal, and Mode Control,” Science Advances, 9, eadi993 (2023) (link).
74. Huaizhi Li, Daniel Teal, Zexi Liang, Hyunah Kwon, David Huo, Alison Jin, Peer Fischer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Precise Electrokinetic Position and 3D Orientation Control of a Nanowire Bioprobe in Solution,” Nature Nanotechnology, 18, 1213–1221, doi: 10.1038/s41565-023-01439-7 (2023) (link). Reported by Nature Nanotechnology News and Views: electric kinetic manipulation of a naonwire.
73. Xianfu Luo, Weigu Li#, Zexi Liang#, Yifei Liu, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Portable Bulk-Water Disinfection by Live Capture of Bacteria with Divergently Branched Porous Graphite in High-Frequency Electric Fields,” ACS Nano, doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c12229 (2023) (link). Reported by UT-Austin News, KVEU Station, Fox4, KXAN Station, New York Post, etc.
72. Yun Huang, Jianhe Guo, Yufan Li, Huaizhi Li, Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “2D-Material-Integrated Micromachines: Competing Propulsion Strategy and Enhanced Bacterial Disinfection”, Advanced Materials, 34, 2203082, doi:10.1002/adma.202203082 (2022) (link).
71. Zexi Liang, Jiarui He, Chuangang Hu, Hadi Khani, Xiong Pu, Liming Dai*, Donglei Emma Fan*, Arumugam Manthiram*, Zhong Lin Wang*, “Next-Generation Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies for Robots across All Scales,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202200045 (2022). (link) (open-access waived of publication fees)
70. Jingang Li#, Kan Yao#, Yun Huang#, Jie Fang, Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Donglei Emma Fan*, Yuebing Zheng*, “Tunable strong coupling in transition metal dichalcogenide nanowires,” Advanced Materials, 34, 2200656, doi: 10.1002/adma.202200656 (2022) (link).
69. Fanghao Zhang, Yifei Liu, Libo Wu, Minghui Ning, Shaowei Song, Xin Xiao, Viktor G. Hadjiev, Donglei Emma Fan, Dezhi Wang, Luo Yu, Zhifeng Ren, and Shuo Chen, “Efficient Alkaline Seawater Oxidation by a Three-dimensional Core-shell Dendritic NiCo@NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide Electrode,” Materials Today Physics, 27, 100841 (2022) (link).
68. Zhichao Ma, Hyungmok Joh, Donglei Emma Fan, and Peer Fischer, “Dynamic ultrasound projector controlled by light,” Advanced Science, 9, 2104401 (2022) doi:10.1002/advs.202104401 (link).
67. Zexi Liang and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Versatile Microparticle Propulsion System by Light-Guided Dielectrophoresis: Proposed Method and Theoretical Calculation,” Journal of Applied Physics, 130, 054902 (2021) doi:10.1063/5.0052117 (link).
66. Qianru Jia, Yifei Liu, Donglei Emma Fan, Li Shi, “Structural and Synthetic Modification of Graphitic Foams and Dendritic Graphitic Foams for Thermal Management,” Physica Status Solidi A, 219, 2100576 (2021) doi:10.1002/pssa.202100576 (link).
65. Hyungmok Joh and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Electric-Field Driven Micro/Nanomachines for Biological Applications,” In Field-Driven Micro and Nanorobots for Biology and Medicine, (Editors: Sun, Y. and Wang, X. and Yu, J.), Springer Nature, pages: 113-131 (2021), invited, (link).
64. Hyungmok Joh and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Materials and Schemes of Multimodal Reconfigurable Micro/nanomachines and Robots: Review and Perspective,” Advanced Materials, 33, 2101965 (2021) doi:10.1002/adma.202101965 (link).
63. Jingang Li, Mingsong Wang, Zilong Wu, Huanan Li, Taizhi Jiang, Jianhe Guo, Yaoran Liu, Kan Yao, Zhihan Chen, Guangwei Hu, Jie Fang, and Donglei (Emma) Fan, Brian A. Korgel, Andrea Alù, and Yuebing Zheng, “Tunable Chiral Optics in All-Solid-Phase Reconfigurable Dielectric Nanostructures,” Nano Letters, 21, 2, 973–979 (2021) (link).
62. Yanqing Tang, Yun Huang, Liu Luo, Donglei (Emma) Fan, Yangcheng Lu, and Arumugam Manthiram,”Self-supported MoO2/MoS2 Nano-sheets Embedded in a Carbon Cloth as a Binder-free Substrate for High-energy Lithium-sulfur Batteries”, Electrochimica Acta, 367, 137482 (2021) (link).
61. Yun Huang, Kang Yu, Huaizhi Li, Kai Xu, Zexi Liang, Debora Walker, Paulo Ferreira, Peer Fischer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Scalable Fabrication of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanostructures and their Assembly,” Advanced Materials, 32, 2003439, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202003439 (2020) (link), featured by UT Cockrell School of Engineering, NCYT, AzoMaterials, Nanowerk, EurekAlert, Azonano, ScienMag and Phys.org.
60. Jianhe Guo#, Zexi Liang#, Yun Huang, Kwanoh Kim, Peter Vandeventer, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Acceleration of Biomolecule Enrichment and Detection with Rotationally Motorized Opto-plasmonic Microsensors and the Working Mechanism,” ACS Nano, 14, 15204–15215, doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05429 (2020)(link), featured by UT Cockrell School of Engineering, Science Daily, Phys.org, The Medical News, ScienMag, EurekAlert, and AzoSensors.
59. Yun Huang, Zexi Liang, Mohammad Alsoraya, Jianhe Guo, Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Light‐Gated Manipulation of Micro/Nanoparticles in Electric Fields,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2, 1900127 (2020) (link). (invited paper, open-access waived of publication fees)
58. Mohammad Alsoraya, Mingyu Zhao, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Engineered Nanomaterials for Sustainable Oil Separation and Recovery,” ChemNanoMat, 6, 1539-1552, doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202000385 (2020) (invited article).
57. Yifei Liu, Weigu Li, Yuhang Ma, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Core-Shell Dendritic Superstructural Catalysts by Design for Highly Efficient and Stable Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction,” Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7, 2000777, doi.org/10.1002/admi.202000777 (2020) (link).
56. Glen Kelpa,Joy Lid, Junlan Lu, Nicholas DiNapoli, Robert Delgado, Chao Liu, Donglei (Emma) Fan, Shourya Dutta-Gupta, Gennady Shvets, “Infrared spectroscopy of live cells from a flowing solution using electrically-biased plasmonic metasurfaces,” Lab On A Chip 20, 2136-2153 (2020) (link).
55. Zexi Liang, Daniel Teal, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Light Programmable Micro/Nanomotors with Optically Tunable In-Phase Electric Polarization,” Nature Communications, 10, 5275 (2019) (link).
54. Jingang Li, Yaoran Liu, Linhan Lin, Mingsong Wang, Taizhi Jiang, Jianhe Guo, Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Yuji Inoue, Donglei (Emma) Fan, Brian A. Korgel, Yuebing Zheng, “Solid-phase optical nanomanipulation via optothermally-gated photon nudging,” Nature Communications, 10, 5672 (2019) (link).
53. Weigu Li, Yun Huang, Yifei Liu, Marshall Tekell, and Donglei (Emma) Fan*, “Three Dimensional Nanosuperstructures Made of Two-Dimensional Materials by Design: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications”, Nano Today doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2019.100799 (2019) (link).
52. Weigu Li, Zheng Li, Karina Bertelsmann, and Donglei Fan*, “Portable Low-Pressure Solar Steaming-Collection Uni-system with Polypyrrole Origamis,” Advanced Materials, 31, 1900720 (2019) doi:10.1002/adma.201900720 (link), featured by UT News, UT ME News, NSF News, PBS TV station, First Bell, Phys.org, Science Daily, and ECN among many news agencies.
51. Weigu Li, Marshall Tekell, Yun Huang, Max Lau, and Donglei Fan*, “Synergistic High-Rate Solar Steaming and Mercury Removal with MoS2/C @ Polyurethane Composite Sponges”, Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1802108 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201802108 (link), featured by The Daily Texan.
50. Zexi Liang and Donglei Fan*, “Visible-Light-Gated Reconfigurable Rotary Actuation of Electric Nanomotors,” Science Advances, 4, eaau0981 (2018). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau0981 (link), featured by UT News, Nano Today, Materials Today, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, ASEE First Bell, Science Daily, Physorg, EurekAlert, and The Daily Texan among numerous news agencies.
49. Jing Liu#, Jianhe Guo#, Guowen Meng and D. Fan*, “Superstructural Raman Nanosensors with Integrated Dual Functions for Ultrasensitive Detection and Tunable Release of Molecules,” Chemistry of Materials, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01979 (2018) (link).
48. Jianhe Guo and D. Fan*, “Electrically Controlled Biochemical Release from Micro/Nanostructures for In-vitro and In-vivo Applications: A Review,” ChemNanoMat, DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201800157 (2018) (invited Focus Review).
47. Weigu Li, Marshall C Tekell, Chang Liu, Jacob A Hethcock, and D. Fan*, “Flexible All-Solid-State Supercapacitors of High Areal Capacitance Enabled by Porous Graphite Foams with Diverging Microtubes,” Advanced Functional Materials, DOI:10.1002/adfm.201800601 (2018) (link).
46. Jianhe Guo, Jeremie J. Gallegos, Ashley R. Tom, and D. Fan*, “Electric-Field Guided Precision Manipulation of Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery and Powering Nanoelectromechanical Devices”, ACS Nano, 12, 1179-1187 (2018) doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06824 (link).
45. K. Kim, J. H. Guo, Z. X. Liang, and D. Fan*, “Artificial Micro/Nanomachines for Bio-applications: Biochemical Delivery and Diagnostic Sensing,” Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 1705867 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705867 (Feature Article).
44. W. G. Li, X. B. Xu, C. Liu, M. Tekell, J. Ning, J. H. Guo, J. C. Zhang, and D. Fan*, “Ultralight and Binder-Free All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors for Powering Wearable Strain Sensors,” Advanced Functional Materials, 27, 1702738, (2017) DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201702738 (link) (featured on the inside back cover).
43. Jianhe Guo, Andrew Chan, Weigu Li, and D. Fan*, “Kirkendall Effect in Creating Three-Dimensional Metal Catalysts for Hierarchically Porous Ultrathin Graphite with Unique Properties,” Chemistry of Materials, 29, 4991–4998 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01518 (link).
42. Weigu Li, Jianhe Guo, and D. Fan*, “Three-Dimensional Graphite-Polymer Flexible Strain Sensors with Ultrasensitivity and Durability for Real-Time Human Vital Sign Monitoring and Musical Instrument Education”, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2, 1700070 (2017) DOI: 10.1002/admt.201700070 (link). (featured on the front cover)
41. C. Liu#, Z. Wang#, E. Li, X. Liang, S. Chakravarty, X C. Xu, A. X. Wang*, Ray T. Chen* and D. Fan*, “Electrokinetic-Manipulation Integrated Plasmonic-Photonic Hybrid Raman Nanosensors with Dually Enhanced Sensitivity”, ACS Sensors, 2, 346–353 (2017) (link) (featured on the front cover).
40. K. Kim, Z. X. Liang, M. L. Liu, and D. Fan*, “Biobased High-Performance Rotary Micromotors for Individually Reconfigurable Micromachine Arrays and Microfluidic Applications,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, 6144-6152 (2017) (link).
39. Z. Wang, X.C. Xu, D. Fan, Y. G. Wang and R. T. Chen, “High quality factor subwavelength grating waveguide micro-ring resonator based on trapezoidal silicon pillars” Optical Letters, 41, 3375-3378 (2016) (link).
38. K. Kim, J. H. Guo, Z. X. Liang, F. Q. Zhu and D. Fan*, “Rotary Nanomotors: A Review of Recent Development”, Nanoscale, 8, 10471- 10490 (2016) (link). (invited review)
37. Chenxi Zu, Longjun Li, Jianhe Guo, Shaofei Wang and D. Fan, and Arumugam Manthiram, “Understanding the Redox Obstacles in High Sulfur-loading Li-S Batteries and Design of an Advanced Gel Cathode”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 1392–1399 (2016) (link).
36. Z. Wang, X. C. Xu, D. Fan, Y. G. Wang, H. Subbaraman, and R. T. Chen, “Geometrical Tuning Art for Entirely Subwavelength Grating Waveguide based Integrated Photonics Circuits,” Scientific Reports, 6, 24106 (2016) (link).
35. C. Liu, X. B. Xu, and D. Fan*, “Rational Synthesis of Three Dimensional Nanosuperstructures for Applications in Energy Storage and Conversion Devices,” IEEE-Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, PP, 1 (2016) doi:10.1109/TDMR.2015.2514238 (link). (invited review)
34. Longjun Li, Chao Liu, Guang He and D. Fan, and Arumugam Manthiram, “Design of Hierarchical Pore-in-Pore and Wire-in-Wire Catalysts for Rechargeable Hybrid Li-air Batteries with Ultra-long Cycle Life and High Cell Efficiency,” Energy & Environmental Science, 8, 3274- 3282 (2015) doi: 10.1039/C5EE02616D (link).
33. W. Lei, X.Y. Zhu and D. Fan*, “Rational Fabrication of Arrays of Plasmonic Metal-Quantum Dot Sandwiched Nanodisks with Enhanced Forster Resonance Energy Transfer,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 16230–16238 (2015) (link).
32. J. P. Fu and D. Fan, “Themed Issue on Nanotechnology for Biology and Biomedical Applications,” ASME-Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, 5, 040201, doi:10.1115/1.4030870 (2015) (link).
31. C. Liu, X. B. Xu and D. Fan*, “Electric-Field Enhanced Molecule Detection in Suspension on Assembled Plasmonic Arrays by Raman Spectroscopy,” ASME-Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, 5, 040906, doi:10.1115/1.4030769 (2015) (link).
30. J. H. Guo, K. Kim and D. Fan*, “Ultra-Durable Rotary Nanomotors Assembled from Nanoentities by Electric Fields,” Nanoscale, 7, 11363-11370 (2015) (link).
29. K. Kim, J. H. Guo, X. B. Xu and D. Fan*, “Recent Progress on Man-Made Inorganic Nanomachines”, Small, 11, 4037 (2015) (link) (invited review).
28. X. B. Xu, K. Kim, C. Liu and D. Fan*, “Fabrication and Robotization of Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Nanosensors for Molecule Detection with Raman Scattering,” Sensors, 15, 10422-10451, (2015) (link).(review article).
27. Z. Wang, H. Yan, S. Chakravarty, H. Subbaraman, X. C. Xu, D. Fan, Alan X. Wang and Ray T. Chen, “Microfluidic Channels with Ultralow Loss Waveguide Crossings for Various Chip-integrated Photonic Sensors,” Optics Letters, 40, 1563-1566 (2015) (link).
26. H. Yan, S. Chakravarty, Y. Zou, C. Yang, Z. Wang, N. Tang, Z. Wang, D. Fan, and R. T. Chen, “On-chip Bandpass Filters for the Multiplexing of High Sensitivity Photonic Crystal Microcavity Bio-sensors,” Applied Physics Letters, 106, 121103 (2015) (link).
25. K. Kim, J. H. Guo, X. B. Xu and D. Fan*, ” Micromotors with Step-Motor Characteristics by Controlled Magnetic Interactions among Assembled Components,” ACS Nano, 9, 548–554 (2015) (link).
24. X. B. Xu, K. Kim and D. Fan*, “Tunable Release of Multiplex Biochemicals by Plasmonically-Active Rotary Nanomotors,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54, 2525–2529 (2015) (link).
23. J. Yang, F. H. Ren, X. Y. Chong, D. Fan, S. Chakravarty, Z. Wang, R. T. Chen and A. X. Wang*, “Guided-Mode Resonance Gratings on Indium-Tin-Oxide Thin Film for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Spectroscopy,” Photonics, 1, 380-389 (2014) (link).
22. C. Liu, K. Kim and D. Fan*, ” Location Deterministic Biosensing from Quantum-Dot-Nanowire Assemblies,” Applied Physics Letters,105, 083123 (2014) (link).
21. J. Ning#, X. B. Xu#, C. Liu and D. Fan*, ” Three-Dimensional Multilevel Porous Thin Graphite Nanosuperstructures for Ni(OH)2-based Energy Storage Devices”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2, 15768-15773 (2014) (link). (Featured on the inside front cover)
20. X. B. Xu#, C. Liu#, K, Kim, and D. Fan*, ” Electric-Driven Rotation of Silicon Nanowires and Silicon Nanowire Motors”, Advanced Functional Materials, 24, 4843–4850 (2014) (link).
19. K. Kim#, X. B. Xu#, J. H. Guo# and D. Fan*, ” Ultrahigh-Speed Rotating Nanoelectromechanical System Devices Assembled from Nanoscale Building Blocks”, Nature Communications, 5, 3632 (2014) (link).
18. C. Liu, X. B. Xu, Alex Rettie, C. Mullins and D. Fan*, “One-step Waferscale Synthesis of 3-D ZnO Nanosuperstructures by Designed Catalysts for Substantial Improvement of Solar Water Oxidation Efficiency “, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1 , 8111- 8117 (2013) (link) (Featured on the front cover).
17. K. Kim, F. Q. Zhu, and D. Fan*, ” Innovative Mechanism for Precision Assembling and Actuation of Arrays of Nanowire Oscillators “, ACS Nano, 7, 3476–3483 (2013) (link).
16. X. B. Xu, H. Li, Dihan Hasan, R. Ruoff, A. X. Wang and D. Fan*, “Near-Field Enhanced Magnetic Plasmonic Bifunctional Nanotubes for Single Cell Bioanalysis”, Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 4332-4338 (2013)(link)(featured on the front cover and selected for Wiley-VCH’s hot topics).
15. X. B. Xu, M. Wu, M. Asoro, P. Ferreira and D. Fan*, “One-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis of Comb-like ZnO Nanostructures “, Crystal Growth and Design, 12, 4829 (2012).(link).
14. X. B. Xu, K. Kim, H. Li, D. Fan*, ” Ordered Arrays of Raman Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive and Location Predictable Biochemical Detection “, Advanced Materials, 24, 5457 (2012).(link).(Ranked top 40 most accessed articles for August 16 and featured on the backcover of the journal)
13. X. B. Xu#, Dihan Hasan#,Lei Wang#, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Ray T. Chen, D. Fan* and Alan X. Wang*, ” Guided-Mode-Resonance-Coupled Plasmonic-Active SiO2 Nanotubes for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, Applied Physics Letters, 100, 191114 (2012).(link) selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
12. D. Fan*, F. Q. Zhu, X. B. Xu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien*, “Electronic Properties of Nanoentities Revealed by Mechanical Motion” The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 9309–9313 (2012)(link).(direct submission without prearranged editors)
11. D. Fan*, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata* and C. L. Chien, “Electric Tweezers”, Nano Today, 6, 339 (2011) (Invited article). (link)
10. D. Fan#, Z. Z. Yin#, R. Cheung, F. Q. Zhu, A. Levchenko, R. C. Cammarata, C. L. Chien and A. Levchenko, “Sub-cellular resolution delivery of a cytokine via precisely manipulated nanowires”, Nature Nanotechnology, 5, 545, (2010).(link)
9. D. Fan, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Precision transport and assembling of nanowires in suspension by electric fields”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 093115 (2008).
8. D. Fan, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Efficiency of assembling of nanowires in suspension by AC electric fields”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 223115 (2006) (Cover of the issue).
7. D. Fan, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Nanowire rotation and micromotors”, Physics 35, 197 (2006) (Invited paper, in Chinese).
6. D. Fan, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Controllable high-speed rotation of metallic nanowires”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247208 (2005).
5. D. Fan, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Manipulation of nanowires by ac electric fields”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 4175 (2004).
4. F.Q. Zhu, D. Fan, X. C. Zhu, J. G. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Arrays of magnetic nanorings with ultrahigh areal densities”, Advanced Materials, 16, 2155 (2004).
3. F. Q. Zhu, D. Fan, R.C. Cammarata and C. L. Chien, “Magnetic and magneto-transport properties of electrodeposited magnetic nano-network on laser modified Au surface”, J. Appl. Phys. 95, 6989 (2004).
2. X. L. Wu, S. J. Xiong, D. Fan, Y. Gu, and X. M. Bao, “Stabilized electronic state and its luminescence at the surface of oxygen-passivated porous silicon”, Phys. Rev. B, 62, R7759 (2000).
1. X. L. Wu, G. G. Siu and M. J. Stokes, D. Fan, Y. Gu, and X. M. Bao, “Blue-emitting-SiC fabricated by annealing C60 coupled on porous silicon”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 1294 (2000).
