Publications
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Selected Publications
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Decoding collective dynamics and complexity in nanoparticle assemblies via graph theory |
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Patchy nanoparticles by atomic stencilling |
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Nanoscale phonon dynamics in self-assembled nanoparticle lattices |
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Locating dislocations in organic crystals |
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Visualizing energy transfer between redox-active colloids |
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Nanoscopic Imaging of Biogenic Feedstock-Induced Corrosion in Model Petroleum Infrastructure |
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| Nanoscopic Imaging of Self-Propelled Ultrasmall Catalytic Nanomotors
Zhiheng Lyu, Lehan Yao, Zhisheng Wang, Chang Qian, Zuochen Wang, Jiahui Li, Chang Liu, Yufeng Wang, and Qian Chen* |
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| Electron videography of a lipid–protein tango
John W. Smith, Lauren N. Carnevale, Aditi Das*, Qian Chen* |
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| Beyond nothingness in the formation and functional relevance of voids in polymer films Falon C. Kalutantirige, Jinlong He, Lehan Yao, Stephen Cotty, Shan Zhou, John W. Smith, Emad Tajkhorshid, Charles M. Schroeder, Jeffrey S. Moore, Hyosung An, Xiao Su, Ying Li* and Qian Chen* Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 2852 [LINK][PDF] |
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| 4D-STEM Mapping of Nanocrystal Reaction Dynamics and Heterogeneity in a Graphene Liquid Cell Chang Liu, Oliver Lin, Saran Pidaparthy, Haoyang Ni, Zhiheng Lyu, Jian-Min Zuo and Qian Chen* |
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No ground truth needed: unsupervised sinogram inpainting for nanoparticle electron tomography (UsiNet) to correct missing wedges |
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Unravelling crystal growth of nanoparticles |
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| Electron Microscopy Studies of Soft Nanomaterials Zhiheng Lyu, Lehan Yao, Wenxiang Chen, Falon C. Kalutantirige, and Qian Chen* Chemical Reviews, 123 (7), 4051–4145 (2023) [LINK][PDF] |
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Direct Imaging of Patch-Clasping and Relaxation in Robust and Flexible Nanoparticle Assemblies |
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| Formation and impact of nanoscopic oriented phase domains in electrochemical crystalline electrodes Wenxiang Chen, Xun Zhan, Renliang Yuan, Saran Pidaparthy, Adrian Xiao Bin Yong, Hyosung An, Zhichu Tang, Kaijun Yin, Arghya Patra, Heonjae Jeong, Cheng Zhang, Kim Ta, Zachary W. Riedel, Ryan M. Stephens, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Hong Yang, Andrew A. Gewirth, Paul V. Braun, Elif Ertekin, Jian-Min Zuo*, and Qian Chen* Nature Materials, 22, pages 92–99 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Previously unseen processes reveal path to better rechargeable battery performance'' |
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| Chiral Assemblies of Pinwheel Superlattices on Substrates Shan Zhou, Jiahui Li, Jun Lu, Haihua Liu, Ji-Young Kim, Ahyoung Kim, Lehan Yao, Chang Liu, Chang Qian, Zachary D. Hood, Xiaoying Lin, Wenxiang Chen, Thomas E. Gage, Ilke Arslan, Alex Travesset, Kai Sun, Nicholas A. Kotov,* and Qian Chen* Nature, 612, pages 259–265 (2022) [LINK][PDF] - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Organizing nanoparticles into pinwheel shapes offers new twist on engineered materials" - Interviewed by MRS Bulletin Podcast: ''Gold nanoparticles self-assemble into pinwheel superlattices" |
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| Symmetry-breaking in patch formation on triangular gold nanoparticles by asymmetric polymer grafting Ahyoung Kim, Thi Vo, Hyosung An, Progna Banerjee, Lehan Yao, Shan Zhou, Chansong Kim, Delia J. Milliron, Sharon C. Glotzer,* and Qian Chen* Nature Communications, 13, 6774 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] - Selected to Nature Communications editors' Highlight in materials science and chemistry. Click here for details. |
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| Seeking regularity from irregularity: Unveiling the synthesis‒nanomorphology relationships of heterogeneous nanomaterials using unsupervised machine learning Lehan Yao, Hyosung An, Shan Zhou, Ahyoung Kim, Erik Luijten, and Qian Chen* Nanoscale, 14, 16479 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] |
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| Mechanism and Performance Relevance of Nanomorphogenesis in Polyamide Films Revealed by Quantitative 3D Imaging and Machine Learning Hyosung An, John W. Smith, Bingqiang Ji, Stephen Cotty, Shan Zhou, Lehan Yao, Falon C. Kalutantirige, Wenxiang Chen, Zihao Ou, Xiao Su, Jie Feng, and Qian Chen* Science Advances, 8 (8), eabk188 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Water filtration membranes morph like cells'' |
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| Size-Dependent Reaction Mechanism of λ-MnO2 Particles as Cathodes in Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries Zhichu Tang, Wenxiang Chen, Zhiheng Lyu, and Qian Chen* Energy Material Advances, 2022, 9765710 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] |
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| Beyond Snowflakes: Heterogeneity in Nanomaterials Qian Chen* Nano Letter, 22 (1), pp 3-5 (2022) [LINK] [PDF] |
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| Nanoscale Cinematography of Soft Matter System under Liquid-Phase TEM Zihao Ou, Chang Liu, Lehan Yao, and Qian Chen* Accounts of Materials Research, 1 (1), pp 41–52 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] |
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| Imaging how thermal capillary waves and anisotropic interfacial stiffness shape nanoparticle supracrystals Zihao Ou, Lehan Yao, Hyosung An, Bonan Shen and Qian Chen* Nature Communications, 11, 4555 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] - Selected to Nature Communications editors' Highlight in materials science and chemistry. Click here for details. |
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| Liquid-phase Electron Microscopy Imaging of Cellular and Biomolecular Systems John W. Smith and Qian Chen* Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 8, pp 8490-8506 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] |
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| Machine Learning to Reveal Nanoparticle Dynamics from Liquid-Phase TEM Videos Lehan Yao, Zihao Ou, Binbin Luo, Cong Xu, and Qian Chen* ACS Central Science, 6 (8), pp 1421-1430 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] - Selected as front cover of the issue. Click here for details. - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Machine learning peeks into nano-aquariums'' Other news reports: Nanowerk, EurekAlert!, Phys.org. |
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| “Colloid–Atom Duality” in the Assembly Dynamics of Concave Gold Nanoarrows Chang Liu, Zihao Ou, Fucheng Guo, Binbin Luo, Wenxiang Chen, Limin Qi, and Qian Chen* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (27), pp 11669-11673 (2020)[LINK] [PDF] |
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| Kinetic pathways of crystallization at the nanoscale Zihao Ou¶, Ziwei Wang¶, Binbin Luo, Erik Luijten*, and Qian Chen* Nature Materials, 19, pp 450–455 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] - Watch the video - Selected as News & Views @ Nature Materials : ''Seeing crystal formation one particle at a time" - Highlighted @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: ''Crystallization clarified, researchers report" - Highlighted @ MRS Bulletin: ''Crystallization pathway imaged in real time at the nanoscale" |
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| Interfacial crystallization under DNA control Chang Liu, and Qian Chen* Nature Materials, 19, pp 704–705 (2020) [LINK] [PDF] |
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Tip-Patched Nanoprisms from Formation of Ligand Islands Ahyoung Kim, Shan Zhou, Lehan Yao, Stacey Ni, Binbin Luo, Charles E Sing, and Qian Chen* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (30), pp 11796-11800 (2019)[LINK] [PDF] |
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Effects of Particle Size on Mg2+ Ion Intercalation into λ-MnO2 Cathode Materials Wenxiang Chen, Xun Zhan, Binbin Luo, Zihao Ou, Pei-Chieh Shih, Lehan Yao, Saran Pidaparthy, Arghya Patra, Hyosung An, Paul V. Braun, Ryan M. Stephens, Hong Yang, Jian-Min Zuo* and Qian Chen* Nano Letters, 19, pp 4712-4720 (2019). [LINK] [PDF] |
| Hierarchical self-assembly of 3D lattices from polydisperse anisometric colloids Binbin Luo, Ahyoung Kim, John W. Smith, Zihao Ou, Zixuan Wu, Juyeong Kim and Qian Chen* Nature Communications, 10, 1815 (2019) [LINK] [PDF] - Highlighted ''Multistep self-assembly opens door to new reconfigurable materials'' Read the full news article here @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU. Other news reports: phys.org, NSF science news, and nanotech-now. - Selected to Nature Communications editors' Highlight in Inorganic, Nanoscale and Physical Chemistry. Click here for details. |
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Imaging the polymerization of multivalent nanoparticles in solution Juyeong Kim, Zihao Ou, Matthew R. Jones, Xiaohui Song and Qian Chen* Nature Communications, 8, 761 (2017). [LINK] [PDF] - Highlighted "Tiny aquariums put nanoparticle self-assembly on display". Read the full news article here @ ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU. Other news reports: Nanowerk, EurekAlert!, Phys.org, Long Room, Controlled Environments, Science Newsline, Azonano, Technology.org. |
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Quantifying the self-assembly behavior of anisotropic nanoparticles using liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy Binbin Luo,* John W. Smith,* Zihao Ou and Qian Chen* Accounts of Chemical Research 50 (5), pp 1125–1133 (2017). [LINK] [PDF] - Selected to highlight by @ACSPublications. Click here for details. |
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Polymerization-like co-assembly of silver nanoplates and patchy spheres Binbin Luo, John W. Smith, Zixuan Wu, Juyeong Kim, Zihao Ou and Qian Chen* ACS Nano 11 (8), pp 7626–7633 (2017). [LINK] [PDF] |
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Polymorphic assembly from beveled gold triangular nanoprisms Juyeong Kim,* Xiaohui Song,* Fei Ji, Binbin Luo, Nicole F. Ice, Qipeng Liu, Qiao Zhang and Qian Chen* Nano Letters 17 (5), pp 3270–3275 (2017). [LINK] [PDF] - Highlighted "Playing with Nanoparticle Legos: Polymorphism in Nanoantenna Arrays". Read the full news article here. |
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In Situ Electron Microscopy Imaging and Quantitative Structural Modulation of Nanoparticle Superlattices Juyeong Kim, Matthew R. Jones, Zihao Ou, Qian Chen* ACS Nano 10 (11), pp 9801–9808 (2016). [LINK] [PDF] - Selected to highlight and interview by ACS Nano Podcast. Listen to us about this work (Episode 112 here). |
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