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2025

Jintao Tong, Shihao Zang, Jiayu Liu, Zhe Xu, Xianen Hu, Xiaojuan Bai, Xue Bai, Cheng Ma*, Wei Wang*, and Jianbin Huang*, Polymer-Mediated Assembly from Core–Shell Particles to Tunable Structures and Microrotors, Langmuir, 2025, online. (published on Oct. 9, 2025)
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Zhiying Yi, Donghao Cui, Jinyao Tang, Xing Ma, Wei Wang*, Reconfigurable Superstructures of Photocatalytic Colloidal Motors under Light, Magnetic, and Acoustic Fields, Chemical Communications, 2025, 61, 14649 - 14652 (published on Aug 19, 2025)
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Donghao Cui#, Mohd Yasir Khan*#, Xiaowen Chen, Zuyao Yan, Xianghong Liu and Wei Wang*, Emergent Tetratic Ordering in Autophoretic Rods Mediated by Torque, Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 6391-6399 (published on July 1, 2025)
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Dezhou Cao; Jingru Xu; Dongqing He; Mohd Yasir Khan; Xing Ma; Wei Wang*. Light-Actuated, Tunable Micromachines from Photo-Swellable Colloidal Ionogels. Small, 2025, 21(30), 2503698. (published on May 29, 2025)
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Xi Chen*#, Shifang Duan#, Dezhou Cao, Jinyao Tang, Xing Ma, Ting Kuang, Shuailong Zhang, Wei Wang*, Reconfigurable Transport and Assembly of Colloidal Particles via Opto-Chemical-Electronic Tweezer (OCET), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, 17, 18, 27422–27433 (published on April 22, 2025)
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​Jiayu Liu, Yankai Xu, Zihan Qiao, Shanshan Li, Xing Ma, Ting Kuang, H. P. Zhang* and Wei Wang*, Quantifying and understanding the tilt of a Pt Janus active colloid near solid walls, Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 3515-3526 (published on Mar 28, 2025). Part of the Emerging Investigator special issue.
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Ruitong Zhu, Donghao Cui, Dezhou Cao, Zuyao Yan, Shifang Duan, Wei Wang*, Microrotors with Tunable Trajectory Curvatures Driven by Chemical and Photochemical Dual Engines, ACS Materials Lett. 2025, 7, 2, 668–674 (published on Jan 23, 2025)
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Dezhou Cao; Zuyao Yan; Donghao Cui; Dongqing He; Xiaowen Chen; Yixin Peng; Mohd Yasir Khan; Jiayu Liu; Xing Ma; Jinyao Tang, Wei Wang*, Colloidal Ionogels: Controlled Assembly and Self-Propulsion upon Tunable Swelling, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025, 685, 522-536 (published on Jan 16, 2025)
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2024

Measuring attractive interaction between a self-electrophoretic micromotor and a wall, Yankai Xu, Chang Liu, Jiayu Liu, Pengzhao Xu, Zuyao Xiao, Wei Wang*, and H. P. Zhang*, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2024, 133, 258304, (published on December 18, 2024)
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Yixin Peng#, Mohd Yasir Khan#, Yongxiang Gao, Wei Wang*, Self-Generated Ions Modify the Pair Interaction and the Phase Separation of Chemically Active Colloids, Chemistry-an Asian Journal, 2024, e202400923 (published on November 12, 2024) 
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Yan Wen, Jiayu Liu, Wei Wang*, Pik-Yin Lai* and Penger Tong*, Enhanced gravitational trapping of bottom-heavy Janus particles over parallel microgrooves, Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 9208-9218 (published on November 1, 2024)
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Xi Chen*#, Xianghong Liu#, Mohd Yasir Khan, Zuyao Yan, Dezhou Cao, Shifang Duan, Lingshan Fu, and Wei Wang*, Reconfigurable Assembly of Planar Colloidal Molecules via Chemical Reaction and Electric Polarization, Research, 2024, 7, 0490 (published on September 30, 2024)
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Xianghong Liu, Yixin Peng, Zuyao Yan, Dezhou Cao, Shifang Duan, Wei Wang*, Oscillations of the Local pH Reverses Silver Micromotors in H2O2, ChemSystemsChem, 2024, e202400046 (published on September 9, 2024)
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Shifang Duan, Weilong Lu, Yixin Peng, Yingxu Xie, Ting Kuang, Guan Zhang*, and Wei Wang*, In Situ Quantification of H2O2 Generated on Photocatalytic BiVO4 Films by Chemical Micromotors, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2024, 7, 12, 13936–13942 (published on June 7, 2024)
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Dezhou Cao, Zuyao Yan, Donghao Cui, Mohd Yasir Khan, Shifang Duan, Guoqiang Xie, Zikai He, Ding Yu Xing, and Wei Wang*, A Conceptual Framework to Understand the Self-Assembly of Chemically Active Colloids, Langmuir 2024, 40, 21, 10884–10894 (published on May 16, 2024)
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Jiayu Liu, Zhou Yang, Zuyao Yan, Shifang Duan, Xiaowen Chen, Donghao Cui, Dezhou Cao, Ting Kuang, Xing Ma, and Wei Wang*, Chemical Micromotors Move Faster at Oil–Water Interfaces, JACS, 2024, 146, 6, 4221–4233 (published on Feb. 4, 2024)
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Donghao Cui,   Zuyao Yan,   Xiaowen Chen,   Jiayu Liu  and  Wei Wang*, Electroosmotic Flows Spin Tracers Near Chemical Nano/Micromotors, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 2847 - 2851 (published on 16 Jan 2024)
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2023
Wei Wang*, Open Questions of Chemically Powered Nano- and Micromotors, JACS, 2023, 145, 50, 27185–27197  (published on Dec 8, 2023)

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Yixin Peng#, Longfei Li#, Shutong Guo, Xi Chen, Chao Zhou, Dingyu Xing, H. P. Zhang*, Mingcheng Yang*, Wei Wang*, Spatio-Temporal Control of the Phase Separation of Chemically Active Immotile Colloids. National Science Open, 2024, 3(4): 20230050 (published on Dec 4, 2023)
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Xiaoxia Liu, Yong Wang, Yixin Peng, Jinjin Shi, Wenjun Chen*, Wei Wang*, and Xing Ma*, Urease-Powered Micromotors with Spatially Selective Distribution of Enzymes for Capturing and Sensing Exosomes, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 23, 24343–24354 (published on Dec 1, 2023)
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Xianglong Lyu, Jingyuan Chen, Ruitong Zhu, Jiayu Liu, Lingshan Fu, Jeffrey Lawrence Moran*, and Wei Wang*, Active Synthetic Microrotors: Design Strategies and Applications, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 13, 11969–11993 (published on June 20, 2023)

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Xiaowen Chen, Xi Chen, Yixin Peng, Lailai Zhu, and Wei Wang*, Dielectrophoretic Colloidal Levitation by Electrode Polarization in Oscillating Electric Fields, Langmuir 2023, 39, 19, 6932–6945 (published on May 6, 2023)
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Xiang Sun, Mengshi Wei, Xin Pang, Lin Lin, Qiang Gao, Lichao Su, Ting Liu, Youliang Yao, Jibin Song, Wei Wang*, Xiaohui Yan*, Sonodynamic Bacterial Inactivation Enhanced by an Actuator-Integrated Mechanism, Adv. Func. Mater, 2023, 2214619 (published on Apirl 20, 2023)
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Xi Chen, Xiaowen Chen, Mohammed Elsayed, Harrison Edwards, Jiayu Liu, Yixin Peng, Hepeng Zhang*, Shuailong Zhang*, Wei Wang*, and Aaron R. Wheeler*, Steering Micromotors via Reprogrammable Optoelectronic Paths, ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c12811, (published on March 13, 2023)
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Liying Wang, Peiting Guo, Dongdong Jin, Yixin Peng, Xiang Sun, Yuduo Chen, Xiaoxia Liu, Wenjun Chen, Wei Wang, Xiaohui Yan, and Xing Ma*, Enzyme-Powered Tubular Microrobotic Jets as Bioinspired Micropumps for Active Transmembrane Drug Transport, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 5, 5095–5107, (published on March 2, 2023)
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Qiang Gao, Zhou Yang, Ruitong Zhu, Jinping Wang, Pengzhao Xu, Jiayu Liu, Xiaowen Chen, Zuyao Yan, Yixin Peng, Yanping Wang, Hairong Zheng, Feiyan Cai, and Wei Wang*, Ultrasonic Steering Wheels: Turning Micromotors by Localized Acoustic Microstreaming, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 5, 4729–4739, (published on Feb. 23, 2023)
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2022
Donghao Cui, Xianglong Lyu, Shifang Duan, Yixin Peng, and Wei Wang*, Rhodium Oxide Nanorod Motors Powered by Light across the Full Visible Spectrum, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 10, 14235–14240 (published on Oct. 18, 2022)
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Xi Chen, Yankai Xu, Kai Lou, Yixin Peng, Chao Zhou, H. P. Zhang*, and Wei Wang*, Programmable, Spatiotemporal Control of Colloidal Motion Waves via Structured Light, ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 8, 12755–12766, (published on July 20, 2022)
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Xi Chen#, Yankai Xu#, Chao Zhou, Kai Lou, Yixin Peng, Hepeng Zhang*, Wei Wang*, Unraveling the physiochemical nature of colloidal motion waves among silver colloids, Science Advances, 2022, 8, eabn9130 (published on May 25, 2022)

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Xianglong Lyu, Jingyuan Chen, Jiayu Liu, Yixin Peng, Shifang Duan, Xing Ma, Wei Wang*, Reversing A Platinum Micromotor by Introducing Platinum Oxide, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61(24),   e202201018 (published on Apr. 2, 2022)
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Yixin Peng, Pengzhao Xu, Shifang Duan, Jiayu Liu, Jeffrey Lawrence Moran, and Wei Wang*, Generic Rules for Distinguishing Autophoretic Colloidal Motors, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61(12), e202116041(published on Jan. 7, 2022)
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2021
Xiaojia Liu, Shikun Yang, Xianglong Lyu, Sanhu Liu, Yong Wang, Yang Li, Bo Wang, Wenjun Chen, Wei Wang, Jinhong Guo*, and Xing Ma*, Instant Preparation of Ultraclean Gold Nanothorns under Ambient Conditions for SERS Kit-Enabled Mobile Diagnosis, Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 49, 16628–16637 (published on Dec. 2, 2021)
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Book chapter: Liqiang Ren, Fernando Soto, Luyang Huang, and Wei Wang*, "Ultrasound-Powered Micro-/Nanorobots: Fundamentals and Biomedical Applications." Field-Driven Micro and Nanorobots for Biology and Medicine. Springer, Cham, 2022. 29-60. (published on Nov. 26, 2021)
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Wang, Wei*, and Thomas E. Mallouk*. "A Practical Guide to Analyzing and Reporting the Movement of Nanoscale Swimmers." ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 10, 15446–15460 (published on 12 October, 2021)

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Zihan Ye, Yong Wang, Sanhu Liu, Dandan Xu, Wei Wang, and Xing Ma*, Construction of Nanomotors with Replaceable Engines by Supramolecular Machine-Based Host–Guest Assembly and Disassembly, JACS, 2021, 143, 37, 15063–15072 (published on 9 September, 2021)
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Shifang Duan, Pengzhao Xu and Wei Wang*, Better fuels for photocatalytic micromotors: a case study of triethanolamine, Chem. Commun., 2021, Advance Article (published on 31 August, 2021)
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Xianglong Lyu, Xiaoxia Liu, Chao Zhou, Shifang Duan, Pengzhao Xu, Jia Dai, Xiaowen Chen, Yixin Peng, Donghao Cui, Jinyao Tang, Xing Ma*, and Wei Wang*, Active, Yet Little Mobility: Asymmetric Decomposition of H2O2 Is Not Sufficient in Propelling Catalytic Micromotors, JACS, 2021, 143, 31, 12154–12164 (published on 2 August, 2021)
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Qizhang Wang#, Chao Zhou#, Luyang Huang and Wei Wang*, “Ballistic” Waves Among Chemically Oscillating Micromotors, Chem. Comm., 2021, 57, 8492-8495 (published on 26 July, 2021)
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Luyang Huang, Jeffrey L. Moran* and Wei Wang*, Designing Chemical Micromotors That Communicate-A Survey of Experiments, JCIS Open, 2021, 2, 100006 (published 6 April 2021)
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2020
Wei Wang* and Chao Zhou, A Journey of Nanomotors for Targeted Cancer Therapy: Principles, Challenges, and a Critical Review of State-of-The-Art, Adv. Healthcare Mater., 2020, 2001236


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Xianglong Lv, Zuyao Xiao, Chao Zhou, Yong Wang, Shifang Duan, Jingyuan Chen, Wendi Duan, Xing Ma* and Wei Wang*, Tadpole‐Shaped Catalytic Janus Microrotors Enabled by Facile and Controllable Growth of Silver Nanotails, Adv. Func. Mater. 2020, 30(46), 2004858 (published on September 6, 2020)
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Zhou, Min, Dan Gao*, Zhou Yang, Chao Zhou, Ying Tan, Wei Wang*, and Yuyang Jiang. "Streaming-enhanced, chip-based biosensor with acoustically active, biomarker-functionalized micropillars: a case study of thrombin detection." Talanta, 2021, 222,121480.
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Zuyao Xiao, Shifang Duan, Pengzhao Xu, Jingqin Cui, Hepeng Zhang, and Wei Wang*, Synergistic Speed Enhancement of an Electric-Photochemical Hybrid Micromotor by Tilt Rectification, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 7, 8658–8667  (published on June 12, 2020)
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Pengzhao Xu, Shifang Duan, Zuyao Xiao, Zhou Yang and Wei Wang*, Light-powered Active Colloids from Monodisperse and Highly Tunable Microspheres with A Thin TiO2 shell, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 6082 - 6090 (published on June 5, 2020)
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Chao Zhou #, Qizhang Wang #, Xianglong Lv, and Wei Wang*, Non-oscillatory Micromotors “Learn” to Oscillate On-the-fly from Oscillating Ag Micromotors, Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 6499 - 6502 (published on April 23, 2020)
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Chao Zhou, Nobuhiko Jessis Suematsu, Yixin Peng, Qizhang Wang, Xi Chen, Yongxiang Gao, and Wei Wang*, Coordinating an Ensemble of Chemical Micromotors via Spontaneous Synchronization, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 5, 5360–5370 (published on April 9, 2020)
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Wei Wang*, Xianglong Lv, Jeffrey L. Moran, Shifang Duan and Chao Zhou, A practical guide to active colloids: choosing synthetic model systems for soft matter physics research, Soft Matter, 2020,16, 3846-3868 (published on Mar. 20, 2020)


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Zuyao Xiao, Jingyuan Chen, Shifang Duan, Xianglong Lv, Jizhuang Wang, Xing Ma, Jinyao Tang, and Wei Wang*, Bimetallic coatings synergistically enhance the speeds of photocatalytic TiO2 micromotors, Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 4728-4731 (published on Mar. 2, 2020)
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Xi Chen, Chao Zhou, Yixin Peng, Qizhang Wang and Wei Wang*, Temporal Light Modulation of Photochemically Active, Oscillating Micromotors: Dark Pulses, Mode Switching, and Controlled Clustering, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 10, 11843-11851 (published on Feb. 24, 2020)
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Sinan Du, Huaguang Wang, Chao Zhou, Wei Wang* and Zexin Zhang*, Motor and Rotor in One: Light-Active ZnO/Au Twinned Rods of Tunable Motion Modes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5, 2213-2217 (published on Jan. 19, 2020)
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2019
Ren, Liqiang, Nitesh Nama, Jeffrey M. McNeill, Fernando Soto, Zhifei Yan, Wu Liu, Wei Wang*, Joseph Wang*, and Thomas E. Mallouk*. "3D steerable, acoustically powered microswimmers for single-particle manipulation." Science Advances 2019, 5(10), eaax3084.
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​Yong Wang, Wendi Duan, Chao Zhou, Qing Liu, Jiahui Gu, Heng Ye, Mingyu Li, Wei Wang* and Xing Ma*. "Phoretic Liquid Metal Micro/Nanomotors as Intelligent Filler for Targeted Microwelding." Advanced Materials, 2019, 31(51), 1905067.
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Dong, R., Wang, W., and Granick, S.*, Colloidal Flatlands Confronted with Urge for the Third Dimension, ACS Nano, ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04296, (published on July 26, 2019)
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Zhang, L., Xiao, Z., Chen, X., Chen, J., and Wang, W.*, Confined 1D Propulsion of Metallodielectric Janus Micromotors on Microelectrodes Under Alternating Current Electric Fields, ACS Nano, ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b02100, (published on July 2, 2019)
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Chen, X., Zhou, C., Wang, W.*, Colloidal Motors 101: A Beginner's Guide to Colloidal Motor Research, Chem. Asia J., ASAP, DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900377, (published on April 9, 2019)


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Zhou, C., Chen, X., Han, Z., Wang, W.*, Photochemically Excited, Pulsating Janus Colloidal Motors of Tunable Dynamics, ACS Nano, A2019, 13(4), 4064-4072, (published on March 27, 2019)
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Yang, X.; Zhu, Q.; Liu, C.; Wang, W.; Li, Y.; Marchesoni, F.; Hänggi, P.; Zhang, H. P. Diffusion of Colloidal Rods in Corrugated Channels. Phys. Rev. E 2019, 99 (2), 020601–020605.
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Xu, D.; Zhou, C.; Zhan, C.; Wang, Y.; You, Y.; Pan, X.; Jiao, J.; Zhang, R.; Dong, Z.; Wang, W.; Ma, X.*. Enzymatic Micromotors as a Mobile Photosensitizer Platform for Highly Efficient on-Chip Targeted Antibacteria Photodynamic Therapy. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 3, 1807727–11.
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2018
Xiao, Z., Wei M., Wang, W*. A Review of Micromotors in Confinements: Pores, Channels, Grooves, Steps, Interfaces, Chains and Swimming in the Bulk, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,  2019, 11(7), 6667-6684, (published Dec. 18, 2018).


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Ren, L.; Wang, W.*; Mallouk, T. E.* Two Forces Are Better Than One: Combining Chemical and Acoustic Propulsion for Enhanced Micromotor Functionality. Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, 51 (9), 1948–1956.


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Xu, D.; Cai, F.; Chen, M.; Li, F.; Wang, C.; Meng, L.; Xu, D.; Wang, W.; Wu, J.; Zheng, H. Acoustic Manipulation of Particles in a Cylindrical Cavity: Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Effects of Boundary Conditions. Ultrasonics 2019, 93, 18–25
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Wang, Y.; Zhou, C.; Wang, W.; Xu, D.; Zeng, F.; Zhan, C.; Gu, J.; Li, M.; Zhao, W.; Zhang, J.; et al. Photocatalytically Powered Matchlike Nanomotor for Light‐Guided Active SERS Sensing. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2018, 57 (40), 13110–13113
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Dylan Nicholls, Andrew DeVerse, Ra’Shae Esplin, John Castañeda, Yoseph Loyd, Raaman Nair, Robert Voinescu, Chao Zhou, Wei Wang, and John G Gibbs*, Shape-Dependent Motion of Structured Photoactive Microswimmers, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018, 10(21), 18050-18056​
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Chao Zhou, Hepeng Zhang, Jinyao Tang, and Wei Wang*, Photochemically Powered AgCl Janus Micromotors as A Model System to Understand Ionic Self-diffusiophoresis, Langmuir,  2018, 34(10), 3289-3295
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Mengshi Wei, Chao Zhou, Jinyao Tang and Wei Wang*, Catalytic Micromotors Moving Near Polyelectrolyte-Modified Substrates: The Roles of Surface Charges, Morphology, and Released Ions, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10 (3), 2249–225
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Tianlong Li, Anning Zhang, Guangbin Shao, Mengshi Wei, Bin Guo, Guangyu Zhang*, Longqiu Li * and Wei Wang*, Janus Microdimer Surface Walkers Propelled by Oscillating Magnetic Fields, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 1706066
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2017
Chao Zhou, Leilei Zhao, Mengshi Wei and Wei Wang*, Twists and Turns of Orbiting and Spinning Metallic Microparticles Powered by Megahertz Ultrasound, ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (12), 12668–12676
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L. O. Mair, B. A. Evans, A. Nacev, P. Y. Stepanov, R. Hilaman, S. Chowdhury, S. Jafari, W. Wang, B. Shapiroe and I. N. Weinberg, Magnetic microkayaks: propulsion of microrods precessing near a surface by kilohertz frequency, rotating magnetic fields, Nanoscale, 2017, 9 (10), 3375-3381
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Dekai Zhou, Yuguang C. Li, Pengtao Xu, Nicholas S. McCool, Longqiu Li, Wei Wang and Thomas E. Mallouk,
Visible Light-Driven, Magnetically Steerable Gold/Iron Oxide Nanomotors, Chem. Comm., 2017, 53, 11465-11468
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Dekai Zhou, Yuguang C. Li, Pengtao Xu, Nicholas S. McCool, Longqiu Li, Wei Wang and Thomas E. Mallouk,
Visible-light controlled catalytic Cu2O–Au micromotors 
Nanoscale, 2017,9, 75-78
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2016

Zeheng Li, Lanjun Bai, Chao Zhou, Xiaohui Yan, Lamar Mair, Anning Zhang, Li Zhang and Wei Wang,
Highly Acid-resistant, Magnetically Steerable Acoustic Micromotors Prepared by Coating Gold Microrods with Fe3O4 Nanoparticles via pH Adjustment,
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 2017, 34, 1600277​
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Chao Zhou, Wei Wang and Hepeng Zhang,
Individual behaviors and dynamic self-assembly of active colloids (活性胶体的个体行为与动态自组装, published in Chinese)
Chinese Science Bulletin, 2017, 62, 194-208

Review article.
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Bumjin Jang, Wei Wang, Samuel Wiget, Andrew J. Petruska, Xiangzhong Chen, Chengzhi Hu, Ayoung Hong, David Folio, Antoine Ferreira, Salvador Pané, and Bradley J. Nelson
Catalytic locomotion of core-shell nanowire motors
ACS Nano, 2016, 10(11), 9983-9991
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Chang Liu, Chao Zhou, Wei Wang and Hepeng Zhang
Bimetallic Microswimmers Speed Up in Confining Channels
Physical Review Letters, 2016, 117, 198001
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Zhou, C.; Zhang, H.; Li, Z.; Wang, W.
Chemistry Pumps: a Review of Chemically Powered Micropumps.
Lab on a Chip 2016, 16 (10), 1797–1811.

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Ahmed, S.; Wang, W.; Bai, L.; Gentekos, D. T.; Hoyos, M.; Mallouk, T. E.
Density and Shape Effects in the Acoustic Propulsion of Bimetallic Nanorod Motors.
ACS Nano 2016, 10 (4), 4763–4769.
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2015

W. Duan, W. Wang, S. Das, V. Yadav, T. E. Mallouk, and A. Sen,
Synthetic Nano- and Micromachines in Analytical Chemistry: Sensing, Migration, Capture, Delivery, and Separation
Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2015,  8, 311

Review article.
2016 Annual review
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 E. L. Jewell, W. Wang, and T. E. Mallouk,
Catalytically driven assembly of trisegmented metallic nanorods and polystyrene tracer particles
 Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 2501
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Wang, W.; Duan, W.; Ahmed, S.; Sen, A.;Mallouk, T. E.,
From One to Many: Dynamic Assembly and Collective Behavior of Self-Propelled Colloidal Motors
Accounts of Chemical Research, 2015, 48(7), 1938-1946

Review article.
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Rao, K. J.; Li, F.; Meng, L.; Zheng, H.; Cai, F.; Wang, W.,
A Force to Be Reckoned With: A Review of Synthetic Microswimmers Powered by Ultrasound.
Small, 2015, 11(24), 2836-21846

Review article.
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W. Wang; W. Duan; Z. Zhang; M. Sun; A. Sen; T. E. Mallouk,
A tale of two forces: simultaneous chemical and acoustic propulsion of bimetallic micromotors
Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 1020-1023

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2014

Weidong He,  Xiaoning Wang,  Luhan Ye,  Yu Pan,  Yuanqiang Song,  Aifang Liu,  Wei Wang,  Hongping Zhang,  Hongxue Qi,  Ming Zhou,  Zhiguo Wang, Kelvin H. L. Zhang,  and James H. Dickerson,
Out-of-Cell Oxygen Diffusivity Evaluation in Lithium–Air Batteries
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ChemElectroChem, 2014, 
1 (12), 2052-2057
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Balk, A. L.; Mair, L. O.; Mathai, P. P.; Patrone, P. N.; Wang, W.; Ahmed, S.; Mallouk, T. E.; Liddle, J. A.; Stavis, S. M.,
Kilohertz Rotation of Nanorods Propelled by Ultrasound, Traced by Microvortex Advection of Nanoparticles
ACS Nano, 2014, 8(8), 8300-8309
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Lv, W.; Yang, X.; Wang, W.; Niu, Y.; Liu, Z.; He , W.,
An Energy Investigation into 1D/2D Oriented-Attachment Assemblies of 1D Ag Nanocrystals
Chemphyschem, 2014, 15(13), 2688-2691
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W. Wang, S. Li, L. Mair, S. Ahmed, T. J. Huang, and T. E. Mallouk,
Acoustic propulsion of nanorod motors inside living cells
Angew. Chem., 2014, 53, 3201-3204
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2013 (pre-HIT Shenzhen)

W. Wang, W. Duan, T.E. Mallouk, and A. Sen,
Catalytically-powered dynamic assembly of rod-shaped nanomotors and passive tracer particles
PNAS,  
2013
, 110, 17744-17749 
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S. Ahmed, W. Wang, L. O. Mair, R. D. Fraleigh, S. Li, L. A. Castro, M. Hoyos, T. J. Huang, and T. E. Mallouk,
Steering Acoustically Propelled Nanowire Motors towards Cells in a Biologically Compatible Environment using Magnetic Fields 
Langmuir,  
2013
, 29 (52), pp 16113–16118
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W. Wang, W. Duan, S. Ahmed, T.E. Mallouk, and A. Sen,
Small power: autonomous nano- and micromotors propelled by self-generated gradients
Nano Today,  
2013
, 8, 531-534 

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W. Wang, T.-Y. Chiang, D. Velegol, and T. E. Mallouk
Understanding the efficiency of autonomous nano- and microscale motors,"
​ J. Am. Chem. Soc.,  
2013
, 135, 10557-65
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Y. Chen, X. Ding, S.-C. S. Lin, S. Yang, P.-H. Huang, N. Nama, Y. Zhao, A. A. Nawaz, F. Guo,  W. Wang, T. E. Mallouk, and T. J. Huang,
Tunable nanowire patterning using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)
ACS Nano,  
2013
, 7(4), 3306-3314
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2011-2012

Wang, W., Castro, L. A., Hoyos, M., Mallouk, T. E,
Autonomous motion of metallic micro-rods propelled by ultrasound
ACS Nano,  
2012
, 6(7), 6122-6132 
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E. A. Hernandez-Pagan,  W. Wang, and T. E. Mallouk,
Template Electrodeposition of Single-Phase p- and n-Type Copper Indium Diselenide (CuInSe2) Nanowire Arrays
ACS Nano,  
2011
, 5, 3237-3241
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