Publications

Curriculum Vitae_Wenxiang Chen

Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

  1. Chen, X. Zhan, R. Yuan, S. Pidaparthy, A. X. B. Yong, H. An, Z. Tang, K. Yin, A. Patra, H. Jeong, C. Zhang, K. Ta, Z. W. Riedel, R. M. Stephens, D. P. Shoemaker, H. Yang, A. A. Gewirth, P. V. Braun, E. Ertekin, J.-M. Zuo, Q. Chen, “Formation and impact of nanoscopic oriented phase domains in electrochemical crystalline electrodes”, Nat. Mater. 22, 92–99 (2023)                                                                                                                                                                      Click here for the news report by Illinois News Bureau.
  2. Lvu, L. Yao, W. Chen, F. C. Kalutantirige, Q. Chen, “Electron microscopy studies of anisotropic soft nanomaterials”, Chem. Rev. accepted (2022)
  3. Zhou, J. Li, J. Lu, H. Liu, J.-Y. Kim, A. Kim, L. Yao, C. Liu, C. Qian, Z. Hood, X. Lin, W. Chen, T. Gage, I. Arslan, A. Travesset, K. Sun, N. Kotov, Q. Chen, “Chiral assemblies of pinwheel superlattices on substrates”, Nature 612, 259–265 (2022)
  4. Chen, Z. Tang, Q. Chen, “Engineering particle size for multivalent ion intercalation: implications for ion battery systems”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 5, 5983–5992 (2022)
  5. Tang, W. Chen, Z. Lyu, Q. Chen, “Size-dependent reaction mechanism of λ-MnO2 particles as cathodes in aqueous zinc-ion batteries”, Energy Mater. Adv. 2022, 9765710 (2022)
  6. An, J. W. Smith, B. Ji, S. Cotty, S. Zhou, L. Yao, F. C. Kalutantirige, W. Chen, Z. Ou, X. Su, J. Feng, Q. Chen, “Mechanism and performance relevance of nanomorphogenesis in polyamide films revealed by quantitative 3D imaging and machine learning”, Sci. Adv. 8, eabk1888 (2022)
  7. Yan, G. Kim, R. Yuan, E. Hoenig, F. Shi, W. Chen, Y. Han, Q. Chen, J.-M. Zuo, W. Chen, C. Liu, “The role of solid solutions in iron phosphate-based electrodes for selective electrochemical lithium extraction”, Nat. Commun. 13, 4579 (2022)
  8. Zhang, X. Zhan, T. Al-Zoubi, Y. Ma, P.-C. Shih, F. Wang, W. Chen, S. Pidaparthy, R. M. Stephens, Q. Chen, J.-M. Zuo, H. Yang, “Electrochemical generation of birnessite MnO2 nanoflowers for intercalation of Mg2+ ions”, Nano Energy 102, 107696 (2022)
  9. Liu, Z. Ou, F. Guo, B. Luo, W. Chen, L. Qi, Q. Chen, “Colloid-atom duality in the assembly dynamics of concave gold nanoarrows”, J. Am. Chem. Soc.142, 11669–11673 (2020)
  10. Chen, X. Zhan, B. Luo, Z. Ou, P.-C. Shih, L. Yao, S. Pidaparthy, A. Patra, H. An, P. V. Braun, R. M. Stephens, H. Yang, J.-M. Zuo, Q. Chen, “Effects of particle size on Mg2+ ion intercalation into λ-MnO2 cathode materials”, Nano Lett. 19, 4712–4720 (2019)
  11. An, J. W. Smith, W. Chen, Z. Ou, Q. Chen, “Charting the quantitative relationship between two-dimensional morphology parameters of polyamide membranes and synthesis conditions”, Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 5, 102–109, (2020)
  12. Song, J. W. Smith, J. Kim, N. J. Zaluzec, W. Chen, H. An, J. M. Dennison, D. G. Cahill, M. A. Kulzick, Q. Chen, “Unraveling the morphology–function relationships of polyamide membranes using quantitative electron tomography”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces11, 8517–8526 (2019)
  13. Chen, J. Guo, Q. Zhao, P. Gopalan, A. T. Fafarman, A. Keller, M. Zhang, Y. Wu, C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, “Designing strong optical absorbers via continuous tuning of interparticle interaction in colloidal gold nanocrystal assemblies”, ACS Nano 13, 7493–7501 (2019)
  14. Chen, W. Liu, Y. Jiang, M. Zhang, N. Song, N. J. Greybush, J. Guo, A. K. Estep, K. T. Turner, R. Agarwal, C. R. Kagan, “Ultrasensitive, mechanically responsive optical metasurfaces via strain amplification”, ACS Nano 12, 10683–10692 (2018)
  15. Chen, G. Wu, M. Zhang, N. J. Greybush, J. P. Howard-Jennings, N. Song, F. S. Stinner, S. Yang, C. R. Kagan, “Angle-independent optical moisture sensors based on hydrogel-coated plasmonic lattice arrays”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 1, 1430–1437 (2018)
  16. Zhang, V. Pacheco-Peña, Y. Yu, W. Chen, N. J. Greybush, A. Stein, N. Engheta, C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, “Nanoimprinted chiral plasmonic substrates with three-dimensional nanostructures”, Nano Lett. 18, 7389–7394 (2018)
  17. Zhang, J. Guo, Y. Yu, Y. Wu, H. Yun, D. Jishkariani, W. Chen, N. J. Greybush, C. Kübel, A. Stein, C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, “3D nanofabrication via chemo‐mechanical transformation of nanocrystal/bulk heterostructures”, Adv. Mater. 30, 1800233 (2018)
  18. Zhao, T. Zhao, J. Guo, W. Chen, M. Zhang, C. R. Kagan, “The effect of dielectric environment on doping efficiency in colloidal PbSe nanostructures”, ACS Nano 12, 1313–1320 (2018)
  19. Zhang, D. J. Magangnosc, I. Liberal, Y. Yu, H. Yun, H. Yang, Y. Wu, J. Guo, W. Chen, Y. J. Shin, A. Stein, J. M. Kikkawa, N. Engheta, D. S. Gianola, C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, “High-strength magnetically-switchable plasmonic nanorods assembled from a binary nanocrystal mixture”, Nat. Nanotechnol. 12, 228–232 (2017)
  20. Chen, M. Tymchenko, P. Gopalan, X. Ye, Y. Wu, M. Zhang, C. B. Murray, A. Alu, C. R. Kagan, “Large-area nanoimprinted colloidal Au nanocrystal-based nanoantennas for ultrathin polarizing plasmonic metasurfaces”, Nano Lett. 15, 5254–5260 (2015)
  21. Chen, G. Chen, D. E. Kim, “Two-color field for the generation of an isolated attosecond pulse in water-window region”, Opt. Express 19, 20610–20615 (2011)

Book Chapter (Invited)

  1. Zhou, W. Chen, Q. Chen, invited (2020), in the book “Self-Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructures” by World Scientific Publishing Company

Patent

  1. Ultra-sensitive, mechanically-responsive optical metasurfaces via strain amplification (US 2021/0088392 A1, awarded 03/25/2021). Inventors: C. R. Kagan, K. T. Turner, Chen, Y. Jiang

Conference Papers

  1. Chen, X. Zhan, R. Yuan, S. Pidaparthy, Z. Tang, J.-M. Zuo, Q. Chen, “4D-STEM mapping of nanoscale structural ordering in cathode materials”, Microsc. Microanal. 28, 2608–2609 (2022)
  2. Lin, C. Liu, W. Chen, J.-M. Zuo, Q. Chen, “Structural characterization of gold nanoparticles using liquid-phase 4D-STEM”, Microsc. Microanal. 28, 1860–1861 (2022)
  3. Zhan, J.-M. Zuo, W. Chen, Q. Chen, “Determination of Mn valences in Li1−xMgxMn2O4using monochromated EELS in an aberration-corrected STEM”, Microsc. Microanal. 25, 658–659, (2019)
  4. Zhan, R. Yuan, W. Chen, Q. Chen, J.-M. Zuo, “Determination of crystallinity in Li1−xMgxMn2O4 nanocrystals based on diffraction patterns correlation analysis and strain mapping”, Microsc. Microanal. 25, 1972–1973, (2019)