87. “Branched Aluminum Nanocrystals with Internal Hot Spots: Synthesis and Single-Particle Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering”
Fei Peng, Shao-Yong Lu, Pan-Qi Sun, Ning-Ning Zhang, Kun Liu*
Nano Lett., 2023, 23, 6567-6573.
105. "Mineral Particles as Nucleating Agents for Controllable Polymorphic Forms of ROY"
Zheng-Hao Li, Zheng Cheng, Jianglei Zhang, Xue-Yuan Guo, Yang Li, Shu-Chao Gong, Guangdong Chen, Ning-Ning Zhang, Junhu Zhang, Chuipeng Kong, Irshad Hussain, Kun Liu*, and Yang Yang*
Cryst. Growth Des. 2025, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX.
103. "Cationic Lipid-Modified PEG-PLGA Nanoparticles Facilitate Effective Dendritic Cell Reprogramming to Alleviate T Cell-Mediated Autoimmunity in EAE"
He Li, Xiuxiu Cong, Huizhu Tan Jialiang Wang, Haochuan Liu, Xue Gao, Kuirong Mao, Ge Zhu, Xiandi Meng, Yanbao Xin, Jiaxuan Li, Yue Lv, Meiling Yu, Kun Liu, Wenbo Yao*, Yong-Guang Yang*, Tianmeng Sun*
Biomaterials, 2025.
102. "NIR-II activated photothermal therapy using gold nanotetrapods enhances antigen presentation and immune response in colorectal cancer"
Weijia Zheng, Ling Bai*, Nawen Du, Ningning Zhang, Shoujun Zhu, Jianting Xu, Fei Chen, Hongxin Tao, Zhaozhi Li, Min Li, Kun Liu*, Jiuwei Cui*
Nano Research, 2025, 18, 94907970.
99. "Efficient Synthesis of Polymeric Fluorinated Nanoparticles with High Fluorine Content via Aqueous Photo-Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly for 19F MRI Application"
Yixin Chang, Gayathri R. Ediriweera, Weizhi Xu, Qiaoyun Wang, Xin Xu, Yuhao Zhang, Hui Peng, Kun Liu, Amnon Bar-Shir, Andrew K. Whittaker*, and Changkui Fu*
ACS Nano 2025, 19, 14, 14200–14212.
93. "Self-driving lab for the photochemical synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles with targeted structural and optical properties"
Tianyi Wu, Sina Kheiri, Riley J. Hickman, Huachen Tao, Tony C. Wu, Zhi-Bo Yang, Xin Ge, Wei Zhang, Milad Abolhasani, Kun Liu, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, and Eugenia Kumacheva*
Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 1473.
90. "Self-Matching Assembly of Chiral Gold Nanoparticles Leads to High Optical Asymmetry and Sensitive Detection of Adenosine Triphosphate"
Ning-Ning Zhang, Mikhail Mychinko, Shu-Yang Gao, Linxiuzi Yu, Zhi-Li Shen Liang Wang, Fei Peng, Zhonglin Wei, Zizhun Wang, Wei Zhang, Shoujun Zhu, Yang Yang, Tianmeng Sun, Luis M. Liz-Marzán*, Sara Bals*, and Kun Liu*
Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 13027−13036.
81. "Thickness-Sensing Sandwiched Plasmonic Biosensors Enable Label-Free Naked-Eye Antibody Quantification"
Jingjie Nan, Weihong Sun, Xin Liu, Yuanyuan Che, Hongli Shan, Ying Yue, Jiaxin Liu, Lei Wang, Kun Liu, Wei Xu, Wenyan Zhang, Songling Zhang, Bin Liu, Kenneth S. Hettie, Shoujun Zhu*, Junhu Zhang*, and Bai Yang
Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 23, 9596–9605.
80. "Ultrabright Renal-Clearable Cyanine-Protein Nanoprobes for High-Quality NIR-II Angiography and Lymphography"
Jiajun Xu, Tianyang Han, Yajun Wang, Feiran Zhang, Mengfei Li, Lang Bai, Xinyu Wang, Bin Sun, Xin Wang, Jianshi Du, Kun Liu, Junhu Zhang, Shoujun Zhu*
Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 19, 7965–7975.
76. "Characterizing Nanoparticle Mass Distributions Using Charge-Independent Nanoresonator Mass Spectrometry"
Szu-Hsueh Lai, Adrien Reynaud, Ning-Ning Zhang, Minjeong Kwak, Bogdan Vysotskyi, Sergio Dominguez-Medina, Thomas Fortin, Kavya Clement, Martial Defoort, Tae Geol Lee, Kun Liu, Sébastien Hentz, and Christophe D. Masselon*
J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 20946–20953.
68."Solvent-Evaporation Induced and Mechanistic Entropy-Enthalpy-Balance Controlled Polymer Patch Formation on
Nanoparticle Surfaces"
Linxiuzi Yu,⊥ Niboqia Zhang,⊥ Ning-Ning Zhang, Qianqian Gu, Yao Xue, Yu-Xi Wang,Cheng-Long Han, Kun Liu,
Zhao-Yan Sun, Hu-Jun Qian,* and Zhong-Yuan Lu*
J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2021, 12, 7100−7105
66. “θ-Solvent-Mediated Double-Shell Polyethylene Glycol Brushes on Nanoparticles for Improved Stealth Properties and
Delivery Efficiency”
Xue, Yao; Liu, Shuhan; An, Zixin; Li, Jiaxuan; Zhang, Ning-Ning; Wang, Chunyu; Wang, Xiaosong;
Sun, Tianmeng*; Liu, Kun*
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 5363–5370.
65. “Polymers via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization with High Thiol End-Group Fidelity for Effective Grafting-To Gold Nanoparticles”
Yu-Xi Wang, Yang Li, Shi-Hui Qiao, Jing Kang, Zhi-Li Shen, Ning-Ning Zhang, Zesheng An, Xiaosong Wang, and
Kun Liu*
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 4713-4721
63. “Polymerization-Induced Reassembly of Gemini Molecules toward Generating Porous Two-Dimensional
Polymer ”
Gao, Huimin; Zhao, Li; Liu, Kun; Lu, Zhong-Yuan*
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 2340-2347

62. "Enhanced Optical Asymmetry in Supramolecular Chiroplasmonic Assemblies with Long-Range Order"
Jun Lu, Yao Xue, Kalil Bernardino, Ning-Ning Zhang, Weverson R. Gomes, Naomi S. Ramesar, Shuhan Liu, Zheng
Hu, Tianmeng Sun, Andre Farias de Moura*, Nicholas A. Kotov* and Kun Liu*.
Science, 2021, 371, 1368.
50. ''Gold Nanotetrapods with Unique Topological Structure and Ultranarrow Plasmonic Band as Multifunctional
Therapeutic Agents''
Yi-Xin Chang, Ning-Ning Zhang, Yu-Chen Xing, Qingfeng Zhang, Aram Oh, Hui-Min Gao, Yun Zhu, Hionsuck Baik,
Byeongyoon Kim, Yang Yang, Wei-Shun Chang, Tianmeng Sun, Junhu Zhang, Zhong-Yuan Lu, Kwangyeol Lee
Stephan Link, Kun Liu*
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 4505-4510.
38. "A Detour Strategy for Preparation of Colloidally Stable Block-Copolymer Grafted MAPbBr3 Quantum Dots
in Water with Long Photoluminescence Lifetime"
Yang, S.; Zhang, F.; Tai, J.; Li, Y.; Yang, Y.; Wang, H.; Zhang, J.; Xie, Z.; Xu, B.; Zhong, H.*; Liu, K.*; Yang, B.
Nanoscale 2018, 10, 5820-5826.
36. "Nanocrystal Superlattices: No need to wait"
Liu, K.; Kumacheva, E.
Nat. Mater. 2017, 16, 883-884 (News and Views)
33. "Chiral Plasmonic Nanochains via the Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods and Helical Glutathione Oligomers
Facilitated by Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide Micelles"
Lu, J.; Chang, Y.; Zhang, N.; Wei, Y.; Li, A.; Tai, J.; Xue, Y.; Wang, Z.; Yang, Y.; Zhao, L.; Lu, Z.; Liu, K.*
ACS Nano 2017, 11, 3463-3475.
22. "Jointly Tuned Plasmonic-Excitonic Photovoltaics Using Nanoshells"
Paz-Soldan, D.; Lee, A.; Thon, S.; Adachi, M.; Dong, H.; Maraghechi, P.; Yuan, M.; Labelle, A.; Hoogland, S.;
Liu, K.; Kumacheva, E.; Sargent, T.
Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 1502–1508.

Publications before 2013
20. "Step-Growth Polymerization of Inorganic Nanoparticles"
Liu, K.; Nie, Z. H.; Zhao, N. N.; Li, W.; Rubinstein, M.; Kumacheva, E.
Science 2010, 329, 197–200. (Highlighted in Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, and C&EN News.Reported by
Sciencedaily, Chemistry Views, Innovations-Report.)
19. "Salt-mediated kinetics of the self-assembly of gold nanorods end-tethered with polymer ligands"
Liu, K.; Resetcoa, C.; Kumacheva E.
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 6574–6580.
18. "Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanorods"
Liu, K.;# Zhao, N. N.,# Kumacheva, E.
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2011, 40, 656–671.
17. "Close-Packed Superlattices of Side-by-Side Assembled Au-CdSe Nanorods"
Zhao, N. N.;# Liu, K.;# Greener, J.; Nie, Z. H.; Kumacheva, E.
Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 3077–3081.
16. "Highly Ordered Magnetic Ceramic Nanorod Arrays from a Polyferrocenylsilane by Nanoimprint Lithography with
Anodic Aluminum Oxide Templates"
Liu, K.; Fournier Bidoz, S.; Ozin, G. A.; Manners, I.
Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 1781–1783.
15. "Synthesis and Lithographic Patterning of FePt Nanoparticles Using a Bimetallic Metallopolyyne Precursor"
Liu. K.; Ho, C. L.; Aouba. S.; Zhao, Y.-Q.; Lu, Z.-H.; Petrov, S.; Coombs, N.; Dube, P.; Ruda, H. E.; Wong, W. Y.;
Manners, I.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 1255–1259.
14. "Pyrolysis of Highly Metallized Polymers: Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Thin Films Containing Magnetic
Co-Fe Alloy Nanoparticles Derived from a Polyferrocenylsilane with Pendant Cobalt Clusters"
Liu, K.; Clendenning, S. B.; Friebe, L.; Chan, W. Y.; Manners, I.; Zhu, X. B.; Freeman, M. R.; Yang, G. C.; Yip. C. M.;
Grozea, D.; Lu, Z. H.
Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 2591–2601.
13. "Controlling the Degree of Polymerization, Bond Lengths and Bond Angles of Plasmonic Polymers"
Lukach, A.; Liu, K.; Thérien-Aubin, H.; Kumacheva, E.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 18853–18859.
12. "A Polyferroplatinyne Precursor for the Rapid Fabrication of L1(0) -FePt-type Bit Patterned Media by Nanoimprint
Lithography"
Dong, Q.; Li, G.; Ho, C. L.; Faisal, M.; Leung, C. W.; Pong, P. W.; Liu, K.; Tang, B. Z.; Manners, I.; Wong, W. Y.
Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 1034–1040.
11. "Standing Arrays of Gold Nanorods End-Tethered with Polymer Ligands"
Petukhova, A.; Greener, J.; Liu, K.; Nicolaÿ, R.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Kumacheva. E.
Small 2012, 8, 731–737.
10. "Microfluidic study of fast gas-liquid reactions"
Li, W.; Liu, K.; Simms, R.; Greener, J.; Pinto, S.; Günther A.; Kumacheva. E.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 3127–3132.
9. "Probing Dynamic Generation of Hot-Spots in Self-Assembled Chains of Gold Nanorods by SERS"
Lee, A.; Andrade, G. F.S.; Ahmed, A.; Souza, M.L.; Coombs, N.; Tumarkin, E.; Liu, K.; Gordon, R.; Brolo, A.G.;
Kumacheva, E.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7563–7570.
8. "Fabrication of Continuous and Segmented Polymer/Metal Oxide Nanowires Using Cylindrical Micelles and Block
Comicelles as Templates"
Wang, H.; Patil, A. J.; Liu, K.; Petrov, S.; Mann, S.; Winnik, M. A.; Manners, I.
Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1805–1808.
7. "Nanostructured Magnetic Films from Organometallic Block Copolymers: Studies of the Self-Assembly, Crosslinking and
Pyrolysis of Polystyrene-b-Poly(ferrocenylethylmethylsilane)"
Rider, D. A.; Liu, K.; Eloi, J.-C.; Vanderark, L.; Yang, L.;Wang, J.; Grozea, D.; Lu, Z.-H.; Russell, T. P.; Manners, I.
ACS Nano 2008, 2, 263–270.
6. "Donor-Acceptor C60-Containing Polyferrocenylsilanes: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in Photodiode Devices"
Nanjo, M.; Cyr, P. W.; Liu, K.; Sargent, E. H.; Manners, I.
Adv. Func. Mater. 2008, 18, 470–477.
5. "Shell-Cross-Linked Cylindrical Polyisoprene-b-Polyferrocenylsilane (PI-b-PFS) Block Copolymer Micelles: One-
Dimensional (1D) Organometallic Nanocylinders" Wang, X.; Liu, K.; Arsenault, A. C.; Rider, D. A.; Ozin, G. A.; Winnik,
M. A.; Manners, I.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 5630–5639.
4. "Pyrolysis of Polycarbosilanes with Pendant Nickel Clusters: Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetic Ceramics
Containing Nickel and Nickel Silicide Nanoparticles"
Friebe, L.; Liu, K.; Obermeier, B.; Petrov, S.; Dube, P.; Greedan, J. E.; Manners I.
Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 2630–2640.
3. "Synthesis and Lithographic Patterning of Polycarbosilanes with Pendant Cobalt Carbonyl Clusters"
Greenberg, S.; Clendenning, S. B.; Liu, K.; Manners, I.; Aouba, S.; Ruda, H. E.;
Macromolecules 2005, 38, 2023–2026.
2. "Controlled Assembly of Fluorescent Multilayers from an Aqueous Solution of CdTe Nanocrystals and Nonionic
Carbazole-Containing Copolymers"
Zhang, H.; Zhou, Z.; Liu, K.; Wang, R. B.; Yang, B.
J. Mater. Chem. 2003, 13, 1356–1361.
1. "Thin Films of Ag Nanoparticles Prepared from the Reduction of Polyelectrolyte/AgI Nanoparticles Self-Assembled Films"
Zhang, J. H; Li, X. L.; Liu, K.; Cui, Z. C.; Zhang, G.; Zhao, B.; Yang, B.
J. Colloid and Interface Sci. 2002, 255, 115–118.
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