Chunhong Ye

In nature, for sustaining life and maintaining biological function, perfect examples of tailored molecular assemblies and interfaces have been demonstrated, which provide specific chemical functions and structures. Inspired by the nature, the research interests of Ye Group mainly focus on design and fabrication soft matter based biomimic micro/nano structures with environmental stimulated functions. The research topics include: 1. Polymer based responsive 3D actuator/robotics; 2. Plasmonic nanoparticle assembly and chiral optical properties; 3. Circular polarized phosphorescence; 4. Application of biomaterial based micro/nano structures in biological science. 

1. He, Y.; Meng, X.; Shen, Z.; Jin, B.; Chen,X.; Ai, B.; Liu, K. *; Ye, C. * Dynamically Tunable Chiroptical Activities of Flexible Chiral Plasmonic Film via Surface Buckling. Small 2024, 2407635.

2. Wang, X.†; Meng, X.†; Cui, T.; Hu, Q.; Jin, B.; He, Y.; Zhu, X.; Ye, C.*, Highly transparent cellulose-based phosphorescent materials with tunable afterglow colors and white emission. Carbohydr. Polym. 2024, 341, 122309.

3. Wang, H.†; Chen, X.†; Meng, X.†; He, Y.; Jin, B.; Zhao, X.; Ye, C.*, Soft Micromotors with Switchable Motion Enabled by 3D-to-3D Shape Reconfiguration. Chem. Mater. 2024, 36, 4174.

4. Li, J.; Lu, C.; Ye, C.; Xiong, R.*, Structural, Optical, and Mechanical Insights into Cellulose Nanocrystal Chiral Nematic Film Engineering by Two Assembly Techniques. Biomacromolecules 2024, 25, 3507.

5. Miao, Q.; Wang, X.; Jin, B.; Chen, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Xiong, R.; Meng, X.*; Ye, C.*, Stimuli-Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence with Chiroptical Amplification and Inversion Enabled by Cholesteric Assembled Bio-Materials. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 4861.

6. Jin, B.; Cui, T.; He, Y.; Zhang, M.; Qi, Y.; Ye, C.*, 3D Cellulose-Based Solar Evaporator with Tunable Porous Structures for High Steam Generation. Adv. Sustainable Syst, 2024, 2300670.

7. Meng, X.*; Wang, Y.; Bukharina, D.; Fei, Y.; Wang, J,; He, Y.; Miao, Q.; Yu, R.; Jin, B.; Wang, X.; Chen, G.; Li, K.; Tsukruk, V. V.; Wang, K.*; Ye, C.* Pressure Triggered Chiral Inversion of Helical Organization in Cellulose Nanocrystals. Adv. Optical Mater. 2024, 2303204.

8. Wang, X.; Miao, Q.; Zheng W.; Zhou, Y.; Xiong R.; Duan Y.*; Meng, X.*; Ye, C.* Switchable Circular Polarized Phosphorescence Enabled by Cholesteric Assembled Nanocelluloses. Chem. Eng. J. 2024, 481, 148463.

9. Zhou, Y.; Lu, C.; Lu, Z.; Guo, Z.; Ye, C.; Tsukruk, V. V.; Xiong, R.*, Chiroptical Nanocellulose Bio-Labels for Independent Multi-Channel Optical Encryption. Small, 2023, 19 (32), 2303064.

10. Guo, Z.†; Sarkar, S.†; Liu, R.†; Zhang, Y.; Sheng, Q. T.; Chen, G. *; König, T. A. F. *; Ye, C. * Dynamic Tunable Chiral Plasmonic Properties via Self‐Assembly on Helical Threads. Adv. Optical Mater. 2023. 2302728.

11. He, Y. †; Li, H.†; Steiner, A. M.; Fery, A.*; Zhang, Y.*; Ye, C.* Tunable Chiral Plasmonic Activities Enabled via Stimuli Responsive Micro‐Origami. Advanced Materials, 2023. 35, 2303595. Front cover

12. Meng, X.†; Hu, Q.†; Wang, Xi.†; Ma, F.; Liu, W.; Zhu,X.*; Ye C.* Ultralong Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Accelerating Intersystem Crossing within Rigid Polymer Network J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10(46): 17620-17627.

13. Zhang, X.; Kang, S.; Adstedt, K.; Kim, M.; Xiong, R.; Yu, J.; Chen, X.; Zhao, X.; Ye, C.；Tsukruk, V. V.*  Uniformly aligned flexible magnetic films from bacterial nanocelluloses for fast actuating optical materials. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 5804.

14. Cui,T.; Liu,Z.; Gao,L.; He,Y.; Jin,B.; Meng,X.; Qi,Y.; Ye, C.* Engineered Wood with Hierarchically Tunable Microchannels toward Efficient Solar Vapor Generation Langmuir 2022 38 (42), 12773-12784

15. Wang, H.; † Shao, R.; † Meng, X.; † He, Y.; Shi, Z.; Guo, Z. Ye, C.* Programmable Birefringent Patterns from Modulating the Localized Orientation of Cellulose Nanocrystals. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 31, 36277–36286.

16.  He, Y.; † Xu, L.; † Wang, W.; Meng, X.; Wu, G.;  Ye, C.* Studying the influence of plasma treatment on the cracks formation of PDMS wrinkling through orthogonal experiment. MRS Commun. 2022, 12(5): 603-608.

17. Zhao, Z.; He, Y.; Meng, X.; Ye, C.* 3D-to-3D Microscale Shape-Morphing from Configurable Helices with Controlled Chirality. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13 (51), 61723-61732.

18. Shao, R.; Meng, X.; Shi, Z.; Zhong, J.; Cai, Z.; Hu, J.; Wang, X.; Chen, G.; Gao, S.; Song, Y.; Ye, C.* Marangoni Flow Manipulated Concentric Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals. Small Methods 2021, 5(11), 2100690.

19. Xiong, R.; Luan, J.; Kang, S.; Ye, C.; Singamaneni, S.; Tsukruk, V. V. Biopolymeric Photonic Structures: Design, Fabrication, and Emerging Application. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49, 983-1031.

20.  Ye, C.; Nikolov, S. V., Geryak, R. D.; Calabrese, R.; Ankner, J. F.; Alexeev, A.; Kaplan, D. L.; Tsukruk, V. V. Silk Microsheet with Controlled Actuating Behavior: Experimental Analysis and Computer Simulations. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 17694-17706.  

21. Ye, C.; Tsukruk, V. V. Designing Two-Dimensional Materials That Spring Rapidly into Three-Dimensional Shapes. Science 2015, 347, 130-131. 

22. Ye, C.; Malak, S. T.; Hu, K. S.; Wu, W. B.; Tsukruk, V. V. Cellulose Nanocrystal Microcapsules as Tunable Cages for Nano-and Microparticles. ACS nano 2015, 9, 10887-10895.

23. Ye, C.; Nikolov, S. V.; Calabrese, R.; Dindar, A.; Alexeev, A.; Kippelen, B.; Kaplan, D. L.; Tsukruk, V. V. Self-(Un)rolling Biopolymer Microstructures: Rings, Tubules, and Helical Tubules from the Same Material. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 8490-8493. 

24. Ye, C.; Combs, Z. A.; Calabrese, R.; Dai, H.; Kaplan, D. L.; Tsukruk, V. V. Robust Microcapsules with Controlled Permeability from Silk Fibroin Reinforced with Graphene Oxide. Small 2014, 10, 5087-5097. 

25.  Ye, C.; Kulkarni, D. D.; Dai, H.; Tsukruk, V. V. Programmable Array of “Micro-Bubble” Constructs via Self-Encapsulation. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 4364-4373. 

26. Hu, K.; Tolentino, L. S.; Kulkarni, D. D.; Ye, C.; Kumar, S. Tsukruk, V. V. Written-in Conductive patterns on Robust Graphene Oxide Biopaper by Electrochemical Microstamping. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 51, 13784-13788. 

27. Ye, C.; Drachuk, I.; Calabrese, R.; Dai, H.; Kaplan, D. L.; Tsukruk, V. V. Permeability and Micromechanical Properties of Silk Microcapsules. Langmuir 2012, 33, 12235-12244.

28. Ye, C.; Shchepelina, O.; Calabrese, R.; Drachuk, I.; Kaplan, D. L.; Tsukruk, V. V. Robust and Responsive Silk Ionomer Microcapsules. Biomacromolecules 2011, 12, 4319-4325

-- Mar 2025, Prof. Ye co-organized the symposium of Bionic Intelligent Polymeric Materials at the ACS 2025 Spring meeting in San Diego, USA, such an exciting symposium! 

-- Mar 2025, Prof. Ye and Ph.D candidate Xi Wang attended the ACS 2025 Spring meeting in San Diego, USA, presented our recent advancements on chiral plasmonics, shape-morphing based soft micro-motors, and circularly polarized phosphoresence. 

--Dec 2024, Prof. Ye gave an invited presentation at the 12th Singpore International Chemistry Conference,  focusing on our work on Dynamic tunable plasmonic chiral structures.

-- June 2024, congratulations to Dr. He Yisheng of our research group for being awarded the title of Outstanding Graduate of the 2024 Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

-- March 2024, Prof. Ye gave an invited presentation at the ACS 2024 Spring meeting in New Orleans, USA, focusing on our work on tunable assembly of cellulose assembly and biriefringence properties.

-- October 2023, Professor Ye Chunhong and her research team members participated in the 2023 National Polymer Academic Paper Report Conference, China.

-- September 2023, welcome new students, Zhu Zhenghua, Yuan Liang, and Li Yanmei, to join the research group.