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. 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. DOI: 10.1039/D4TC00071D

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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.

12.  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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16.  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.  

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

18. 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.

19. 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. 

20. 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. 

21.  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. 

22. 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. 

23. 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.

24. 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