Representative Publications

1.       Xu, Yiyi; Zhang, Xinfang; Song, Zhenpeng; Chen, Xiao Chen; Huang, Yinliang; Wang, Jinyu; Li, Bingxiang; Huang, Shuai*; Li, Quan*. In-situ Light-Writable Orientation Control in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Film Enabled by Chalcones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 63, e202319698.

2.       Huang, Yinliang; Xu, Yiyi; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Liu, Zhiyang; Wang, Jinyu; Tao, Yu; Yang, Tao; Huang, Shuai*; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. Photocontrollable Elongation Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films with Well-Defined Crease Structures. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35(36), 2304378.

3.       Huang, Yinliang; Huang, Shuai*; Li, Quan*. Mechanochromic Polymers Based on Mechanophores. ChemPlusChem, 2023, 88(7), e202300213.

4.       Huang, Shuai; Sun, Junjie; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Tao, Yu; Wang, Jinyu; Xu, Yiyi; Huang, Yinliang; Wang, Meng; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. Recyclable and Photothermal Free-Standing Adhesive Tape toward Reconfigurable Soft Actuators. Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35(9), 3705-3712. (Cover Picture)

5.       Huang, Yinliang; Sun, Junjie; Huang, Shuai*; Li, Quan. Information Storage Materials Based on Liquid Crystalline Networks with Programmable Colors and Shape Memory. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2023, 38(1), 49-59.

6.       Huang, Shuai*; Tao, Yu; Huang, Yinliang. Photodeformable Composite Materials Based on Liquid Crystalline Polymers. Progress in Chemistry, 2022, 34(9): 2012-2023.

7.       Huang, Shuai; Shen, Yikang; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Tao, Yu; Liu, Zhongcheng; Wang, Meng; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. Covalent Adaptable Liquid Crystal Networks Enabled by Reversible Ring-Opening Cascades of Cyclic Disulfides. Journal of the American Chemistry Society, 2021, 143(32), 12543-12551.

8.       Chen, Ling; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Huang, Yinliang; Huang, Shuai*; Wang, Meng; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. Healable and Rearrangeable Networks of Liquid Crystal Elastomers Enabled by Diselenide Bonds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60(30), 16394-16398. (Hot paper)

9.       Huang, Yinliang; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Huang, Shuai*; Wang, Meng; Chen, Xu-Man; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. Bioinspired Synergistic Photochromic Luminescence and Programmable Liquid Crystal Actuators. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60(20), 11247-11251. (Very important paper)

10.    Huang, Shuai; Huang, Yinliang; Li, Quan*. Photodeformable Liquid Crystalline Polymers Containing Functional Additives: Toward Photomanipulatable Intelligent Soft Systems. Small Structures, 2021, 2(9), 2100038.

11.    Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng*; Li, Quan*. Supramolecular Chirality Transfer Towards Chiral Aggregation: Asymmetric Hierarchical Self-Assembly. Advanced Science, 2021, 8(8), 2002132.

12.    Chen, Ling; Chu, Da; Cheng, Zheng-Ai; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai*. Designing Seamless-Welded Liquid-Crystalline Soft Actuators with a “Glue-Free” Method by Dynamic Boroxines. Polymer, 2020, 208, 122962.

13.    Huang, Shuai; Chen, Yuxuan; Ma, Shudeng; Yu, Haifeng*. Hierarchical Self-Assembly in Liquid-Crystalline Block Copolymers Enabled by Chirality Transfer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57(38), 12524-12528.

14.    Huang, Shuai; Pang, Linlin; Chen, Yuxuan; Zhou, Liming; Fang, Shaoming*; Yu, Haifeng*. Hydrogen Bond Induces Hierarchical Self-Assembly in Liquid-Crystalline Block Copolymers. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2018, 39(6), 1700783. (Back Cover picture)

 

Co-author journal publications

1.       Wang, Xiaoyu; Sprinkle, Brennan; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Yang, Tao*; Chen, Lixiang; Huang, Shuai; Li, Quan*. Colloidal Tubular Microrobots for Cargo Transport and Compression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023, 120, e2304685120.

2.       Nie, Zhenzhou; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*. Multimodal Self-sustainable Autonomous Locomotions of Light-driven Seifert Ribbon Actuators based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202304081.

3.       Hu, Jun; Nie, Zhenzhou; Wang, Meng; Liu, Zhiyang; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong* Springtail-inspired Light-driven Soft Jumping Robots based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Monolithic Three-leaf Panel Fold Structure. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202218227.

4.       Qian, Nina; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Liu, Zhiyang; Chen, Xuman; Hu, Jun; Yang, Hong*; Li, Quan*. A Visible and Near-Infrared Light-fueled Omnidirectional Twist-bend Crawling Robot”. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202214205.

5.       Yang, Yajing; Huang, Shuai; Ma, Yanduo; Yi, Jie; Jiang, Yuchun; Chang, Xiaohong*; Li, Quan*. Liquid and Photoliquefiable Azobenzene Derivatives for Solvent-free Molecular Solar Thermal Fuels. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14(31), 35623-35634.

6.       Lu, Haifeng; Nie, Zhenzhou.; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xuman; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*. An Ultrahigh Fatigue Resistant Liquid Crystal Elastomer Based Material Enabled by Liquid Metal. Science China Materials, 2022, 65, 1679-1686.

7.       Liu, Zhongcheng; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*. Biodegradable and Crosslinkable Poly(propylene fumarate) Liquid Crystal Polymers. Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 1267-1273.

8.       Yu, Zhen; Wang, Meng; Chen, Xuman; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*. Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of a Macrobicyclic Olefin bearing a Sacrificial Silyloxide Bridge. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202112526.

9.       Chen, Xuman; Hou, Xiaofang; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Feng, Weijie; Cao, Qin; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*; Chen, Dongzhong*; Li, Quan*. Light-Fueled Transient Supramolecular Assemblies in Water as Fluorescence Modulators. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 4993.

10.    Wang, Meng; Chu, Da; Liu, Li; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xuman; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*. Intelligent Surfaces Thermally Switchable between the Highly Rough and Entirely Smooth States. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39, 1609-1616.

11.    Wang, Li; Huang, Shuai; Wang, Meng; Liu, Zhiyang; Chen, Xu-Man; Yang, Hong*. Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Alternating Heterodinucleoside Polytriazoles. Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 341-350.

12.    Wang, Jianchuang; Huang, Shuai; Zhang, Yihe*; Liu Jingang; Yu Mingming; Yu Haifeng*. Hydrogen Bond Enhances Photomechanical Swing of Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Bilayer Film. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021,13, 6585.

13.    Lu, Haifeng; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xu-Man; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*. Synthesis and Mechanical Property Investigation of Epoxy Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2021, 52, 304.

14.    Nie, Zhenzhou; Zuo, Bo; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Chen Xuman; Liu, Zhiyang; Yang, Hong*. Light-Driven Continuous Rotating Möbius Strip Actuators. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 2334.

15.    Yu, Zhen; Chen, Xuman; Liu, Zhiyang; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*. A Phase-Dependent Photoluminescent Discotic Liquid Crystal Bearing Graphdiyne Substructure. Chemical Communications, 2021, 57, 911.

16.    Wang, Meng; Cheng, Zhiwen; Zuo, Bo; Chen, Xu-Man; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*. Liquid Crystal Elastomer Electric Locomotives”. ACS Macro Letters, 2020, 9, 860.

17.    Nie, Zhenzhou; Zuo, Bo; Liu, Li; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xu-Man; Yang, Hong*. Nanoporous Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymeric Material for Specific and Selective Uptake of Melamine. Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 4204.

18.    Chen, Yinjie; Li, Luhai; Yan, Yonggang; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Jia, Yunling; Ju, Jing; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng*; Yang, Huai*; Li, Quan*. Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Liquid Crystals of Azopyridine-Enabled Halogen-Bonding towards Sensing in Aquatic Environment. RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 35873.

19.    Sun, Ying; Yang, Ying; Li, N.; Wang, Meng; Chen, Xu-Man; Huang, Shuai; Yang, Hong*. An “inverted load” strategy to fabricate interface-optimized flexible electrode with superior electrochemical performance and ultrastability. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 11128.

20.    Wang, Meng; Hu, Xinbao; Zuo, Bo; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xu-Man; Yang, Hong*. Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator with Serpentine Locomotion. Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 7597.

21.    Liu, Zhongcheng; Zuo, Bo; Lu, Haifeng; Wang, Meng; Huang, Shuai; Chen, Xu-Man; Lin, Baoping; Yang, Hong*. A Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Click Chemistry Approach towards Multifunctional Two-Way Shape-Memory Actuators”. Polymer Chemistry, 2020, 11, 3747.

22.    Yang, Bowen; Cai, Feng; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng*. Athermal and Soft Multi-Nanopattern of Azopolymer Enabled by Phototunable Mechanics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 4035.

23.    Wang, Li; Lu, Nan; Huang, Shuai; Wang, Meng; Chen, Xu-Man; Yang, Hong*. Optically Active Nucleobase-Functionalized Polynorbornenes Mimicking Double-Helix DNA. CCS Chemistry, 2020, 2, 1787.

24.    Chen, Yuxuan; Huang, Shuai; Wang, Tianjie; Yu, Haifeng*. Enhanced Ordering and Efficient Photoalignment of Nanostructures in Block Copolymers Enabled by Halogen Bond. Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 1486.

25.    Hu, Jing; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Mingming; Yu, Haifeng*. Flexible Solar Thermal Fuel Devices: Composites of Fabric and a Photo-liquefiable Azobenzene derivative. Advanced Engery Materials, 2019, 9, 1901363.

26.    Chen, Yuxuan; Huang, Shuai; Wang, Tianjie; Dong, Zhijiao; Yu, Haifeng*. Confined Self-Assembly Enables Stabilization and Patterning of Nanostructures in Liquid-Crystalline Block Copolymers. Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 1892.

27.    Hao, Yunhui; Huang, Shuai; Gao, Yanmei; Zhou Lina; Barrett J. Christopher; Hao, Hongxun; Yu, Haifeng. Photoinduced Multi-Directional Deformation of Azobenzene Molecular Crystals. Journal of Materials Chemisty C, 2019, 7, 503.

28.    Ma, Shudeng; Li, Xiao; Huang, Shuai; Hu, Jing; Yu, Haifeng*. A Light-Activated Polymer Composite Enables On-Demand Photocontrolled Motion: Transportation at the Liquid/Air Interface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 2655.

29.    Zhang, Peng; Wu, Bo; Huang, Shuai; Cai, Feng Cai; Wang, Guojie*; Yu, Haifeng*. UV-vis-NIR light-induced bending of shape-memory polyurethane composites doped with azobenzene and upconversion nanoparticles. Polymer, 2019, 178, 121644.

30.    Ni, Yue; Li, Xiao; Hu, Jing; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng*. A Supramolecular Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Organogel: Fabrication, Multiresponsive and Holographic Switching Properties. Chemistry of Matericals, 2019, 31, 3388.

31.    Cheng, Zhangxiang; Ma, Shudeng; Huang, shuai; Chen, Yuxyan; Zhang, Yihe*; Yu, Haifeng*. Photomechanical Motion of Liquid-Crystalline Fibers away from Light Source. Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 8317.

32.    Wang, Tianjie; Li, Xiao; Dong Zhijiao; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng*. Vertical Orientation of Nanocylinders in Liquid-Crystalline Block Copolymer Directed by Light. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 24846.

33.    Li, Tengfei; Wang, Jiayu; Chen, Hua; Chen, Pei; Huang, Shuai; Lin, Yuze; Yu, Haifeng; Zhan, Xiaowei. Nonfullerene Acceptor with Strong Near Infrared Absorption for Polymer Solar Cells. Dyes and Pigments, 2017, 137, 553.

34.    Dai, Shuixing; Huang, Shuai; Yu, Haifeng; Ling, Qidan; Zhan, Xiaowei. Perylene and Naphthalene Diimide Copolymers for All Polymer Solar Cells: Effect of Perylene/Naphthalene Ratio. Journal of Polymer Science Part A-Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 55, 682.