2008
 
  1. Yuebing Zheng, Ying-Wei Yang, Lasse Jensen, Lei Fang, Bala Krishna Juluri, Amar H. Flood, Paul S Weiss, J. Fraser Stoddart*, Tony Jun Huang*, 'Active molecular Plasmonics: Controlling Plasmon Resonances with Molecular Switches' Nature Nanotechnology, 2008, submitted for publication.
  1. Bala Krishna Juluri, Ajeet Kumar Sinha, Yi Liu, Tao Ye, Ying-Wei Yang, Amar H. Flood, Lei Fang, J. Fraser Stoddart*, Paul S Weiss*, Tony Jun Huang*, 'A Nanomechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles' ACS Nano, 2008, submitted for publication.
  1. Sarah Angelos†, Ying-Wei Yang†, Kaushik Patel, J. Fraser Stoddart*, Jeffrey I. Zink*, Yu Liu 'pH-Responsive Supramolecular Nanovalves Based on Cucurbit[6]uril Pseudorotaxanes' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 2222-2226. (†Co-first Authors) Highlighted in Nature (See: Chemistry: Pole-dancing Pumpkins, Nature, 2008, 452, 256) , ScienceDaily, Technology Review, Medical News Today etc.
  1. Ying-Wei Yang, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu*, 'Syntheses of Dibenzo-18-crown-6 Lariat Isomers and Their Complexation with Lanthanoid Nitrates'. Supramol. Chem., 2008, in press.
  1. Kaushik Patel, Sarah Angelos, William R. Dichtel, Ali Coskun, Ying-Wei Yang, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J. Fraser Stoddart*, 'Enzyme-Responsive Snap-Top Covered Silica Nanocontainers'  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 2382-2383.

  • Yue Bing Zheng, Yi Liu, Jinjie Shi, Ying-Wei Yang, Xiaole Mao, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Tony Jun Huang, Active Switching of Surface Plasmon Polariton Using Artificial Molecular Machine-Functionalized Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Boston, MA, November 2–6, 2008.
  • Kaushik Patel, Sarah Angelos, William R. Dichtel, Ali Coshun, Ying-Wei Yang, Jeffrey I. Zink, J Fraser Stoddart, Silica Nanocontainers as Drug Delivery Agents Using Biologically Active Snap-top motifs and pH-Responsive Nanovalves. Abstracts of Papers, 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 17–21, 2008.
  • Niveen Khashab, Ying-Wei Yang, Sarah Angelos, J Fraser Stoddart*, Jeffrey I. Zink*, Biocompatible pH Responsive Nanovalves: The Next Generation of Antitumor Drugs Delivery Systems. Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO08) Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 2008, Snowbird, Utah, United States. (Apr 22-Apr 25, 2008)
  • Sarah Angelos, Ying-Wei Yang, Niveen Khashab, Kaushik Patel, J Fraser Stoddart, Jeffrey I. Zink, pH-Responsive Cucurbit[6]uril-based Nanovalves Operating in Water. Abstracts of Papers, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6–10, 2008, INOR-368.
  • Qiaolin Chen, Ying-Wei Yang, Sarah Angelos, Niveen Khashab, Jie Lu, Fuyu Tamanoi, In Vivo Toxicity and Anticancer Activity of Drug Loaded Nanoparticles. Poster, CNSI, UCLA-ASMeW, Waseda Joint Symposium, Los Angeles, United States, March 5–6, 2008.

2007
 
  1. Ying-Wei Yang, Su Zhang, Elizabeth O McCullum, John C Chaput* 'Experimental Evidence that GNA and TNA were not Sequential Polymers in the Prebiotic Evolution of RNA' J. Mol. Evol., 2007, 65, 289-295.
    Highlighted in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry News at ASU    .
  • Lei Fang, Ying-Wei Yang, J Fraser Stoddart, Electrically Controllable Microfluidic Devices Based on Bistable Rotaxanes. Abstracts of Papers, 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 19–23, 2007, ORGN-183.
  • Kaushik Patel, Sarah Angelos, William R. Dichtel, Ali Coshun, Ying-Wei Yang, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J Fraser Stoddart*, Enzyme-Responsive Biocompatible Nanovalves. Abstracts of Papers, 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 19–23, 2007, ORGN-180.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, pH-Responsive Supramolecular Nanovalves Based on Cucurbit[6]uril Pseudorotaxanes. Invited Talk, NSF Cucurbit[n]uril Molecular Container Workshop of 9th International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry (Calix 2007), College Park, MD, United States, August 5, 2007.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Sarah Angelos, Kaushik Patel, Jeffrey I. Zink, J Fraser Stoddart, Towards Biocompatible Molecular and Supramolecular Nanovalves. Abstract for Calix 2007, 9th International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry, College Park, MD, United States, August 6–9, 2007.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Sarah Angelos, Kaushik Patel, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J Fraser Stoddart*, pH-Responsive Supramolecular Nanovalves Based on Cucurbit[6]uril Pseudorotaxanes. Poster, NSF Cucurbit[n]uril Molecular Container Workshop of 9th International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry (Calix 2007), College Park, MD, United States, August 4–5, 2007.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Cucurbit[6]uril-Based Biocompatible Nanovavles, Program and Abstract Book of Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense Review Meeting (CNID), 2007, 56, UC Santa Barbara, CA, United States. Oral Presentation and Poster, CNID, UCSB, CA May 30, 2007.
  • Kaushik Patel, Sarah Angelos, Ali Coshun, Ying-Wei Yang, William R. Dichtel, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J Fraser Stoddart*, Enzyme-Triggered Biocompatible Nanovalves. Program and Abstract Book of Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense Review Meeting (CNID), 2007, 54, UC Santa Barbara, CA, United States.
  • Lei Fang, Jishan Wu, Ying-Wei Yang, J Fraser Stoddart*, Development of Functionalized Acid-Base Driven Molecular Muscles. Poster, Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense Review Meeting (CNID), UC Santa Barbara, CA, United States, May 30, 2007.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Sarah Angelos, Kaushik Patel, William R. Dichtel, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J Fraser Stoddart*, Cucurbit[6]uril-Based Biocompatible Nanovavles. Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO07) Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 2007, 107, Snowbird, Utah, United States.
  • Kaushik Patel, Sarah Angelos, Ali Coshun, Ying-Wei Yang, William R. Dichtel, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J Fraser Stoddart*, Enzyme-Triggered Biocompatible Nanovalves. Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO07) Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices, 2007, 215, Snowbird, Utah, United States

2006
 
  1. Hui Gao, Ying-Wei Yang, Yun-Ge Fan, Jian-Biao Ma* 'Conjugates of poly(DL-lactic acid) with ethylenediamino or diethylenetriamino bridged bis(β-cyclodextrin)s and their nanoparticles as protein delivery systems' J. Control. Release, 2006, 112, 301-311.
  1. Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen, Yu Liu* 'Linear Polypseudorotaxanes Possessing Many Metal Centers Constructed from Inclusion Complexes of alfa, beta, and gamma-Cyclodextrins with 4,4'-Dipyridine' Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 3014-3022.
  1. Yu Liu*, Shu Kang, Yong Chen, Ying-Wei Yang, and Jurriaan Huskens 'Photo-Induced Switchable Binding Behavior of Bridged Bis(beta-cyclodextrin) with an Azobenzene Dicarboxylate Linker'  J. Incl. Phenom., 2006, 56, 197-201.
  1. Yu Liu*, Rui Cao, Ying-Wei Yang 'Selective Binding Thermodynamics of Bile Acids by Oligo(ethylenediamino)-beta-Cyclodextrins and Their Copper (II) Complexes' J. Incl. Phenom., 2006, 56, 183-191.

2005
 
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen 'Thio[2-(benzoylamino)ethylamino]-beta-CD Fragment Modified Gold Nanoparticles as Recycling Extractors for [60]Fullerene' Chem. Commun., 2005, 4208-4210. PDF and SI
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen, Hai-Xia Zou 'Polyrotaxane with Cyclodextrins as Stoppers and its Assembly Behavior' Macromolecules, 2005, 38, 5838-5840. PDF and SI
  1. Yu Liu*, Shi-Hui Song, Yong Chen, Yan-Li Zhao, Ying-Wei Yang 'The Construction of Supramolecular Polymeric Rotaxane From Bipyridine-Ruthenium and Cyclodextrin.' Chem. Commun., 2005, 1702-1704. PDF


  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen, Fei Ding 'Efficient Fluorescent Sensors of Oligopeptides by Dithiobis(2-benzoylamide)-bridged Bis(b-cyclodextrin)s: Structure in Solution, Binding Behavior, and Thermodynamic Origin.' Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2005, 13, 963-971. PDF
  • Elizabeth O. McCullum, Ying-Wei Yang, John C. Chaput 'A DNA-dependent TNA Polymerase' The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Atlanta, GA, November 2-5, 2005.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen, Bo-Wen Hu, Yu Liu 'Diastereoisomer-Selective Inclusion Complexation of Cinchona Alkaloids with Chiral Substituent Tethered Aminated beta-Cyclodextrins' Abstract of the 3rd Asian Cyclodextrin Conference (ACC2005), Nankai University, Tianjin, China, May, 2005.

2004
 
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, En-Cui Yang, Xu-Dong Guan 'Molecular Recognition Thermodynamics and Structural Elucidation of Interactions between Steroids and Bridged Bis(b-Cyclodextrin)s' J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 6590-6602. PDF and SI
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Yun Song, Heng-Yi Zhang, Fei Ding, Takehiko Wada, Yoshihisa Inoue 'Residue and Sequence Selective Binding of Non-aromatic Dipeptides by Bis(b-cyclodextrin) with Functional Tether.' ChemBioChem., 2004, 5, 868-871. PDF
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Lei Li, Yong Chen 'Cooperative Molecular Recognition of Dyes by Dyad and Triad Cyclodextrin-Crown Ether Conjugates.' Org. Biomol. Chem., 2004, 2, 1542-1548. PDF
  1. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Heng-Yi Zhang, Bo-Wen Hu, Fei Ding, Chun-Ju Li 'Diastereoisomer- Selective Inclusion Complexation of Cinchona Alkaloids with a Modified b-Cyclodextrin: Fluorescent Behavior Enhanced By Chiral-Tether Binding.' Chem. & Biodiv., 2004, 1, 481-488. PDF
  1. Yu Liu*, En-Cui Yang, Ying-Wei Yang, Heng-Yi Zhang, Zhi Fan, Fei Ding, Rui Cao 'Thermodynamics of Molecular and Chiral Recognition of Cycloalkanols and Camphor by Modified b-Cyclodextrins Possessing Simple Aromatic Tethers.' J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 173-180. PDF and SI
  1. Ying-Wei Yang, Chun-Ju Li, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu* 'Molecular Design of Crown Ethers. 22. Synthesis of Benzocrown Ether Derivatives and Their Solvent Extraction with Univalent/Bivalent Metal Picrates.' Chin. J. Chem., 2004, 22, 616-618. PDF
  1. Yu Liu*, Shi-Hui Song, Ying-Wei Yang, Yong Chen 'Cyclodextrin-Modified Gold Nanoparticle Aggregate Formed by Simple Host-Guest Interactions with 1,10-Phenanthroline.' J. Chem. Res.(s), 2004, 2, 152-153. PDF
  1. Yu Liu*, Li Li, Heng-Yi Zhang, Ying-Wei Yang, Fei Ding 'Correlation between Thermodynamic Behaviors and Structures for the Complexation of Modified b-Cyclodextrins and Bile Salts.' Supramol. Chem., 2004, 16, 371-379. PDF
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Hai-Xia Zou, Yong Chen, Yu Liu 'Water-Soluble Supramolecular Assembly Constructed from Cyclodextrin Polyrotaxane and C60' 12th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-4rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2004, 8, 64-65, Guiyang, P.R. China.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Rui Cao, Yu Liu 'Thermodynamics of Inclusion Complexation of Bridged Bis(beta-cyclodextrin)s with Bile Salts' 12th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-4rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2004, 8, 66-67, Gui yang, P.R. China.

2003
 

  1. Yu Liu*, Zhi Fan, Heng-Yi Zhang, Ying-Wei Yang, Fei Ding, Shuang-Xi Liu, Xue Wu, Takehiko Wada, Yoshihisa Inoue 'Supramolecular Self-Assemblies of b-Cyclodextrins with Aromatic Tethers: Factors Governing the Helical Columnar versus Linear Channel Superstructures.' J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 8345-8352. PDF and SI

  2. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Rui Cao, Shi-Hui Song, Heng-Yi Zhang, Li-Hua Wang 'Thermodynamic Origin of Molecular Selective Binding of Bile Salts by Aminated b-Cyclodextrins' J. Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 14130-14139. PDF

  3. Yu Liu*, Ying-Wei Yang, Yan Zhao, Li Li, Heng-Yi Zhang, Shi-Zhao Kang 'Molecular Recognition and Cooperative Binding Ability of Fluorescent Dyes by Bridged Bis(b-cyclodextrin)s Tethered with Aromatic Diamine.' J. Incl. Phenom., 2003, 47, 155-160. PDF

Before 2003
 
  1. Heng-Yi Zhang, Ying-Wei Yang, Yu Liu* 'Molecular Design of Crown Ethers. 20. Syntheses and Cation Selectivities of Benzo-15-Crown-5 Derivatives Containing Thiocycle and Selenacycle.' Chem. J. Chinese. U., 2000, 21, 1858-1860. PDF
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis of Shiff Based Benzo-15-Crown-5-beta-Cyclodextrin' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 37-38, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Chun-Ju Li, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis of Shiff Base Benzo-15-crown-5 Containing Anthryl and its Binding Ability' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 115-116, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Jian-Rong Han, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis of 1,10-Phenanthroline Schiff Base Bis(benzo-15-crown-5) and its Selective Binding and Luminescence Behavior' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 117-118, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Chun-Ju Li, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis of Cis-trans Isomerism Schiff Base Benzo-18-crown-6 Bearing Anthryl and their Ion Selective Binding' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 119-120, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Ying-Wei Yang, Yan-Li Zhao, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis of Schiff Base Azo Benzo-15-Crown-5' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 125-126, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Jian-Rong Han, Ying-Wei Yang, Heng-Yi Zhang, Yu Liu 'Synthesis and Characterization of Disubstituted Benzo 15-Crown-5' Progress in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 11th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem.-3rd Conf. on Supramol. Chem., 2002, 8, 123-124, Xi'an, P.R. China.
  • Heng-Yi Zhang, Ying-Wei Yang, Yu Liu 'Syntheses and Cation Selectivities of Bis-dubstituted Benzo-Crown Ethers' Book of Abstr. of 10th Natl. Symp. Macrocycl. Chem., 2000, 10, 148-149, Chengdu, P. R. China.


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