Xu Hou Group


Publications Before 2018
Book and Book Chapter
Xu Hou.
"Bio-inspired Asymmetric Design and Building of Biomimetic Smart Single Nanochannels". Springer Theses, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 
"Bio-inspired Asymmetric Design and Building of Biomimetic Smart Single Nanochannels". Springer Theses, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 
Journal Publications
"Thermoresponsive Mobile Interfaces with Switchable Wettability, Optical Properties, and Penetrability".
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  2017, 9 (40): 35483–35491
"Nanostructured Fibrous Membranes with Rose Spike-like Architecture".
Nano Letter  2017, 17 (10): 6235–6240
"Bionic Design: A Bridge between Creatures and New Materials".
Zhangjiang Science and Technology Review  2017, 3: 35-38
"A Highly Stretchable and Robust Non-fluorinated Superhydrophobic Surface".
Journal of Materials Chemistry A  2017, 5: 16273–16280
"Ultrafast Nanofiltration through Large-scale Single-layered Graphene Membranes".
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  2017, 9 (11): 9239–9244
Xu Hou,
"Interplay between Materials and Microfluidics".
Nature Reviews Materials  2017, 2: 17016 
"Interplay between Materials and Microfluidics".
Nature Reviews Materials  2017, 2: 17016 
"Development and Application of Bio-Inspired and Biomimetic Microfluidics".
Acta Physica Sinica  2016,65 (17):178301 (In Chinese)
Xu Hou.
“Smart Gating Multi-Scale Pore/Channel-Based Membranes”.
Advanced Materials  2016,28:7049-7064
“Smart Gating Multi-Scale Pore/Channel-Based Membranes”.
Advanced Materials  2016,28:7049-7064
"Bioinspired Smart Gate-Location-Controllable Single Nanochannels: Experiment and Theoretical Simulation".
ACS Nano  2015, 9 (12): 12264-12273
Xu Hou
“Liquid-based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behaviour”.
Nature  2015, 519 (7541): 70-73
“Liquid-based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behaviour”.
Nature  2015, 519 (7541): 70-73
"Stability of Surface-Immobilized Lubricant Interfaces under Flow".
Chemistry of Materials  2015, 27 (5): 1792-1800
"Synthetic Asymmetric‐Shaped Nanodevices with Symmetric pH‐Gating Characteristics".
Advanced Functional Materials  2015, 25 (7): 1102-1110
"Bio‐inspired Smart Single Asymmetric Hourglass Nanochannels for Continuous Shape and Ion Transport Control".
Small  2015, 11 (7): 786-791
"Tunable Ionic Transport Control inside a Bio‐Inspired Constructive Bi‐Channel Nanofluidic Device".
Small  2014, 10 (4): 793-801
"Bionic Asymmetrical Design and Preparation of Micro and Nano Pores/Channels".
Materials China  2013, 12 (32): 766
"Nanofluidic diode based on branched alumina nanochannels with tunable ionic rectification".
ACS applied materials & interfaces  2013, 5 (16): 7931-7936
"Bioinspired artificial single ion pump".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2013, 135 (43): 16102-16110
"Bioinspired Ion‐Transport Properties of Solid‐State Single Nanochannels and Their Applications in Sensing".
ChemPhysChem  2012, 13 (10): 2455-2470
"Light and pH Cooperative Nanofluidic Diode Using a Spiropyran‐Functionalized Single Nanochannel".
Advanced Materials  2012, 24 (18): 2424-2428
Xu Hou
"Building Bio-Inspired Artificial Functional Nanochannels: From Symmetric to Asymmetric Modification".
Angewandte Chemie International Edition  2012, 51 (22): 5296-5307
"Building Bio-Inspired Artificial Functional Nanochannels: From Symmetric to Asymmetric Modification".
Angewandte Chemie International Edition  2012, 51 (22): 5296-5307
"Layer-by-layer Removal of Insulating Few-Layer Mica Flakes for Asymmetric Ultra-Thin Nanopore Fabrication".
Nano Research  2012, 5 (2): 99-108
"Light-regulated Ion Transport through Artificial Ion Channels Based on TiO 2 Nanotubular Arrays".
Chemical Communications  2012, 48 (47): 5901-5903
"Biomimetic Ionic Rectifier Systems: Asymmetric Modification of Single Nanochannels by Ion Sputtering Technology".
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry  2011, 656 (1): 231-236
"Enantioselective recognition in biomimetic single artificial nanochannels".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2011, 133 (20): 7644-7647
"Assembly of F 0 F 1-ATPase into solid state nanoporous membrane".
Chemical Communications  2011, 47 (11): 3102-3104
"Tuning surface wettability through supramolecular interactions".
Soft Matter  2011, 7 (5): 1638-1640
Xu Hou
"Biomimetic smart nanopores and nanochannels".
Chemical Society Review  2011, 40 (5):2385-2401
"Biomimetic smart nanopores and nanochannels".
Chemical Society Review  2011, 40 (5):2385-2401
"Bio‐inspired Photoelectric Conversion Based on Smart‐Gating Nanochannels".
Advanced Functional Materials  2010, 20 (16): 2636-2642
Xu Hou
"A Biomimetic Asymmetric Responsive Single Nanochannel".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2010, 132 (33): 11736-11742
"A Biomimetic Asymmetric Responsive Single Nanochannel".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2010, 132 (33): 11736-11742
Xu Hou
"A pH-Gating Ionic Transport Nanodevice: Asymmetric Chemical Modification of Single Nanochannels".
Advanced Materials  2010, 22 (22):2440-2443
"A pH-Gating Ionic Transport Nanodevice: Asymmetric Chemical Modification of Single Nanochannels".
Advanced Materials  2010, 22 (22):2440-2443
"Bioinspired Smart Gating of Nanochannels Toward Photoelectric‐Conversion Systems".
Advanced Materials  2010, 22 (9): 1021-1024
Xu Hou
"Fabrication of Stable Single Nanochannels with Controllable Ionic Rectification".
Small  2010, 6 (3): 361-365
"Fabrication of Stable Single Nanochannels with Controllable Ionic Rectification".
Small  2010, 6 (3): 361-365
"Current Rectification in Temperature‐Responsive Single Nanopores".
ChemPhysChem  2010, 11 (4): 859-864
Xu Hou
"Learning from Nature: Building Bio-Inspired Smart Nanochannels".
ACS Nano  2009, 3 (11): 3339-3342
"Learning from Nature: Building Bio-Inspired Smart Nanochannels".
ACS Nano  2009, 3 (11): 3339-3342
Xu Hou
"A biomimetic potassium responsive nanochannel: G-quadruplex DNA conformational switching in a synthetic nanopore".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2009, 131 (22): 7800-7805
"A biomimetic potassium responsive nanochannel: G-quadruplex DNA conformational switching in a synthetic nanopore".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2009, 131 (22): 7800-7805
"Gating of single synthetic nanopores by proton-driven DNA molecular motors".
Journal of the American Chemical Society  2008, 130 (26): 8345-8350