Faculty Profiles

Shih, M.-C., Tan, S., Lu, Y., Kodalle, T., Lee, D.-K., Dong, Y., … others. (2025). A 2D/3D Heterostructure Perovskite Solar Cell with a Phase-Pure and Pristine 2D Layer. Advanced Materials, 37(17), 2416672.

Tan, S., Shih, M.-C., Lu, Y., Choi, S.-G., Dong, Y., Lee, J.-H., … others. (2025). Spontaneous formation of robust two-dimensional perovskite phases. Science, 388(6747), 639--645.

Krajewska, C. J., Kick, M., Kaplan, A. E., Berkinsky, D. B., Zhu, H., Sverko, T., … Bawendi, M. G. (2024). A-Site Cation Influence on the Structural and Optical Evolution of Ultrathin Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets. ACS Nano, 18(11), 8248--8258.

Grotevent, M. J., Lu, Y., \vSverko, Tara, Shih, M.-C., Tan, S., Zhu, H., … others. (2024). Additive-Free Oxidized Spiro-MeOTAD Hole Transport Layer Significantly Improves Thermal Solar Cell Stability. Advanced Energy Materials, 14(31), 2400456.

Lu, Y., Zhu, H., Tan, S., Zhang, R., Shih, M.-C., Grotevent, M. J., … others. (2024). Stabilization of Organic Cations in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Using Phosphine Oxides Derivatives. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146(32), 22387--22395.

Krajewska, C. J., Kaplan, A. E., Kick, M., Berkinsky, D. B., Zhu, H., Sverko, T., … Bawendi, M. G. (2023). Controlled assembly and anomalous thermal expansion of ultrathin cesium lead bromide nanoplatelets. Nano Letters, 23(6), 2148--2157.

Heindl, M. B., Zhu, H., Bawendi, M. G., & Herink, G. (2023). Electro-Absorptive Quantum Dot Antenna Resolves Terahertz Lightwaves via Biased Stark Effect. ACS Photonics, 11(1), 13--17.

Zhang, J., Ning, Y., Zhu, H., Rotile, N. J., Wei, H., Diyabalanage, H., … others. (2023). Fast detection of liver fibrosis with collagen-binding single-nanometer iron oxide nanoparticles via T 1-weighted MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(18), e2220036120.

Proppe, A. H., Berkinsky, D. B., Zhu, H., \vSverko, Tara, Kaplan, A. E., Horowitz, J. R., … Bawendi, M. G. (2023). Highly stable and pure single-photon emission with 250 ps optical coherence times in InP colloidal quantum dots. Nature Nanotechnology, 18(9), 993--999.

Nagaoka, Y., Schneider, J., Zhu, H., & Chen, O. (2023). Quasicrystalline materials from non-atom building blocks. Matter, 6(1), 30--58.

Lu, Y., Shih, M.-C., Tan, S., Grotevent, M. J., Wang, L., Zhu, H., … others. (2023). Rational Design of a Chemical Bath Deposition Based Tin Oxide Electron-Transport Layer for Perovskite Photovoltaics. Advanced Materials, 35(45), 2304168.

Zhu, H., Kick, M., Ginterseder, M., Krajewska, C. J., Šverko, Tara, Li, R., … Bawendi, M. G. (2023). Synthesis of Zwitterionic CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals with Controlled Anisotropy using Surface-Selective Ligand Pairs. Advanced Materials, 35(39), 2304069.

Zhu, H., Fan, Z., Song, S., Eggert, D., Liu, Y., Shi, W., … Chen, O. (2022). Dual atomic coherence in the self-assembly of patchy heterostructural nanocrystals. ACS Nano, 16(9), 15053--15062.

Sun, Y., Wang, Y., Zhu, H., Jin, N., Mohammad, A., Biyikli, N., … Zhao, J. (2022). Excitation wavelength-dependent photoluminescence decay of single quantum dots near plasmonic gold nanoparticles. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156(15).

Zhu, H., Šverko, Tara, Zhang, J., Berkinsky, D. B., Sun, W., Krajewska, C. J., & Bawendi, M. G. (2022). One-dimensional highly-confined CsPbBr3 nanorods with enhanced stability: synthesis and spectroscopy. Nano Letters, 22(20), 8355--8362.

Wang, J., Yuan, Y., Schneider, J., Zhou, W., Zhu, H., Cai, T., & Chen, O. (2022). Quantum dot-based luminescent solar concentrators fabricated through the ultrasonic spray-coating method. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 14(36), 41013--41021.

Sun, Y., Zhu, H., Jin, N., Chen, O., & Zhao, J. (2021). Fast lifetime blinking in compact CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(28), 15433--15440.

Fischer, A. W., Jaeckstein, M. Y., Gottschling, K., Heine, M., Sass, F., Mangels, N., … others. (2021). Lysosomal lipoprotein processing in endothelial cells stimulates adipose tissue thermogenic adaptation. Cell Metabolism, 33(3), 547--564.

Yuan, Y., Jin, N., Saghy, P., Dube, L., Zhu, H., & Chen, O. (2021). Quantum dot photocatalysts for organic transformations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(30), 7180--7193.

Luo, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, M., Zhu, H., Chen, O., Zou, S., & Zhao, J. (2020). Colloidal assembly of Au--quantum dot--Au sandwiched nanostructures with strong plasmon--exciton coupling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(7), 2449--2456.

Peng, L., Ma, X., Zhu, H., Chen, O., & Wang, W. (2020). Influence of local structures on the energy transfer efficiencies of quantum-dot films. Physical Review B, 102(3), 035437.

Cai, T., Shi, W., Hwang, S., Kobbekaduwa, K., Nagaoka, Y., Yang, H., … others. (2020). Lead-free Cs4CuSb2Cl12 layered double perovskite nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(27), 11927--11936.

Fischer, A. W., Jaeckstein, M. Y., Gottschling, K., Heine, M., Sass, F., Mangels, N., … others. (2020). Lysosomal Lipoprotein Processing in Endothelial Cells Stimulates Adipose Tissue Browning.

Yuan, Y., Zhu, H., Hills-Kimball, K., Cai, T., Shi, W., Wei, Z., … others. (2020). Stereoselective C- C oxidative coupling reactions photocatalyzed by zwitterionic ligand capped CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(50), 22563--22569.

Wang, J., Yuan, Y., Zhu, H., Cai, T., Fang, Y., & Chen, O. (2020). Three-dimensional macroporous photonic crystal enhanced photon collection for quantum dot-based luminescent solar concentrator. Nano Energy, 67, 104217.

Fang, C., He, J., Wilczek, L., Zhu, H., Chen, O., & Zimmt, M. (2019). Building the next layer. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 257).

Cai, T., Yang, H., Hills-Kimball, K., Song, J.-P., Zhu, H., Hofman, E., … Chen, O. (2019). Doping metal ions into CsPbCl3 perovskite nanocrystals with improved optical properties for potential optoelectronic applications. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 258).

Sun, Y., Zhu, H., Mani, T., Chen, O., & Zhao, J. (2019). Multiple electron transfer from quantum dots to molecular electron acceptors. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 258).

Nagaoka, Y., Chen, O., & Zhu, H. (2019). Self-assemblies of truncated tetrahedral quantum dots with anisotropic patchiness. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 258).

Nagaoka, Y., Chen, O., & Zhu, H. (2019). Single-component quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattices by the flexible polygon tiling rule. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 258).

Zhu, H., Fan, Z., Yu, L., Wilson, M. A., Nagaoka, Y., Eggert, D., … others. (2019). Controlling nanoparticle orientations in the self-assembly of patchy quantum dot-gold heterostructural nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(14), 6013--6021.

Yuan, Y., Zhu, H., Wang, X., Cui, D., Gao, Z., Su, D., … Chen, O. (2019). Cu-catalyzed synthesis of CdZnSe--CdZnS alloy quantum dots with highly tunable emission. Chemistry of Materials, 31(7), 2635--2643.

Liu, E., Zhu, H., Yi, J., Kobbekaduwa, K., Adhikari, P., Liu, J., … others. (2019). Manipulating charge transfer from core to shell in CdSe/CdS/Au heterojunction quantum dots. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 11(51), 48551--48555.

Zhu, H., Cai, T., Yuan, Y., Wang, X., Nagaoka, Y., Zhao, J., … Chen, O. (2019). Pressure-Induced Transformations of Three-Component Heterostructural Nanocrystals with CdS--Au2S Janus Nanoparticles as Hosts and Small Au Nanoparticles as Satellites. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2(11), 6804--6808.

Que, M., Dai, Z., Yang, H., Zhu, H., Zong, Y., Que, W., … Chen, O. (2019). Quantum-dot-induced cesium-rich surface imparts enhanced stability to formamidinium lead iodide perovskite solar cells. ACS Energy Letters, 4(8), 1970--1975.

Yuan, Y., Zhu, H., Nagaoka, Y., Tan, R., Davis, A. H., Zheng, W., & Chen, O. (2019). Reversible photo-switching of dual-color fluorescent Mn-doped CdS-ZnS quantum dots modulated by diarylethene molecules. Frontiers in Chemistry, 7, 145.

Chen, O., Zhu, H., Nagaoka, Y., & Wang, Z. (2018). Self-assembly of quantum dot gold hetero-structural nanocrystals and their transformations under high pressure. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Vol. 255).

Zhu, H., Cai, T., Que, M., Song, J.-P., Rubenstein, B. M., Wang, Z., & Chen, O. (2018). Pressure-induced phase transformation and band-gap engineering of formamidinium lead iodide perovskite nanocrystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9(15), 4199--4205.

Fang, C., Zhu, H., Chen, O., & Zimmt, M. B. (2018). Reactive two-component monolayers template bottom-up assembly of nanoparticle arrays on HOPG. Chemical Communications, 54(58), 8056--8059.

Zhu, H., Fan, Z., Yuan, Y., Wilson, M. A., Hills-Kimball, K., Wei, Z., … Chen, O. (2018). Self-assembly of quantum dot--gold heterodimer nanocrystals with orientational order. Nano Letters, 18(8), 5049--5056.

Nagaoka, Y., Zhu, H., Eggert, D., & Chen, O. (2018). Single-component quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattices through flexible polygon tiling rule. Science, 362(6421), 1396--1400.

Nagaoka, Y., Tan, R., Li, R., Zhu, H., Eggert, D., Wu, Y. A., … Chen, O. (2018). Superstructures generated from truncated tetrahedral quantum dots. Nature, 561(7723), 378--382.

Cai, T., Yang, H., Hills-Kimball, K., Song, J.-P., Zhu, H., Hofman, E., … Chen, O. (2018). Synthesis of all-inorganic Cd-doped CsPbCl3 perovskite nanocrystals with dual-wavelength emission. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9(24), 7079--7084.

Luciano, M., Erfanzadeh, M., Zhou, F., Zhu, H., Bornh\"utter, Tobias, R\"oder, Beate, … Br\"uckner, Christian. (2017). In vivo photoacoustic tumor tomography using a quinoline-annulated porphyrin as NIR molecular contrast agent. Organic \& Biomolecular Chemistry, 15(4), 972--983.

Zhu, H., Nagaoka, Y., Hills-Kimball, K., Tan, R., Yu, L., Fang, Y., … Chen, O. (2017). Pressure-enabled synthesis of hetero-dimers and hetero-rods through intraparticle coalescence and interparticle fusion of quantum-dot-Au satellite nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(25), 8408--8411.

Tan, R., Zhu, H., Cao, C., & Chen, O. (2016). Multi-component superstructures self-assembled from nanocrystal building blocks. Nanoscale, 8(19), 9944--9961.

Sun, Q.-S., Chen, X.-Y., Zhu, H., Lin, H., Sun, X.-W., & Lin, G.-Q. (2015). Asymmetric synthesis of poly-substituted spirocyclohexane oxindole via a squaramide catalyzed cascade Michael--Michael--aldol sequence. Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2(2), 110--113.

Sun, Q.-S., Zhu, H., Chen, Y.-J., Yang, X.-D., Sun, X.-W., & Lin, G.-Q. (2015). Squaramide-Catalyzed Synthesis of Enantioenriched Spirocyclic Oxindoles via Ketimine Intermediates with Multiple Active Sites. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54(45), 13253--13257.