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Hui Wang Research Group

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of South Carolina

Publications

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Wang, Z.X.; Henriques, A.; Rouvière, L.; Callizot, N.; Tan, L.; Hotchkin, M.T.; Rossignol, R.; Mortenson, M.G.; Dorfman, A.R.; Ho, K.S.; Wang, H., A Mechanism Underpinning the Bioenergetic Metabolism-Regulating Function of Gold Nanocatalysts. Small 2024, 20, 2304082 (Highlighted on the Inside Back Cover).

Wang, Z.X.; Wang, H.*, Au@C/Pt Core@Shell/Satellites Supra-Nanostructures: Plasmonic Antenna-Reactor Hybrid Nanocatalysts. Nanoscale Advances 2023, 5 (20), 5435–5448 (Highlighted on the Outside Front Cover).
Invited Contribution to the Themed Collection on "Multicomponent Plasmonic Hybrid Nanoarchitectures".

Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Phase-Controlled Ruthenium Nanocrystals on Colloidal Polydopamine Supports and Their Catalytic Behaviors in Aerobic Oxidation Reactions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023, 15 (30), 36676–36687.

Chen, K. X.; Wang, H.*, Origin of Superlinear Power Dependence of Reaction Rates in Plasmon-Driven Photocatalysis: A Case Study of Reductive Nitrothiophenol Coupling Reactions. Nano Letters 2023, 23 (7), 2870–2876.

Chen, K. X.; Wang, H.*, Metal-Adsorbate Interactions Modulate Plasmonic Reactivity of Chemisorbed Nitrophenyl Derivatives. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023, 127 (8), 4104–4114. Invited contribution to the Special Issue on Hot Electrons in Catalysis.

Wathudura, P.; Wamsley, M.; Wang, A.; Chen, K. X.; Nawalage, S.; Wang, H.; Zou, S. L.; Zhang, D. M., Effects of Cascading Optical Processes. Part II: Impacts on Experimental Quantification of Sample Absorption and Scattering Properties. Analytical Chemistry 2023, 95 (9), 4461–4469.

Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Mechanistic Diversity of Transfer Hydrogenolysis over Noble Metal Nanocatalysts: Pt- and Ru-Catalyzed Azo-Hydrogenolysis by Various Hydrogen Donors. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2022, 126 (40), 17102-17113.

Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Pt, Pd, and Rh Nanoparticles Supported on Polydopamine Nanospheres as Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenolysis. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, 5 (8), 11797–11808.

Wei, X.; Wang, X.; Zhang, Z.; Luo, Y.; Wang, Z. X.; Xiong, W.; Jain, P. K.; Monnier, J. R.; Wang, H.; Hu, T. Y.; Tang, C. B.; Albrecht, H.; Liu, C.*, A Click Chemistry Amplified Nanopore Assay for Ultrasensitive Quantification of HIV-1 p24
Antigen in Clinical Samples. Nature Communications 2022, 13, 6852.

Chen, K. X.; Wang, H.*, Plasmon-Driven Oxidative Coupling of Aniline-Derivative Adsorbates: A Comparative Study of para-Ethynylaniline and para-Mercaptoaniline. Journal of Chemical Physics 2022, 156 (20), 204705.
Invited contribution to the Special Topic Issue on Plasmon-Driven Energy Conversion.

Sun, M. Q.; Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Chemically Driven Phase Segregation of Alloy Nanoparticles: A Versatile Route to Dual-Plasmonic Gold@Copper Chalcogenide Heteronanostructures. Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34 (4), 1965-1975.

Wang, Z. X.; Wang, W.; Wamsley, M.; Zhang, D. M.; Wang, H.*, Colloidal Polydopamine Beads: A Photothermally Active Support for Noble Metal Nanocatalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14 (15), 17560–17569.

Wang, W.; Wang, Z. X.; Sun, M. Q.; Zhang, H.; Wang, H.*, Ligand-Free Sub-5 nm Platinum Nanocatalysts on Polydopamine Supports: Size-Controlled Synthesis and Size-Dictated Reaction Pathway Selection. Nanoscale 2022, 14 (15), 5743-5750.

Sun, M. Q.; Kreis, N.; Chen, K. X.; Guo, S.; Wang, H., Covellite Nanodisks and Digenite Nanorings: Colloidal Synthesis, Phase Transitions, and Optical Properties. Chemistry of Materials 2021, 33 (21), 8546-8558.

Zhang, Q. F.; Chen, K. X.; Wang, H.*, Hot-Hole-Induced Molecular Scissoring: A Case Study of Plasmon-Driven Decarboxylation of Aromatic Carboxylates. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021, 125 (38), 20958–20971.

Chen, K. X.; Wang, H.*, Plasmon-Driven Photocatalytic Molecular Transfor-mations on Metallic Nanostructure Surfaces: Mechanistic Insights Gained from Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering 2021, 6 (4), 250-280.
Invited Review Article.

Metavarayuth K.; Villarreal, E.; Wang, H.; Wang, Q.*, Surface Topography and Free Energy Regulate Osteogenesis of Stem Cells: Effects of Shape-Controlled Gold Nanoparticles. Biomaterials Translational 2021, 2 (2), 165-173.
Highlighted on the Journal Cover.

Zhang, Y.; Villarreal, E.; Li, G.G.; Wang, W.; Wang, H.*, Plasmonic Nanozymes: Engineered Gold Nanoparticles Exhibit Tunable Plasmon-Enhanced Peroxidase-Mimicking Activity. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11 (21), 9321-9328.

Li, G. G.; Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Complementing Nanoscale Galvanic Exchange with Redox Manipulation toward Architectural Control of Multimetallic Hollow Nanostructures. ChemNanoMat 2020, 6 (7), 998-1013.
Invited Minireview Article in the Themed Collection on Hollow Nanostructures.

Sun, M. Q.; Fu, X. Q.; Chen, K.; Wang, H.*, Dual-Plasmonic Gold@Copper Sulfide Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Phase-Selective Synthesis and Multimodal Photothermal and Photocatalytic Behaviors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12 (41), 46146–46161.

Koch, R. J.; Li, G. G.; Pandey, S.; Phillpot, S. R.; Wang, H.; Misture, S. T., Complex Modeling for the Quantification of Nanoscale Disorder Using Genetic Algorithms, Density Functional Theory and Line-Profile Analysis. Journal of Applied Crystallography 2020, 53 (4), 1087-1100.

Klepov, V. V.; Berseneva, A. A.; Pace, K. A.; Kocevski, V.; Sun, M. Q.; Qiu, P.; Wang, H.; Chen, F. L.; Besmann, T. M.; zur Loye, H. C.*, NaGaS2: An Elusive Layered Compound with Dynamic Water Absorption and Wide-Ranging Ion-Exchange Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59 (27), 10836-10841.

Xia, Z. H.; Villarreal, E.; Wang, H.; Lau, B. L. T.*, Nanoscale Surface Curvature Modulates Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2020, 190, 110960.

Wang, H.*, Zhang, Q. F.; Villarreal, E.; Jing, H.; Chen, K. X., In Situ Monitoring of Catalytic Molecular Transformations on Noble Metal Nanocatalysts Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science 2020, 18 (1), 4-11.

Invited Minireview Article for the Special Issue on 2019 Governor's Awards for Excellence in Scientific Research.

Zhang, Q. F; Zhou, Y. D.; Fu, X. Q.; Villarreal, E.; Sun, L. C.; Zou, S. L.; Wang, H.*, Photothermal Effect, Local-Field Dependence, and Charge Carrier-Relaying Species in Plasmon-Driven Photocatalysis: A Case Study of Aerobic Nitrothiophenol Coupling Reaction. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (43), 26695-26704.

Li, G. G; Wang, Z. X.; Wang, H.*, Tweaking the Interplay among Galvanic Exchange, Oxidative Etching, and Seed-Mediated Deposition toward Architectural Control of Multimetallic Nanoelectrocatalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2019, 11 (26), 23482-23494.

Fu, X. Q.; Li, G. G.; Villarreal, E.; Wang, H.*, Hot Carriers in Action: Multimodal Photocatalysis on Au@SnO2 Core-Shell Nanoparticles. Nanoscale 2019, 11 (15), 7324–7334.

Pandey, S.; Koch, R. J.; Misture, S. T.; Wang, H.; Phillpot, S. R.*, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Ordered and Disordered Cu/Au Alloys from First Principles Calculations. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2019, 809, 151615.

Koch, R. J.*; Li, G. G.; Pandey, S.; Phillpot, S.; Wang, H.; Misture, S. T., Thermally Induced Transformations of Au@Cu2O Core–Shell Nanoparticles into Au–Cu Nanoparticles from Temperature-Programmed in situ Powder X-ray Diffraction. Journal of Applied Crystallography 2019, 52 (3), 579-586.

Villarreal, E.; Li, G. G.; Wang, H.*, Carving Growing Nanocrystals: Coupling Seed-Mediated Growth with Oxidative Etching. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (39), 18457-18462.

Li, G. G.; Wang, H.*, Dealloyed Nanoporous Gold Catalysts: From Macroscopic Foams to Nanoparticulate Architectures. ChemNanoMat 2018, 4 (9), 897-908. Invited Focus Review.

Li, G. G.; Sun, M.; Villarreal, E.; Pandey, S.; Phillpot, S. R.; Wang, H.*, Galvanic Replacement-Driven Transformations of Atomically Intermixed Bimetallic Colloidal Nanocrystals: Effects of Compositional Stoichiometry and Structural Ordering. Langmuir 2018, 34 (14), 4340−4350.
Highlighted by Editor Richard Crooks as a Noteworthy Article in Langmuir Journal Club.

Zhang, Q. F.; Wang, H.*, Mechanistic Insights on Plasmon-Driven Photocatalytic Oxidative Coupling of Thiophenol Derivatives: Evidence for Steady State Photo-Activated Oxygen. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (10), 5686−5697.

Zhang, G. L.; Chen, L.; Fu, X. Q.; Wang, H., Cellulose Microfiber-Supported TiO2@Ag Nanocomposites: A Dual-Functional Platform for Photocatalysis and in situ Reaction Monitoring. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2018, 57 (12), 4277−4286.
Invited contribution to the Themed Issue on Best Presentations at 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC.

Li, G. G.; Blom, D. A.; Pandey, S.; Koch, R. J.; Misture, S.; Phillpot, S. R.; Wang, H.*, Overcoming the Interfacial Lattice Mismatch: Geometry Control of Gold-Nickel Bimetallic Heteronanostructures. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization 2018, 35 (5), 1700361.
Invited contribution to the Special Issue on Bimetallic Nanoparticles.

zur Loye, H. C.*; Besmann, T.; Amoroso, J.; Brinkman, K.; Grandjean, A.; Henager, C. H.; Hu, S.; Misture, S. T.; Phillpot, S. R.; Shustova, N. B.; Wang, H.; Koch, R. J.; Morrison, G.; Dolgopolova, E., Hierarchical Materials as Tailored Nuclear Waste Forms: A Perspective. Chemistry of Materials 2018, 30 (14), 4475–4488.

Villarreal, E.; Li, G. G.; Zhang, Q. F.; Fu, X. Q.; Wang, H.*, Nanoscale Surface Curvature Effects on Ligand-Nanoparticle Interactions: A Plasmon-Enhanced Spectroscopic Study of Thiolated Ligand Adsorption, Desorption, and Exchange on Gold Nanoparticles. Nano Letters 2017, 17 (7), 4443–4452.

Sun, L.; Zhang, Q.; Li, G.G.; Villarreal, E.; Fu, X.; Wang, H.*, Multifaceted Gold-Palladium Bimetallic Nanorods and Their Geometric, Compositional, and Catalytic Tunabilities. ACS Nano 2017, 11 (3), 3213−3228.

Li, G. G.; Lin, Y.; Wang, H.*, Residual Silver Remarkably Enhances Electrocatalytic Activity and Durability of Dealloyed Gold Nanosponge Particles. Nano Letters 2016, 16 (11), 7248−7253.

Zheng, T. T.; Li, G. G.; Zhou, F.; Wu, R.; Zhu, J. J.; Wang, H., Gold Nanosponge-Based Multi-Stimuli Responsive Drug Vehicles for Targeted Chemo-Photothermal Therapy. Advanced Materials 2016, 28 (37), 8218-8226.

Zhang, Q. F.; Han L. L.; Jing, H.; Blom, D. A.; Lin, Y.; Xin, H. L; Wang, H.*, Facet Control of Gold Nanorods. ACS Nano 2016, 10 (2), 2960-2974.

Zhang, Q. F.; Jing, H.; Li, G. G.; Lin, Y.; Blom, D. A.; Wang, H.*, Intertwining Roles of Silver Ions, Surfactants, and Reducing Agents in Gold Nanorod Overgrowth: Pathway Switch between Silver Underpotential Deposition and Gold-Silver Codeposition. Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28 (8), 2728-2741.

Li, G. G.; Villarreal, E.; Zhang, Q. F.; Zheng, T. T.; Zhu, J. J.; Wang, H.*, Controlled Dealloying of Alloy Nanoparticles toward Optimization of Electrocatalysis on Spongy Metallic Nanoframes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8 (36), 23920-23931.

Zhang, Q. F.; Zhou, Y. D.; Villarreal, E.; Lin, Y.; Zou, S. L.; Wang, H.*, Faceted Gold Nanorods: Nanocuboids, Convex Nanocuboids, and Concave Nanocuboids. Nano Letters 2015, 15 (6), 4161−4169.

Jing, H.; Wang, H.*, Structural Evolution of Ag-Pd Bimetallic Nanoparticles through Controlled Galvanic Replacement: Effects of Mild Reducing Agents. Chemistry of Materials 2015, 27 (6), 2172-2180.

Jing, H.; Zhang, Q. F.; Large, N.; Yu, C. M.; Blom, D. A.; Nordlander, P.; Wang, H.*, Tunable Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Catalytically Active High Index Facets. Nano Letters 2014, 14 (6), 3674-3682.

Zhang, Q. F.; Wang, H.*, Facet-Dependent Catalytic Activities of Au Nanoparticles Enclosed by High-Index Facets. ACS Catalysis 2014, 4 (11), 4027-4033.

Zheng, T. T.; Zhang, Q. F.; Feng, S.; Zhu, J. J.; Wang, Q.; Wang, H., Robust Nonenzymatic Hybrid Nanoelectrocatalysts for Signal Amplification toward Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Cytosensing. Journal of The American Chemical Society 2014, 136 (6), 2288-2291.

Zhang, Q. F.; Large, N.; Nordlander, P.; Wang, H.*, Porous Au Nanoparticles with Tunable Plasmon Resonances and Intense Field Enhancements for Single-Particle SERS. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2014, 5 (2), 370-374.

Zhang, Q. F.; Blom, D. A.; Wang, H.*, Nanoporosity-Enhanced Catalysis on Subwavelength Au Nanoparticles: a Plasmon-Enhanced Spectroscopic Study. Chemistry of Materials 2014, 26 (17), 5131-5142.

Zhang, Q. F.; Large, N.; Wang, H.*, Gold Nanoparticles with Tipped Surface Structures as Substrates for Single-Particle Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Concave Nanocubes, Nanotrisoctahedra, and Nanostars. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2014, 6 (19), 17255-17267.

Jing, H.; Large, N.; Zhang, Q. F.; Wang, H.*, Epitaxial Growth of Cu2O on Ag Allows for Fine Control Over Particle Geometries and Optical Properties of Ag-Cu2O Core-Shell Nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2014, 118 (34), 19948-19963.

Jing, H.; Wang, H.*, Controlled Overgrowth of Pd on Au Nanorods. CrystEngComm 2014, 16 (40), 9469-9477.
Invited contribution to the Themed Issue on Colloidal Self-Assembled Supracrystals and Heterostructures.

Zheng, T. T.; Zhang, R.; Zhang, Q. F.; Tan, T. T.; Zhang, K.; Zhu, J. J.; Wang, H., Ultrasensitive Dual-Channel Detection of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 in Human Serum Using Gold-Quantum Dot Core-Satellite Nanoprobes. Chemical Communications 2013, 49 (72), 7881-7883 (Highlighted on the Journal Cover).

Zheng, T. T.; Tan, T. T.; Zhang, Q. F.; Fu, J. J.; Wu, J. J.; Zhang, K.; Zhu, J. J.; Wang, H., Multiplex Acute Leukemia Cytosensing Using Multifunctional Hybrid Electrochemical Nanoprobes at a Hierarchically Nanoarchitectured Electrode Interface. Nanoscale 2013, 5 (21), 10360-10368.

Zheng, T. T.; Fu, J. J.; Hu, L. H.; Qiu, F.; Hu, M. J.; Zhu, J. J.; Hua, Z. C.; Wang, H.*, Nanoarchitectured Electrochemical Cytosensors for Selective Detection of Leukemia Cells and Quantitative Evaluation of Death Receptor Expression on Cell Surfaces. Analytical Chemistry 2013, 85 (11), 5609-5616.

Wei, J. J.; Wang, L. M.; Zhang, X.; Ma, X. J.; Wang, H.; Su, Z. H.*, Coarsening of Silver Nanoparticles in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers. Langmuir 2013, 29 (36), 11413-11419.

Wang, H.*; Musier-Forsyth, K.; Falk, C.; Barbara, P. F., Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Study of Dynamic Nanoscale DNA Bending Behavior of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2013, 117 (16), 4183-4196.
In Paul F. Barbara Memorial Issue.

Zhang, L.; Jing, H.; Boisvert, G.; He, J. Z.; Wang, H.*, Geometry Control and Optical Tunability of Metal-Cuprous Oxide Core-Shell Nanoparticles. ACS Nano 2012, 6 (4), 3514-3527.

Qiu, C.; Zhang, L.; Wang, H.; Jiang, C. Y., Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on Hierarchical Porous Cuprous Oxide Nanostructures in Nanoshell and Thin-Film Geometries. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2012, 3 (5), 651-657.

Zhang, X.; Wang, H.; Su, Z. H.*, Fabrication of Au@Ag Core-Shell Nanoparticles Using Polyelectrolyte Multilayers as Nanoreactors. Langmuir 2012, 28 (44), 15705-15712.

Zhang, L.; Blom, D. A.; Wang, H.*, Au-Cu2O Core-Shell Nanoparticles: A Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Heteronanostructure with Geometrically Tunable Optical Properties. Chemistry of Materials 2011, 23 (20), 4587-4598.

Zhang, L.; Wang, H.*, Interior Structural Tailoring of Cu2O Shell-in-Shell Nanostructures through Multistep Ostwald Ripening. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2011, 115 (38), 18479-18485.
Highlighted on the Journal Cover.

Zhang, L.; Wang, H.*, Cuprous Oxide Nanoshells with Geometrically Tunable Optical Properties. ACS Nano 2011, 5 (4), 3257-3267.

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