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Journal Papers (including 5 in Nature Groups with 2 After Joining Monash)

2010-present (After Joining Monash University)

Qianqian Shi, Wenli Di, Dashen Dong, Lim Wei Yap, Lin Li, Duyang Zang, Wenlong Cheng*. A General Approach to Free-Standing Nanoassemblies via Acoustic Levitation Self-Assembly, ACS Nano, 2019, accepted.

Dashen Dong, Qianqian Shi, Debabrata Sikdar, Yunmeng Zhao, Yiyi Liu, Runfang Fu, Malin Premaratne and Wenlong Cheng*. Site-specific Ag coating on concave Au nanoarrows by controlling the surfactant concentration, Nanoscale Horiz, 2019, accepted.

Xinghua Wang, Tanju Yildirim, Kae Jye Si, Ankur Sharma, Yunzhou Xue, Qinghua Qin, Qiaoliang Bao, Wenlong Cheng*, Yuerui Lu*. An Adaptive Soft Plasmonic Nanosheet Resonator, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019, 13, 1800302.

Lim Wei Yap, Qianqian Shi, Shu Gong, Yan Wang, Yi Chen, Cun Zhu, Zhongze Gu, Kiyonori Suzuki, Yonggang Zhu, Wenlong Cheng*. Bifunctional Fe₃O₄@AuNWs particle as wearable bending and strain sensor, Inorg. Chem. Comm. 2019, 104, 98-104

Litty V. Thekkekara, Naveen N. Jason, Wenlong Cheng, Min Gu. Stable copper nanowire-graphene oxide thin films for nonlinear photonics, OSA Continuum, 2019, 2, 1455-1467

Xinyu Cui, Wenlong Cheng, Mingdong Dong, Xiaojun Han. A multifunctional biomimetic hybrid nanocarrier for the controlled delivery of chemotherapy drugs by near-infrared light, New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 2752-2757.

Shendan Zhang, Mingjie Yang, Kunyu Liang, Ayse Turak, Bingxue Zhang, Da Meng, Chuanxi Wang, Fengdong Qu, Wenlong Cheng, Minghui Yang. An acetone gas sensor based on nanosized Pt-loaded Fe₂O₃ nanocubes, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2019, 290, 59-67.

Zhijia Zhang, Lim Wei Yap, Dashen Dong, Qianqian Shi, Yan Wang, Wenlong Cheng*, Xiaojun Han. Cat-Tail-Like Mesostructured Silica Fibers Decorated with Gold Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Stretchable Sensors, Chem Plus Chem 2019, accepted.

Qingfeng Zhai, Shu Gong,Yan Wang, Quanxia Lyu, Yiyi Liu, Yunzhi Ling, Joseph Wang, George. P. Simon, Wenlong Cheng*. Enokitake Mushroom-like Standing Gold Nanowires Towards Wearable Non-Invasive Bimodal Glucose and Strain Sensing, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 9724-9729.

Yunzhi Ling, Shu Gong, Qingfeng Zhai, Yan Wang, Yunmeng Zhao, Mingjie Yang, Wenlong Cheng* Embedding Pinhole Vertical Gold Nanowire Electronic Skins for Braille Recognition, Small 2019, 1804853

Xunan Zhang, Wei Zong, Jialiang Wang, Mingdong Dong, Wenlong Cheng, Tianmeng Sun and Xiaojun Han, Multicompartmentalized vesosomes containing DOX loaded liposomes and 5FU loaded liposomes for synergistic tumor treatment, New J. Chem. 2019, 43, 4895-4899

Qianqian Shi, Timothy U. Connell, Qi Xiao, Anthony S. R. Chesman, Wenlong Cheng, Ann Roberts, Timothy J. Davis, and Daniel E. Gomez, Plasmene Metasurface Absorbers: Electromagnetic Hot Spots and Hot Carriers, ACS Photonics 2019, 6, 314-321

Bowen Zhu, Shu Gong, Wenlong Cheng*. Softening gold for elastronics. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019, 48, 1668-1711

Bowen Zhu, Shu Gong, Fenge Lin, Yan Wang, Yunzhi Ling, Tiance An, and Wenlong Cheng*. Patterning Vertically-Grown Gold Nanowire Electrodes for Intrinsically Stretchable Organic Transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials 2019, 5, 1800509

Yunmeng Zhao, Dashen Dong, Shu Gong, Laurence Brassart, Yan Wang, Tiance An, and Wenlong Cheng*. A Moss-inspired Electroless Gold-Coating Strategy to Stretchable Fiber Conductor by Dry Spinning. Advanced Electronic Materials 2019, 5, 1800462.

Tiance An, Yunzhi Ling, Shu Gong, Bowen Zhu, Yunmeng Zhao, Dashen Dong, Lim Wei Yap, Yan Wang, Wenlong Cheng*. A Wearable Second Skin-Like Multifunctional Supercapacitor with Vertical Gold Nanowires and Electrochromic Polyaniline. Advanced Materials Technologies 2018, 1800473.

Yunmeng Zhao, Dashen Dong, Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Tiance An, Lim Wei Yap, Wenlong Cheng*. Highly Stretchable Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitors Based on Ultrathin Gold Nanowires with Double-Helix Winding Design. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018. 10, 42612-42620

Qingfeng Zhai, Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Yunzhi Ling, Lim Wei Yap, Yiyi Liu, Joseph Wang, George. P. Simon, Wenlong Cheng*. Vertical Gold Nanowires Stretchable Electrochemical Electrodes. Anal. Chem. 2018, 90, 13498-13505.

Sharu Bhagavathi Kandy, George P. Simon, Wenlong Cheng, Johann Zank, Kapil Joshi, Dharmesh Gala, Arup R. Bhattacharyya. Effect of Incorporation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes on the Microstructure and Flow Behavior of Highly Concentrated Emulsions. ACS Omega 2018, 3, 13584-13597.

Huaying Chen, Chang Chen, Siwei Bai, Yuan Gao, Guy Metcalfe, Wenlong Cheng, Yonggang Zhu. Multiplexed detection of cancer biomarkers using a microfluidic platform integrating single bead trapping and acoustic mixing techniques. Nanoscale 2018, 10, 20196-20206.

Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Stephen. J. Wang, Xinyi Yang, Yunzhi Ling, Lim Wei Yap, Dashen Dong, George. P. Simon, Wenlong Cheng*. Standing Enokitake-Like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 9742-9749.

Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Daniel Gómez, Yunzhi Ling, Lim Wei Yap, George. P. Simon, and Wenlong Cheng*. Unconventional Janus Properties of Enokitake-Like Gold Nanowire Films. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 8717–8722.

Shu Gong, Yan Wang, Lim Wei Yap, Yunzhi Ling, Yunmeng Zhao, Dashen Dong, Qianqian Shi, Yiyi Liu, Hemayet Uddin and Wenlong Cheng*. A Location- and Sharpness-Specific Tactile Electronic Skin Based on Staircase-like Nanowire Patches. Nanoscale Horizon 2018, 3, 640-647

Kae Jye Si, Dashen Dong, Qianqian Shi, Weiren Zhu, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*. Ultrathin Fresnel lens based on plasmene nanosheets. Materials Today 2018, 23, 9-15.

Stephen Jia Wang, Björn Sommer, Wenlong Cheng, Falk Schreiber. The Virtual-Spine Platform—Acquiring, visualizing, and analyzing individual sitting behavior. PloS One 2018, 13, e0195670

My Duyen Ho, Yiyi Liu, Dashen Dong, Yunmeng Zhao, and Wenlong Cheng*. Fractal Gold Nanoframework for Highly Stretchable Transparent Strain-Insensitive Conductors. Nano Letters 2018, 18, 3593-3599.

Vahid R. Adineh, Changxi Zheng, Qianhui Zhang, Ross K. W. Marceau, Boyin Liu, Yu Chen, Kae J. Si, Matthew Weyland, Tony Velkov, Wenlong Cheng, Jian Li, Jing Fu. Graphene-Enhanced 3D Chemical Mapping of Biological Specimens at Near-Atomic Resolution. Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 28, 1801439

Qianqian Shi, Debabrata Sikdar, Runfang Fu, Kae Jye Si, Dashen Dong, Yiyi Liu, Malin Premaratne and Wenlong Cheng*. Two-dimensional Binary Plasmonic Nanoassemblies with Semiconductor n/p-Doping-Like Properties. Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1801118.

Dashen Dong, Lim Wei Yap, Detlef M Smilgies, Kae Jye Si, Qianqian Shi, Wenlong Cheng*.Two-dimensional gold trisoctahedron nanoparticle superlattice sheets:self-assembly, characterization and immunosensing applications. Nanoscale 2018, 10, 5065-5071

Qianqian Shi, Dashen Dong, Kae Jye Si, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Malin Premaratne, Wenlong Cheng*. Shape Transformation of Constituent Building Blocks within Self-Assembled Nanosheets and Nano-origami. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 2, 1014-1022.

Xunan Zhang, Wei Zong, Hongmei Bi, Kunming Zhao, Thomas Fuhs, Ying Hu, Wenlong Cheng, Xiaojun Han. Hierarchical drug release of pH-sensitive liposomes encapsulating aqueous two phase system. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 2018, 127, 177-182.

Jing Bai, Xiaodan Jia, Wenyao Zhen, Wenlong Cheng*, Xiue Jiang*. A Facile Ion-Doping Strategy to Regulate Tumor Microenvironments for Enhanced Multimodal Tumor Theranostics. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 106–109.

Wenlong Cheng*, Free-standing nanoparticle superlattice sheets: From design to applications. Europhysics Letters, 2017, 119, 48004 (invited perspective).

Naveen N Jason, My D Ho, Wenlong Cheng*. Resitive Electronic Skins. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 5, 5845-5866.

Kae Jye Si, Yi Chen, Qianqian Shi, and Wenlong Cheng*, Nanoparticle Superlattices: the Roles of Soft Ligands. Advanced Science, 2018, 5, 1700179

Shu Gong and Wenlong Cheng*. Towards Soft Skin-like Wearable and Implantable Energy Devices. Advanced Energy Materials, 2017, 7, 1700648 (invited).

Shen, Jianlei; Luan, Binquan; Pei, Hao; Yang, Zaixing; Zuo, Xiaolei; Liu, Gang; Shi, Jiye; Wang, Lihua; Zhou, Ruhong; Cheng, Wenlong; Fan, Chunhai Humidity-responsive single-nanoparticle-layer plasmonic films. Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1606796.

VR Adineh, RKW Marceau, Y Chen, KJ Si, T Velkov, Wenlong Cheng,J Li, J Fu. Pulsed-voltage atom probe tomography of low conductivity and insulator materials by application of ultrathin metallic coating on nanoscale specimen geometry. Ultramicroscopy 2017, 181, 150-159

BK Sharu, GP Simon, Wenlong Cheng, J Zank, AR Bhattacharyya. Development of microstructure and evolution of rheological characteristics of a highly concentrated emulsion during emulsification. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 2017, 532, 342.

Yiyi Liu, Xiaohui Dai, Sudaraka Mallawaarachchi, Harini Hapuarachchi, Qianqian Shi, Dashen Dong, San H Thang, Malin Premaratne, Wenlong Cheng*. Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) capped plasmonic nanoparticles as resonance intensity-based temperature sensors with linear correlation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 5, 10926-10932.

Wenjuan Yang, Kae Jye Si, Pengzhen Guo, Dashen Dong, Debabrata Sikdar, Malin Premaratne, Wenlong Cheng*. Self-Assembled Plasmonic Pyramids from Anisotropic Nanoparticles for High-Efficient SERS. Journal of Analysis and Testing, 1, 335-343.

Sushrut Bhanushali, Prakash Chandra Ghosh, George P Simon, Wenlong Cheng*. Copper Nanowire‐Filled Soft Elastomer Composites for Applications as Thermal Interface Materials. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2017, 4, 1700387.

Harini Hapuarachchi, Malin Premaratne, Qiaoliang Bao, Wenlong Cheng, Sarath D Gunapala, Govind P Agrawal. Cavity QED analysis of an exciton-plasmon hybrid molecule via the generalized nonlocal optical response method. Phys. Rev. B 2017, 95, 245419.

S Bhanushali, NN Jason, PC Ghosh, A Ganesh, GP Simon, Wenlong Cheng*. Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Copper Nanofluids: The Effect of Filler Geometry. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 18925-18935.

MD Ho, Y Ling, LW Yap, Y Wang, D Dong, Y Zhao, Wenlong Cheng*. Percolating Network of Ultrathin Gold Nanowires and Silver Nanowires toward “Invisible” Wearable Sensors for Detecting Emotional Expression and Apexcardiogram. Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 201700845.

LW Yap, H Chen, Y Gao, K Petkovic, Y Liang, KJ Si, H Wang, Z Tang, Yonggang Zhu, and Wenlong Cheng*. Bifunctional Plasmonic-Magnetic Particles for an Enhanced Microfluidic SERS Immunoassay. Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 7822.

Shu Gong, Wenlong Cheng*. One-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Soft Electronics. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2017, 3, 1600314 (invited review).

Charlene Ng, Lim Wei Yap, Ann Roberts, Wenlong Cheng, Daniel E Gómez. Black Gold: Broadband, High Absorption of Visible Light for Photochemical Systems. Advanced Functional Materials 2017, 27, 1604080.

Shahrouz Taranejoo, Mohsen Janmaleki, Mohammad Pachenari, Seyed Morteza Seyedpour, Ramya Chandrasekaran, Wenlong Cheng, Kerry Hourigan. Dual effect of F-actin targeted carrier combined with antimitotic drug on aggressive colorectal cancer cytoskeleton: Allying dissimilar cell cytoskeleton disrupting mechanisms. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 2016, 513, 464-472.
Shahrouz Taranejoo, Ramya Chandrasekaran, Wenlong Cheng, Kerry Hourigan. Bioreducible PEI-functionalized glycol chitosan: A novel gene vector with reduced cytotoxicity and improved transfection efficiency. Carbohydrate Polymers 2016, 153, 160-168.
Xunan Zhang, Wei Zong, Ying Hu, Nan Luo, Wenlong Cheng, Xiaojun Han. A pH-responsive asymmetric lipid vesicle as drug carrier. Journal of Microencapsulation 2016, 33, 663-668.
Wei Xiong, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Pengzhen Guo, Malin Premaratne, Xinyong Li, Wenlong Cheng*. Matryoshka-caged gold nanorods: Synthesis, plasmonic properties, and catalytic activity. Nano Research 2016, 9, 415-423.

Lim Wei Yap, Shu Gong, Yue Tang, Yonggang Zhu, Wenlong Cheng*. Soft piezoresistive pressure sensing matrix from copper nanowires composite aerogel. Science Bulletin 2016, 61, 1624-1630.

Ultra-sensitive photon sensor based on self-assembled nanoparticle plasmonic membrane resonator. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2016, 1058-1062.
Liyuan Guan, Nilghaz, A., Bin Su, Wenlong Cheng, Wei Shen. Stretchable-Fiber-Confined Wetting Conductive Liquids as Wearable Human Health Monitors. Advanced Functional Materials 2016, 26, 4511-4517.

Jason, N.N., Wang, S.J., Bhanushali, S., Wenlong Cheng* Skin inspired fractal strain sensors using a copper nanowire and graphite microflake hybrid conductive network. Nanoscale 2016, 8, 16596-16605.

Kae Jye Si, Yi Chen and Wenlong Cheng*. Plasmene Origami. Materials Today, 2016, 10.1016/j.mattod.2016.05.014.

Shu Gong, Yunmeng Zhao, Lim Wei Yap, Qianqian Shi, Yan Wang, Johanis Aryo P.B. Bay, Daniel T.H. Lai, Hemayet Uddin and Wenlong Cheng*. Fabrication of Highly Transparent and Flexible NanoMesh Electrode via Self-assembly of Ultrathin Gold Nanowires. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2016, Accepted.

Shu Gong, Yunmeng Zhao, Qianqian Shi, Yan Wang, Lim Wei Yap and Wenlong Cheng*. Self-assembled Ultrathin Gold Nanowires as Highly Transparent, Conductive and Stretchable Supercapacitor. Electroanalysis, 2016, 28, published online, 10.1002/elan.201600081 (invited).

Yan Wang, Shu Gong, Stephen Jia Wang, George P. Simon and Wenlong Cheng*. Volume-invariant ionic liquid microbands as highly durable wearable biomedical sensors. Mater. Horiz., 2016, 3, 208-213 (Cover Article).

Zheng Ma, Bin Su, Shu Gong, Yan Wang, Lim Wei Yap, George. P. Simon, and Wenlong Cheng*. Liquid-Wetting-Solid Strategy To Fabricate Stretchable Sensors for Human-Motion Detection. ACS Sens., 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00195.

Qianqian Shi, Kae Jye Si, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*. Two-Dimensional Bipyramid Plasmonic Nanoparticle Liquid Crystalline Superstructure with Four Distinct Orientational Packing Orders. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 967-976.

Ramya Chandrasekaran, Alexander Sheng, Wei Lee, Lim Wei Yap, David A. Jans, Kylie M. Wagstaff and Wenlong Cheng. Tumor cell-specific photothermal killing by SELEX-derived DNA aptamer-targeted gold nanorods. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 187-196.

Siyuan Rao, Kae Jye Si, Lim Wei Yap, Yan Xiang*, and Wenlong Cheng*. Free-Standing Bilayered Nanoparticle Superlattice Nanosheets with Asymmetric Ionic Transport Behaviors. ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 11218-11224.

Wei Xiong, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Pengzhen Guo, Malin Premaratne, Xinyong Li, and Wenlong Cheng*. Matryoshka caged gold nanorods: Synthesis, plasmonic property and catalytic activity. Nano Research, 2015, 9, 11218-11224.

Kae Jye Si, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Jeremy Kee Keong Foo, Pengzhen Guo, Qianqian Shi, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*. Dual-Coded Plasmene Nanosheets as Next Generation Anti-Counterfeit Security Labels. Advanced Optical Materials, 2015, 3, 1710-1717.

Shu Gong, Daniel Lai, Yan Wang, Lim Wei Yap, Kae Jye Si, Qianqian Shi, Naveen N. Jason, Tam Sridhar, Hemayet Uddin, and Wenlong Cheng*. Tatoo-like Polyaniline Microparticle-Doped Gold Nanowire Patches as Highly Durable Wearable Sensors. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 19700-19708.

Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng*. Key parameters governing metallic nanoparticle electrocatalysis. Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 16151-16164.

Amarin G. McDonnell, Naveen N. Jason, Leslie Y. Yeo, James R. Friend, Wenlong Cheng and Ranganathan Prabhakar*. Extensional viscosity of copper nanowire suspensions in an aqueous polymer solution. Soft Matter, 2015,11, 8076-8082.

Wenjuan Yang, Jingxiong Lu, Elliot Paul Gilbert, Robert Knott, Lizhong He*, and Wenlong Cheng*. Probing Soft Corona Structures of DNA-Capped Nanoparticles by Small Angle Neutron Scattering. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 18773–18778.

Naveen Noah Jason, Wei Shen, and Wenlong Cheng*, Copper Nanowires as Conductive Ink for Low-Cost Draw-On Electronics. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 16760–16766.

Kae Jye Si, Pengzhen Guo, Qianqian Shi, and Wenlong Cheng*, Self-assembled Nanocube-based Plasmene Nanosheets as Soft SERS Substrates towards Direct Quantitative Drug Identification on Surfaces. Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87, 5263-5269.

Romiza R. Mazid, R. Vijayaraghavan, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Christina Cortez-Jugob and Wenlong Cheng*, Inhibited fragmentation of mAbs in buffered ionic liquids. Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 8089-8092.

Shu Gong, Daniel T.H. Lai, Bin Su, Kae Jye Si, Zheng Ma, Lim Wei Yap, Pengzhen Guo, and Wenlong Cheng*, Highly Stretchy Black Gold E-Skin Nanopatchs as Highly Sensitive Wearable Biomedical Sensors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201400063.

Debabrata Sikdar*, Wenlong Cheng and Malin Premaratne, Optically resonant magneto-electric cubic nanoantennas for ultra-directional light scattering. J. Appl. Phys. 2015, 117, 083101.

Yi Chen, Kae Jye Si, Debabrata Sikdar, Yue Tang, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*, Ultrathin Plasmene Nanosheets as Soft and Surface-Attachable SERS Substrates With High Signal Uniformity. Advanced Optical Materials, 2015, 3, 919-924.

Wei Xiong, Debabrata Sikdar, Lim Wei Yap, Malin Premaratne, Xinyong Li, and Wenlong Cheng*, Multilayered Core–satellite Nanoassemblies with Finely-Tunable Broadband Plasmon Resonances. Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 3445-3452.

Pengzhen Guo, Debabrata Sikdar, Xiqiang Huang, Kae Jye Si, Wei Xiong, Shu Gong, Lim Wei Yap, Malin Premaratne, Wenlong Cheng*, Plasmonic core–shell nanoparticles for SERS detection of the pesticide thiram: size- and shape-dependent Raman enhancement. Nanoscale, 2015, 5, 2862.

Bin Su*, Shu Gong, Zheng Ma, Lim Wei Yap, and Wenlong Cheng*, Mimosa-inspired design of flexible pressure sensor with touch sensitivity. Small, 2015, 11, 1886-1891 (Frontpiece Cover Article).

Kae Jye Si, Debabrata Sikdar, Yi Chen, Zaiquan Xu, Yue Tang, Wei Xiong, Pengzhen Guo, Shuang Zhang, Yuerui Lu, Qiaoliang Bao, Weiren Zhu, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*, Giant Plasmene Nanosheets, Nanoribbons, and Origami. ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 11086–11093.

Pengzhen Guo, Debabrata Sikdar, Xiqiang Huang, Kae Jye Si, Bin Su, Yi Chen, Wei Xiong, Lim Wei Yap, Malin Premaratne, Wenlong Cheng*, Large-Scale Self-assembly and Stretch-induced Plasmonic Properties of Core–Shell Metal Nanoparticle Superlattice Sheets. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014, 118, 26816.

Sushrut Bhanushali, Prakash Ghosh, Anuradda Ganesh, Wenlong Cheng*, One-Dimensional Copper nanostructures: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities. Small, 2015, 11, 1232-1252.

Wei Xiong, Romiza Mazid, Lim Wei Yap, Xinyong Li and Wenlong Cheng*, Plasmonic caged gold nanorods for near-infrared light controlled drug delivery. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 14388-14393.

Romiza R. Mazid, Upulie Divisekera, Wenjuan Yang, Vijayaraghavan Ranganathan, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Christina Cortez-Jugo and Wenlong Cheng*, Biological stability and activity of siRNA in ionic liquids. Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 13457-13460.

Yue Tang, Shu Gong, Yi Chen, Lim Wei Yap, and Wenlong Cheng*, Manufacturable Conducting Rubber Ambers and Stretchable Conductors from Copper Nanowire Aerogel Monoliths. ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 5707-5714.
Shu Gong, Willem Schwalb, Yongwei Wang, Yi Chen, Yue Tang, Jye Si, Bijan Shirinzadeh and Wenlong Cheng*, A wearable and highly sensitive pressure sensor with ultrathin gold nanowires. Nature Communications, 2014, 5, 3132.
Romiza R. Mazid, Kae Jye Si, Wenlong Cheng, DNA based strategy to nanoparticle superlattices. Methods, 2014, 67, 215-226 (invited review).

Shouyi Xie, Yi Chen, Zi Ouyang, Baohua Jia, Wenlong Cheng, and Min Gu. Transparent gold nano-membranes for the enhanced light trapping of the indium tin oxide films. Optical Materials Express, 2014, 4, 321-328.
Debabrata Sikdar, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Wenlong Cheng, Malin Premaratne. Tunable Broadband Optical Responses of Substrate-Supported Metal/Dielectric/Metal Nanospheres. Plasmonics, 2014, DOI 10.1007/s11468-014-9681-8.
Wei Xiong, Debabrata Sikdar, Michael Walsh, Kae Jye Si, Yue Tang, Yi Chen, Romiza Mazid, Matthew Weyland, Ivan Rukhlenko, Joanne Etheridge, Malin Premaratne, Xinyong Li and Wenlong Cheng*, Single-crystal caged gold nanorods with tunable broadband plasmon resonances. Chemical Communications. 2013, 49, 9630-9632.
Debabrata Sikdar, Ivan D. Rukhlenko*, Wenlong Cheng, and Malin Premaratne, Unveiling ultrasharp scattering–switching signatures of layered gold–dielectric–gold nanospheres. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 2013, 30, 2066-2074.
Bin Su, Yuchen Wu, Yue Tang, Yi Chen, Wenlong Cheng,* and Lei Jiang, Free-Standing 1D Assemblies of Plasmonic Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials 2013, 25, 3968-3972.

Yue Tang, Kai Leng Yeo, Yi Chen, Lim Wei Yap, Wei Xiong and Wenlong Cheng*, Ultralow-density copper nanowire aerogel monoliths with tunable mechanical and electrical properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2013, 1, 6723-6726.

Debabrata Sikdar, Ivan D Rukhlenko*, Wenlong Cheng, Malin Premaratne, Optimized gold nanoshell ensembles for biomedical applications. Nanoscale Research Letters 2013, 8, 142.
Yue Tang, and Wenlong Cheng*, Nanoparticle-Modified Electrode with Size- and Shape-Dependent Electrocatalytic Activities. Langmuir 2013, 29, 3125-3132.
Yue Tang, Khee Chaw Ng, Yi Chen, Wenlong Cheng*, Lightweight, flexible, nanorod electrode with high electrocatalytic activity. Electrochemistry Communications 2013, 27, 120-123.
Debabrata Sikdar, Ivan D. Rukhlenko*, Wenlong Cheng, and Malin Premaratne, Effect of number density on optimal design of gold nanoshells for plasmonic photothermal therapy. Biomedical Optics Express 2013, 4, 15-31.

Yi Chen, Zi Ouyang, Min Gu and Wenlong Cheng*, Mechanically Strong, Optically Transparent, Giant Metal Superlattice Nanomembranes From Ultrathin Gold Nanowires. Advanced Materials 2013, 25, 80-85.
Yi Chen and Wenlong Cheng*, DNA-based plasmonic nanoarchitectures: from structural design to emerging applications. Wires Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology 2012, 4, 587-604.
Khee Chaw Ng and Wenlong Cheng*, Fine-tuning longitudinal plasmon resonances of nanorods by thermal reshaping in aqueous media. Nanotechnology 2012, 23, 105602.

Khee Chaw Ng, Indika B. Udagedara, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Yi Chen, Yue Tang, Malin Premaratne, and Wenlong Cheng*, Free-Standing Plasmonic-Nanorod Superlattice Sheets. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 925-934.

Yi Chen, Jing Fu, Khee Chaw Ng, Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng*, Free-standing Polymer-Nanoparticle Superlattice Sheets Self-Assembled at the Air-Liquid Interface. Crystal Growth & Design 2011, 11, 4742–4746.

Yi Chen, Khee Chaw Ng, Wenyi Yan, Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng*, Ultraflexible plasmonic nanocomposite aerogel. RSC Advances 2011, 1, 1265-1270.

Michael J. Campolongo, Shawn J. Tan, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Mervin Zhao, Yi Chen, Iva Xhangolli, Wenlong Cheng*, and Dan Luo* Crystalline Gibbs Monolayers of DNA-Capped Nanoparticles at the Air–Liquid Interface. ACS Nano 2011, 5, 7978–7985.

Shawn, J. Tan, Michael J. Campolongo, Dan Luo and Wenlong Cheng*, Building Plasmonic Nanostructures with DNA. Nature Nanotechnology 2011, 6, 268-276.

Michael J. Campolongo, Jason S. Kahn, Wenlong Cheng, Dayong Yang, Tiffany Gupton-Campolongo and Dan Luo, Adaptive DNA-based materials for switching, sensing, and logic devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011, 21, 6113-6121.

Rong Long, Chung-Yuen Hui1, Wenlong Cheng, Michael J Campolongo and Dan Luo, Size Effect on Failure of Pre-stretched Free-Standing Nanomembranes. Nanoscale Research Letters, 2010, 5, 1236-1239.

2002-2010 (Before Joining Monash University)

Wenlong Cheng, Mark R. Hartman, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Rong Long, Michael J. Campolongo, Ruipeng Li, Karthik Sekar, Chung-Yuen Hui, and Dan Luo, Probing in Real-Time the Soft Crystallization of DNA-Capped Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 380-384.

Wenlong Cheng, Michael J. Campolongo, Shawn J. Tan, and Dan Luo, Freestanding Ultrathin Nano-membranes via Self-assembly. Nano Today 2009, 4, 482-493.

Wenlong Cheng, Michael J. Campolongo, Judy J. Cha, Shawn J. Tan, Christopher C. Umbach, David A. Muller, and Dan Luo, Free-Standing Nanoparticle Superlattice Sheets Controlled by DNA. Nature Materials, 2009, 8, 519-525 (Full Article paper). In the news: cornell chronicle, physorg, azom, nanotechnology now, bionity, chemie, nextbigfuture, nanotechwire.

Jong Lee, Young Roh, Soong Um, Hisakage Funabashi, Wenlong Cheng, Judy Cha, David Muller, and Dan Luo, Multifunctional Nano-architectures from DNAbased ABC Monomers. Nature Nanotechnology, 2009, 4, 430-436.

Wenlong Cheng, Nokyoung, Park, Todd, M. Walter, Mark and Dan Luo, Nanopatterning Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Superlattices by Moulding Microdroplets. Nature Nanotechnology, 2008, 3, 682-690 (Cover Article). In the news: cornell chronicle, physorg, sciencedaily, upi, nanowerk, materialsgate, sciencecentric, iconocast, azonano, nanotechwire, reported in materialstoday as research news (materialstoday, 2008, 11, 15)

Wenlong Cheng, Martin Steinhart, Ulrich Goesele, and Ralf B. Wehrsohn, Tree-like alumina nanopores generated in a non-steady-state anodization. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2007, 17, 3493-3495.

Aiguo Wu, Wenlong Cheng, Zhuang Li, Junguang Jiang, Erkang Wang, Electrostatic-assembly metallized nanoparticles network by DNA template. Talanta, 2006, 68, 693-699.
Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Spontaneous Fractal Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles and Controlled Generation of Aggregate-Based Fractal Networks at Air/Water Interface. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 19213–19218.
Xiaoge Hu, Wenlong Cheng, Tie Wang, Yuling Wang, Erkang Wang and Shaojun Dong, Fabrication, Characterization, and Application in SERS of Self-Assembled Polyelectrolyte-Gold Nanorod Multilayered Films J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 19385-19389.
Xiaoge Hu, Wenlong Cheng, Tie Wang, Erkang Wang and Shaojun Dong, Well-ordered end-to-end linkage of gold nanorods. Nanotechnology 2005, 16, 2164-2169.
Minghua Huang, Yan Shen, Wenlong Cheng, Yong Shao, Xuping Sun, Baifeng Liu, Shaojun Dong, Nanocomposite films containing Au nanoparticles formed by electrochemical reduction of metal ions in the multilayer films as electrocatalyst for dioxygen reduction. ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA, 2005, 535, 15-22.
Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong and Erkang Wang, 2D and 3D Self-Assembled Au-Nanoparticle/CoTMPyP Nanostructured Materials: Film Structure, Tunable Electrocatalytic Activity and Plasmonic Properties. J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 19146-19154.
Rongbo Zheng, Wenlong Cheng, Erkang Wang, Shaojun Dong, Synthesis of tellurium nanorods via spontaneous oxidation of NaHTe at room temperature. Chemical Physics Letters 2004, 395, 302-305.
Wenlong Cheng and Erkang Wang, Size-dependent phase transfer of gold nanoparticles from water into toluene by tetraoctylammonium cations: A wholly electrostatic interaction. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 109, 24-26.
Xiaoge Hu, Tie Wang, Wenlong Cheng, Erkang Wang, Shaojun Dong, Synthesis and assembly of metal nanowires. Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2004, 32, 9, 1240-1245.
Wenlong Cheng, Xiaojun Han, Erkang Wang, Shaojun Dong, Interdigited phospholipid/alkanethiol bilayers assembled on APTMS-supported gold colloid electrodes. Electroanalysis, 2004, 16, 127-131.
Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong and Erkang Wang. Synthesis and self-assembly of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-capped gold nanoparticles. Langmuir, 2003, 19, 9434-9439.
Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Iodine-Induced Gold Nanoparticle Fusion/Fragmentation/Aggregation and Iodine-Linked Nanostructured Assemblies on a Glass Substrate. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 449-452.

Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Site-Selective Self-Assembly of MPA-Bridged CuHCF Multilayers on APTMS-Supported Gold Colloid Electrodes. Chem. Mater., 2003, 15, 2495-2501.

Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Gold nanoparticles as fine tuners of electrochemical properties of the electrode/solution interface. Langmuir, 2002, 18, 9947-9952.

Wenlong Cheng, Xiaojun Han, Zhangquan Peng, Shaojun Dong, Erkang Wang, Investigation of electrochemical charging behaviors of "naked" gold nanoparticles ensembles in aqueous media. Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2002, 20, 1031-1037.

Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Colloid Chemical Approach to Nanoelectrode Ensembles with Highly Controllable Active Area Fraction. Anal. Chem., 2002, 74, 3599-3604.

Wenlong Cheng, Junguang Jiang, Shaojun Dong and Erkang Wang, Alternate Assemblies of Thionine and Au-nanoparticles on an Amino Functionalized Surface Chem. Commun., 2002, 1706-1707.

Wenlong Cheng, Shaojun Dong, and Erkang Wang, Studies of Electrochemical Quantized Capacitance Charging of Surface Ensembles of Silver Nanoparticles Electrochem. Commun., 2002, 4, 412-416.

Xiaojun Han, Wenlong Cheng, Zheling, Zhang, Shaojun Dong and Erkang Wang, Direct Electron Transfer Between Hemoglobin and a Glassy Carbon Electrode Facilitated by Lipid-protected Gold Nanoparticles Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2002, 1556, 273-277.

Book Chapters

Properties and Applications of Plasmene Nanosheet. Qianqian Shi, Dashen Dong, Kae Jye Si, and Wenlong Cheng*, in Reviews In Plasmonics (Handbook Series), Editor Chris D Gedds, Springer, 2016, ISBN: 9783319480800.

Properties of DNA-capped Nanoparticles, Wenjuan Yang, Yi Chen, and Wenlong Cheng, in Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties, 2014, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-31106-2.

Inorganic Nanoparticle Modified Surfaces for Electrochemical and Biosensing Applications, Shaojun Dong and Wenlong Cheng, in Handbook of Electrochemical Nanotechnology, ISBN-10: 158883039X.

Nucleic Acid Engineering, Wenlong Cheng, Liang Ding, Hisakage Funabashi, Nokyoung Park, Soong Ho Um, Jianfeng Xu, Dan Luo, in System Biology and Synthetic Biology, ISBN-10: 0471767786.

Bio-Mediated Assembly of Ordered Nanoparticle Superstructures, Wenlong Cheng, Shawn J Tan, Michael J Campolongo, Mark R Hartman, Jason S Kahn, and Dan Luo, in Handbook of Nanofabrication, Gary Wiederrecht eds. ISBN-10: 0123751764.

Patents

Dan Luo and Wenlong Cheng, Self-assembly of Nanoparticles Through Nucleic Acid Engineering (WO/2009/143157).

Dan Luo and Wenlong Cheng, Apparatus and Method for Forming Self-Assembly Arrays (US/12/888,146).