Xiaogang Liu

TL;DR: A new dip-pen nanolithography (DPN)-based method for the direct patterning of organic/inorganic composite nanostructures on silicon and oxidized silicon substrates is described, opening up the opportunity for using DPN to deposit solid-state materials rather than simple organic molecules onto surfaces with the resolution of an AFM without the need for a driving force other than chemisorption.

TL;DR: 3D optical manipulation of a thermal-sensing upconverting particle allows for the determination of the extension of the thermal gradient created in the surroundings of a plasmonic-mediated photothermal-treated HeLa cancer cell.

TL;DR: A facile and cost-efficient strategy is developed to scalably fabricate binary metal oxides with complex hollow interior structures and tunable compositions for progressive lithium-ion batteries.

TL;DR: The fluorescence intensity of N,N-dimethyl-4-((2-methylquinolin-6-yl)ethynyl)aniline exhibits an unusual intensification with increasing temperature, by activating more vibrational bands and leading to stronger TICT emissions upon heating in dimethyl sulfoxide.

TL;DR: Based on a comprehensive comparison of various representative exchange-correlation functionals and solvent formalisms, a reliable and generalizable computational approach is established for modeling TICT formations of popular organic fluorophores with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT).