Peer-Reviewed Papers

(First- & Co-first-authored*)

  1. Xu Wang, Marc Behl, ‪Andreas Lendlein, Maria Balk.

"Responses to single and multiple temperature-, medium-, and pH-stimuli triggering reversible shape shifts in hydrogel actuators"

Materials & Design, 2022 [Link]

2. Xu Wang* , Guoyong Mao* , Jin Ge, Michael Drack, Gilbert Bermúdez, Daniela Wirthl, Rico Illing, Tobias Kosub, Lothar Bischoff, Changan Wang, Jürgen Fassbender, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Denys Makarov.

"Untethered and ultrafast soft-bodied robots".

Communications Materials, 2020, 1, 67. [Link] [Blog Link]

Highlight in Nature Reviews Materials [Link]

Nature Asia [Link]

APA [Link]

NRC Handelsblad [Link]

The National [Link]

Tech Xplore [Link]

Chemical & Engineering News [Link]

3. Xu Wang, Larysa Baraban, Anh Nguyen, Jin Ge, Vyacheslav R Misko, Jacques Tempere, Franco Nori, Petr Formanek, Tao Huang, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Jürgen Fassbender, Denys Makarov.

"High‐motility visible light‐driven Ag/AgCl Janus micromotors".

Small, 2018, 1803613. (Inside Front Cover) [Link] [PDF]

4. Xu Wang, Larysa Baraban, Vyacheslav R Misko, Franco Nori, Tao Huang, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Jürgen Fassbender, Denys Makarov.

"Visible light actuated efficient exclusion between plasmonic Ag/AgCl micromotors and passive beads".

Small, 2018, 14, 1802537. (Frontispiece) [Link] [PDF]

5. Xu Wang, Varun Sridhar, Surong Guo, Nahid Talebi, Albert Miguel‐López, Kersten Hahn, Peter A van Aken, Samuel Sánchez.

"Fuel‐free nanocap‐like motors actuated under visible light".

Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 1705862. [Link] [PDF]

6. Jin Ge*, Xu Wang*, Hong-Bin Yao, Hong-Wu Zhu, Yu-Can Peng, Shu-Hong Yu.

"Durable Ag/AgCl nanowires assembled in a sponge for continuous water purification under sunlight".

Materials Horizons, 2015, 2, 509. *Co-first-authored [Link] [PDF]