Publications – Tianbo Liu's Lab at The University of Akron

214. Xinyu Sun, Hui Li, Abdol Hadi Mokarizadeh, Xiaohan Xu, Tong Liu, Jiancheng Luo, Yuqing Yang, Shuailin Zhang, Fangbei Liu, Mesfin Tsige*, Stephen Z.D. Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Sensing the Small Change of Intermolecular Distance in Supramolecular Assembly by Using the Tunable Emission Wavelength of AIE‐Active Luminogens”, Small, 2024, in press.

213. Kexing Xiao, Yifan Zhou, Xiaohan Xu, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski, Yuqing Yang, Bahareh Afsari, Peter C. Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “A Two-Step Intermolecular Interaction Of Molecular Macroions With Multivalent Counterions”, Chem. Eur. J. 2024, in press.

212. Yifan Zhou, Jingfan Wei, Xiangqian Li, Patryk Wąsik, Hao Liu* and Tianbo Liu*, “Complex Phase Transitions of Fully Rigid Sphere–Rod Amphiphiles Induced by Solvent Polarity in Dilute Solutions”, ACS Appl. Mat. Interf. 2024, 16, 51512 – 51520.

211. Kexing Xiao, Yuqing Yang, Xiaohan Xu, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Yifan Zhou, Ginger E Sigmon, Peter C Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Coacervate Formation in Dilute Aqueous Solutions of Inorganic Molecular Clusters with Simple Divalent Countercations”, Inorg. Chem. (Achim Müller Issue) 2024, 63, 15331 – 15339.

210. Xiaohan Xu, Yuqing Yang, Yifan Zhou, Kexing Xiao, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Ginger E Sigmon, Peter C Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Critical Conditions Regulating the Gelation in Macroionic Cluster Solutions”, Advanced Sci. 2024, 2308902.

209. Xiaohan Xu, Jiayingzi Wu, Zhiwei Lin, Abdol Hadi Mokarizadeh, Xing-han Li, Mesfin Tsige*, Stephen Z.D. Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Assembly of Dumbbell-and Bola-Shaped Amphiphiles: Vesicles with Condensed Hydrophobic Domains or Blackberry-type Structures with Porous Surfaces?”, Macromolecules 2024, 57, 3, 955–962.

208. Aderinsola Oduntan, Jingfan Wei, Jiayang Ma, Anthony Walsh, Toshikazu Miyoshi, Tianbo Liu and Steven S.C. Chuang*, “Remarkable Selectivity of Polyvinyl Alcohol Oxidation: An Insight from Ambient Air Plasma in the Presence and Absence of TiO₂”, Appl. Catal. 2024, 192, 206921.

207. Zhi-Da Wang, Song Liang, Yuqing Yang, Zhen-Ning Liu, Xiao-Zheng Duan*, Tianbo Liu* and Hong-Ying Zang*, “Complex phase transitions and phase engineering in the aqueous solution of an isopolyoxometalate cluster”, Nature Comm. 2023, 14 (1), 2767.

206. Yifan Zhou, Jiancheng Luo, Tong Liu, Tao Wen, Kayla Williams‐Pavlantos, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Stephen Z.D. Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Molecular Geometry‐Directed Self‐Recognition in the Self-Assembly of Giant Amphiphiles”, Macromol. Rapid Comm. (University of Akron Special Issue) 2023, 44 (1), 2200216.

205. Tianbo Liu, Kevin Cavicchi, Yiwen Li, Panchao Yin, “Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Akron”, Macromol. Rapid Comm. 2023, 44 (1), 2200793.

204. Ehsan Raee, Xinyu Sun, Yuqing Yang, Xiaohan Xu, Yifan Zhou, and Tianbo Liu*, “Electrostatic Interaction Regulated Self-assembly of Simple Inorganic Macroions into Blackberry Structures and Their Possible Role as Compartment Systems in the Origin of Life”, Giant 2022, 12, 100125.

203. Haiying Wang, Xiaohan Xu, Dongdi Zhang,* Jingyang Niu* and Tianbo Liu*, “The rare-earth derivant of mixed-polyoxoniobates cluster with high proton release capacity”, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2022, 9 (24), 6596-6601.

202. Zhuonan Liu, Kun Qian, Tianbo Liu and Mesfin Tsige*, “Recent Advancements in Understanding the Self-assembly of Macroions in Solution via Molecular Modeling”, Chem. Comm. (featured article), 2022, 58 (87), 12151-12159.

201. Ehsan Raee, Bingqing Liu, Yuqing Yang, Trishool Namani, Nita Sahai, Xiaopeng Li*, and Tianbo Liu*, “Chiral Discrimination Among Hydro-phobic Amino-Acids during the Self-assembly of Chiral Amino Acid-based Metal-Organic Cages”, Nano Lett. 2022, 22 (11), 4421-4428.

200. Yuqing Yang, Ehsan Raee, Yifan Zhou and Tianbo Liu*, “The Role of Electrostatic Interaction in the Self-assembly of Macroions”, in “Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Electrostatic Interactions”, Antonio Frontera and Mohammad Ali Aboudzadeh Ed.,Springer Nature 2022, 55 – 84, .

199. Xiaohan Xu, Yuqing Yang, Tianbo Liu* and Benjamin Chu*, Cost-effective Polymer-based Membranes for Drinking Water Purification, Giant 2022, 100099.

198. Yuqing Yang, Ehasn Raee, and Tianbo Liu*, “Abnormal Association between Metal-organic cages and counterions regulated by the Hydration Shells”, Chem.-Eur. J. 2022, 28 (10), e202104332.

197. Jiahui Chen and Tianbo Liu*, “Polyoxometalate Macroions in Solution” in “Polyoxometalates: Advances, Properties, and Applications”, Juan M. Gutierrez-Zorrilla, José Luis Vilas-Vilela, Leire Ruiz Rubio and Beñat Artetxe Ed., Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd., 2022, 57 – 98.

196. Yimin Mao*, Tianbo Liu* and Benjamin Chu, “Scattering from Polymer Systems” in Macromolecular Engineering: From Precise Synthesis to Macroscopic Materials and Applications, 2022, Second Edition. Ed. by Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Yves Gnanou, Nikos Hadjichristidis and Murugappan Muthukumar, WILEY-VCH GmbH.

195. Yuqing Yang, Yifan Zhou, Jiahui Chen, Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber, Travis Smith, Bowen Zheng, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Peter C Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Standalone 2-D Nanosheets and the Consequent Hydrogel and Coacervate Phases Formed by 2.5 nm Spherical U₆₀ Molecular Clusters in Dilute Aqueous Solution”, Phys Chem. B 2021, 125 (44), 12392-12397.

194. Jiahui Chen, Mrinal K Bera*, Hui Li, Yuqing Yang, Xinyu Sun, Jiancheng Luo, Jessi Baughman, Cheng Liu, Xuesi Yao, Steven SC Chuang and Tianbo Liu*, “Accurate Determination of the Quantity and Spatial Distribution of Counterions around a Spherical Macroion”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 133, 5897 – 5901.

193. Xinyu Sun, Xueyan Feng, Xiao-Yun Yan, Jiancheng Luo, Ruimeng Zhang, Tao Li, Hui Li, Jiahui Chen, Fangbei Liu, Ehsan Raee, Stephen ZD Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Screw dislocation-induced pyramidal crystallization of dendron-like macromolecules featuring asymmetric geometry”, Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 12130 – 12137.

192. Ehsan Raee, Yuqing Yang and Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Structures based on Metal-Organic Cages”, Giant 2021, 100050.

191. Yuqing Yang, Pavel Rehak, Ting-Zheng Xie, Yi Feng, Xinyu Sun, Jiahui Chen, Hui Li, Petr Král* and Tianbo Liu*, “Nanosheets and Hydrogels Formed by 2 nm Metal–Organic Cages with Electrostatic Interaction”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2020, 12 (50), 56310-56318.

190. Bo Qi, Sai An, Jiancheng Luo, Tianbo Liu and Yu‐Fei Song*, “Enhanced Macroanion Recognition of Superchaotropic Keggin Clusters Achieved by Synergy of Anion–π and Anion–Cation Interactions”, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26 (70), 16802-16810.

189. Jiahui Chen, Yachun Ma, Dongdi Zhang, Yuqing Yang, Mrinal K Bera, Jiancheng Luo, Ehsan Raee and Tianbo Liu*, “Ion-pairs of structurally related polyoxotantalate clusters and divalent metal cations” (En-Bo Wang Issue), J. Coord. Chem. (Enbo Wang Issue) 2020, 73, 2579 – 2589.

188. Yiwei Dai, Jiancheng Luo, Tianbo Liu and Li Jia*, “Dual-site catalysis for sustainable polymers to replace current commodity polymers–carbonylative copolymerization of ethylene, ethylene oxide, and tetrahydrofuran”, Chem. Comm. 2020, 56 (97), 15341-15344.

187. Dongdi Zhang, Hui Li, Chen Li, Zehao Wang, Tao Li, Nan Li, Mengyuan Cheng, Jingping Wang, Jingyang Niu* and Tianbo Liu*, “A large molecular cluster with high proton release capacity”, Chem. Comm. 2020, 56 (84), 12849-12852.

186. Ehsan Raee, Hui Li, Xinyu Sun, Putu Ustriyana, Jiancheng Luo, Jiahui Chen, Nita Sahai and Tianbo Liu*, “Strong Enantiomeric Preference on the Macroion–Counterion Interaction Induced by Weakly Associated Chiral Counterions”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124 (44), 9958-9966.

185. Jiahui Chen, Jiancheng Luo, Selemon Bekele, Mesfin Tsige and Tianbo Liu*, “Rational Control of Self‐Recognition of Macroionic γ‐Cyclodextrin by Host‐Guest Interaction with Super‐Chaotropic Borate Cluster Ions”, ChemPlusChem 2020, 85 (10), 2316-2319.

184. Eduard Garrido Ribó, Nicola L Bell, Weimin Xuan, Jiancheng Luo, De-Liang Long, Tianbo Liu and Leroy Cronin*, “Synthesis, Assembly, and Sizing of Neutral, Lanthanide Substituted Molybdenum Blue Wheels {Mo₉₀Ln₁₀}”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 (41), 17508-17514.

183. Jiahui Chen, Kun Qian, Kexing Xiao, Jiancheng Luo, Hui Li, Tian Ma, Ulrich Kortz, Mesfin Tsige and Tianbo Liu*, “Co-ion Effects in the Self-Assembly of Macroions: From Co-ions to Co-macroions and to the Unique Feature of Self-Recognition”, Langmuir 2020, 36 (35), 10519-10527.

182. Jiancheng Luo, Xinyu Sun, Jia-Fu Yin, Panchao Yin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Nanostructures Constructed from Cluster-based Hybrid Macromolecules”, Giant 2020, 100013.

181. Putu Ustriyana, F. Marc Michel, Michael C. Wilson, Emma Harmon, Jiahui Chen, Tianbo Liu and Nita Sahai*, “Oligo(l-glutamic acids) in Calcium Phosphate Precipitation: Mechanism of Delayed Phase Transformation”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124 (29), 6288-6298.

180. Jiancheng Luo, Songtao Ye, Putu Ustriyana, Benqian Wei, Jiahui Chen, Ehsan Raee, Yinghe Hu, Yuqing Yang, Yifan Zhou, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Nita Sahai and Tianbo Liu*, “Unraveling Chiral Selection in the Self-assembly of Chiral Fullerene Macroions: Effects of Small Chiral Components Including Counterions, Co-ions, or Neutral Molecules”, Langmuir 2020, 36 (17), 4702 – 4710.

179. Dongdi Zhang, Jiancheng Luo, Yachun Ma, Tong Zhang, Nan Li, Chen Li, Pengtao Ma, Tao Li, Guan Wang, Tianbo Liu*, Jingping Wang and Jingyang Niu*, “Unraveling the Effects of Cobalt on Crystal Growth and Solution Behavior of Nb6P2W12-based Dimeric Clusters”, Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59 (10), 6747-6754.

178. Xiao-Yun Yan, Zhiwei Lin, Wei Zhang, Hui Xu, Qing-Yun Guo, Yuchu Liu, Jiancheng Luo, Xian-You Liu, Rongchun Zhang, Jiahao Huang, Tong Liu, Zebin Su, Ruimeng Zhang, Shuailin Zhang, Tianbo Liu and Stephen Z.D. Cheng*, “Magnifying the Structural Components of Biomembranes: A Prototype for the Study of the Self-Assembly of Giant Lipids”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59 (13), 5226-5234.

177. Jiancheng Luo, Tong Liu, Kun Qian, Benqian Wei, Yinghe Hu, Min Gao, Xinyu Sun, Zhiwei Lin, Jiahui Chen, Mrinal K Bera, Yuhang Chen, Ruimeng Zhang, Jialin Mao, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Mesfin Tsige, Stephen Z.D. Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Continuous Curvature Change into Controllable and Responsive Onion-like Vesicles by Rigid Sphere–Rod Amphiphiles”, ACS Nano 2020, 14, 1811 – 1822.

176. Zhong Zhang, Yi-Wei Liu, Hong-Rui Tian, Xiao-Hui Li, Shu-Mei Liu, Ying Lu, Zhi-Xia Sun, Tianbo Liu* and Shu-Xia Liu*, “Polyoxometalate-Based Metal-Organic Framework Fractal Crystals”, Matter 2020, 2, 250 – 260.

175. Hui Li, Yidan Shen, Peng Yang, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, Jiahui Chen, Yunyi Gao, Peter C. Burns, Ulrich Kortz, and Tianbo Liu*, “Solvent Isotope and Hydrogen Bond Effects on the Self-assembly Process of Macroions in Dilute Solution”, Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 16288 – 16293.

174. Yunyi Gao, Jiahui Chen, Tong Zhang, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Peter C Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Inhomogeneous Distribution of Cationic Surfactants around Anionic Molecular Clusters”, Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 15741 – 15745.

173. Benxin Jing, Manuela Ferreira, Yunyi Gao, Christopher Wood, Ruipeng Li, Masafumi Fukuto, Tianbo Liu, and Yingxi Zhu*, “Unconventional Complex Coacervation between Neutral Polymer and Inorganic Polyoxometalate in Aqueous Solution via Direct Water Mediation”, Macromolecules 2019, 52, 8275 – 8284.

172. Hui, Li, Ting-Zheng Xie, Zihao Liang, Yidan Shen, Xinyu Sun, Yuqing Yang and Tianbo Liu*, “Adjusting Emission Wavelength by Tuning the Intermolecular Distance in Charge-Regulated Supramolecular Assemblies”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123(37), 23280-23286.

171. Jiancheng Luo and Tianbo Liu*, “Competition and Cooperation among Different Attractive Forces in Solutions of Inorganic–Organic Hybrids Containing Macroionic Clusters”, Langmuir (Invited Feature Article), 2019, 35(24), 7603 – 7616.

170. Ruifu Wang, Tomas Rosen, Chengbo Zhan, Shirish Chodankar, Jiahui Chen, Priyanka R Sharma, Sunil K Sharma, Tianbo Liu and Benjamin S Hsiao*, “Morphology and Flow Behavior of Cellulose Nanofibers Dispersed in Glycols”, Macromolecules 2019, 52(15), 5499 – 5509.

169. Tianbo Liu, “Comment on ‘Photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide coupled with water oxidation using various soft-oxometalate based catalytic systems’ (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 8875–8887)”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2019, 7, 23234 – 23240.

168. Jiancheng Luo, Songtao Ye, Tao Li, Erik Sarnello, Hui Li and Tianbo Liu*, “Distinctive Trend of Metal Binding Affinity via Hydration Shell Breakage in Nanoconfined Cavity”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123(23), 14825-14833.

167. Hui Li, Ruifu Wang, You-lee Hong, Zihao Liang, Yidan Shen, Yusuke Nishiyama, Toshikazu Miyoshi and Tianbo Liu*, “Tuning the Inter‐Cage Distance in Charge‐Regulated Blackberry‐Type Assemblies via Host‐Guest Chemistry”, Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25 (22), 5803-5808.

166. Wei Zhang, Wenpeng Shan, Shuailin Zhang, Yuchu Liu, Hao Su, Jiancheng Luo, Yanfeng Xia, Tao Li, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Tianbo Liu*, Honggang Cui, Yiwen Li* and Stephen ZD Cheng*, “Sequence isomeric giant surfactants with distinct self-assembly behaviors in solution”, Chem. Comm. 2019, 55, 5, 636-639.

165. Hui Li, Ting-Zheng Xie, Zihao Liang, Dipendra Dahal, Yidan Shen, Xinyu Sun, Yuqing Yang, Yi Pang and Tianbo Liu*, “Conformational change due to intramolecular hydrophobic interaction leads to large blue-shifted emission from single molecular cage solutions”, Chem. Comm. 2019, 55, 3, 330-333.

164. Jiancheng Luo, Baofang Zhang, Carine Yvon, Marie Hutin, Selim Gerislioglu, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Leroy Cronin,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Assembly of Hydrophilic Polyoxometalate-Peptide Hybrids Regulated by Electrostatic Interaction and Hydrogen Bonding”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019 (3-4), 380-386.

163. Zhuonan Liu, Tianbo Liu* and Mesfin Tsige*, “Unique Symmetry-Breaking Phenomenon during the Self-assembly of Macroions Elucidated by Simulation”, Sci. Rep. 2018, 8, 1, 13076.

162. Hui Li, Senlong Gu, Shantel Thomas, Tianbo Liu and Sadhan C Jana*, “Investigation of polybenzoxazine gelation using laser light scattering”, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 3, 45709.

161. Jing Zhou, Jie Hu, Mu Li, Hui Li, Weiyu Wang, Yuzi Liu, Randall E Winans, Tao Li, Tianbo Liu* and Panchao Yin*, “Hydrogen bonding directed co-assembly of polyoxometalates and polymers to core–shell nanoparticles”, Mater. Chem. Front, 2018, 2 (11), 2070-2075.

160. Xinyu Sun, Dong Li, Zhaoshuai Wang, Qiao Liu, Yinan Wei*, and Tianbo Liu*, “A dimorphism shift of hepatitis B virus capsids in response to ionic conditions”, Nanoscale, 2018, 10 (36), 16984-16989.

159. Ting-Zheng Xie, Yuchen Yao, Xinyu Sun, Kevin J Endres, Shiying Zhu, Xiaolei Wu, Hui Li, James M Ludlow III, Tianbo Liu, Min Gao, Charles N Moorefield, Mary Jane Saunders, Chrys Wesdemiotis, George R Newkome*, “Supramolecular arrays by the self-assembly of terpyridine-based monomers with transition metal ions”, Dalton Trans. 2018, 47(22), 7528-7533.

158. Yang Chu, Jiahui Chen, Fadi Haso, Yunyi Gao, Jennifer Szymanowski, Peter Burns and Tianbo Liu*, “Expanding the Schulze-Hardy Rule to Nanometer-scaled Hydrophilic Macroions”, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24(21) 5479-5483.

157. Jiazhi He, Hui Li, Peng Yang, Fadi Haso, Jiayingzi Wu, Tao Li, Ulrich Kortz* and Tianbo Liu*, “Tuning of Polyoxopalladate Macroanionic Hydration Shell via Countercation Interaction”, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24(12), 3052-3057.

156. Xinyu Sun, Dong Li, Zhaoshuai Wang, Panchao Yin, Rundong Hu, Hui Li, Qiao Liu, Yunyi Gao, Jie Zheng, Yinan Wei* and Tianbo Liu*, “The Role of Protein Charge Density on Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Formation”, ACS Omega 2018, 3, 4384-4391.

155. Jiancheng Luo, Kun Chen, Panchao Yin, Tao Li, Gang Wan, Jin Zhang, Songtao Ye, Yongge Wei* and Tianbo Liu*, “Effect of Cation-p Interaction on the Macroionic Self-Assembly”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57(15), 4067-4072.

154. Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Marjan Alsadat Kashfipour, Wei Zhang, Xinyu Sun, Robert Scott Lillard, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Tianbo Liu*, “Hierarchical self-assembly of zwitterionic dendrimer-anionic surfactant complexes into multiple stimuli-responsive dynamic nanotubes”, Nanoscale 2018, 10(3), 1411-1419.

153. Kun Chen, Aruuhan Bayaguud, Hui Li, Yang Chu, Haochen Zhang, Hongli Jia, Baofang Zhang, Zicheng Xiao, Pingfan Wu,* Tianbo Liu,* and Yongge Wei*, “Improved Peroxidase-mimic Property: Sustainable, High-efficiency Interfacial Catalytic Oxidation via the Self-assembly of a Hexavanadate-organic Hybrid Surfactant”, Nano Res. 2018, 11 (3), 1313-1321.

152. Peng Yang; Hui Li; Tian Ma; Fadi Haso; Tianbo Liu*; Linyuan Fan; Zhengguo Lin; Changwen Hu; Ulrich Kortz*, “Rational Design of Organically Functionalized Polyoxopalladates and Their Supramolecular Properties”, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24(10), 2466-2473.

151. Shuangshuang Zhang, Rongji Liu, Shiwen Li, Anne Dolbecq*, Pierre Mialane, Lin Suo, Lihua Bi*, Baofang Zhang, Tianbo Liu, Cai-Xia Wu, Li-Kai Yan*, Zhongmin Su, Guangjin Zhang*, and Bineta Keita, “Simple and efficient polyoxomolybdate-mediated synthesis of novel graphene and metal nanohybrids for versatile applications”, J. Colloid Int. Sci. 2018, 514, 507-516.

150. Kevin P. Sullivan, Wade A. Neiwert, Huadong Zeng, Anil K. Mehta, Qiushi Yin, Daniel A. Hillesheim, Skanda Vivek, Panchao Yin, Eric R. Weeks, Tianbo Liu and Craig L. Hill*, “Tunable gelating networks for entrapment, detection, and decontamination”, Chem. Comm. 2017, 53, 11480 – 11483.

149. Bo Qi, Xiangyang Guo, Yunyi Gao, Dong Li, Jiancheng Luo, Hui Li, Cheng He, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Chunying Duan* and Tianbo Liu*, “Strong Co-ion Effect via Cation-π Interaction on the Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Cationic Macrocycles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 12020 – 12026.

148. James Ward Taylor, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Laurie Points, Tianbo Liu and Leroy Cronin*, “Autonomous protocell division driven by molecular replication”, Nature Comm. 2017, 8, 237.

147. Yixuan Xie, Chao Peng, Yunyi Gao, Xiaohong Liu, Tianbo Liu and Abraham Joy*, “Mannose-Based Graft Polyesters with Tunable Binding Affinity to Concanavalin A”, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2007, 55, 3908 – 3917.

146. Yang Chu and Tianbo Liu*, “Rational controlled self-assembly behavior of inorganic-organic hybrids in solution” in “Control of Amphiphile Self-Assembling at the Molecular Level: Supra-Molecular Assemblies with Tuned Physicochemical Properties for Delivery Applications”, Marc Ilies Ed., 2017.

145. Yunyi Gao, Mateusz Dembowski, Jennifer ES Szymanowski, Wenbin Yin, Steven SC Chuang, Peter C Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “A Spontaneous Structural Transition of {U24Pp12} Clusters Triggered by Alkali Counterion Replacement in Dilute Solution”, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 7915 – 7919.

144. Wei Zhang#, Yang Chu#, Gaoyan Mu, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Yuchu Liu, Zhe Zhou, Xinlin Lu, Marjan Alsadat Kashfipour, Robert Scott Lillard, Kan Yue, Tianbo Liu,* and Stephen Z.D. Cheng*, “Rationally Controlling the Self-Assembly Behavior of Tri-armed POSS-Organic Hybrid Macromolecules: From Giant Surfactants to Macroions”, Macromolecules 2017, 50, 5042 – 5050.

143. Mengmeng Zhao, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Mahesh B. Dawadi, Chao Wang, Shuyue Huang, Amy Seymore, Bryan D. Vogt, David A. Modarelli, Tianbo Liu and Nicole S. Zacharia*, “Partitioning of Small Molecules in Hydrogen Bonding Complex Coacervates of Polyacrylic acid and Polyethylene Oxide or Pluronic Containing Block Copolymer”, Macromolecules 2017, 50, 3818 – 3830.

142. Dong Li, Zhuonan Liu, Jie Song, Hui Li, Baofang Zhang, Panchao Yin, Zhaoxiong Norm Zheng, James E. Roberts, Mesfin Tsige, Craig L. Hill*, and Tianbo Liu*, “Cation Translocation around Single Polyoxometalate-organic Hybrid Clusters Regulated by Electrostatic and Cation-π Interactions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 129, 3342 – 3346.

141. Alireza Saatchi, Paul J. Shiller, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Tianbo Liu, and Gary L. Doll*, “A Fundamental Study of Oil Release Mechanism in Soap and Non-soap Thickened Greases”, Tribology Inter. 2017, 110, 333 – 340.

140. Yunyi Gao, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi and Tianbo Liu*, “Solution Behaviors of Polyoxometalates Driven by Counterion-Macroion Interaction”, Adv. Inorg. Chem., 2017, 69, 29 – 65.

139. Dong Li, Joseph M. Pigga, Guang Liu, and Tianbo Liu*, “Tuning the Surface Hydrophobicity of Keplerate {Mo72Fe30} Porous Molecular Capsules by Surface Ligand-Replacement Process”, J. Cluster Sci. 2017, 28, 745 – 755.

138. Manik Mandal, Cong Liu, Toby Sanders, Fadi Haso, Venkata Bhadram, Ilke Arslan, Tianbo Liu, Yingwei Fei, Kai Landskron*, “Synthesis of Cubic Boron Nitride Nanocrystals from Periodic Mesoporous Boron Nitride at High Pressure”, Chem. Select 2017, 2, 740 – 744.

137. Hui Li, Jiancheng Luo, and Tianbo Liu*, “Modification of the Solution Behavior of Pd12L24 Metal Organic Nanocages via PEGylation”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 17949 – 17952.

136. Baofang Zhang, Jie Song, Lang Hu, Craig L. Hill,* and Tianbo Liu*, “The Self-Assembly Behaviors of Polyoxometalate (POM)-Containing Fluorosurfactants in Acetonitrile/Water Solution: Solvent-Swelling Effect Outweights the Repulsive Interaction Effect”, Langmuir 2016, 32, 12856 – 12861.

135. Fadi Haso, Jiancheng Luo, Bassem S. Bassil, Beñat Artetxe, Jing Zhou, Panchao Yin, Santiago Reinoso, Juan M. Gutiérrez-Zorrilla, Ulrich Kortz,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Effect of the Directional Hydrogen Bonding on the Self-Assembly of Anisotropic-Shaped Macroions”, Chem. Select 2016, 1, 4345 – 4349.

134. Hao Liu, Jiancheng Luo, Wenpeng Shan, Dong Guo, Jing Wang, Chih-Hao Hsu, Mingjun Huang, Wei Zhang, Xueyan Feng, Bernard Lotz, Tianbo Liu*, Wen-Bin Zhang, Kan Yue* and Stephen Z. D. Cheng*, “Manipulation of Self-Assembled Nanocrystal Dimensions in Molecular Janus Particles Based on α-Keggin type Polyoxometalate and Functionalized Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane”, ACS Nano 2016, 10, 6585 – 6596.

133. Yang Chu, Ali Saad, Panchao Yin, Jiayingzi Wu, Olivier Oms, Anne Dolbecq, Pierre Mialane* and Tianbo Liu*, “Light- and Solvent-controlled Self-assembly Behavior of Spiropyran–Polyoxometalate–Alkyl Hybrid Molecules”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 11756 – 11762.

132. Zhuonan Liu, Tianbo Liu* and Mesfin Tsige*, “Elucidating the Origin of the Attractive Force among Hydrophilic Macroions”, Scientific Reports 2016, 6, 26595.

131. Yang Chu, Wei Zhang, Xinlin Lu, Gaoyan Mu, Yiwen Li,* Stephen Z. D. Cheng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Rational con-trolled morphology transitions in the Self-assembled polystyrene-hydrophilic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) giant surfactants in solution”, Chem. Comm. 2016, 52, 8687 – 8690.

130. Yunyi Gao, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, Xinyu Sun, Peter C. Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Thermal Responsive Ion Selectivity of Uranyl Peroxide Nanocages: An Inorganic Mimic of K+ Ion Channels”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 128, 7001 – 7005.

129. Beñat Artetxe, Santiago Reinoso,* Leire San Felices, Luis Lezama, Juan M. Gutiérrez-Zorrilla,* Cristian Vicent, Fadi Haso, and Tianbo Liu, “New Perspectives for Old Clusters: Anderson-Evans Anions as Building-Blocks of Large Polyoxometalate Frameworks in a Series of Heterometallic 3d-4f Chiral Species”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 4616 – 4625.

128. Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Light Scattering by Proteins”, Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, 3rd Ed., 5, 3694 – 3713, Somasundaran, P. Ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2016.

127. Fadi Haso, Ruixin Wang, Jiazhi He, Jiancheng Luo, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Zhonghua Peng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Solution Behaviour of a Polymer with Polyoxometalate Inorganic Molecular Clusters in Its Main Chain”, New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 910 – 913.

126. Lucas McDonald, Jungfeng Wang, Nick Alexander, Hui Li, Tianbo Liu and Yi Pang*, “The Origin of Water-Induced Fluorescence Turn-On from a Schiff Base Compound: AIE or H-Bonding Promoted ESIPT?”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2016, 120, 766 – 772.

125. Yunyi Gao, Fadi Haso, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, Jing Zhou, Lang Hu, Peter C. Burns* and Tianbo Liu*, “Selective Permeability of Uranyl Peroxide Nanocages to Different Alkali Ions: Influences from Surface Pores and Hydration Shells”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18785 – 18790.

124. Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Fadi Haso, Marjan Alsadat Kashfipour, Robert Scott Lillard, Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Assemblies of Poly(propyleneimine) Dendrimers Driven by Simple Monovalent Counterions”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18623 – 18630 (inside back cover).

123. Jing Zhou, Panchao Yin, Xinyue Chen, Lang Hu, and Tianbo Liu*, “Temperature- and Salt-Responsive Polyoxometalate-Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hybrid Macromolecules in the Aqueous Solution”, Chem. Comm. 2015, 51, 15982 – 15985.

122. Fadi Haso, Dong Li, Somenath Garai, Joseph M. Pigga, and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Recognition Between Two Almost Identical Macroions During Their Assembly: The Effects of pH and Temperature”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 13234 – 13239 (Front Piece).

121. John P. Swanson, Leanna R. Monteleone, Fadi Haso, Philip J. Costanzo, Tianbo Liu and Abraham Joy*, “A Library of Thermoresponsive, Coacervate-forming Biodegradable Polyesters”, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 3834 – 3842.

120. Jing Zhou, Panchao Yin, Yunyi Gao, Lang Hu, and Tianbo Liu*, “Spontaneous Self-Assembly of γ-Cyclodextrins in Dilute Solutions with Tunable Sizes and Thermodynamic Stability”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 9563 – 9568.

119. Baofang Zhang, Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Lee Cronin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-assembly of Triangular-shaped Polyoxometalate-organic Hybrid Macroions in Mixed Solvents”, Chem. Comm. 2015, 51, 8630 – 8633.

118. Fadi Haso, Peng Yang, Yunyi Gao, Panchao Yin, Hui Li, Tao Li, Ulrich Kortz* and Tianbo Liu*, “Exploring The Effect of Surface Functionality on The Self-Assembly of Polyoxopalladate Macroions”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 9048 – 9052.

117. Beñat Artetxe, Santiago Reinoso,* Leire San Felices, Juan M. Gutiérrez-Zorrilla, José A. García, Fadi Haso, Tianbo Liu and Cristian Vicent, “Crown-shaped Tungstogermanates as Solventcontrolled Dual Systems in the Formation of Vesicle-like Assemblies”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 7736 – 7745 (Front piece).

116. Panchao Yin, Zhi-Ming Zhang, Hongjin Lv, Tao Li, Fadi Haso, Lang Hu, Baofang Zhang, John Bacsa, Yongge Wei, Yanqing Gao, Yu Hou, Yang-Guang Li, Craig L. Hill, En-Bo Wang* and Tianbo Liu*, “Chiral Recognition and Chiral Selection during the Self-Assembly Process of Protein-mimic Macroanions”, Nature Comm. 2015, 6, 6475 – 6482.

115. Xinyue Chen, Hui Li, Panchao Yin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Design of polystyrene latex particles covered with polyoxometalate clusters via multiple covalent bonding”, Chem. Comm. 2015, 51, 6104 – 6107.

114. Shannon L. Flynn*, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, Yunyi Gao, Tianbo Liu, Peter C. Burns and Jeremy B. Fein, “Experimental Measurements of U60 Nanocluster Stability in Aqueous Solution”, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 2015, 156, 94 – 105.

113. Panchao Yin, Zhiwei Lin, Jiayingzi Wu, Chih-Hao Hsu, Xinyue Chen, Jing Zhou, Pengtao Lu, Seyed Ali Eghtesadi, Xinfei Yu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng*, and Tianbo Liu*, “Charge-Regulated Spontaneous, Reversible Self-Assembly of the Carboxylic Acid-Functionalized Hydrophilic Fullerene Macroanions in Dilute Solution”, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 725−731.

112. Somenath Garai, Alice Merca, Susovan Bhowmik, Hani El Moll, Haolong Li, Fadi Haso, Helena Nogueira, Tianbo Liu, Lixin Wu, Pierre Gouzerh and Achim Müller*, “Hedgehog-shaped {Mo368} cluster: unique electronic/structural properties, surfactant encapsulation and related self-assembly into vesicles and films”, Soft Matter 2015, 11, 2372–2378.

111. Fadi Haso, Baofang Zhang, Jing Zhou and Tianbo Liu*, “Controllable Self-Assembly Process of Polyoxometalate Macroions Driven by Counterion Mediated Attraction” in Trends in Polyoxometalates Research, Laurent Ruhlmann Ed., Nova Sci. Pub., 2015.

110. Rachel A. Scullion, Andrew J. Surman, Feng Xu, Jennifer S. Mathieson, De-Liang Long, Fadi Haso, Tianbo Liu, Leroy Cronin*, “Exploring the Symmetry, Structure, and Mechanism of Self-Assembly of a Gigantic 7-fold Symmetric {Pd84} Wheel”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 126, 10196 – 10201.

109. Manik Mandal, Fadi Haso, Tianbo Liu, Yingwei Fei, and Kai Landskron*, “High Yield Synthesis of Solution Processable Diamond Nanocrystals”, Chem. Comm. 2014, 50, 11307 – 11310.

108. Jing Zhou, Panchao Yin, Lang Hu, Fadi Haso and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-assembly of Sub-nanometer Scaled Polyhedral Oligometric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Macroions in Dilute Solution”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 4593 – 4599.

107. Fadi Haso, Ruixin Wang, Panchao Yin, Jing Zhou, Lu Jin, Zhonghua Peng* and Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Assemblies of Polyoxometalate-Tethered Diblock-copolymers with Tunable Sizes in N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone/Toluene Mixed Solvents”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 4589 – 4592.

106. Panchao Yin, Aruhan Bayaguud, Peng Cheng, Fadi Haso, Joy Wang, Dmitri Vezenov, Randall E. Winans, Jian Hao, Tao Li,* Yongge Wei,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Directional Hydrogen Bonding Leads to the Formation of Catalytically Active 1-D Nano-belts by Polyoxometalate-Organic Hybrids”, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9589 – 9595 (Back Cover).

105. Dong Li, Silas Simotwo, May Nyman* and Tianbo Liu*, “Evolution of Uranyl Polyoxometalate U28 Clusters in Dilute Electrolyte Solution: Exploring the Transition from Simple Ions to Macroionic Assemblies”, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 1683 – 1690.

104. Baofang Zhang, Panchao Yin, Fadi Haso, Lang Hu, Tianbo Liu*, “Soft Matter Approaches for Enhancing the Catalytic Capabilities of Polyoxometalate Clusters”, J. Cluster Sci. (Louis Nadjo & Roland Contant issue) 2014, 25, 695 – 710.

103. Yi Zhu, Panchao Yin, Feng Ping Xiao, Dong Li, Emily Bitterlich, Zicheng Xiao, Jin Zhang, Jian Hao, Tianbo Liu*, Yongge Wei,* and Yuan Wang*, “Bottom-up Construction of POM-based Macrostructures: Coordination Assembled Windmill-Shaped Macroclusters and Their Vesicle-like Supramolecular Aggregation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 17155 – 17160.

102. Panchao Yin, Tao Li, Ross S. Forgan, Claire Lydon, Xiaobing Zuo, Zhaoxiong Norm Zheng, Byeongdu Lee, Leroy Cronin,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Polyoxometalate-Organic Hybrid as Metal-Ion-Driven Molecular Switch with Reversible Bending and Assembly/Disassembly Behaviors”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 13425 – 13432.

101. Xikui Fang,* Laura Hansen, Fadi Haso, Panchao Yin, Abhishek Pandey, Larry Engelhardt, Igor Slowing, Tao Li, Tianbo Liu, Marshall Luban, and David C. Johnston, “{Mo24Fe12} Macrocycles: Anion Templation with Large Polyoxometalate Guests”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10500 – 10504.

100. Panchao Yin, Jin Zhang, Tao Li, Xiaobing Zuo, Jian Hao, Anna Marie Warner, Soma Chattopadhyay, Tomohiro Shibata, Yongge Wei*, and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Recognition of Structurally Identical, Rod-shaped Macroions with Different Central Metal Atoms during Their Assembly Process”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 4529 – 4536.

99. Joseph M. Pigga and Tianbo Liu*, “Determination of the Effective Charge Density of pH-Responsive Keplerate Polyoxometalate Clusters via Agarose Gel Electrophoresis”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (Michael Pope issue), 2013, 10-11, 1854 – 1858.

98. Ulrich Kortz and Tianbo Liu, “The Best of Polyoxometalates” (editorial), Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (Michael Pope issue), 2013, 10-11, 1559 – 1560.

97. Dong Li, Panchao Yin and Tianbo Liu*, “When Giants Meet Dwarves in the Same Pond – Unique Solution Physical Chemistry Opportunities Offered by Polyoxometalate Macroions”, in “Polyoxometalate Chemistry – Some Recent Trends”, Francis Sécheresse Ed., 2013.

96. Fadi Haso, Xikui Fang, Panchao Yin, Dong Li, Jennifer L. Ross, and Tianbo Liu* “The Self-Assembly of a Macroion with Anisotropic Surface Charge Density Distribution”, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 609 – 611.

95. Achim Müller,* Alice Merca, Ahmed Jasim M. Al-Karawi, Somenath Garai, Hartmut Bögge, Guangfeng Hou, Lixin Wu, Erhard T.K. Haupt,* Dieter Rehder, Fadi Haso, and Tianbo Liu, “Chemical Adaptability: The Integration of Different Kinds of Matter by Giant Molecular Metal Oxides”, Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 16310 – 16318 (cover).

94. Panchao Yin, Dong Li and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-assembly of Macro-polyoxoanions and Amphiphilic Polyoxometalate-Organic Hybrids in Solution”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 7368 – 7383.

93. Panchao Yin, Joy Wang, Zicheng Xiao, Pingfan Wu, Yongge Wei,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Polyoxometalate-Organic Hybrid Molecules as Amphiphilic Emulsion Catalysts for Deep Desulfurization”, Chem. – Eur. J. 2012, 18, 9174 – 9178.

92. Panchao Yin, Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Baofang Zhang, Feng-Yan Li, Claire Lydon, Mali H. Rosnes, Dong Li, Emily Bitterlich, Lin Xu, Leroy Cronin,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Controllable Self-Assembly of Organic-Inorganic Amphiphile Containing Dawson Polyoxometalate Clusters”, Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 8157 – 8162.

91. Panchao Yin, Lu Jin, Dong Li, Peng Cheng, Dmitri V. Vezenov, Emily Bitterlich, Xia Wu, Zhonghua Peng,* and Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Assembly of Conjugated Polymers Containing POM-terminal Side Chains in Polar and Nonpolar Solvents”, Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 6754 – 6758.

90. Dong Li, Panchao Yin and Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Architectures Assembled from Amphiphilic Hybrid Polyoxometalates”, Dalton Trans. (perspective), 2012, 41, 2853 – 2861.

89. Rosa Ngo Biboum, Floriant Doungmene, Bineta Keita,* Pedro de Oliveira, Louis Nadjo, Bénédicte Lepoittevin,* Philippe Roger, Pierre Mialane* Anne Dolbecq, Israel M. Mbomekalle, Céline Pichon, Panchao Yin, Tianbo Liu and Roland Contante, “Green Nanomaterials Based on Poly(ionic liquid) and Polyoxometalate Hybrids: Environmental Applications under Visible Light Irradiation”, J. Mat. Chem. 2012, 22, 319 – 323.

88. Dong Li, Jie Song, Panchao Yin, Silas Simotwo, Andrew J. Bassler, Yuyu Aung, James Roberts, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Craig L. Hill* and Tianbo Liu*, “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Vesicles with Counterion- and pH-Controlled Fluorescent Properties”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 14010 – 14016.

87. Fengping Xiao, Mauricio F. Misdrahi, Jin Zhang, Panchao Yin, Jian Hao, Chunlin Lv, Zicheng Xiao, Tianbo Liu*, and Yonggei Wei*, “Molecule-Bola Bis(organoimido)-Bridged Hexamolybdates with Different Lengths: Synthesis, Structure and Assembly into Vesicles”, Chem. – Eur. J. 2011, 17, 12006 – 12009.

86. Mauricio F. Misdrahi, Minghui Wang, Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Feng -Yan Li, Claire Lydon, Lin Xu, Leroy Cronin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Amphiphilic Properties of Dumb-bell-Shaped Inorganic-Organic-Inorganic Molecular Hybrid Materials in Solution and at Interface”, Langmuir 2011, 27, 9193 – 9202.

85. Dong Li, Wu Zhou, Kai Landskron, Sota Sato, Christopher J. Kiely, Makoto Fujita* and Tianbo Liu*, “A Viral Capsid Type Vesicle Self-assembled from M12L24 Metal-Organic Hybrid Nanocages”, Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 5182 – 5187.

84. Tianbo Liu*, Melissa L. K. Langston, Dong Li, Joseph M. Pigga, Celíne Pichon, Ana Maria Todea, and Achim Müller*, “Self-recognition among Different Polyprotic Macroions During Assembly Process in Dilute Solutions”, Science 2011, 331, 1590 – 1592.

Full Text: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/331/6024/1590?ijkey=BJZdV4/8g4iHo&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

83. Panchao Yin, Pingfan Wu, Dong Li, Zicheng Xiao, Emily Bitterlich, Peng Cheng, Tianbo Liu* and Yongge Wei*, “A Double-tailed, Fluorescently Active Surfactant with Hexavanadate as Giant Polar Head Group”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 2521 – 2525.

82. Panchao Yin, Dong Li, and Tianbo Liu*, “Electrostatic Interactions between Metal-oxide Cluster Anions and Their Counterions”, Israel J. Chem. 2011, 51, 191 – 204.

81. Jie Zhang, Yufei Song, Leroy Cronin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Reverse Vesicle Formation of Organic-Inorganic Polyoxometalate-Containing Hybrid Surfactants with Tunable Sizes”, Chem. – Eur. J. 2010, 16, 11320 – 11324.

80. Joseph M. Pigga and Tianbo Liu*, “Stability of Keplerate Polyoxometalate Macroanionic Assemblies in Salt-Containing Aqueous Solutions”, Inorg. Chim. Acta. (Achim Müller Issue) 2010, 363, 4230 – 4233.

79. Jie Zhang, Tianbo Liu*, Sib Sankar Mal and Ulrich Kortz*, “Wheel-Shaped Polyoxometalate [{K(H2O)}3{Ru(p-cymene)(H2O)}4P8W49O186(H2O)2]27−: Wheel-Shaped Nanoscaled Macroions with Central Hydrophobic Domains”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 20, 3195 – 3200.

78. Joseph M. Pigga, Joseph A. Teprovich, Jr., Robert A. Flowers, II, Mark R. Antonio, and Tianbo Liu*, “Selective Monovalent Cation Association and Exchange around Keplerate Polyoxometalate Macroanions in Dilute Aqueous Solutions”, Langmuir 2010, 26, 9449 – 9456.

77. Tianbo Liu, “Hydrophilic Macroionic Solutions – What Happens When Soluble Ions Reach the Size of Nanometer Scale?”, Langmuir 2010, 26, 9202 – 9213. (cover picture, invited feature article)

76. Ana Maria Todea, Alice Merca, Hartmut Bögge, Thorsten Glaser, William H. Casey, Joseph M. Pigga, Melissa L. K. Langston, Tianbo Liu, Christian Schröder, Ruslan Prozorov, Marshall Luban, and Achim Müller*, “FeIII30{(M)M5}12 Keplerates (M = MoVI, WVI): Twenty NH4+ Ions Supramolecularly Fixed in Crownether Type Capsule Pores, Related Solution Properties, and Tuning of Magnetic Exchange Interactions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 122, 524 – 529.

75. Rosa N. Biboum, Bineta Keita*, Sylvain Franger, Charles P. Nanseu Njiki, Guangjin Zhang, Jie Zhang, Tianbo Liu, Israel-Martyr Mbomekalle and Louis Nadjo, “Pd0@polyoxometalate nanostructures as green electrocatalysts: illustrative example of hydrogen production”, Materials 2010, 3, 741-754.

74. Jie Zhang, Dong Li, Guang Liu, Kerney J. Glover and Tianbo Liu*, “The Lag Periods During the Self-Assembly of {Mo72Fe30} Macroions: Connection to the Virus Capsid Formation Process”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15152 – 15159.

73. Chullikkattil P. Pradeep, Mauricio F. Misdrahi, Feng-Yan Li, Jie Zhang, Lin Xu*, De-Liang Long, Tianbo Liu*, Leroy Cronin*, “Synthesis of Modular Inorganic-Organic-Inorganic Polyoxometalates and Their Assembly into Vesicles”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8309 – 8313.

72. Joseph M. Pigga, Melissa L. Kistler, Chwen-Yang Shew*, Mark Antonio* and Tianbo Liu*, “Counter-ion Distribution Around Nano-scaled, Hydrophilic Molecular Macroanions in Dilute Solutions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 6538 – 6542.

71. Melissa L. Kistler, Tianbo Liu*, Pierre Gouzerh, Ana Maria Todea and Achim Müller, “Molybdenum-Oxide Based Polyprotic Nanoacids Showing Different Deprotonations and Related Assembly Processes in Solution”, Dalton Trans. 2009, 26, 5094 – 5100.

70. Melissa L. Kistler, Komal G. Patel, Tianbo Liu*, “Accurately Tuning the Charge on Giant Polyoxometalate Type Keplerates through Stoichiometric Interaction with Cationic Surfactants”, Langmuir 2009, 25, 7328 – 7334.

69. Paritosh Mohanty, Dong Li, Tianbo Liu, Yingwei Fei and Kai Landskron*, “Synthesis of Stishovite Nanocrystals from Periodic Mesoporous Silica”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 2764 – 2765.

68. Bineta Keita, Tianbo Liu and Louis Nadjo*, “Synthesis of Remarkably Stabilized metal Nanostructures Using Polyoxometalates”, J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 19. (feature article)

67. Christian Schäffer, Alice Merca, Hartmut Bögge, Ana Maria Todea, Melissa L. Kistler, Tianbo Liu, René Thouvenot, Pierre Gouzerh* and Achim Müller*, “Unprecedented Pentagonal Units in a Dynamical Library: A Keplerate of the Type {(W)W5}12(Mo2)30”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 149. (VIP article)

66. Melissa L. Kistler, Joseph M. Pigga and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Assembly of Hydrophilic Polyoxometalate Macroanions in Dilute Solutions”, in “Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements”, Vol. 9, Ed. by Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz, Charles E. Carraher, Jr., Charles U. Pittman, Jr., and Martel Zeldin, 2009.

65. Jie Zhang, Yufei Song, Leroy Cronin* and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Assembly of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Amphiphilic Surfactants with Large Polyoxometalates as Polar Head Groups”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14408.

64. Dong Li, Jie Zhang, Kai Landskron* and Tianbo Liu*, “Spontaneous Self-assembly of Metal-organic Cationic Nanocages to Form Monodispersed Vesicle-like Structures in Dilute Solutions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 4226.

63. Padmaja P. Mishra, Jing Jing, Lynn C. Francesconi and Tianbo Liu*, “Formation of “Blackberry” Structure by a Heteropolyoxometalate Formed from Lacunary Polyoxotungstate Ions Yttrium Cations”, Langmuir 2008, 24, 9308 – 9313.

62. Jie Zhang, Bineta Keita, Louis Nadjo*, Israel Martyr Mbomekalle and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Assembly of Polyoxometalate Macroanion-Capped Pd0 Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution”, Langmuir 2008, 24, 5277.

61. Padmaja P. Mishra, Joe Pigga and Tianbo Liu*, “Membranes Based on ‘Keplerate’ Type Polyoxometalates: Slow, Passive Cation Transportation and Creation of Water Micro-environment”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 1548.

60. Aletta A. Verhoeff, Melissa L. Kistler, Anish Bhatt, Joe Pigga, Jan Groenewold, Mark Klokkenburg, Sandra Veen, Soumyajit Roy, Tianbo Liu* and Willem K. Kegel*, “Charge Regulation as a Stabilization Mechanism for Shell-like Structures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 99, 066104.

59. Melissa L. Kistler, Anish Bhatt, Guang Liu, Diego Casa and Tianbo Liu*, “A Complete Macroion – “Blackberry” Assembly – Macroion Transition with Continuously Adjustable Assembly Sizes in {Mo132} Water/acetone Systems”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6453-6460.

58. Dawei Fan, Xiangfeng Jia, Peiqin Tang, Jingcheng Hao* and Tianbo Liu*, “Self-Patterning of Hydrophobic Matreials into Highly Ordered Honeycomb Nanostructures at Water/Air Interface”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 3342-3345.

57. Achim Müller,* Hartmut Bögge, Filipa L. Sousa, Marc Schmidtmann, Dirk G. Kurth, Dirk Volkmer, Joris van Slageren, Martin Dressel, Melissa L. Kistler and Tianbo Liu*,“Complex Reactions of Porous Nanosized Spherical Capsules of the Type {(Mo)Mo5}12Fe30: Modification of the External Surface As Well As of the Interior”, Small 2007, 3, 986-992.

56. Huilin Li*, Susan Grass, Tao Wang, Tianbo Liu, and Joseph W. St. Geme III*, “Structure of the Haemophilus Influenzae HMW1B Translocator Protein: Evidence for a Twin-pore”, J. Bacteriology 2007, 189, 7497-7502.

55. Tianbo Liu*, Ekkehard Diemann, and Achim Müller*, “Hydrophilic Inorganic Macro-ions in Solution – Unprecedented Self-Assembly Emerging from Historical ‘Blue Waters’”, J. Chem. Edu. 2007, 84, 526-532.

54. Tianbo Liu*, Brandon Imber, Ekkehard Diemann, Guang Liu, Katrina Cokleski, Huilin Li, Zhiqiang Chen and Achim Müller*, “Deprotonations and Charges of Well-Defined {Mo72Fe30} Nano-Acids Simply Stepwise Tuned by pH Allow Control/Variation of Related Self-Assembly Processes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 15914-15920.

53. Guang Liu, Tianbo Liu*, Sib Sankar Mal, and Ulrich Kortz, “Wheel-Shaped Polyoxotungstate [Cu20Cl(OH)24(H2O)12(P8W48O184)]25- Macroanion Forms Supramolecular ‘Blackberry’ Structure in Aqueous Solution”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10103-10110.

52. Xiangfeng Jia, Dawei Fan, Peiqin Tang, Jingcheng Hao*, Tianbo Liu, “Cationic-Surfactant-Mediated Self-Assembled Highly Porous Quasi-Single-Crystals of Wheel-Shaped {Mo154} Macro-Anions in Aqueous Solutions”, J. Clust. Sci. 2006, 17, 467-478.

51. Guang Liu, Melissa L. Kistler, Tong Li, Anish Bhatt and Tianbo Liu*, “Counter-Ion Association Effect in Diluted Giant Polyoxometalate [AsIII12CeIII16(H2O)36W148O524]76- ({W148}) and [Mo132O372(CH3COO)30(H2O)72]42- ({Mo132}) Macroanionic Solutions”, J. Clust. Sci. (Michael Pope Issue) 2006, 17, 427-443.

50. Guang Liu and Tianbo Liu*, “Strong Attraction among the Fully Hydrophilic {Mo72Fe30} Macroanions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 6942-6943.

49. Aixin Song, Shuli Dong, Xiangfeng Jia, Jingcheng Hao*, Weimin Liu and Tianbo Liu, “An Onion Phase in Salt-free Zero-Charged Catanionic Surfactant Solutions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4018.

48. Guang Liu and Tianbo Liu*, “Thermodynamic Properties of the Unique Self-Assembly of {Mo72Fe30} Inorganic Macroions in Salt-Free and Salt-Containing Aqueous Solutions”, Langmuir 2005, 21, 2713-2720.

47. Guang Liu, Matthew Cons and Tianbo Liu*, “The Ionic Effect on Supramolecular Aggregates in Polyoxomolybdate Solution”, J. Mol. Liq. 2005, 118, 27-29.

46. Mathew M. Maye, I-Im S. Lim, Jin Luo, Daniel Rabinovich, Tianbo Liu, and Chuan-Jian Zhong*, “Mediator-Template Assembly of Nanoparticles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1519.

45. Elaine DiMasi, Tianbo Liu, Matthew J Olszta, Laurie B Gower, “Laser light scattering observations of liquid–liquid phase separation in a polymer-induced liquid-precursor (PILP) mineralization process”, MRS Proceedings, 2005, 873.

44. Anatoly I. Frankel*, Shira C. Frankel and Tianbo Liu, “Structural Stability of Giant Polyoxomolybdate Moleculaes as Probed by EXAFS”, Physica Scripta 2005, T115, 721-723.

43. Guang Liu, Yuguang Cai and Tianbo Liu*, “An Automatic and Subsequent Dissolution and Precipitation Process in Inorganic Macroionic Solutions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 16690-16691.

42. Huilin Li*, Luping Qian, Zhiqiang Chen, Danielle Thahbot, Guang Liu, Tianbo Liu and David G. Thanassi, “The Outer Membrane Usher Forms a Twin-Pore Secretion Complex”, J. Mol. Biol. 2004, 344, 1397-1407.

41. Tianbo Liu*, Kwang-Sok Kim, Benjamin Hsiao and Benjamin Chu*, “Regular and Frozen Micelles Formed by A PLA-PEG-PLA Triblock Copolymer in Aqueous Solution”, Polymer 2004, 45, 7989-7993.

40. Tianbo Liu*, Ekkehard Diemann, Huilin Li, Andreas W. M. Dress and Achim Müller*, “Self-Assembly in Aqueous Solution of Wheel-Shaped Mo154 Oxide Clusters into Vesicles”, Nature 2003, 426, 59-62.

39 Tianbo Liu*, “An Unusually Slow Self-Assembly of Giant Inorganic Ions in Aqueous Solution”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 312-313.

38. Tianbo Liu*, “Surfactant-Induced Trans-Interface Transportation and Complex Formation of Giant Polyoxomolybdate Clusters”, J. Clust. Sci. (Achim Müller Issue) 2003, 14, 215-226.

37. Matthew M. Maye, Jin Luo, I-Im S Lim, Li Han, Nancy N. Kariuki, Daniel Rabinovich, Tianbo Liu and Chuan-Jian Zhong*, “Size- and Shape-Controlled Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 9906-9907.

36. Tianbo Liu, Christian Burger and Benjamin Chu*, “Nanofabrication in Polymer Matrices”, Prog. Polym. Sci. 2003, 28, 5-26.

35. Tianbo Liu*, “Supramolecular Structures of Polyoxomolybdate-Based Giant Molecules in Aqueous Solution”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 10942-10943.

34. Li-Zhi Liu, Quan Wan, Tianbo Liu, Benjamin Hsiao and Benjamin Chu*, “Salt-induced Polymer Gelation and Fabrication of Nanocrystals in Mixtures of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymer with Saturated CdCl2 Solution in Water”, Langmuir 2002, 18, 10402-10406.

33. Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Light Scattering by Protein”, Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, pp. 3023-3044, A. Hubbard Ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002.

32. Liguo Song, Tianbo Liu, Dehai Liang, Chunhung Wu, Vladimir S. Zaitsev, Pierre A. Dresco and Benjamin Chu*, “Particle and Network Synthesis of Biomedical Applications”, J. Biomed. Opt. 2002, 7, 498-506.

31. Tianbo Liu, Quan Wan, Yi Xie, Christian Burger, Li-Zhi Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Polymer-Assisted Formation of Giant Polyoxomolybdate Structures”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10966-10974.

30. Liguo Song, Tianbo Liu, Dehai Liang, Dufei Fang and Benjamin Chu*, “Separation of Double Stranded DNA Fragments by Capillary Electrophoresis in Penetrating Networks of Polyactylamide and Polyvinylpyrrolidone”, Electrophoresis 2001, 22, 3688-3698.

29. Tianbo Liu, Dehai Liang, Liguo Song and Benjamin Chu*, “Spatial Open Network Formed by Mixed Block Copolymers as a New Medium for Double-Stranded DNA Separation by Capillary Electrophoresis”, Electrophoresis 2001, 22, 449-458.

28. Lorna S. Ehrlich, Tianbo Liu, Suzanne Scarlata, Benjamin Chu and Carol A. Carter*, “HIV-1 Capsid Protein Forms Spherical (Immature-Like) and Tubular (Mature-Like) Particles in Vitro: Structure Switching by pH-induced Conformational Changes”, Biophys. J. 2001, 81, 586-594.

27. Tianbo Liu, Li-Zhi Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Nanofabrication in Polymer Solutions”, Chinese Appl. Chem. J. 2001, 18, 259-266.

26. Dehai Liang, Tianbo Liu, Liguo Song and Benjamin Chu*, “Mixed Triblock Copolymers used as DNA separation in Capillary Electrophoresis”, J. Chromatography A 2001, 909, 271-278.

25. Benjamin Chu*, Tianbo Liu, Chunhung Wu, Dehai Liang, “DNA Capillary Electrophoresis by Using Block Copolymer as a New Separation Medium”, in “Methods in Molecular Biology/Medicine Vol. 62: Capillary Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids”, Vol. 162, K. R. Mitchelson and J. Chen Ed., Chapter 15, 225-238, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2001.

24. Tianbo Liu, Yi Xie, Li-Zhi Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Salt-Induced Microphase Separation and Crystallization in the Salt-Polymer Complex System”, Langmuir 2000, 16, 7533.

23. Tianbo Liu, Yi Xie and Benjamin Chu*, “Use of Block Copolymer Micelles on Formation of Hollow MoO3 Nanospheres”, Langmuir 2000, 16, 9015.

22. Chunhung Wu, Tianbo Liu, Henry White and Benjamin Chu*, “Surface Effects of Silicon on the Self-Assembly Behavior of F127 and Separation of Double-Strand DNA by Electrophoresis”, Langmuir 2000, 16, 656.

21. Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Formation of Homogeneous Gel-like Phases by Mixed Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution and Bcc to Fcc Phase Transition”, J. Appl. Cryst. 2000, 33 (1) 727.

20. Shuiqin Zhou, Fengji Yeh, Christian Burger, Haibo Hu, Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “SAXS Study on Complexes Formed by Anionic Poly(sodium methacrylate-co-N-isopropylacrylamide) Gels with Cationic Surfactants”, Polym. Adv. Tech. 2000, 11 (5), 235.

19. Benjamin Chu* and Tianbo Liu, “Characterization of Nanoparticles by Scattering Techniques”, J. Nanoparticle Res. 2000, 2, 29.

18. Tianbo Liu, Vaughn M. Nace and Benjamin Chu*, “Self-Assembly of Mixed Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution”, Langmuir 1999, 15, 3109.

17. Tianbo Liu, Horst Schuch, Matthias Gerst and Benjamin Chu*, “Laser Light Scattering Study of Microemulsion-like Polymerization Process with Block Copolymers as Dispersants”, Macromolecules 1999, 32, 6031.

16. Tianbo Liu, “Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly, Phase Behaviors and New Applications on Biology, Materials Science and Polymer Synthesis”, Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 1999.

15. Tianbo Liu, Chunhung Wu, Yi Xie, Dehai Liang, Shuiqin Zhou, Vaughn M. Nace and Benjamin Chu*, “Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers: Self-Assembly, Phase Behavior and Application to DNA Capillary Electrophoresis”, in “Associating Polymers in Aqueous Media”, E. Glass Ed., 1999, Chapter 1.

14. Chunhung Wu, Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Viscosity-Adjustable Block Copolymer for DNA Separation by Capillary Electrophoresis”, Electrophoresis 1998, 19, 231.

13. Tianbo Liu, Li-Zhi Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “Formation of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Micelles in Nonaqueous Solvents”, in “Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly and Applications”, Paschalis Alexandridis & Bjorn Lindman Eds., Elsevier Sciences, 1998.

12. Carol A. Carter*, Lorna S. Ehrlich, Tianbo Liu, Beth E. Agresta, Suzanne Scarlata and Benjamin Chu, “Molecular Switches for HIV-1 capsid Disassembly.” FASEB J. 1998, suppl. 12: (8), 136.

11. Tianbo Liu, Zukang Zhou, Chunhung Wu, Vaughn M Nace and Benjamin Chu*, “Dominant Factors on the Micellization of BnEmBn Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution”, J. Phys. Chem. B 1998, 102, 2875.

10. Tianbo Liu, Rudy Rulkens, Gerhard Wegner* and Benjamin Chu*, “A Laser Light Scattering Study of Rigid Rod Polyelectrolytes”, Macromolecules 1998, 31, 6119.

9. Chunhung Wu, Tianbo Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “A new separation medium for DNA capillary electrophoresis: Self-assembly behavior of Pluronic polyol E99P69E99 in 1X TBE buffer”, J. Non-Crystal. Solids 1998, 235-237, 605.

8. Tianbo Liu, Yi Xie, Dehai Liang, Shuiqin Zhou, Charanjeet Jassal, Michael McNabb, Christopher Hall, Ernie Chuang and Benjamin Chu*, “Formation of Salt-Polymer Complex in L64/Water/CdCl2 Systems”, Langmuir 1998, 14, 7539.

7. Yi Xie, Tianbo Liu, Li-zhi Liu and Benjamin Chu*, “SAXS and WAXD study of the Mesostructure of Molybdenum Oxide formed by a Block Copolymer Matrix”, Polym. Mat. Sci. & Eng. 1998, 16, Part 2, 866.

6. Lorna S. Ehrlich, Tianbo Liu, Beth E. Agresta, Suzanne Scarlata, Benjamin Chu and Carol A. Carter*, “Disassembly of HIV-1 capsid in vitro.” FASEB J. 1997, suppl. 11: (9), 58.

5. Tianbo Liu, Vaughn M. Nace and Benjamin Chu*, “Clouding Temperatures of BnEmBn and PnEmPn Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution”, J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 8074.

4. Tianbo Liu, Zukang Zhou, Chunhung Wu, Benjamin Chu*, Dieter K. Schneider and Vaughn M. Nace, “Self-Assembly of B6E46B6 Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution”, J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 8808.

3. Chunhung Wu, Tianbo Liu, Benjamin Chu*, Dieter K. Schneider and Vito Graziano, “Characterization of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymer and its Application as a Separation Medium in Capillary Electrophoresis”, Macromolecules 1997, 30, 4574.

2. Tianbo Liu, Zukang Zhou, Chunhung Wu, Vaughn M Nace and Benjamin Chu*, “Effect of Block Lengths on the Association Numbers and Micellar Sizes of BnEmBn Type Triblock Copolymer Micelles in Aqueous Solution”, Macromolecules 1997, 30, 7624.

1. Benjamin Chu*, Tianbo Liu, Chunhung Wu, Zukang Zhou and Vaughn M. Nace, “Structures and Properties of Block Copolymers in Solution”, Makromol. Symp. 1997, 118, 221.