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Artificial molecular machines, capable of converting chemical, electrochemical and photochemical energy into mechanical motion, represent a high-impact, intellectually challenging and growing field of interdisciplinary research. These molecular scale systems utilize a ‘bottom-up’ technology centered upon the design and manipulation of molecular assemblies that are potentially capable of delivering efficient operations at dramatically reduced length scales when compared with traditional micro/macro scale machines.

We aim to understand the physical laws that govern molecules’ properties as they scale from nano to micro to macro; more importantly, we are developing a new class of mechanical, optical, and medical devices utilizing artificial molecular machines as the key “smart materials”.

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1. Yue Bing Zheng, Brian Kiraly, and Tony Jun Huang, Molecular Machines Drive Smart Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine Vol. 5, pp. 1309-1312, 2010. [PDF]
2. Qingzhen Hao, Bala Krishna Juluri, Yue Bing Zheng, Bei Wang, I-Kao Chiang, Lasse Jensen, Vincent Crespi, Peter C. Eklund, and Tony Jun Huang, Effects of Intrinsic Fano Interference on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Comparison between Platinum and Gold, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, PP. 18059–18066, 2010. (featured as front cover image) [PDF]
3. Yue Bing Zheng*, Bala Krishna Juluri*, Lin Lin Jensen, Daniel Ahmed, Mengqian Lu, Lasse Jensen, and Tony Jun Huang, Dynamically Tuning Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Arrays of Nanodisk-J-aggregate Complexes, Advanced Materials, Vol. 22, pp. 3603-3607, 2010. (*equal contributions) (featured as front cover image) [PDF]
4. Yue Bing Zheng, Qingzhen Hao, Ying-Wei Yang, Brian Kiraly, I-Kao Chiang, and Tony Jun Huang, Light-driven Artificial Molecular Machines, Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 4, pp. 042501, 2010. [PDF]
5. Tao Ye, Ajeet S. Kumar, Sourav Saha, Tomohide Takami, Tony J. Huang, J. Fraser Stoddart and Paul S. Weiss, Changing Stations in Single Bistable Rotaxane Molecules under Electrochemical Control, ACS Nano, Vol. 4, pp. 3697-3701, 2010. [PDF]
6. Dongbo Li, Ray H. Baughman, Tony Jun Huang, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Paul S. Weiss, Molecular, Supramolecular, and Macromolecular Motors and Artificial Muscles, MRS Bulletin, Vol. 34, pp. 671-681, 2009. [PDF]
7. Yan Jun Liu, Yue Bing Zheng, Jinjie Shi, Hua Huang, Thomas R. Walker, and Tony Jun Huang, Optically Switchable Gratings Based on Azo-Dye-Doped, Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals, Optics Letters, Vol. 34, pp. 2351-2353, 2009. [PDF]
8. Bala Krishna Juluri, Ajeet Kumar, Yi Liu, Tao Ye, Ying-Wei Yang, Amar H. Flood, Lei Fang, J. Fraser Stoddart, Paul S. Weiss, Tony Jun Huang, A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles, ACS Nano, Vol. 3, pp. 291-300, 2009. [PDF]
9. Yue Bing Zheng, Ying-Wei Yang, Lasse Jensen, Lei Fang, Bala Krishna Juluri, Amar H. Flood, Paul S Weiss, J. Fraser Stoddart, Tony Jun Huang, Active Molecular Plasmonics: Controlling Plasmon Resonances with Molecular Switches, Nano Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 819–825, 2009. [PDF]
10. Tony Jun Huang, Recent Developments in Artificial Molecular Machine-Based Active Nanomaterials and Nanosystems, MRS Bulletin, Vol. 33, pp. 226-231, 2008. [PDF]
11. Tony Jun Huang, Bala Krishna Juluri, Biological and Biomimetic Molecular Machines, Nanomedicine, Vol. 3, pp. 107-124, 2008. [PDF]
12. Tony Jun Huang, John R. Waldeisen, Biologically Inspired Energy: Harnessing Molecular Functionality towards Nanosystemic Design, Nanomedicine, Vol. 1, pp. 369-372, 2006. [PDF]
13. Tony Jun Huang, Amar Hugh Flood, Branden Brough, Yi Liu, Paul A. Bonvallet, Seogshin Kang, Chih-Wei Chu, Tzung-Fang Guo, Weixing Lu, Yang Yang, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Chih-Ming Ho, Understanding and Harnessing Biomimetic Molecular Machines for NEMS Actuation Materials, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, pp. 254-259, 2006. [PDF]
14. Yi Liu, Amar H. Flood, Paul A. Bonvallet, Scott A. Vignon, Brian H. Northrop, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Jan O. Jeppesen, Tony J. Huang, Branden Brough, Marco Baller, Sergei Magonov, Santiago D. Solares, William A. Goddard, Chih-Ming Ho, and J. Fraser Stoddart, Linear Artificial Molecular Muscles, Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. 127, pp. 9745-9759, 2005. [PDF]
15. Tony Jun Huang, Branden Brough, Chih-Ming Ho, Yi Liu, Amar H. Flood, Paul A. Bonvallet, J. Fraser Stoddart, Marko Baller, Sergei Maganov, A Nanomechanical Device Based on Linear Molecular Motors, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 85, pp. 5391-5393, 2004. (featured as front cover image) [PDF]
16. Tony Jun Huang, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Lin Sha, Weixing Lu, Branden Brough, Amar Flood, Bi–Dan Yu, Paul C. Celestre, Jane P. Chang, J. Fraser Stoddart, Chih-Ming Ho, Mechanical Shuttling of Linear Motor-Molecules in Condensed Phases on Solid Substrates, Nano Letters, Vol. 4, pp. 2065-2071, 2004. [PDF]