Our Research


Single Molecule Chemical Imaging

Selected work:

T.X. Huang§, B. Dong§, S. Filbrun, A. Okmi, X. Cheng, M. Yang, N. M. Mansour, S. Lei* and N. Fang*, Single-molecule photocatalytic dynamics at defects of layered two-dimensional InSe, Science Advances, 7, pp. 4452-4460, 2021. [pdf] [SI]

B. Dong*, N. M. Mansour, T.X. Huang, Wenyu Huang*, and N. Fang*, Single molecule fluorescence imaging of nanoconfinement in porous materials, Chemical Society Reviews, 50, pp. 6483-6506, 2021. [pdf]

B. Dong§, Y. Pei§, N. M. Mansour, M. Lu, K. Yang, W. Huang* and N. Fang*, Deciphering nanoconfinement effects on molecular orientation and reaction intermediate by single molecule imaging, Nature Communications, 10, pp. 4815-4820, 2019. [pdf]

B. Dong§, Y. Pei§, F. Zhao, T. Goh, Z. Qi, C. Xiao, K. Chen, W. Huang* and N. Fang*, In situ quantitative single-molecule study of dynamic catalytic processes in nanoconfinement, Nature Catalysis, 1, pp. 135-140, 2018. [pdf]

Single Particle Tracking to Study Cellular Dynamics

Selected work:

X. Cheng§, K. Chen§, B. Dong§, M. Yang, S. Filbrun, Y. Myoung, T.X. Huang, Y. Gu, G. Wang* and N. Fang*, Dynamin-dependent vesicle twist at the final stage of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, Nature Cell Biology, 23, pp. 859-869, 2021. [pdf]

K. Chen§, Y. Gu§, W. Sun§, B. Dong, G. Wang, X. Fan, T. Xia and N. Fang* Characteristic rotational behaviors of rod-shaped cargo revealed by automated five-dimensional single particle tracking, Nature Communications, 8, pp. 887-897, 2017. [pdf]

Super-resolution Imaging

Selected work:

B. Dong§, X. Yang§, S. Zhu, DC. Bassham* and N. Fang*, Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy imaging of microtubule arrays in intact arabidopsis thaliana seedling roots, Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 15694-15708, 2015. [pdf]

JW. Ha§, TPA. Ruberu§, R. Han, B. Dong, J. Vela* and N. Fang*, Super-resolution mapping of photogenerated electron and hole separation in single metal–semiconductor nanocatalysts, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136, pp. 1398-1408, 2014. [pdf]

Combinatorial Spectro-Microscopy Imaging

Selected work:

S. Filbrun, T.X. Huang, F. Zhao, K. Chen, B. Dong*, and N. Fang*, Combinatorial single particle spectro-microscopic analysis of plasmon coupling of gold nanorods on mirror, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021. [pdf] [SI]

F. Zhao, S. Filbrun, T.X. Huang, B. Dong* and N. Fang*, Multiscale evolution of bulk heterojunction solar cell active layers under thermal stress, Analytical Chemistry,93, pp. 1232–1236, 2021. [pdf]