Chao Wang (Assoc Prof)

 Selected Journal Publications ( ‘*’, corresponding author; ‘†’ first authors)

1. Yeji Choi, Maziyar Kalateh Mohammadi, Scott J. Muller, Jeffrey H. Kordower, and Chao Wang, "Isoform-Specific Tau Protein Monitoring Using a Nanoparticle-Based Rapid Sensing Platform," Under Review, 2026.
2. Abdulla Al Mamun, Jiawei Zuo, Dongyao Wang, Muhammad Fasih, Scott Clemens, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang, "Sub-two-micrometer color printing via photochemical deposition of metallic structures," Under review, 2026.
3. Seyedsina Mirjalili, Yeji Choi, Karuppiah Chockalingam, Benjamin Thomas, Xiaohua He, Zhilei Chen, and Chao Wang, "Nanoparticle-Supported, Point-of-Care Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Infection from Food and Human Specimens," Under review, 2026.
4. Maziyar Kalateh Mohammadi, Mohammad Altarfa, Seyedsina Mirjalili, MD Ashif Ikbal, Yeji Choi, and Chao Wang, "Rapid and Accessible Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Detection Using Digital Nanoparticle Sensors Towards Point-of-Care Cytokine Monitoring," Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Accepted, 2026.
5. Gde Bimananda Mahardika Wisna, Daria Sukhareva, Jonathan Zhao, Deeksha Satyabola, Michael Matthies, Subhajit Roy, Chao Wang, Petr Šulc, Hao Yan, and Rizal F. Hariadi, "High-speed 3D DNA-PAINT and unsupervised clustering for unlocking 3D DNA origami cryptography," Nature Communications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66338-y
6. Pengkun Xia†, Deeksha Satyabola, Nimarpreet Kaur Bamrah, Md Ashiqur Rahman Laskar, Xu Zhou, Abdulla Al Mamun, Gde Bimananda Mahardika Wisna, Yinan Zhang, Ashif Ikbal, Andrew Kemeklis, Alexandra E. Krylova, Rizal Hariadi, Hao Yan*, and Chao Wang*, "DNA Helix Bundle-Encoded Multi-Bit Information Readout by Sapphire-Supported Nanopores," Advanced Functional Materials, pp.e23998, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202523998
7. Yeji Choi†, Seyedsina Mirjalili†, Md Ashif Ikbal, Sean McClure, Maziyar Kalateh Mohammadi, Scott Clemens, Jose Solano, John Heggland, Tingting Zhang, Jiawei Zuo, and Chao Wang, "Nanoparticle-Supported, Rapid, and Electronic Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Antigens at the Subfemtomolar Level," ACS Nano, vol. 19, pp. 30509-30524, 2025. 
   https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c12083
8. Seyedsina Mirjalili†, Md Ashif Ikbal†, Ching-Wen Hou, Maziyar Kalatehmohammdi, Yeji Choi, Laimonas Kelbauskas, Laura A. VanBlargan, Vel Murugan, Michael S. Diamond, and Chao Wang, " Nanoparticle-Supported, Rapid, Digital Quantification of Neutralizing Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 285, pp. 117549, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2025.117549
9. Maziyar Kalateh Mohammadi, Seyedsina Mirjalili, Md Ashif Ikbal, Hao Xie, and Chao Wang*, "Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Thrombospondin-2 Using Nanoparticle Sensors for Cancer Screening and Prognosis," Micromachines, vol. 16, pp. 354, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16030354
10. Jiawei Zuo, Ashutosh Bangalore Aravinda Babu, Mo Tian, Jing Bai, Shinhyuk Choi, Hossain Mansur Resalat Faruque, Smitha S. Swain, Michael N. Kozicki, Chao Wang, and Yu Yao*, "Metasurface-Based Muller Matrix Microscope," Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 34, pp. 2405412, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202405412
11. Shinhyuk Choi†, Jiawei Zuo†, Nabasindhu Das, Yu Yao*, and Chao Wang*, " Scalable Nanoimprint Manufacturing of Functional Multilayer Metasurface Devices," Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 2404852, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202404852
12. MD Ashif Ikbal, Shoukai Kang, Xiahui Chen, Liangcai Gu*, and Chao Wang*, "Picomolar-Level Sensing of Cannabidiol by Metal Nanoparticles Functionalized with Chemically Induced Dimerization Binders," ACS Sensors, vol. 8, pp. 4696–4706, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.3c01758
13. Jiawei Zuo, Jing Bai, Shinhyuk Choi, Ali Basiri, Xiahui Chen, Chao Wang, and Yu Yao*, "Chip-Integrated Full-Stokes Polarimetric CMOS Imaging Sensor," Light: Science & Applications, vol. 12, pp. 218, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01260-w
14. Pengkun Xia, Md Ashiqur Rahman Laskar, and Chao Wang*, "Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Uniform, Micrometer-Sized, Triangular Membranes on Sapphire for High-Speed Protein Sensing in a Nanopore," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, vol. 15, pp. 2656–2664, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c18983
15. Shinhyuk Choi, Zhi Zhao, Jiawei Zuo, Hossain Mansur Resalat Faruque, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang*, "Structural color printing via polymer-assisted photochemical deposition," Light: Science & Application, vol. 11, pp. 84, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00776-x
16. Xiahui Chen †, Shoukai Kang †, MD Ashif Ikbal †, Zhi Zhao, Yuxin Pan, Jiawei Zuo, Liangcai Gu*, and Chao Wang*, "Synthetic Nanobody-Functionalized Nanoparticles for Accelerated Development of Rapid, Accessible Detection of Viral Antigens," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 202, pp. 113971, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2022.113971
17. Zhi Zhao, Xiahui Chen, Jiawei Zuo, Ali Basiri, Shinhyuk Choi, Yu Yao, Yan Liu *, and Chao Wang *, "Deterministic Assembly of Single Emitters in Sub-5 Nanometer Optical Cavity Formed by Gold Nanorod Dimers on Three-Dimensional DNA Origami ", Nano Research, vol. 15, pp. 1327–1337, 2022, arXiv:2104.02916. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3661-z
18. Pengkun Xia, Jiawei Zuo, Pravin Paudel, Shinhyuk Choi, Xiahui Chen, Md Ashiqur Rahman Laskar, Jing Bai, Weisi Song, JongOne Im, and Chao Wang *, "Sapphire-Supported Nanopores for Low-Noise DNA Sensing," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 174, pp. 112829, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112829
19. Zhi Zhao *, Jing Bai, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang*, "Printing Continuous Metal Structures via Polymer-Assisted Photochemical Deposition," Materials Today, vol. 37, pp. 10-17, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2020.03.001
20. Zhi Zhao, Chao Wang, Hao Yan *, and Yan Liu *, "Soft Robotics Programmed with Double Crosslinking DNA Hydrogels," Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 1905911, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201905911
21. Jing Bai, Chu Wang, Xiahui Chen, Ali Basiri, Chao Wang, and Yu Yao *, "On Chip-Integrated Plasmonic Flat Optics for Mid-Infrared Full-Stokes Polarization Detection," Photonics Research, vol. 7, pp. 1051-1060, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.7.001051
22. Ali Basiri, Xiahui Chen, Pouya Amrollahi, Jing Bai, Joe Carpenter, Zachary Holman, Chao Wang *, and Yu Yao *, "Nature-Inspired Chiral Metasurfaces for On-Chip Circularly Polarized Light Detection," Light: Science & Applications, vol. 8, pp. 78, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-019-0184-4
23. Zhi Zhao, Ninad Chamele, Michael Kozicki, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang *, "Photochemical Synthesis of Dendritic Silver Nano-particles for Anti-counterfeiting," J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, vol. 7, pp. 6099-6104, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TC01473J
24. Benjamin H. Wunsch, Sung-Cheol Kim, Stacey M. Gifford, Yann Astier, Chao Wang, Robert L. Bruce, Jyotica V. Patel, Elizabeth A. Duch, Simon Dawes, Gustavo Stolovitzky, and Joshua T. Smith, "Gel-on-a-chip: continuous, velocity-dependent DNA separation using nanoscale lateral displacement", Lab on a Chip, vol. 19, pp. 1567-1578, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8LC01408F
25. Xiahui Chen, Chu Wang, Yu Yao *, and Chao Wang *, "Plasmonic Vertically Coupled Complementary Antennas for Dual-Mode Infrared Molecule Sensing," ACS Nano, vol. 11, pp. 8034-8046, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02687
26. Chao Wang †*, Sung-Wook Nam †, John. M. Cotte, Christopher. V. Jahnes, Evan G. Colgan, Robert L. Bruce, Markus Brink, Michael F. Lofaro, Jyotica V. Patel, Lynne M. Gignac, Eric A. Joseph, Satyavolu Papa Rao, Gustavo Stolovitzky*, Stanislav Polonsky*, and Qinghuang Lin*, "Wafer-Scale Integration of Sacrificial Nanofluidic Chips for Single DNA Molecule Detection and Manipulation," Nature Communications, vol. 8, pp. 14243, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14243
27. Benjamin H. Wunsch †*, Joshua T. Smith†*, Stacey M. Gifford, Chao Wang, Markus Brink, Robert Bruce, Robert H. Austin, Gustavo Stolovitzky*, and Yann Astier, "Nanoscale Lateral Displacement Arrays for Separation of Exosomes and Colloids Down to 20nm," Nat. Nanotechnol., vol. 11, pp. 936–940, 2016.
28. Chao Wang *, Robert L. Bruce, Elizabeth A. Duch, Jyotica V. Patel, Joshua T. Smith, Yann Astier, Benjamin H Wunsch, Siddharth Meshram, Armand Galan, Chris Scerbo, Michael A. Pereira, Deqiang Wang, Evan G. Colgan, Qinghuang Lin, and Gustavo Stolovitzky*, "Hydrodynamics of Diamond-Shaped Gradient Nanopillar Arrays for Effective DNA Translocation into Nanochannels," ACS Nano, vol 9, pp. 1206-1218, 2015.
29. Jingwei Bai†, Deqiang Wang†, Sung-wook Nam, Hongbo Peng, Robert Bruce, Lynne Gignac, Markus Brink, Ernst Kratschmer, Stephen Rossnagel, Philip Waggoner, Kathleen Reuter, Chao Wang, Yann Astier, Venkat Balagurusamy, Binquan Luan, Young Kwark, Eric A. Joseph, Michael A. Guillorn, stas Polonsky, Ajay Royyuru, Satyavolu Papa Rao, and Gustavo Stolovitzky*, "Fabrication of sub-20 nm Nanopore Arrays in Membranes with Embedded Metal Electrodes at Wafer Scales," Nanoscale, vol 6, pp. 8900–8906, 2014.
30. Binquan Luan*, Chao Wang, Ajay Royyuru, and Gustavo Stolovitzky, "Controlling the motion of DNA in a nanochannel with transversal alternating electric voltages," Nanotechnology, vol 25, pp. 265101, 2014.
31. Chao Wang, Qi Zhang, Yu Song, and Stephen Y. Chou*, "Plasmonic Bar-Coupled Dots-on-Pillar Cavity Antenna with Dual Resonances for Infrared Absorption and Sensing: Performance and Nanoimprint Fabrication," ACS Nano, vol. 8, pp. 2618-2624, 2014.
32. Chao Wang, Sung-wook Nam, John M. Cotte, et al., "200 mm Wafer-Scale Integration of Sub-20 nm Sacrificial Nanofluidic Channels for Manipulating and Imaging Single DNA Molecules," In proceeding of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2013.
33. Chao Wang and Stephen Y. Chou, "Integration of metallic nanostructures in fluidic channels for fluorescence and Raman enhancement by nanoimprint lithography and lift-off on compositional resist stack," Microelec. Eng., Vol. 98, pp. 693-697, 2012.
34. Chao Wang, Patrick F. Murphy, Nan Yao, Kevin McIlwrath, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Growth of Straight Silicon Nanowires on Amorphous Substrates with Uniform Diameter, Length, Orientation, and Location Using Nanopatterned Host-Mediated Catalyst," Nano Letters, vol. 11, pp. 5247-5251, 2011.
35. Chao Wang, Zengli Fu, Keith J. Morton, Wen-Di Li, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Printing of Sub-20 nm Wide Graphene Ribbon Arrays by Nanoimprinting Graphite Stamp and Electrostatic Force Assisted Bonding," Nanotechnology, vol. 22, pp. 445301, 2011.
36. Chao Wang, Qiangfei Xia, Wen-Di Li, Zengli Fu, Keith J. Morton, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Fabrication of a 60-nm-Diameter Perfectly Round Metal-Dot Array over a Large Area on a Plastic Substrate Using Nanoimprint Lithography and Self-Perfection by Liquefaction," Small, vol. 6, pp. 1242-1247, 2010.
37. Chao Wang and Stephen Y. Chou, "Self-aligned fabrication of 10 nm wide asymmetric trenches for Si/SiGe heterojunction tunneling field effect transistors using nanoimprint lithography, shadow evaporation, and etching," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 27, pp. 2790-2794, 2009.
38. Chao Wang, Zheyao Wang, Tian-Ling Ren, Yiping Zhu, Yi Yang, Xiaoming Wu, Haining Wang, Huajun Fang, and Litian Liu, "A micromachined piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer operating in d 33 mode using square interdigital electrodes," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, pp. 967-976, 2007.
39. Chao Wang, Tianling Ren, Zheyao Wang, Yiping Zhu, Ningxin Zhang, and Litian Liu, "Fabrication and characterization of in-plane polarized PZT films with interdigital electrodes," Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 88, pp. 3-11, 2007.
40. Chao Wang, Zheyao Wang, Tianling Ren, and Litian Liu, "Design and simulation of a novel operation mode of integrated ferroelectric micro-sensors," Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 78, pp. 59-67, 2006.
41. Zheyao Wang, Chao Wang, and Litian Liu, "Design and analysis of a PZT-based micromachined acoustic sensor with increased sensitivity," IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 52, pp. 1840-1850, 2005.