Peer-reviewed journal articles
1. Wu Y, Martino N, et al., Yun S. (In Preparation)
2. Kuang X‡, Wang Z‡, Arıcan M. O., Lian Vidal R. R., L., Wang M, Maharjan S, Wu Y, Flores R. S., Li W, Mei X, Fitzgibbon J. J., Heindel P. V., Ozaki C. K., and Zhang Y. S.*, Cell-Instructive Biphasic Tough Hydrogels Enable Biofabricating Physiologically Relevant Tissues. (To be submitted).
3. Martino N, Yan H, Abbott G, Fahlberg M, Forward S, Zhu H, Wu Y, and Kwok S, Yun S. Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles. Light Sci Appl 14, 148 (2025).
4. Sarkar D, Dannenberg PH, Martino N, Kim K, Wu Y, Yun S. Precise photoelectrochemical tuning of semiconductor microdisk lasers. Advanced Photonics, 2023 September; 5(5):056004.
5. Yan H, Forward S, Kim K, Wu Y, Hui J, Kashiparekh A, Yun S. All-natural-molecule, bioluminescent photodynamic therapy results in complete tumor regression and prevents metastasis, Biomaterials, 2023, 296: 122079.
6. Dong X, Yu P, Zhao J, Wu Y, Ali M, El-Sayed M, and Jianping Wang. Structural Dynamics of (RGD)4PGC Peptides in Solvated and Au Nanorod Surface-Bound Forms Examined by Ultrafast 2D IR Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023, 127 (7), 3532-3541.
7. Dannenberg PH, Liapis AC, Martino N, Kang J, Wu Y, Kashiparekh A, Yun S. Multi-layer fabrication of a rainbow of microdisk laser particles across a 500 nm bandwidth, ACS Photonics. 2021, 8, 5, 1301.
8. Wu Y, Ali M, Chen K, Fang N, El-Sayed M. Gold Nanoparticle in Biological Optical Imaging, Nano Today, 2019, 24:120. (336 citations)
9. Ali M‡, Wu Y‡, El-Sayed M. Gold-Nanoparticle-Assisted Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy Advances Toward Clinical Application, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123:15375. (‡ Equal-first author)
10. Wu Y, Ali M, Dansby K, El-Sayed M. Improving the Flow Cytometry based Detection of the Cellular Uptake of Gold Nanoparticles, Anal. Chem., 2019, 91:14261.
11. Ali M, Wu Y, Chapman S, Ding Y. Synthesis, structure evolution, and optical properties of gold nanobones. Research on Chemical Intermediates. 2019/08; 45(8):3973-3983.
12. Ali MRK, Farghali HAM, Wu Y, El-Sayed I, Osman AH, Selim SA, El-Sayed M. Gold Nanorod-Assisted Photothermal Therapy Decreases Bleeding during Breast Cancer Surgery in Dogs and Cats. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Jun 19;11(6).
13. Wu Y‡, Chen J‡, Liu Z, Wang F. Identification of pyridoxal phosphate modified proteins using mass spectrometry, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom, 2018, 32:195. (‡ Equal-first author)
14. Wu Y‡, Ali M‡, Dong B, Han T, Chen K, Chen J, Tang Y, Fang N, Wang F, El-Sayed M, Gold Nanorod-Photothermal Therapy Alters Cell Junctions and Actin Network in Inhibiting Cancer Cell Collective Migration. ACS Nano, 2018, 12:9279. (‡ Equal-first author)
15. Ali M‡, Wu Y‡, Ghosh D, Do B, Chen K, Dawson M, Fang N, Sulchek,T, El-Sayed M. Nuclear Membrane-Targeted Gold Nanoparticles Inhibit Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion, ACS Nano 2017,11:3716. (‡ Equal-first author)
16. Ali M‡, Wu Y‡, Tang Y, Xiao H, Chen K, Han T, Fang N, Wu R, El-Sayed M. Targeting Cancer Cell Integrins Using Gold Nanorods in Photothermal Therapy Inhibits Its Migration by Affecting Cytoskeleton Proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 2017, 114: E5655. (‡ Equal-first author)
News coverage:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/589284
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626181045.htm
17. Ali MR, Rahman MA, Wu Y, Han T, Peng X, Mackey MA, Wang D, Shin HJ, Chen ZG, Xiao H, Wu R, Tang Y, Shin DM, El-Sayed MA. Efficacy, long-term toxicity, and mechanistic studies of gold nanorods photothermal therapy of cancer in xenograft mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Apr 11;114(15):E3110-E3118.
18. Ali M‡, Wu Y‡, Han T, Zang X, Xiao H, Tang Y, Wu R, Fernandez F, El-Sayed M. Simultaneous Time-dependent Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Metabolomics, and Proteomics Reveal Cancer Cell Death Mechanisms Associated with Au-Nanorod Photo-thermal Therapy. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138:15434. (‡ Equal-first author)
19. Zhou Y‡, Wu Y‡, Yao M, Liu Z, Chen J, Chen J, Tian L, Han G, Shen J, Wang F. Probing the lysine proximal microenvironments within membrane protein complexes by active dimethyl labeling and mass spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 2016, 88:12060. (‡ Equal-first author)
20. Ali HR, Ali MR, Wu Y, Selim SA, Abdelaal HF, Nasr EA, El-Sayed MA. Gold Nanorods as Drug Delivery Vehicles for Rifampicin Greatly Improve the Efficacy of Combating Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Good Biocompatibility with the Host Cells. Bioconjug Chem. 2016 Oct 19;27(10):2486-2492.
21. Wu Y, Wang F, Liu Z, Qin H, Song C, Huang J, Bian Y, Wei X, Dong J, Zou H, Five-plex isotope dimethyl labeling for quantitative proteomics. Chem. Commun., 2014, 50:1708. (Journal impact factor: 6.222)
Patents
Yun S, Wu Y, Martino N, Kwok S, Cellular Coding Constructs Providing Identification of Cellular Entities, U.S. Patent App., US20230272372A1(2023)