Xuehua Zhang

Efficient photoinduced charge transfer in chemically-linked organic-metal Ag-P3HT nanocomposites

Lin Feng, Ming Chen, Fei Zheng, Meng-Si Niu, Xuehua Zhang, Xiao-Tao Hao

Journal article  |  2016  |  OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS

A novel nanocomposite of P3HT and Ag nanoparticles (Ag-P3HT) has been synthesized by laser ablation. The fluorescence wavelength o..

Super-Soft Hydrogel Particles with Tunable Elasticity in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model

Jiwei Cui, Mattias Bjoernmalm, Kang Liang, Chenglong Xu, James P Best, Xuehua Zhang, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2014  |  ADVANCED MATERIALS

Super-soft PEG hydrogel particles with tunable elasticity are prepared via a mesoporous silica templating method. The deformabilit..

Microwetting of supported graphene on hydrophobic surfaces revealed by polymerized interfacial femtodroplets.

Shuhua Peng, Detlef Lohse, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  Langmuir

Understanding the wettability of graphene is the crucial step toward the design and control of graphene-based surface in contact w..

Interfacial Nanobubbles Are Leaky: Permeability of the Gas/Water Interface

Sean R German, Xi Wu, Hongjie An, Vincent SJ Craig, Tony L Mega, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  ACS NANO

Currently there is no widespread agreement on an explanation for the stability of surface nanobubbles. One means by which several ..

Interfacial nanodroplets guided construction of hierarchical Au, Au-Pt, and Au-Pd particles as excellent catalysts

Aijing Ma, Jie Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Bin Zhang, Dayang Wang, Haolan Xu

Journal article  |  2014  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Interfacial nanodroplets were grafted to the surfaces of self-sacrificed template particles in a galvanic reaction system to assis..

Surface Nanobubbles Nucleate Microdroplets

Xuehua Zhang, Henri Lhuissier, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse

Journal article  |  2014  |  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

When a hydrophobic solid is in contact with water, surface nanobubbles often form at the interface. They have a lifetime many orde..

Surfactant-mediated formation of polymeric microlenses from interfacial microdroplets

Haijun Yang, Shuhua Peng, Xiaotao Hao, Trevor A Smith, Greg G Qiao, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  SOFT MATTER

Nano- and micro-scale lenses have a range of potential applications, such as in antireflective layers in photovoltaic or light emi..

Synthesis of Anisotropic, Amphiphilic Grafted Multi-Star Polymers and Investigation of their Self-Assembling Characteristics

Anton Blencowe, Jing Fung Tan, Tor Kit Goh, Kenneth N Goldie, Xuehua Zhang, Greg G Qiao

Journal article  |  2014  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Herein, we report the synthesis of amphiphilic multi-star architectures consisting of discrete poly(methacrylic acid)-based core c..

Spatial organization of surface nanobubbles and its implications in their formation process

Henri Lhuissier, Detlef Lohse, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  SOFT MATTER

We study the size and spatial distribution of surface nanobubbles formed by the solvent exchange method to gain insight into the m..

Optical Characterisation of Non-Covalent Interactions between Non-Conjugated Polymers and Chemically Converted Graphene

Yufei Wang, Xueliang Hou, Chi Cheng, Ling Qiu, Xuehua Zhang, George P Simon, Dan Li

Journal article  |  2014  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Optical characterisation using dye molecules as probes was used to study the non-covalent interactions between chemically converte..