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Z.Q. Huang, Y.J. Liu, C.L. Yi, Y. Yang, L. Deng, N.M. Khashab, J.L. Gong*, Z.H. Nie*, Collapsed polymer-directed synthesis of multicomponent coaxial-like nanostructures, Nat. Comm., 2016, 7, 12147.
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P. Huang, J. Lin‡, W.W. Li, P.F. Rong, Z. Wang, S.J. Wang, X.P. Wang, X.L. Sun, M. Aronova, G. Niu, R.D. Leapman, Z.H. Nie*, X.Y. Chen*, Biodegradable gold nanovesicles with ultra-strong plasmonic coupling effect for photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 13958–13964.
Z.L. Wu, M. Moshe, J. Greener, H. Therien-Aubin, Z.H. Nie*, E. Sharon*, E. Kumacheva*, Three-dimensional shape transformations of hydrogel sheets induced by small-scale modulation of internal stresses, Nature Communications 2013, 4, 1586.
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