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Jing Sun, Ruofan Yang, Qingsong Li*, Runtao Zhu, Ying Jiang, Lei Zang, Zhibo Zhang, Wei Tong, Hang Zhao, Tengfei Li, Hanfei Li, Dianpeng Qi, Guanglin Li, Xiaodong Chen, Zhuojun Dai*, Zhiyuan Liu* " Living Synthelectronics: A New Era for Bioelectronics Powered by Synthetic Biology". Advanced Materials in press (2024) 

Runtao Zhu, Jiao Zhang, Lin Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Yang Zhao, Ying Han, Jing Sun, Xi Zhang, Ying Dou, Huaxiong Yao, Wei Yan, Xiaozhou Luo, Junbiao Dai and Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering functional materials through bacteria-assisted living grafting". Cell Systems  (2024) 20:15(3): 264-274. Cover Story of March issue. Associated with the Preview written by Prof Shrikrishnan Sankaran

Xi Zhang, PengCheng Li, Weijie Wang, Wenjuan Zhao, Shengkui Dai, Jie Wang, Nan Li and Zhuojun Dai* "Self-lysis microbial consortia for predictable multi-proteins assembly". Bioorganic Chemistry 144, 107117 (2024) 

Jiao Zhang#, Jiangfeng Chen#, Yixuan Chen#, Lei Dai and Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering microbial consortia through synthetic biology approach". Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 39 (5), 2517-2545 (2023) Invited Review

Bo Wang and Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering Photosynthetic Microbial Consortia for Carbon-Negative Biosynthesis". Angewandte Chemie (2023) 

Jiren Luo, Jiangfeng Chen, Yaoge Huang, Lingchong You and Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering living materials by synthetic biology". Biophysics Review. 4, 011305 (2023) Highlighted by Biophysics Rev as Cover Story

Chenwang Tang#, Lin Wang#, Lei Zang, Qing Wang, Dianpeng Qi*, Zhuojun Dai"On demand biomanufacturing through synthetic biology approach". Materials Today Bio 2022:18:100518

Bolin An, Yanyi Wang, Yuanyuan Huang, Xinyu Wang, Yuzhu Liu, Dongmin Xun, George M. Church, Zhuojun Dai*, Xiao Yi*, Tzu-Chieh Tang*, and Chao Zhong*"Engineered Living Materials For Sustainability". Chemical Review, 2022

Lin Wang, Xi Zhang, Chenwang Tang, Pengcheng Li, Runtao Zhu, Jing Sun, Yunfeng Zhang, Hua Cui, Jiajia Ma, Xinyu Song, Weiwen Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xiaozhou Luo, Lingchong You, Ye Chen & Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering consortia by polymeric microbial swarmbots". Nature Communications, 202213: 3879. Highlighted by the editor in Biotechnology and Method section.  

Hao Wang, Lin Wang, Baihua Zhong, Zhuojun Dai* "Protein Splicing of Inteins: a powerful tool in synthetic biology". Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022,10: 810180. (Invited Review)

Runtao Zhu,Chao Zhong*,Zhuojun Dai* “Biofilm matrixes – from soft matters to engineered materials”, Synth. Biol. J., 2022, 1-13. (in Chinese, invited review)

Baizhu Chen, Wei Kang#, Jing Sun#, Runtao Zhu#, Yue Yu, Aiguo Xia, Mei Yu, Meng Wang, Jinyu Han, Yixuan Chen, Lijun Teng, Qiong Tian, Yin Yu, Guanglin Li, Lingchong You, Zhiyuan Liu* & Zhuojun Dai*. "Programmable living assembly of materials by bacterial adhesion". Nature Chemical Biology, 2022, 18:289-294. Associated with news and views written by Prof. Tom Ellis in Nature Chemical Biology. 

Zhuojun Dai*, Xiaoyu Yang, Feilun Wu, Lihua Wang, Kun Xiang, Pengcheng Li, Qingqing Lv, Jinhui Tang, Anders Dohlman, Lei Dai, Xiling Shen, Lingchong You*. "Living fabrication of functional semi-interpenetrating polymeric materials". Nature Communications. 2021.12, Article number: 3422 (2021).

Xi Zhang, Pengcheng Li, Jiandong Huang*, Zhuojun Dai* "Application of synthetic biology in living functional materials", Chinese Science Bulletin, 2020, 66(3) (in Chinese, invited review)

Baizhu Chen, Zhuojun Dai*."Combination of versatile platforms for the development of synthetic biology". Quantitative Biology. 2020, 1-7. Invited review. 

Zhuojun Dai, Anna J. Lee, Stefan Roberts, Tatyana A. Sysoeva, Shuqiang Huang, Michael Dzuricky, Xiaoyu Yang, Xi Zhang, Zihe Liu, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Lingchong You*. "Versatile biomanufacturing through stimulus-responsive cell-material feedback". Nature Chemical Biology. 2019, 1017-1024.

Ryan Tsoi, Zhuojun Dai, and Lingchong You*. "Emerging strategies for engineering microbial communities". Biotechnology Advances. 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.03.011.

Zhuojun Dai*, Shuqiang Huang. "Functional dynamics inside nano- or microscale bio-hybrid systems". Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018,18;6:621. Invited review

Before 2018.9

Anna J. Lee, Shangying Wang, Hannah R. Meredith, Bihan Zhuang, Zhuojun Dai and Lingchong You*. "Robust, Linear correlations between growth rates and β-lactam-mediated lysis rates", Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2018, 115 (16), 4069-4074.

Zhuojun Dai*, Yinglan Shu, Chao Wan*, Chi Wu, “Effects of Culture Substrate Made of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) Microgels on Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells", Molecules. 2016, 21(9).

Zhuojun Dai*, Yinglan Shu, Chao Wan*, Chi Wu, “Effects of pH and Thermally Sensitive Hybrid Gels on Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells",Journal of Biomaterials Applications2015, 29(9):1272-83.

Zhuojun Dai, To Ngai*, “Microgel Particles: The structure-property relationships and their biomedical applications",Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 2013, 51(14), 2995–3003.

Zhuojun Dai, Chi Wu*, "How does DNA complex with PEI with different chain lengths and topologies in their aqueous solution mixtures?", Macromolecules. 2012, 45, 4346-4353.

Yanan Yue, Fan Jin, Rui Deng, Jinge Cai, Zhuojun Dai, Marie CM Lin, Hsiang-Fu Kung, Maria A Mattebjerg, Thomas L Andresen, Chi Wu*, “Revisit complexation between DNA and polyethylenimine—Effect of length of free polycationic chains on gene transfection", Journal of controlled release. 2011,152(1):143-151.

Zhuojun DaiTorben Gjetting, Maria A Mattebjerg, Chi Wu, Thomas L Andresen*, “Elucidating the interplay between DNA-condensing and free polycations in gene transfection through a mechanistic study of linear and branched PEI", Biomaterials2011, 32(33), 8626-8634. 

Zhuojun Dai, To Ngai* and Chi Wu, “Internal motions of linear chains and spherical microgels in dilute solution", Soft Matter. 2011, 7, 4111-4121.

Zhuojun Dai and Chi Wu*, “Internal motions of linear chains and spherical microgels in theta and poor solvents", Macromolecules. 2010, 43, 10064–10070.