publications
2024
  • Danyang Zhang, Wenju Chang, Jie Shen and Huaqiang Zeng *
    Aromatic foldamer-derived transmembrane transporters.
  • Fei Gou, Qiuting Wang, Zihong Yang, Wenju Chang, Jie Shen*, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Artificial Lithium Channels Built from Polymers with Intrinsic Microporosity.
  • Shaowen Deng, Zhongyan Li, Lin Yuan, Jie Shen, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Light-Powered Propeller-like Transporter for Boosted Transmembrane Ion Transport.
  • Xiyu Yuan, Jie Shen and Huaqiang Zeng *
    Artificial transmembrane potassium transporters: Designs, functions, mechanisms and applications.
  • Ajmal, Z.; Ul Haq, M.; Zaman, S.; Al-Muhanna, M. K.; Kumar, A.; Fadhali, M. M.; Hassine, S. B. H.; Qasim, M.; Alshammari, K. F.; Ashraf, G. A.; Qadeer, A.; Murtaza, A.*; Al-Sulaimi, S.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Addressing the synchronized impact of a novel strontium titanium over copolymerized carbon nitride for proficient solar-driven hydrogen evolution.
  • Ajmal, Z.; Arif, M.; Kumar, A.; Haq, M. U.; Du, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Abboud, M.; Qian, J.*; Chen, Z.; Ni, B.-J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Uniformaly distributed Ru nanoparticles over N, P co-doped porous carbon as a highly active trifunctional electrocatalyst.
  • Shaowen Deng, Zhongyan Li, Lin Yuan, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    An Exceptionally Active and Highly Selective Perchlorate Transporter Containing a Trimesic Amide Scaffold.
2023
  • Ma, H.; Ye, R.; Jin, L.; Zhou, S.; Ren, C.; Ren, H.; Shen, J.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Highly active artificial potassium channels having record-high K+/Na+ selectivity of 20.1.
  • Jie Shen, Deepa R, Zhongyan Li, Hyeonji Oh, Harekrushna Behera, Himanshu Joshi, Manish Kumar, Aleksei Aksimentiev and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Sulfur-Containing Foldamer-Based Artificial Lithium Channels
  • Ning Li,* He-Kuan Luo, Adrielle Xianwen Chen, Jeremy Pang Kern Tan, Chuan Yang, Melgious Jin Yan Ang, Huaqiang Zeng,* and Yi Yan Yang*
    Guanidinium-Perfunctionalized Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes as Highly Potent Antimicrobials against Planktonic Microbes, Biofilms, and Coronavirus
  • Lei Jin, Chang Sun, Zhongyan Li, Jie Shen * and Huaqiang Zeng *
    A K+ -selective channel with a record-high K+ /Na+ selectivity of 20.1
  • Ajmal, Z.; Qadeer, A.; Khan, U.; Bilal Hussain, M.; Irfan, M.; Mehmood, R.; Abid, M.; Djellabi, R.; Kumar, A.; Ali, H.; Kalam, A.; Al-Sehemi, A. G.; Algarni, H.; Al-Hadeethi, Y.; Qian, J.*; Hayat, A.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Current progresses in two-dimensional MXene-based framework:prospects from superficial synthesis to energy conversion and storage applications
2022
  • Shen, J.; Gu, Y.; Ke, L.; Zhang, Q.; Cao, Y.; Lin, Y.; Wu, Z.; Wu, C.; Mu, Y.; Wu, Y.-L.; Ren, C.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Cholesterol-Stabilized Membrane-Active Nanopores with Anticancer Activities.
  • Jie Shen, Arundhati Roy, Himanshu Joshi, Laxmicharan Samineni, Ruijuan Ye, Yu-Ming Tu, Woochul Song, Matthew Skiles, Manish Kumar,* Aleksei Aksimentiev,* and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Fluorofoldamer-Based Salt- and Proton-Rejecting Artificial Water Channels for Ultrafast Water Transport
  • Jie Shen, Ruijuan Ye, Zhiwei Liu, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Hybrid Pyridine–Pyridone Foldamer Channels as M2-Like Artificial Proton Channels
  • Ajmal, Z.; Taha, T. A.; Amin, M. A.; Palamanit, A.; Nawawi, W. I.; Kalam, A.; Al-Sehemi, A. G.; Algarni, H.; Qadeer, A.; Ali, H.; Kumar, A.; Qian, J.*; Hayat, A.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Embedding Aromatic Conjugated Monomer within Carbon Nitride for Efficient Photocatalytic Reduction Reactions
  • Jie Shen, Changliang Ren, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Membrane-Active Molecular Machines
2021
  • ​Roy, A.; Shen, J.; Joshi, H.; Song, W.; Tu, Y.-M.; Chowdhury, R.; Ye, R. J.; Li, N.; Ren, C.; Kumar, M.; Aksimentiev, A.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Foldamer-based ultrapermeable and highly selective artificial water channels that exclude protons
  • Jie Shen, Ruijuan Ye, and Huaqiang Zeng*
    Crystal Packing-Guided Construction of Hetero-Oligomeric Peptidic Ensembles as Synthetic 3-in-1 Transporters
  • Zhang, H.; Ye, R. J.; Mu, Y. G.; Li, T.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Small Molecule-Based Highly Active and Selective K+ Transporters with Potent Anticancer Activities
  • Shen, J.; Han, J. J. Y.; Ye, R. J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Molecular rotors as a class of generally highly active ion transporters
2020
  • Chen, F.; Shen, J.; Li, N.; Roy, A.; Ye, R. J.; Ren, C. L.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Pyridine/Oxadiazole-Based Helical Foldamer Ion Channels with Exceptionally High K+/Na+Selectivity
  • Roy, A.; Joshi, H.; Ye, R. J.; Shen, J.; Chen, F.; Aksimentiev, A.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Polyhydrazide-Based Organic Nanotubes as Efficient and Selective Artificial Iodide Channels
  • Shen, J.; Fan, J.; Ye, R. J.; Li, N.; Mu, Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Polypyridine-Based Helical Amide Foldamer Channels: Rapid Transport of Water and Protons with High Ion Rejection
  • Shen, J.; Ye, R. J.; Romanies, A.; Lin, Y.; Roy, A.; Chen, F.; Ren, C. L., Liu, Z.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Aquafoldmer-Based Aquaporin-like Synthetic Water Channel
  • Li, N.; Chen, F.; Shen, J.; Zhang, H.; Wang, T.; Ye, R. J.; Li, T.; Loh, T.P.; Yang, Y.Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Buckyball-Based Spherical Display of Crown Ethers for De Novo Custom Design of Ion Transport Selectivity
  • Li, N.; Shen, J.; Ang, G. K.; Ye, R. J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Molecular Tetrahedrons as Selective and Efficient Ion Transporters via a Two-Station Swing-Relay Mechanism
  • Lin Yuan*a , Peng Jiang*a , Jingliang Hu*a , Huan Zeng*a , Yanping Huo*b , Zhongyan Li *(a,∗) , Huaqiang Zeng*(c,∗)
    A highly active and selective chalcogen bond-mediated perchlorate channel
  • Li, Z.; Luo, Z.; Zhou, J.; Ye, Z.; Ou, G.-C.; Huo, Y.; Yuan, L.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Monopeptide-Based Powder Gelators for Instant Phase-Selective Gelation of Aprotic Aromatics and for Toxic Dye Removal
2019
2018
  • Ren, C. L.; Zeng, F.; Shen, J.; Chen, F.; Roy, A.; Zhou, S.; Ren, H.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Pore-Forming Monopeptides as Exceptionally Active Anion Channels
  • Ren, C. L.; Ding, Z.; Roy, A.; Shen, J.; Zhou, S. Y.; Chen, F.; Li, S.; Ren, H. S..; Yang, Y. Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    A halogen bond-mediated highly active artificial chloride channel with high anticancer activity†
  • S. Zhao, L. Zeng, G. Cheng, L. Yu,* Zeng, H. Q.*
    Ni/Co-based metal-organic frameworks as electrode material for high performance supercapacitors
  • Li, J.; Huo, Y.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Combinatorial identification of a highly soluble phase-selective organogelator with high gelling capacity for crude oil gelation†
  • Li, J. T.; Huo, Y.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Polar Solvent-Induced Unprecedented Supergelation of (Un)Weathered Crude Oils at Room Temperature
2017
2016
  • Huo, Y. P.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    “Sticky”-Ends-Guided Creation of Functional Hollow Nanopores for Guest Encapsulation and Water Transport
  • Shen, J.; Ren, C. L.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Tuning cation-binding selectivity and capacity via side chain-dependent molecular packing in the solid state†
  • Ren, C.; Ng, G. H. B.; Wu, H.; Chan, K.-H.; Shen, J.; Teh, C.; Ying, J. Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Instant Room-Temperature Gelation of Crude Oil by Chiral Organogelators
  • Huo, Y. P.; Zeng, H. Q.*; Zhang, Y. G.,*
    Integrating Metabolic Engineering and Heterogeneous Chemocatalysis: New Opportunities for Biomass to Chemicals
  • Li, C.; Wu, L.; Chen, L.; Yuan, X.; Cai, Y.; Feng, W.; Liu, N.; Ren, Y.; Sengupta, A.; Murali, M. S.; Mohapatra, P. K.; Tao, G.; Zeng, H. Q.; Ding, S.; Yuan, L.
    Highly efficient extraction of actinides with pillar[5]arene-derived diglycolamides in ionic liquids via a unique mechanism involving competitive host-guest interactions.
  • Ren, C.; Chen, F.; Zhou, F.; Shen, J.; Su, H.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Low-Cost Phase-Selective Organogelators for Rapid Gelation of Crude Oils at Room Temperature
2015
  • Liu, Y.; Shen, J.; Sun, C.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Intramolecularly Hydrogen-Bonded Aromatic Pentamers as Modularly Tunable Macrocyclic Receptors for Selective Recognition of Metal Ions

    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12055–12063.pdf


  • Xiaowei Li, Bao Li, Long Chen, Jinchuan Hu, Chengdanyang Wen, Qingdong Zheng, Lixin Wu, Huaqiang Zeng, Bing Gong,* and Lihua Yuan*
    Liquid-Crystalline Mesogens Based on Cyclo[6]aramides: Distinctive Phase Transitions in Response to Macrocyclic Host–Guest Interactions

    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 127, 11299-11304.pdf


  • Siew Ping Teong, Guangshun Yi, Huaqiang Zeng and Yugen Zhang*
    The effects of emulsion on sugar dehydration to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in a biphasic system†

    Green Chem., 2015, 17,3751.pdf


  • Xiong, J.; Hong, Z.-L.; Gao, L.-X.; Shen, J.; Liu, S.-T.; Yang, G.-X.; Li, J.; Zeng, H. Q.; Hu, J.-F.
    Chlorabietols A–C, Phloroglucinol-Diterpene Adducts from the Chloranthaceae Plant Chloranthus oldhami.
  • Ma, W. L.; Wang, C. Q.; Li, J. T.; Zhang, K.; Lu, Y.-J.; Huo, Y. P.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    The Dynamics, energetics and selectivity of water chain-containing aquapores created by the self-assembly of aquafoldamer molecules†

    Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 10613-10619.pdf


  • Ren, C. L..; Shen, J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    One-Pot Synthesis of Strained Macrocyclic Pyridone Hexamers and Their High Selectivity toward Cu2+ Recognition

    Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5946-5949.pdf


2014
  • Youzhou He, Min Xu, Rongzhao Gao, Xiaowei Li, Fengxue Li, Xuedan Wu, Dingguo Xu,* Huaqiang Zeng, and Lihua Yuan*
    Two-Component Supramolecular Gels Derived from Amphiphilic Shape-Persistent Cyclo[6]aramides for Specific Recognition of Native Arginine**

    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 126, 12028-12033.pdf


  • Zhao, H. Q.; Sheng, S.; Hong, Y. H.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Proton Gradient-Induced Water Transport Mediated by Water Wires Inside Narrow Aquapores of Aquafoldamer Molecules
  • Fu, H. L.; Chang, H.; Shen, J.; Lu, Y.-J.; Qin, B.*; Zhang, K.*; Zeng, H. Q.*
    An unusual macrocyclization reagent for highly selective one-pot synthesis of strained macrocyclic aromatic hexamers

    Chem. Commun., 2014,50,3582.pdf


  • Hu, J. C.; Chen, L.; Shen, J.; Luo, J.; Deng, P. C.; Ren, Y.; Zeng, H. Q.; Feng, W.; Yuan, L. H.
    Convergent heteroditopic cyclo[6]aramides as macrocyclic ion-pair receptors for constructing [2]pseudorotaxanes. Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8024

    Chem. Commun., 2014,50,8024.pdf


  • Shen, J.; Ma, W. L.; Yu, L.; Li, J.-B.; Tao, H.-C.; Zhang, K.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Size-dependent patterned recognition and extraction of metal ions by a macrocyclic aromatic pyridone pentamer

    Chem. Commun., 2014,50,12730.pdf


  • Sun, C.; Liu, Y.; Liu, J. Q.; Lu, Y.-J.; Yu, L.; Zhang, K.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Computational Insights into Processes Underlying the AmineInduced Fluorescence Quenching of a Stimuli-Responsive PhenolBased Hexameric Foldamer Host
  • Liu, J. Q.; Sun, C.; Ma, W. L.; Lu, Y.-J.; Yu, L.; Zhanga, K.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    A conformationally switchable flfluorescent oligophenol foldamer for selective sensing of copper(II) ions†

    RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 54469.pdf


2013
  • Zhao, H. Q.; Shen, J.; Guo, J. J.; Ye, R. J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    A macrocyclic aromatic pyridone pentamer as a highly efficient organocatalyst for the direct arylations of unactivated arenes†
  • Fu, H. L.; Liu, Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Shape-persistent H-bonded macrocyclic aromatic pentamers†
  • Sun, C.; Ren, C. L.; Wei, Y. C.; Qin, B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Patterned recognition of amines and ammonium ions by a stimuli-responsive foldamer-based hexameric oligophenol host
  • Ong, W. Q.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Rapid construction of shape-persistent H-bonded macrocycles via one-pot H-bonding-assisted macrocyclization
2012
  • Zhao, H. B.; Hong, N.; Lu W. Q.; Zeng, H. Q.; Song, J. X.; Hong, Y. H.
    Fusion Gene Vectors Allowing for Simultaneous Drug Selection, Cell Labeling, and Reporter Assay in Vitro and in Vivo
  • Ong, W. Q.; Zhao, H. Q.; Sun, C.; Wu, J. E.; Wong, Z. C.; Li, S. F. Y.; Hong, Y. H.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Patterned recognition of amines and ammonium ions by a pyridine-based helical oligoamide host
  • Zhao, H. Q.; Ong, W. Q.; Zhou, F.; Fang, X.; Chen, X. Y.; Li, S. F. Y.; Su, H. B.; Cho, N.-J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Chiral crystallization of aromatic helical foldamers via complementarities in shape and end functionalities
  • Zhao, H. Q.; Ong, W. Q.; Fang, X.; Zhou, F.; Hii, M. N.; Li, S. F. Y.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Synthesis, structural investigation and computational modelling of water-binding aquafoldamers
  • Du, Z. Y.; Qin, B.; Sun, C.; Liu, Y.; Zheng, X.; Zhang, K.; Conney, A. H.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Folding-promoted TBAX-mediated selective demethylation of methoxybenzene-based macrocyclic aromatic pentamers
  • Zhou, F, Fu, H. L.; Ong, W. Q.; Ye, R. J.; Yuan, W. X.; Lu, Y.-J.; Huo, Y.-P.; Zhang, K.; Su, H. B. and Zeng, H. Q.*
    Locking high energy 1D chain of dichloromethane molecules containing abnormally short Cl⋯Cl contacts of 2.524 Å inside organic crystals†
  • Liu, Y.; Qin, B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    POCl3-mediated H-bonding-directed one-pot synthesis of macrocyclic pentamers, strained hexamers and highly strained heptamers
2011
  • Ren, C. L.; Zhou, F.; Qin, B.; Ye, R. J.; Shen, S.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Crystallographic Realization of the Mathematically Predicted Densest All-Pentagon Packing Lattice by C5-Symmetric “Sticky” Fluoropentamers
  • Qin, B.; Shen, S.; Sun, C.; Du, Z. Y.; Zhang, K.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    One-Pot Multimolecular Macrocyclization for the Expedient Synthesis of Macrocyclic Aromatic Pentamers by a Chain Growth Mechanism
  • Qin, B.; Ong, W. Q.; Ye, R. J.; Du, Z. Y.; Chen, X. Y.; Yan, Y.; Zhang, K.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Highly selective one-pot synthesis of H-bonded pentagon-shaped circular aromatic pentamers
  • Ong, W. Q.; Zhao, H. Q.; Du, Z. Y.; Yeh, J. Z. Y.; Ren, C. L.; Tan, L. Z. W.; Zhang, K.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Computational prediction and experimental verification of pyridine-based helical oligoamides containing four repeating units per helical turn
  • Du, Z. Y.; Ren, C. L.; Ye, R. J.; Shen, J.; Lu, Y. J.; Wang, J.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    BOP-mediated one-pot synthesis of C5-symmetric macrocyclic pyridone pentamers
  • Ren, C. L.; Maurizot, V.; Zhao, H. Q.; Shen, J.; Zhou, F.; Ong, W. Q.; Du, Z. Y.; Zhang, K.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Five-Fold-Symmetric Macrocyclic Aromatic Pentamers: High-Affinity Cation Recognition, Ion-Pair-Induced Columnar Stacking, and Nanofibrillation
  • Qin, B.; Sun, C.; Liu, Y.; Shen, J.; Ye, R. J.; Zhu, J.; Duan, X.-F.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    One-Pot Synthesis of Hybrid Macrocyclic Pentamers with Variable Functionalizations around the Periphery
  • Ong, W. Q.; Zhao, H. Q.; Fang, X.; Woen, S.; Zhou, F.; Yap, W. L.; Su, H. B.; Li, S. F. Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Encapsulation of Conventional and Unconventional Water Dimers by Water-Binding Foldamers
  • Ren, C. L.; Xu, S. Y.; Xu, J.; Chen, H. Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Planar Macrocyclic Fluoropentamers as Supramolecular Organogelators
  • Qin, B.; Jiang, L.; Shen, S.; Sun, C.; Yuan, W.; Li, S. F. Y.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Folding-Promoted TBACl-Mediated Chemo- and Regioselective Demethylations of Methoxybenzene-Based Macrocyclic Pentamers
2010
  • Yan, Y.; Qin, B.; Ren, C. L.; Chen, X. Y.; Yip, Y. K.; Ye, R. J.; Zhang, D. W.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Synthesis, Structural Investigations, Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Studies, and Molecular Modeling of Conformationally Stablilized Aromatic Oligoamides
  • Qin, B.; Ren, C. L.; Ye, R. J.; Sun, C.; Chiad, K.; Chen, X. Y.; Li, Z.; Xue, F.; Su, H. B.; Chass, G. A.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Persistently Folded Circular Aromatic Amide Pentamers Containing Modularly Tunable Cation-Binding Cavities with High Ion Selectivity
  • ​ Caili Fu, Wei Chen, Yi Ling Quek, Runyan Ni, Amylia Bte Abdul Ghani, Wendy Wen Yi Leong, Huaqiang Zeng, Dejian Huang*
    Sustainability from agricultural waste: chiral ligands from oligomeric proanthocyanidins via acid-mediated depolymerization
2009
  • Wei Xu, Xuejia Xue, Tianhu Li, Huaqiang Zeng, and Xiaogang Liu*
    Ultrasensitive and Selective Colorimetric DNA Detection by Nicking Endonuclease Assisted Nanoparticle Amplification
  • Zhou, T.; Li, X.; Ng, M. T. T.; Guo, J.; Yuan, W.; Tan, C. H.; Zeng, H. Q.; Li, T.
    Synthesis and Characterization of Circular Structures of i-Motif Tagged with Fluoresceins
  • Yan, Y.; Qin, B.; Shu, Y. Y.; Chen, X. Y.; Yip, Y. K.; Zhang, D. W.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Helical Organization in Foldable Aromatic Oligoamides by a Continuous Hydrogen-Bonding Network
2008
  • Qin, B.; Chen, X. Y.; Fang, X.; Shu, Y. Y.; Yip, Y. K.; Yan, Y.; Pan, S. Y.; Ong, W. Q.; Ren, C. L.; Su, H. B.; Zeng, H. Q.*
    Crystallographic Evidence of an Unusual, Pentagon-Shaped Folding Pattern in a Circular Aromatic Pentamer
2007-1997