Publications
Before joining HKU:
  1. Jia N, Liu N, Cheng W, Jiang YL, Sun H, Chen LL, Peng JH, Zhang YH, Ding YH, Zhang ZH, Wang XJ, Cai G, Wang JF, Dong MQ, Zhang ZY, Wu H, Wang HW*, Chen YX*, and Zhou CZ*. (2016) Structural basis for receptor recognition and pore formation of a zebrafish aerolysin-like protein. EMBO Reports. 17, 235-248. DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540851.
  2. Liu N#, Zhang JC#, Chen YN#,*, Liu C, Zhang X, Xu K, Wen J, Luo ZP, Chen SL, Gao P, Jia KC, Liu ZF, Peng HL*, Wang HW*. (2019) Bioactive functionalized monolayer graphene for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141, 4016-4025. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13038. Featured in Spotlights in JACS publications.
  3. Li L, Yi JD, Fang ZB, Wang XS, Liu N, Chen YN, Liu TF, Cao R*. (2019) Creating Giant Secondary Building Layers via Alkali-Etching Exfoliation for Precise Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks. Chemistry of Materials. 31, 7584-7589. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b02375.
  4. Liu N#, Dong XD#, Hu CX, Zeng JW, Wang JW, Wang J, Wang HW*, Belfort M*. (2020) Exon and protein positioning in a pre-catalytic group II intron RNP primed for splicing. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(19):11185-11198. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa773.
  5. Xu K#, Liu N#, Xu JL, Guo CL, Zhao LY, Wang HW, Zhang QC*. (2020) VRmol: an Integrative Web-Based Virtual Reality System to Explore Macromolecular Structure. Bioinformatics. 37(7): 1029-1031. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa696.
  6. Zheng LM#, Chen YN#, Li N#, Zhang JC, Liu N, Liu JJ, Dang WH, Deng B, Li YB, Gao XY, Tan CW, Yang Z, Xu SP, Wang MZ, Yang H, Sun LZ, Cui Y, Wei XD, Gao P*, Wang HW*, Peng HL*. (2020) Scalable fabrication of robust ultraclean graphene grids for atomic-resolution electron microscopy. Nature Communications. 11: 541. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14359-0.
  7. Liu JL, Liu N, Wang HW*, Shi WX*, Zhuang J, Wang X* (2020) Hybrid MoO3-POM sub-1 nm nanobelt superstructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142, 17557–17563. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c07375.
  8. Liu JL, Wang SB, Liu N, Yang DR, Wang HW*, Hu HS*, Zhuang J, Wang X*. (2020) Au-Polyoxometalates A-B-A-B Type Copolymer-Analogue Sub-1 nm Nanowires. Small. 17, 2006260. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202006260.
  9. Liu N#, Zheng LM#, Xu J#, Wang J#, Hu CX, Lan J, Zhang X, Zhang JC, Xu K, Cheng H, Yang Z, Gao X, Wang XQ, Peng HL*, Chen YN*, Wang HW*. (2021) Reduced graphene oxide membrane as supporting film for high-resolution cryo-EM. Biophysics Reports. 7(3): 227-238. DOI: 10.52601/bpr.2021.210007. Cover story.
  10. Chen J#, Liu N#, Huang YP#, Wang YX#, Sun YX#, Wu QC, Li DR, Gao SH, Wang HW*, Huang N*, Qi XB*, and Wang XD*. (2021) Structure of PDE3A–SLFN12 Complex and Structure-based Design for A Potent Apoptosis Inducer of Tumor Cells. Nature Communications. 12, 6204. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26546-8. Featured in Editors’ Highlights.
  11. Zheng LM#, Liu N#, Liu Y#, Li N, Zhang, J.C, Wang, C.Z, Zhu, W.Q, Chen, Y.N, Ying, D.C, Xu, J, Yang, Z, Gao XY, Tang JL, Wang XG, Liang ZB, Zou RQ, Li YZ, Gao P, Wei XD*, Wang HW*, and Peng HL*. (2021) Atomically Thin Bilayer Janus Membranes for Cryo-electron Microscopy. ACS Nano. 15(10):16562-16571. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06233.
  12. Yan RH#, Wang RK#, Ju B#, Yu JF#, Zhang YY#, Liu N#, Wang J, Zhang Q, Li YN, Zhong XY, Wang HW, Wang XQ, Zhang Z*, Zhang LQ* and Zhou Q*. (2021) Structural basis for bivalent binding and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 infection by human potent neutralizing antibodies. Cell Research. 31, 517–525. DOI: 10.1038/s41422-021-00487-9.
  13. Xu J#, Cui XY#, Liu N#, Chen YN*, Wang HW*. (2021) Structural engineering of graphene for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy. SmartMat. 2:202–212. DOI: 10.1002/smm2.1045. (Review).
  14. Zhang SM, Liu N, Wang HW, Lu QC, Shi WX*, Wang X*. (2021) Sub‐Nanometer Nanobelts Based on Titanium Dioxide/Zirconium Dioxide–Polyoxometalate Heterostructures. Advanced Materials. 33(23): 2100576. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202100576.
  15. Zhang JC#, Jia KC#, Huang YF, Wang YN, Liu N, Chen YN, Liu XT, Liu XJ, Zhu YS, Zheng LM, Chen H, Liang FS, Zhang MQ, Duan XJ, Wang HW, Lin L*, Peng HL*, and Liu ZF*. (2021) Hydrophilic, Clean Graphene for Cell Culture and Cryo-EM Imaging. Nano Letters. 21(22):9587-9593. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03344.
  16. Lu Y#, Liu N#,*, Liu YB#, Zheng LM#, Yang JH, Wang J, Zi QR, Peng HL*, Rao Y*, Wang HW*. (2022) Functionalized graphene grids with various charges for single-particle cryo-EM. Nature Communications. 13(1):6718. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34579-w.
  17. Li D#, Liu N#, Zeng M, Ji JZ, Chen X*, Yuan JY*. (2022) Customizable nano-sized colloidal tetrahedra by polymerization-induced particle self-assembly (PIPA). Polymer Chemistry. 13:3529. DOI: 10.1039/D2PY00407K.
  18. Liu JL#, Li YQ#, Chen Z, Liu N, Zheng LR, Shi WX*, and Wang X*. (2022) Polyoxometalate cluster-incorporated high entropy oxide sub-1 nm nanowires. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(50):23191–23197. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10602.
  19. Su S#, Wang J#, Deng T, Yuan X, He J, Liu N, Li XM, Huang Y, Wang HW*, Ma JB*. (2022) Structural insights into dsRNA processing by Drosophila Dicer-2-Loqs-PD. Nature. 607(7918):399-406. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04911-x.
  20. Liu N and Wang HW*. (2023) Better Cryo-EM Specimen Preparation: How to Deal with the Air–Water Interface? Journal of Molecular Biology 435(9):167926. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167926. (Review)
  21. Zheng LM#, Liu N#,*, Gao XY#, Zhu WQ, Yan R, Zhang JC, Gao X, Yao YT, Deng B, Xu J, Lu Y, Wei XD*, Wang HW*, and Peng HL*. (2023) Uniform thin ice on ultraflat graphene for high-resolution cryo-EM. Nature Methods. 20:123–130. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01693-y.
  22. Cheng H#, Zheng LM#, Liu N#, Huang CY, Xu J, Lu Y, Cui XY, Xu K, Hou Y, Tang JC, Zhang Z, Li J, Ni XD, Chen YN*, Peng HL*, Wang HW*. (2023) Dual-affinity graphene sheets for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(14): 8073–8081. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00659.
  23. Liang HS, Ma XY, Zhang YY, Liu YH, Liu N, Zhang WY, Chen JH, Liu BQ, Du WQ, Liu XH, Yu L*. (2023) The formation of migrasomes is initiated by the assembly of sphingomyelin synthase 2 foci at the leading edge of migrating cells. Nature Cell Biology. 25(8):1173-1184. DOI:10.1038/s41556-023-01188-8.
  24. Zhou J#, Wang AH#, Song YL, Liu N, Wang J, Li Y, Liang X, Li GH, Chu HY*, Wang HW*. (2023) Structural insights into the mechanism of GTP initiation of microtubule assembly. Nature Communications. 25;14(1):5980. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41615-w.
  25. Xu J#, Gao XY#, Zheng LM#, Jia X, Xu K, Ma YW, Wei XD, Liu N*, Peng HL*, Wang HW*. (2024) Graphene sandwich-based biological specimen preparation for cryo-EM analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(5):e2309384121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2309384121. Featured in Research Highlights by Nature Methods.
  26. Liu N, Wang HW*. (2024) Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. (Review) 86:102823. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2024.102823
  27. Zheng LM#, Xu J#, Wang WH#, Gao XY#, Zhao C*, Guo WJ, Sun LZ, Cheng H, Meng FH, Chen BH, Sun WY, Jia X, Zhou X, Wu K, Liu ZF, Ding F, Liu N*, Wang H-W*, Peng HL*. (2024) Self-assembled superstructure alleviates air-water interface effect in cryo-EM. Nature Communications. 15:7300. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51696-w

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