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Overview

Chuanlai Xu is affiliated with Jiangnan University in China and has an extensive research profile centered on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering.

Their work spans several key subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Food Science, and Animal Science and Zoology. Xu's research interests focus on advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, and the development of advanced biosensing techniques and applications. Other notable topics in their work include pesticide residue analysis and safety, nanocluster synthesis and applications, pharmacological effects and assays, and analytical chemistry methods development.

Frequently published in a range of scientific journals, Xu has contributed significantly to several notable venues. These include Food Chemistry, The Analyst, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie, with a particularly high number of publications in Food Chemistry and The Analyst.

Xu's recent papers reflect a broad spectrum of research, such as:

  • Enantiomer-dependent immunological response to chiral nanoparticles, 2022, Nature
  • Electrochemical detection of heavy metal ions in water, 2021, Chemical Communications
  • Portable Food-Freshness Prediction Platform Based on Colorimetric Barcode Combinatorics and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Polarization-sensitive optoionic membranes from chiral plasmonic nanoparticles, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Stimulation of neural stem cell differentiation by circularly polarized light transduced by chiral nanoassemblies, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering

Collaboration is a significant component of Xu's research, with frequent coauthors including Hua Kuang, Liguang Xu, Liqiang Liu, Xinxin Xu, and Maozhong Sun. These partnerships highlight a network of researchers working at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and engineering disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Judith Langer;Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi;Javier Aizpurua;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla

  • Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures

    Wei Ma;Liguang Xu;André F. de Moura;Xiaoling Wu

  • Smart electronic yarns and wearable fabrics for human biomonitoring made by carbon nanotube coating with polyelectrolytes.

    Bong Sup Shim;Wei Chen;Chris Doty;Chuanlai Xu

  • Attomolar DNA detection with chiral nanorod assemblies

    Wei Ma;Hua Kuang;Liguang Xu;Li Ding

  • Dual-Mode Ultrasensitive Quantification of MicroRNA in Living Cells by Chiroplasmonic Nanopyramids Self-Assembled from Gold and Upconversion Nanoparticles

    Si Li;Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Xiaoling Wu

  • Self-Assembly of Chiral Nanoparticle Pyramids with Strong R/S Optical Activity

    Wenjing Yan;Liguang Xu;Chuanlai Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma

  • Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoparticles into Twisted Ribbons

    Sudhanshu Srivastava;Aaron Santos;Kevin Critchley;Kevin Critchley;Ki Sub Kim;Ki Sub Kim

  • Chiral Molecule-mediated Porous CuxO Nanoparticle Clusters with Antioxidation Activity for Ameliorating Parkinson’s Disease

    Changlong Hao;Aihua Qu;Liguang Xu;Maozhong Sun

  • Electrochemical detection of heavy metal ions in water.

    Qi Ding;Chen Li;Haijun Wang;Chuanlai Xu

  • Side-by-side and end-to-end gold nanorod assemblies for environmental toxin sensing.

    Libing Wang;Yingyue Zhu;Liguang Xu;Wei Chen;Wei Chen

  • Unexpected chirality of nanoparticle dimers and ultrasensitive chiroplasmonic bioanalysis.

    Xiaoling Wu;Liguang Xu;Liqiang Liu;Wei Ma

  • Simple, Rapid, Sensitive, and Versatile SWNT−Paper Sensor for Environmental Toxin Detection Competitive with ELISA

    Libing Wang;Wei Chen;Dinghua Xu;Bong Sup Shim

  • SERS Encoded Silver Pyramids for Attomolar Detection of Multiplexed Disease Biomarkers

    Liguang Xu;Wenjing Yan;Wei Ma;Hua Kuang

  • Regiospecific Plasmonic Assemblies for in Situ Raman Spectroscopy in Live Cells

    Liguang Xu;Hua Kuang;Chuanlai Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma

  • Carbon Nanohorn Sensitized Electrochemical Immunosensor for Rapid Detection of Microcystin-LR

    Jing Zhang;Jianping Lei;Chuanlai Xu;Lin Ding

  • Nanoparticle assemblies: dimensional transformation of nanomaterials and scalability

    Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Wei Ma;Libing Wang;Chuanlai Xu

  • Nanoparticle Superstructures Made by Polymerase Chain Reaction: Collective Interactions of Nanoparticles and a New Principle for Chiral Materials

    Wei Chen;Ai Bian;Ashish Agarwal;Liqiang Liu

  • Dual Quantification of MicroRNAs and Telomerase in Living Cells

    Wei Ma;Pan Fu;Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu

  • Hierarchical Plasmonic Nanorods and Upconversion Core–Satellite Nanoassemblies for Multimodal Imaging-Guided Combination Phototherapy

    Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu;Wei Ma;Xiaoling Wu

  • Lateral Flow Immunochromatographic Assay for Sensitive Pesticide Detection by Using Fe3O4 Nanoparticle Aggregates as Color Reagents

    Chunyan Liu;Qiaojuan Jia;Chunhui Yang;Ruirui Qiao

  • Site-selective photoinduced cleavage and profiling of DNA by chiral semiconductor nanoparticles.

    Maozhong Sun;Liguang Xu;Aihua Qu;Peng Zhao

  • Dynamic nanoparticle assemblies.

    Libing Wang;Liguang Xu;Hua Kuang;Chuanlai Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua Kuang
Hua Kuang Jiangnan University
Liguang Xu
Liguang Xu Jiangnan University
Libing Wang
Libing Wang Jiangnan University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Jiangnan University
Wei Chen
Wei Chen Jiangnan University
Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Luis M. Liz-Marzán
Luis M. Liz-Marzán CIC biomaGUNE
Ruirui Qiao
Ruirui Qiao University of Queensland
Rui Gao
Rui Gao University of Waterloo
Daocheng Pan
Daocheng Pan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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