Publications

Abhisek Dwivedy, Dhyanesh Baskaran, Gaurav Sharma, Wei Hong, Dhanush Gandavadi, Abhichart Krissanaprasit, Joonsu Han, Yusheng Liu, Zack Zimmers, Tshepo Mafokwane, Ichrak Hayah, Neha Chauhan, Mengxi Zheng, Others (2025). Engineering Novel DNA Nanoarchitectures for Targeted Drug Delivery and Aptamer Mediated Apoptosis in Cancer Therapeutics. Advanced Functional Materials.

Mengxi Zheng, Victoria E Paluzzi, Cuizheng Zhang, Chengde Mao (2024). Toward Production of Nucleic Acid Nanostructures in Life Cells and Their Biomedical Applications. DNA Nanotechnology for Cell Research: From Bioanalysis to Biomedicine.

Saurabh Umrao, Mengxi Zheng, Xiaohe Jin, Sherwood Yao, Xing Wang (2024). Net-shaped DNA nanostructure-based lateral flow assays for rapid and sensitive SARS-CoV-2 detection. Analytical chemistry.

Lifeng Zhou, Yanyu Xiong, Abhisek Dwivedy, Mengxi Zheng, Laura Cooper, Skye Shepherd, Tingjie Song, Wei Hong, Linh TP Le, Xin Chen, Others (2024). Bioinspired designer DNA NanoGripper for virus sensing and potential inhibition. Science robotics.

Longfei Liu, Dake Mao, Zhe Li, Mengxi Zheng, Kai He, Chengde Mao (2023). Surface-assisted self-assembly of 2D, DNA binary crystals. Nanoscale.

Chengde Mao, Victoria Paluzzi, Mengxi Zheng, Dake Mao, Cuizheng Zhang (2023). Self-assembled DNA nanostructures. Elsevier.

Xiaoli Hu, Linlin Tang, Mengxi Zheng, Jian Liu, Zhe Zhang, Zhe Li, Quan Yang, Shoubo Xiang, Liang Fang, Qiao Ren, Others (2022). Structure-guided designing pre-organization in bivalent aptamers. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Cuizheng Zhang, Mengxi Zheng, Yoel P Ohayon, Simon Vecchioni, Ruojie Sha, Nadrian C Seeman, Natasha Jonoska, Chengde Mao (2022). Programming DNA self-assembly by geometry. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Mengxi Zheng, Zhe Li, Cuizheng Zhang, Nadrian C Seeman, Chengde Mao (2022). Powering≈ 50 $μ$m motion by a molecular event in DNA crystals. Advanced Materials.

Ruixin Li, Mengxi Zheng, Anirudh S Madhvacharyula, Yancheng Du, Chengde Mao, Jong Hyun Choi (2022). Mechanical deformation behaviors and structural properties of ligated DNA crystals. Biophysical Journal.

Mengxi Zheng, Zhe Li, Longfei Liu, Mo Li, Victoria E Paluzzi, Jong Hyun Choi, Chengde Mao (2021). Kinetic DNA self-assembly: simultaneously co-folding complementary DNA strands into identical nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Mengxi Zheng, Qian Li, Victoria E Paluzzi, Jong Hyun Choi, Chengde Mao (2021). Engineering the nanoscaled morphologies of linear DNA homopolymers. Macromolecular Rapid Communications.

Zhe Li, Mengxi Zheng, Longfei Liu, Nadrian C Seeman, Chengde Mao (2021). 5′-phosphorylation strengthens sticky-end cohesions. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Kai He, Zhe Li, Longfei Liu, Mengxi Zheng, Chengde Mao (2020). Assembly of a DNA origami Chinese Knot by only 15% of the staple strands. ChemBioChem.

Longfei Liu, Mengxi Zheng, Zhe Li, Qian Li, Chengde Mao (2019). Patterning nanoparticles with DNA molds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Zhe Li, Longfei Liu, Mengxi Zheng, Jiemin Zhao, Nadrian C Seeman, Chengde Mao (2019). Making engineered 3D DNA crystals robust. Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Mo Li, Mengxi Zheng, Siyu Wu, Cheng Tian, Di Liu, Yossi Weizmann, Wen Jiang, Guansong Wang, Chengde Mao (2018). In vivo production of RNA nanostructures via programmed folding of single-stranded RNAs. Nature communications.

Xiangjing Gao, Mengxi Zheng, Ling Qin, Kang Shen, Hegen Zheng (2016). Syntheses, Structures, and Properties of Four Metal--Organic Frameworks Based on a N-Centered Multidentate Pyridine-Carboxylate Bifunctional Ligand. Crystal Growth & Design.

Jian Qu, Yinglin Song, Wei Ji, Su Jing, Dunru Zhu, Wei Huang, Mengxi Zheng, Yanle Li, Jing Ma (2016). Macrocyclic Se 4 N 2 [7, 7] ferrocenophane and Se 2 N [10] ferrocenophane containing benzyl unit: synthesis, complexation, crystal structures, electrochemical and optical properties. Dalton Transactions.

Shuguang Chen, Hailang Jia, Mengxi Zheng, Kang Shen, Hegen Zheng (2016). Insight into the effects of modifying $π$-bridges on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells containing triphenylamine dyes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Ling Qin, Mengxi Zheng, Zi-Jian Guo, He-Gen Zheng, Yan Xu (2015). One non-interpenetrated chiral porous multifunctional metal--organic framework and its applications for sensing small solvent molecules and adsorption. Chemical Communications.

Mengxi Zheng, Xiang-Jing Gao, Chuan-Lei Zhang, Ling Qin, He-Gen Zheng (2015). Assembly of various degrees of interpenetration of Co-MOFs based on mononuclear or dinuclear cluster units: magnetic properties and gas adsorption. Dalton Transactions.