​​2018
  1. Isabelle Su, Zhao Qin (co-first author), Toma´s Saraceno, Adrian Krell, Roland Muhlethaler, Ally Bisshop and Markus J. Buehler (2018), Imaging and analysis of a three-dimensional spider web architecture, Journal of the Royal Society Interface​, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0193
  2. Yimo Han, Ming-Yang Li, Gang-Seob Jung, Mark A. Marsalis, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler, Lain-Jong Li, David A. Muller (2018), Sub-Nanometer Channels Embedded in Two-Dimensional Materials, Nature Materials, Vol. 17, pp 129-133
  3. Zhao Qin, Markus Buehler (2018), Hierarchical nanostructures for functional materials (editorial), Nanotechnology, Vol. 29, paper #: 280201
  4. Enlai Gao, Shao-Zhen Lin, Zhao Qin, Markus J Buehler, Xi-Qiao Feng, Zhiping Xu (2018), Mechanical exfoliation of two-dimensional materials, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 115, pp. 248-262
  5. Jinrong Wu, Zhao Qin (Corresponding author), Liangliang Qu, Hao Zhang, Fei Deng, Ming Guo, Natural hydrogel in American lobster: a soft armour with high toughness and strength, under review
  6. K. Tanuj Sapra, Zhao Qin, Anna Dubrovsky-Gaupp, Markus Buehler, Ohad Medalia, In situ mechanics of single lamin filaments in the nuclear lamina, under review
2017
  1. Zhao Qin, Gang Seob Jung, Min Jeong Kang, Markus J. Buehler (2017), The mechanics and design of light-weight three-dimensional graphene assembly, Science Advances, Vol. 3, paper #: e1601536
  2. Shengjie Ling, Zhao Qin (co-first author), Wenwen Huang, Sufeng Chao, David L. Kaplan, Markus J. Buehler (2017), Biomimetic multilayer water purification membranes, Science Advances, Vol. 3, paper #: e1601939
  3. Weinan Xu, Zhao Qin, Chun-Teh Chen, Hye Rin Kwag, Qinli Ma, Anjishnu Sarkar, Markus J. Buehler, David H. Gracias (2017), Ultra-thin thermo-responsive self-folding 3D graphene, Science Advances, Vol. 3, paper #: e1701084
  4. Chia-Ching Chou, Francisco J. Martin-Martinez, Zhao Qin, Patrick B. Dennis, Maneesh K. Gupta, Rajesh R. Naik , and Markus J. Buehler (2017), Ion Effect and Metal-Coordinated Cross-Linking for Multiscale Design of Nereis Jaw Inspired Mechanomutable Materials, ACS Nano, Vol. 11, pp 1858–1868
  5. Jared L. Zitnay, Yang Li, Zhao Qin, Boi-Hoa San, Baptiste Depalle, Shawn P. Reese, Markus J. Buehler, S. Michael Yu, and Jeffrey A. Weiss (2017), Molecular Level Detection and Localization of Mechanical Damage in Collagen Enabled by Collagen Hybridizing Peptides, Nature Communications, Vol 8, paper #: 14913
  6. Cheng Zhang, Bo Li, Jing-Ying Tang, Xiao-Ling Wang, Zhao Qin and Xi-Qiao Feng (2017), Experimental and theoretical studies on the morphogenesis of bacterial biofilms, Soft Matter, Vol. 13, pp 7389-7397
  7. Shengjie Ling, Zhao Qin, Chunmei Li, Wenwen Huang, David L. Kaplan, Markus J. Buehler (2017), Polymorphic, hierarchical, regenerated silk fibers assembled through bioinspired spinning, Nature Communications, Vol. 8, paper #: 1387                                             
2016
  1. Yanlei Wang, Zhao Qin (Corresponding author), Markus J. Buehler, Zhiping Xu (2016), Intercalated Water Layers Promote Thermal Dissipation at Bio-Nano Interfaces, Nature Communications, Vol 7, paper #: 12854
  2. Shanshan Wang, Zhao Qin (co-first author), Gang Seob Jung, Francisco J. Martin-Martinez, Kristine Zhang, Markus J. Buehler, Jamie H. Warner (2016), Atomically Sharp Crack Tip Propagation in Monolayer MoS2, ACS Nano, Vol 10, pp. 9831–9839
  3. Shengjie Ling, Qiang Zhang, David L. Kaplan, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Markus J. Buehler and Zhao Qin (Corresponding author) (2016), Printing of stretchable silk membranes for strain measurements, Lab on a Chip, Vol 16, pp. 2459-2466
  4. Grace X. Gu, Leon Dimas, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2016), Optimization of composite fracture properties: method, validation, and applications, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol 83, paper #: 071006
  5. Marta Pappalardo, Markus Buehler, Alessandro Chelli, Luca Cironi, Federica Pannacciulli and Zhao Qin (2016), Quantitative Estimates of Bio-Remodeling on Coastal Rock Surfaces, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol 4, paper #: 37
  6. Flavia Libonati, Grace X. Gu, Zhao Qin, Laura Vergani, Markus J. Buehler (2016), Bone-inspired composite: Design, 3D printing and Testing, Advanced Engineering Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adem.201600143
  7. Grace Xiang Gu, Isabelle Su, Shruti Sharma, Jamie L Voros, Zhao Qin, Markus Buehler (2016), 3D-printing of bio-inspired composites, JBME, Vol 138, paper #: 021006
  8. Patrick D. Boyer, Sairaam Ganesh, Zhao Qin, Brian D Holt, Markus J Buehler, Mohammad F Islam, Kris Noel Dahl (2016), Delivering Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to the Nucleus Using Engineered Nuclear Protein Domains, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Vol 8, pp. 3524–3534
  9. Baptiste Depalle, Zhao Qin, Sandra J. Shefelbine and Markus J. Buehler (2016), Large Deformation Mechanisms, Plasticity and Failure of an Individual Collagen Fibril with Different Mineral Content, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Vol 31, pp. 380-390
  10. Zhao Qin, Kai Jin, Markus J Buehler (2016), Molecular Modeling and Mechanics of Acrylic Adhesives on a Graphene Substrate with Roughness, BioNanoScience, Vol 6, pp. 177–184
2015
  1. Zhao Qin, Brett Compton, Jennifer A. Lewis and Markus J. Buehler (2015), Structural optimization of 3D-printed synthetic spider webs for high strength, Nature Communications, Vol 6, paper #: 7038
  2. Zhao Qin (Corresponding author) and Markus J. Buehler (2015), Nonlinear Viscous Water at Nanoporous Two-Dimensional Interfaces Resists High-Speed Flow through Cooperativity, Nano Letters, Vol 15, pp 3939–3944
  3. GangSeob Jung, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2015), Mechanical Properties and Failure of Biopolymers: Atomistic Reactions to Macroscale Response, Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol 369, pp. 317-343
  4. Talal Al-Mulla, Zhao Qin and Markus J Buehler (2015), Crumpling deformation regimes of monolayer graphene on substrate: a molecular mechanics study, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol 27, paper #: 345401
  5. Zhao Qin, Zhiping Xu and Markus J. Buehler (2015), Peeling Silicene from an Interface with Silver Substrates, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol 82, paper #: 101003
  6. Sairaam Ganesh, Zhao Qin, Stephen T. Spagnol, Matthew T. Biegler, Kelli A. Coffey, Agnieszka Kalinowski, Markus J. Buehler, Kris Noel Dahl (2015), The tail domain of lamin B1 is more strongly modulated by divalent cations than lamin A, Nucleus, Vol 6, pp. 203-11
  7. GangSeob Jung, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2015), Molecular mechanics of polycrystalline graphene with enhanced fracture toughness, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Vol 2, pp. 52-59
  8. Reza Mirzaeifar, Leon Dimas, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2015), Defect-tolerant Bioinspired Hierarchical Composites: Simulation and Experiment, ACS Biomaterials, Vol 1, pp. 295–304
  9. Reza Mirzaeifar, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2015), Mesoscale Mechanics of Twisting Carbon Nanotube Yarns, Nanoscale, Vol 7, pp. 5435-5445
  10. Baptiste Depalle, Zhao Qin, Sandra Shefelbine, Markus J. Buehler (2015), Influence of cross-links in the mesoscale deformation mechanisms of collagen fibrils, JMBBM, Vol 52, pp. 1-13
2014
  1. Zhao Qin, Michael Taylor, Mary Hwang, Katia Bertoldi and Markus J. Buehler (2014), Effect of wrinkles on the surface area of graphene: toward the design of nanoelectronics, Nano Letters, Vol 14, pp. 6520–6525
  2. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2014), Molecular mechanics of mussel adhesion proteins, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol 62, pp. 19-30
  3. Wen Yang, Vincent Sherman, Bernd Gludovatz, Mason Mackey, Elizabeth A. Zimmermann, Edwin H. Chang, Eric Schaible, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler, Robert O. Ritchie, Marc A. Meyers (2014), Protective Role of Arapaima Scales: Structure and Mechanical Behavior, Acta Biomaterialia, Vol 10, pp. 3599-3614
  4. Kai Jin, Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2014), Molecular deformation mechanisms of the wood cell wall material, JMBBM, Vol 42, pp. 198–206
  5. Reza Mirzaeifar, Zhao Qin and Markus J Buehler (2014), Tensile strength of carbyne chains in varied chemical environments and structural lengths, Nanotechnology, Vol 25, paper #: 371001
  6. Zhao Qin, Nicola M. Pugno and Markus J. Buehler (2014), Mechanics of fragmentation of crocodile skin and other thin films, Scientific Reports, Vol 4, paper #: 4966
  7. Max Solar, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2014), Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Crosslinked Amorphous Polymer Adhesives, Journal of Materials Research. Vol 29, pp. 1077-1085
  8. Zhao Qin, Leon Dimas, David Adler, Graham Bratzel, Markus J. Buehler (2014), Biological materials by design, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, Vol 26, paper #: 073101
  9. Agnieszka Kalinowski, Peter N. Yaron, Zhao Qin, Siddharth Shenoy, Markus J. Buehler, Mathias Lösche, Kris N. Dahl (2014), Interfacial binding and aggregation of lamin A tail domains associated with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, Biophysical Chemistry, Vol 195, pp. 43–48
2013
  1. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2013), Impact tolerance in mussel thread networks by heterogeneous material distribution, Nature Communications, Vol 4, paper #: 2187
  2. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2013), Webs measure up, Nature Materials, Vol 12 (3), pp. 185-187
  3. Graham Bratzel, Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2013), Viscoelastic relaxation time and structural evolution during length contraction of spider silk protein nanostructures, MRS Communications, Vol 3, pp. 185-190
  4. Agnieszka Kalinowski, Zhao Qin, Kelli Coffe, Ravi Kodali, Markus J. Buehler, Mathias Lösche, Kris Noel Dahl (2013), Calcium causes a conformational change in lamin A tail domain that promotes farnesylmediated membrane association, Biophysical Journal, Vol 104 (10), pp. 2246-2253
  5. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2013), Bio-inspired graphene nano-gut, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol 80, paper #: 061009 (Best paper award of the year, ASME)
  6. Zhao Qin, Andrea Fabre and Markus J. Buehler (2013), Structure and mechanism of maximum stability of alpha helical protein domains at a critical length scale, The European Physical Journal E, Vol 36, paper #: 53.
  7. Greta Gronau, Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2013), Effect of sodium chloride on the structure and stability of spider silk's N-terminal protein domain, Biomaterials Science, Vol 1 (3), pp. 276-284 (Cover article)
2012
  1. Zhao Qin, Alfonso Gautieri, Arun K. Nair, Hadass inbar, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), The thickness of hydroxyapatite nanocrystal controls the mechanical property of collagen-hydroxyapatite interface, Langmuir, Vol. 28 (4), pp. 1982-1992
  2. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Cooperativity governs the size and structure of biological interfaces, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol 45 (16), pp. 2778-2783.
  3. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Carbon dioxide enhances fragility of ice crystals, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 45 (44), paper #: 445302
  4. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Computational and theoretical modeling of intermediate filament networks: structure, mechanics and related disease, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol. 28 (4), pp. 941-950
  5. Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2012). Molecular mechanics of dihydroxyphenylalanine at a silica interface. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101 (8), paper #: 083702
  6. Arun K. Nair, Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Cooperative deformation of carboxyl groups in functionalized carbon nanotubes, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 49 (18), pp. 2418-2423.
  7. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Bioinspired design of functionalised graphene, Molecular Simulation, Vol. 38 (8), pp. 695-703
  8. Zhao Qin, and Markus J. Buehler (2012), Mechanical property of crosslink controls the failure mechanism of intermediate filament network under tension, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters, Vol. 2(1), paper #: 014005
  9. Zhao Qin, Agnieszka Kalinowski, Kris Noel Dahl, Markus J. Buehler (2011), Structure and stability of the lamin A tail domain and HGPS mutant, Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 175(3), pp. 425–433
2011
  1. Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2011). Flaw tolerance of nuclear intermediate filament lamina under extreme mechanical deformation, ACS Nano, Vol. 5(4), pp. 3034-3042
  2. Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2011). Dynamic failure of a nuclear lamina meshwork under extreme mechanical deformation, BioNanoScience, Vol. 1(1), pp. 14-23
  3. Melis Arslan, Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2011). Coiled-coil intermediate filament stutter instability and molecular unfolding, Computational Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 14(5), pp. 483-489
  4. Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2011). Structure and dynamics of human vimentin intermediate filament dimer and tetramer: Comparison between explicit and implicit solvent molecular dynamics, Journal of Molecular Modeling, Vol. 17(1), pp. 37-48
2010
  1. Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2010). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the alpha-Helix to beta-Sheet Transition in Coiled Protein Filaments: Evidence for a Critical Filament Length Scale, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104(19), paper #: 198304
  2. Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler (2010). Cooperative deformation of hydrogen bonds in beta-strands and beta-sheet nanocrystals, Physical Review E, Vol. 82(6), paper #: 061906
  3. Robert Kirmse, Zhao Qin, Carl M. Weinert, Andreas Hoenger, Markus J. Buehler, Laurent Kreplak (2010). Plasticity of Intermediate Filament Subunits, PLoS ONE, Vol. 5(8), paper #: e12115
  4. Jérémie Bertaud, Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2010). Intermediate filament-deficient cells are mechanically softer at large deformation: a multi-scale simulation study, Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 6(7), pp. 2457-2466
  5. Zhao Qin, Markus J. Buehler, Laurent Kreplak (2010). A multi-scale approach to understand the mechanobiology of intermediate filaments, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 43(1), pp. 15-22
2009 and earlier
  1. Zhao Qin, Laurent Kreplak, Markus J. Buehler (2009). Hierarchical Structure Controls Nanomechanical Properties of Vimentin Intermediate Filaments. PLoS ONE, Vol. 4(10), paper #: e7294 Nano Werk
  2. Zhao Qin, Laurent Kreplak, Markus J. Buehler (2009). Nanomechanical properties of vimentin intermediate filament dimers, Nanotechnology, Vol. 20(42), paper #: 425101 Nanotech web,
  3. Jérémie Bertaud, Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2009). Atomistically Informed Mesoscale Model of Alpha-Helical Protein Domains, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Vol. 7(3), pp. 237-250
  4. Jérémie Bertaud, Zhao Qin and Markus J. Buehler (2009). Amino acid sequence dependence of nanoscale deformation mechanisms in alpha-helical protein filaments. Journal of Strain Analysis, Vol. 44(7), pp. 517-531
  5. Zhao Qin, Steven Cranford, Theodor Ackbarow, Markus J. Buehler (2009) Robustness-strength performance of hierarchical alpha-helical protein filaments, International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 1(1), pp. 85-112 (Cover Article and Best paper of the year) Nanotech-Now
  6. Zhao Qin, Xi-Qiao Feng, Jian Zou and Yajun Yin (2008). Molecular dynamics simulations of deformation and rupture of super carbon nanotubes under tension. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 8(12), pp. 6274-6282
  7. Zhao Qin, Jian Zou and Xi-Qiao Feng (2008), Influence of Water on the Frequency of Carbon Nanotube Oscillators, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 5(7), pp. 1403-1407 (Cover Article)
  8. Zhao Qin, Qing-Hua Qin, Xi-Qiao Feng (2008), Mechanical property of carbon nanotubes with intramolecular junctions: Molecular dynamics simulations, Physics Letters A, Vol. 372(44), pp. 6661-6666
  9. Zhao Qin, Xi-Qiao Feng, Jian Zou, Yajun Yin and Shou-Wen Yu (2007). Superior flexibility of super carbon nanotubes: Molecular dynamics simulations. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91(4), paper #: 043108


Book Chapters:
  1. Zhao Qin, Chia-Ching Chou, Laurent Kreplak and Markus J. Buehler (2011). Structural mechanics and functional properties of intermediate filaments from the atomistic to the cellular scales. Chapter 4 in Advances in Cell Mechanics, Springer-Verlag.
  2. Arun K. Nair, Flavia Libonati, Zhao Qin, Leon S. Dimas, and Markus J. Buehler (2014), "Mechanical and interface properties of biominerals: Atomistic to coarse grained modeling," Chapter 4 in Biomineralization Handbook: Characterization of biomineral and biomimetic materials, CRC Press.










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