Education:
BS (2006), SichuanUniversity
PhD (2008),
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
Principal Research Interests:
Our current researches focus on bio-inspired and smart multi-scale pore/channel systems, membrane science and technology, microfluidics, interfacial science, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, nano/micro fabrication for energy-saving and biomedical applications.
Selected Recent Publications:
1. Hou Y, Hou X*, Bioinspired Nanofluidic Iontronics, Science, 2021, 373: 628.
2. Chen B, Zhang R, Hou Y, Zhang J, Chen S, Han Y, Chen X, Hou X*, Light-Responsive and Corrosion Resistant Gas Valve with Non-Thermal Effective Liquid Gating Positional Flow Control, Light: Science & Applications, 2021, 10: 127.
3. Wang S, Zhang Y, Han Y, Hou Y, Fan Y, Hou X*, Design of Functional Membranes by Liquid Gating Technology, Accounts of Materials Research, 2021, 2: 407.
4. Sheng Z, Zhang M, Liu J, Malgaretti P, Li J, Wang S, Lv W, Zhang R, Fan Y, Zhang Y, Chen X, Hou X*, Reconfiguring confined magnetic colloids with tunable fluid transport behavior, National Science Review, 2021, 8: nwaa301.
5. Zhang J, Chen B, Chen X, Hou X*, Liquid-Based Adaptive Structural Materials, Advanced Materials, 2021, 202005664.
6. Wang C, Wang S, Pan H, Min L, Zheng H, Zhu H, Liu G, Yang W*, Chen X, Hou X*, Bio-inspired Liquid Gating Membrane-based Catheter with Anti-coagulation and Positionally Drug Release Properties, Science Advances, 2020, 6: eabb4700.
7. Hou X*, Liquid Gating Membrane, National Science Review, 2020, 7: 9.
8. Fan Y, Sheng Z, Chen J, Pan H, Chen B, Wu F, Wang S, Chen X, Hou X*, Visual Chemical Detection Mechanism by Liquid Gating System with Dipole-Induced Interfacial Molecular Reconfiguration, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58: 3967.
9. Wang M, Meng H, Wang D, Yin Y, Peter S, Zhang Y, Sheng Z, Chen B, Zhan K, Hou X*, Dynamic Curvature Nanochannel-based Membrane with Anomalous Ionic Transport Behaviors and Reversible Rectification Switch. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31: 1805130.
10. Hou X*, Li J, Alexander B. Tesler, Yao Y, Wang M, Min L, Sheng Z, Aizenberg J*, Dynamic Air/Liquid Pockets for Guiding Microscale Flow, Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 733.
11. Sheng Z, Wang H, Tang Y, Wang M, Huang L, Min L, Meng H, Chen S, Jiang L, Hou X*, Liquid Gating Elastomeric Porous System with Dynamically Controllable Gas/Liquid Transport, Science Advances, 2018, 4: eaao6724.
12. Hou X, Zhang Y, Santiago G, Alvarez M, Ribas J, Jonas S, Weiss P*, Andrews A*, Aizenberg J*, Khademhosseini A*, Interplay between Materials and Microfluidics, Nature Reviews Materials, 2017, 2: 17016.
13. Hou X*, Design, Fabrication, Properties and Applications of Smart and Advanced Materials, CRC PRESS, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4987-2248-3. (Book)
14. Hou X*, Smart Gating Multi-Scale Pore/Channel-Based Membranes, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28: 7049-7064.
15. Hou X, Hu Y, Grinthal A, Khan M, Aizenberg J*, Liquid-Based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behaviour, Nature, 2015, 519, 70-73.
