List of works by Yi Cao

A Highly Stretchable, Tough, Fast Self-Healing Hydrogel Based on Peptide⁻Metal Ion Coordination

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

A force-spectroscopy-based single-molecule metal-binding assay

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

A genetically encoded copper(I) sensor based on engineered structural distortion of EGFP.

scientific article published on 14 March 2012

A highly stretchable autonomous self-healing elastomer

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

A versatile "multiple fishhooks" approach for the study of ligand-receptor interactions using single-molecule atomic force microscopy

scientific article

An Injectable Self-Healing Protein Hydrogel with Multiple Dissipation Modes and Tunable Dynamic Response

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

An ester bond underlies the mechanical strength of a pathogen surface protein

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

An integrated artificial photosynthesis system based on peptide nanotubes.

scientific article published in July 2014

Astral hydrogels mimic tissue mechanics by aster-aster interpenetration

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

Cooperative and Geometry-Dependent Mechanochromic Reactivity through Aromatic Fusion of Two Rhodamines in Polymers

scientific article published in 2022

Dimerization of Cell-Adhesion Molecules Can Increase Their Binding Strength.

scientific article published on 22 January 2017

Direct Measurement of Length Scale Dependence of the Hydrophobic Free Energy of a Single Collapsed Polymer Nanosphere

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Direct observation of markovian behavior of the mechanical unfolding of individual proteins.

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

Directional mechanical stability of Bacteriophage φ29 motor's 3WJ-pRNA: Extraordinary robustness along portal axis

scientific article

Distinct Binding Interactions of α5β1-Integrin and Proteoglycans with Fibronectin

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Engineered Recombinant Proteins for Aqueous Ultrasonic Exfoliation and Dispersion of Biofunctionalized 2D Materials

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Engineered elastomeric proteins with dual elasticity can be controlled by a molecular regulator

scientific article published on 29 June 2008

Engineering tandem modular protein based reversible hydrogels.

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Enhancing the mechanical stability of proteins through a cocktail approach.

scientific article published on April 2011

Formation of α-helix-based twisted ribbon-like fibrils from ionic-complementary peptides.

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Genetically encoded red fluorescent copper(I) sensors for cellular copper(I) imaging

scientific article published on 28 December 2013

How do proteins unfold upon adsorption on nanoparticle surfaces?

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Hydrogel tapes for fault-tolerant strong wet adhesion

scientific article published on 09 December 2021

Low folding cooperativity of HP35 revealed by single-molecule force spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation

scientific article published in April 2012

Maleimide-thiol adducts stabilized through stretching

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Mechanically rigid supramolecular assemblies formed from an Fmoc-guanine conjugated peptide nucleic acid

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Mechanistic insights into the stabilization of srcSH3 by PEGylation

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Mg2+ -Dependent High Mechanical Anisotropy of Three-Way-Junction pRNA as Revealed by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Molecular design principles of Lysine-DOPA wet adhesion

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Molecular engineering of metal coordination interactions for strong, tough, and fast-recovery hydrogels

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Multiporous Supramolecular Microspheres for Artificial Photosynthesis

scientific article

Nonmechanical protein can have significant mechanical stability

scientific article published in January 2006

Photo-cross-linking approach to engineering small tyrosine-containing peptide hydrogels with enhanced mechanical stability

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Photoinduced fibrils formation of chicken egg white lysozyme under native conditions

scientific article

Polyprotein of GB1 is an ideal artificial elastomeric protein

scientific article published on 21 January 2007

Principles Governing Catalytic Activity of Self-Assembled Short Peptides

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Printable Fluorescent Hydrogels Based on Self-Assembling Peptides.

scientific article

Protein Mechanics: From Single Molecules to Functional Biomaterials

scientific article published on October 19, 2010

Protein-protein interaction regulates proteins' mechanical stability.

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

Rationally designed synthetic protein hydrogels with predictable mechanical properties

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Rigid Tightly Packed Amino Acid Crystals as Functional Supramolecular Materials

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Rigid helical-like assemblies from a self-aggregating tripeptide

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Self-Assembled Nanofibers for Strong Underwater Adhesion: The Trick of Barnacles

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Self-Assembly of Aromatic Amino Acid Enantiomers into Supramolecular Materials of High Rigidity

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Single Molecule Study of Force-Induced Rotation of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds in Polymers

scientific article

Single molecule evidence for the adaptive binding of DOPA to different wet surfaces.

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Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals a weakly populated microstate of the FnIII domains of tenascin

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals engineered metal chelation is a general approach to enhance mechanical stability of proteins.

scholarly article

Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Multiple Binding Modes between DOPA and Different Rutile Surfaces

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Self-Assembly Enhanced Surface Binding of Hydrophobins

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Single-molecule force spectroscopy reveals a mechanically stable protein fold and the rational tuning of its mechanical stability.

scholarly article

Single-molecule force spectroscopy reveals force-enhanced binding of calcium ions by gelsolin

scientific article

Single-molecule force-clamp spectroscopy: dwell time analysis and practical considerations

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Smart Adhesive Peptide Nanofibers for Cell Capture and Release

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Spatiotemporal Control of Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Function.

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Stretchable hydrogels with low hysteresis and anti-fatigue fracture based on polyprotein cross-linkers

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Structure and sequence features of mussel adhesive protein lead to its salt-tolerant adhesion ability

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Synthetic asters as elastic and radial skeletons

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Tandem modular protein-based hydrogels constructed using a novel two-component approach.

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Tunable Mechanical and Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Cocrystals by Unexpected Stacking Transformation from H- to J- and X-Aggregation

scientific article published on 06 August 2020