Publications
The most recent list of our publications can be found here
50) Turning Self-Driving Labs into a Community Resource: Challenges and Opportunities
Keith A. Brown*, Emma Lejeune*, Jörg G. Werner*, Matter 2026, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102817
49) An Automated System for Electrodeposition of Polymer Thin Films and Their Wetting Analysis
Harley Quinn, Gregory A. Robben, Zhaoyi Zheng, Jin Yan, Yuanzhi Li, Zhaoji Yang, Maria Politi,
Nadya Peek, Lilo Pozzo, Jörg G. Werner*, and Keith A. Brown*, Review of Scientific Instruments 2026, 97, acc023907. DOI: 10.1063/5.0309809 arXiv: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.07043
48) Zwitterion-Functionalized Membranes via Post-Self-Assembly Modification of Cross-Linked Block Terpolymers: Decoupling Morphology Formation from Functionalization
Hiroki Aramaki*, Yuanzhi Li, Justin J. Yun, Rahul Sujanani, Rachel A. Segalman, Jörg G. Werner*, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2025, 7, 24, 16550–16559. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.5c03017
47) Impact of Engineered Dual-Scale Porosity for Application-Tailored Battery Electrodes
Anton B. Resing, Yuanzhi Li and Jörg G. Werner*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025, 13, 40349 - 40362. DOI: 10.1039/D5TA06312D (Open Access)
46) A Biocompatible Surfactant Film for Stable Microfluidic Droplets
Brendan Deveney, John A. Heyman, Raoul G. Rosenthal, David A. Weitz and Jörg G. Werner*, Lab on a Chip 2025, 25, 5141 - 5149. DOI: 10.1039/D5LC00456J (Open Access)
45) Electrodeposition of Reactive Polymer Networks for Conformal Ultrathin Coatings Amenable to Post-Deposition Functionalization
Wenlu Wang, Yuanzhi Li, Anton B. Resing, Jin Yan, Zhaoyi Zheng, and Jörg G. Werner*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2025, 13, 29050 - 29059. DOI: 10.1039/D5TA03811A (Open Access)
Featured in 2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry A - Most Popular Articles
44) Hierarchically ordered porous transition metal compounds from one-pot type 3D printing approaches
Fei Yu, R. Paxton Thedford, Thomas Tartaglia, Sejal Sheth, Guillaume Freychet, William Tait, Peter Beaucage, William Moore, Yuanzhi Li, Jörg G. Werner, Julia Thom-Levy, Sol Gruner, R. Bruce van Dover, and Ulrich Wiesner, Nature Communications 2025, 16, 7704. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62794-8 (Open Access)
43) Dynamic Poly(amine) Capsules with Reversible pH-Triggered Responsiveness
Zhang Wu, Jörg G. Werner* and David A. Weitz*, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2025, 7, 7893-7898, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.5c00819.
42) Selective Infusion-Templated Polymerization in Nanostructured Organogels for Ordered Mesoporous Materials
Yuanzhi Li, Jörg G. Werner*, Polymer 2025, 333, 128654. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2025.128654
41) Fluorophilic Boronic Acid Copolymer Surfactant for Stabilization of Complex Emulsion Droplets with Fluorinated Oil
Zhang Wu, Brendan T. Deveney, Jörg G. Werner*, Stefano Aime and David A. Weitz*, Lab on a Chip 2025, 25, 2315-2319, DOI: 10.1039/D5LC00309A
This article is part of the themed collection: Lab on a Chip HOT Articles 2025
40) Enhancing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through Coalescence-Induced Bubble Departure on Patterned Gold–Silicon Microstrip Surfaces
Chung-Te Huang, Liangwei Zheng, Yiding Zhong, Jörg G. Werner, Ming-Chang Lu*, Chuanhua Duan*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 4, 7109–7118. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18255
39) Electrodeposition of Polymer Networks as Conformal and Uniform Ultrathin Coatings
Wenlu Wang, Anton B. Resing, Keith A. Brown, and Jörg G. Werner*, Advanced Materials 2024, 2409826. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202409826
38) Cathodic Electrodeposition of Polymer Networks as Ultrathin Films on 3-D Micro-Architected Electrodes
Zhaoyi Zheng, Anton B. Resing, Wenlu Wang, and Jörg G. Werner*, RSC Applied Polymers 2024, 2, 1139 - 1146. DOI: 10.1039/D4LP00180J (Open Access)
37) PANDA: A self-driving lab for studying electrodeposited polymer films
Harley Quinn, Greg. A. Robben, Zhaoyi Zheng, Alan L. Gardner, Jörg G. Werner* and Keith A. Brown*, Materials Horizons 2024, 11, 5331-5340. DOI: 10.1039/D4MH00797B (Open Access)
36) Chemically Nanostructured Organogel Monoliths from Cross-Linked Block Copolymers for Selective Infusion Templating
Yuanzhi Li, Abigail Plummer, Jörg G. Werner*, ACS Nano 2024, 18, 29, 19150–19160. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c04394.
35) Block copolymer self-assembly derived mesoporous magnetic materials with three-dimensionally (3D) co-continuous gyroid nanostructure
Amaury J. Drouhin, W.R.T. Tait, W. Moore, F. Yu, Yuanzhi Li, Jörg G. Werner, R.B. van Dover, Ulrich Wiesner; Soft Matter 2024, 20, 2767-2776; DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01622F
Bridging the gap in mesoscopic length scales
Jörg G. Werner; Nature Materials 2024, 23, 33–34; DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01758-z; View-only PDF
34) Block-Copolymer-Architected Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage
Jörg G. Werner*, Yuanzhi Li, Ulrich Wiesner; Small Science 2023, 3, 2300074; DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202300074 (Open Access)
33) Mechanically Rupturing Liquid Metal Oxide Induces Electrochemical Energy
Ye, Xing; Zhaoyi Zheng; Jörg G. Werner; J. William Boley, Advanced Functional Materials 2023, 2309177; DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202309177
32) Screening for Electrically Conductive Defects in Thin Functional Films using Electrochemiluminescence
Quinn, Harley; Wenlu Wang, Jörg G. Werner and Keith A. Brown, Analytical Methods 2023, 15, 3592-3600; DOI: 10.1039/D3AY00687E; Author version
31) Conformal Electrodeposition of Ultrathin Polymeric Films with Tunable Properties from Dual-Functional Monomers
Wang, Wenlu; Zhaoyi Zheng, Anton B. Resing, Keith A. Brown and Jörg G. Werner, Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2023, 8, 624 - 631. DOI: 10.1039/D2ME00246A; Author version
30) Architected Low-Tortuosity Electrodes with Tunable Porosity from Nonequilibrium Soft-Matter Processing
Resing, Anton B., Chase Fukuda, Jörg G. Werner, Advanced Materials 2023, 35, 2209694. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209694
Battery design blog post about the work
29) Dielectrophoretic Characterization of Dynamic Microcapsules and their Magnetophoretic Manipulation
Elkeles, Tom, Sinwook Park, Jörg G. Werner, David A. Weitz and Gilad Yossifon, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 13, 15765–15773. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c23482
28) Electric Field Induced Macroscopic Cellular Phase of Nanoparticles
Rendos, Abigail, Wenhan Cao, Margaret Chern, Marco Lauricella, Sauro Succi, Jӧrg G. Werner, Allison M. Dennis, Keith A. Brown, Soft Matter 2022, 18, 1991-1996. DOI: 10.1039/D1SM01650D
27) Ordered Mesoporous Microcapsules from Double Emulsion Confined Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
Jörg G. Werner, H. Lee, U. Wiesner, D.A. Weitz, ACS Nano 2021, 15 (2), 3490–3499 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00068
26) Microfluidic Fabrication of Phase-Inverted Microcapsules with Asymmetric Shell Membranes with Graded Porosity
Wu, Z., J.G. Werner, D.A. Weitz, ACS Macro Letters 2021, 10 (1), 116-121. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00858
25) Absorbent–Adsorbates: Large Amphiphilic Janus Microgels as Droplet Stabilizers
24) Electrochemical generation of hexacyanoferrate and hexacyanoruthanate electroactive films at nickel electrode surfaces: A promising synthetic approach for new electrode
Wheatle B.K. , J.R. Hampton, G.G. Rodríguez-Calero, J.G. Werner, Y. Gu, U. Wiesner, H.D. Abruña, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 2020, 871, 114284. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114284
23) Stimuli Responsive Janus Microgels with Convertible Hydrophilicity for Controlled Emulsion DeStabilization
Haney, B. T., J.G. Werner, D.A. Weitz, and S. Ramakrishnan, Soft Matter 2020, 16 (15), 3613-3620., DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00255K
22) Hydrogel Microcapsules with Photocatalytic Nanoparticles for Removal of Organic Pollutants
Liu, J., C. Hong, X. Shi, S. Nawar, J.G. Werner, G. Huang, M. Ye, D.A. Weitz, A.A. Solovev, and Y. Mei, Environmental Science: Nano 2020, 7, 656-664. DOI: 10.1039/C9EN01108K.
21) Hydrogel micromotors with catalyst-containing liquid core and shell.
Zhu, H., S. Nawar, J.G. Werner, J. Liu, G. Huang, Y. Mei, D.A. Weitz, and A.A. Solovev, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019. 31(21): p. 214004. DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab0822.
20) Pathways to mesoporous resin/carbon thin films with alternating gyroid morphology.
Zhang, Q., F. Matsuoka, H.S. Suh, P.A. Beaucage, S. Xiong, D.-M. Smilgies, K.W. Tan, J.G. Werner, P.F. Nealey, and U.B. Wiesner, ACS Nano, 2018. 12(1): p. 347-358. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06436.
19) Hydrogel Microcapsules with Dynamic pH-Responsive Properties from Methacrylic Anhydride.
Werner, J.G., S. Nawar, A.A. Solovev, and D.A. Weitz, Macromolecules, 2018. 51(15): p. 5798–5805. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00843.
18) Dynamic microcapsules with rapid and reversible permeability switching.
Werner, J.G., B.T. Deveney, S. Nawar, and D.A. Weitz, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018. 28(39): p. 1803385. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201803385.
17)Block copolymer derived 3-D interpenetrating multifunctional gyroidal nanohybrids for electrical energy storage.
Werner, J.G., G. Rodríguez-Calero, H. Abruña, and U. Wiesner, Energy & Environmental Science, 2018. 11(5): p. 1261-1270. DOI: 10.1039/c7ee03571c.
16) Synthesis and Formation Mechanism of All-Organic Block Copolymer-Directed Templating of Laser-Induced Crystalline Silicon Nanostructures.
Tan, K.W., J.G. Werner, M.D. Goodman, H.S. Kim, B. Jung, H. Sai, P.V. Braun, M.O. Thompson, and U. Wiesner, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018. 10(49): p. 42777-42785. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b12706.
15) Nanoscale Q-Resolved Phonon Dynamics in Block Copolymers.
Bolmatov, D., Q. Zhang, D. Soloviov, Y.M. Li, J.G. Werner, A. Suvorov, Y.Q. Cai, U. Wiesner, M. Zhernenkov, and J. Katsaras, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018. 1(9): p. 4918-4926. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01087.
14) Characterization of sulfur and nanostructured sulfur battery cathodes in electron microscopy without sublimation artifacts.
Levin, B.D., M.J. Zachman, J.G. Werner, R. Sahore, K.X. Nguyen, Y. Han, B. Xie, L. Ma, L.A. Archer, and E.P. Giannelis, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2017. 23(1): p. 155-162. DOI: 10.1017/S1431927617000058.
13) Functional Microcapsules via Thiol–Ene Photopolymerization in Droplet-Based Microfluidics.
Amato, D.V., H. Lee, J.G. Werner, D.A. Weitz, and D.L. Patton, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017. 9(4): p. 3288-3293. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b16382.
12) Block copolymer self-assembly–directed synthesis of mesoporous gyroidal superconductors.
Robbins, S.W., P.A. Beaucage, H. Sai, K.W. Tan, J.G. Werner, J.P. Sethna, F.J. DiSalvo, S.M. Gruner, R.B. Van Dover, and U. Wiesner, Science Advances, 2016. 2(1): p. e1501119. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501119.
11) Ordered mesoporous crystalline aluminas from self-assembly of ABC triblock terpolymer–butanol–alumina sols.
Tan, K.W., H. Sai, S.W. Robbins, J.G. Werner, T.N. Hoheisel, S.A. Hesse, P.A. Beaucage, F.J. DiSalvo, S.M. Gruner, and M. Murtagh, RSC Advances, 2015. 5(61): p. 49287-49294. DOI: 10.1039/c5ra07421e.
10) Transient laser heating induced hierarchical porous structures from block copolymer–directed self-assembly.
Tan, K.W., B. Jung, J.G. Werner, E.R. Rhoades, M.O. Thompson, and U. Wiesner, Science, 2015. 349(6243): p. 54-58. DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0492.
9) One-Pot Synthesis of Hierarchically Macro-and Mesoporous Carbon Materials with Graded Porosity.
Hesse, S.A., J.G. Werner, and U. Wiesner, ACS Macro Letters, 2015. 4(5): p. 477-482. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00095.
8) Carbon-Sulfur Composites from Cylindrical and Gyroidal Mesoporous Carbons with Tunable Properties in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Werner, J.G., S.S. Johnson, V. Vijay, and U Wiesner, Chem. Mater. 2015. 27: 3349-3357. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00500
7) Graded porous inorganic materials derived from self-assembled block copolymer templates.
Gu, Y., J.G. Werner, R.M. Dorin, S.W. Robbins, and U. Wiesner, Nanoscale, 2015. 7(13): p. 5826-5834. DOI: 10.1039/c4nr07492k.
6) Synthesis and characterization of gyroidal mesoporous carbons and carbon monoliths with tunable ultralarge pore size.
Werner, J.G., T.N. Hoheisel, and U. Wiesner, ACS Nano, 2014. 8(1): p. 731-743. DOI: 10.1021/nn405392t.
5) Characterizing Sulfur in TEM and STEM, with Applications to Lithium Sulfur Batteries
Levin, B.D., M.J. Zachman, J.G. Werner, U. Wiesner, L.F. Kourkoutis, and D.A. Muller, Microscopy and Microanalysis 2014, 20 (S3): p. 446-447. DOI: 10.1017/S143192761400395X
4) Gyroidal mesoporous multifunctional nanocomposites via atomic layer deposition.
Werner, J.G., M.R. Scherer, U. Steiner, and U. Wiesner, Nanoscale, 2014. 6(15): p. 8736-8742. DOI: 10.1039/c4nr01948b.
3) Designing block copolymer architectures for targeted membrane performance.
Dorin, R.M., W.A. Phillip, H. Sai, J.G. Werner, M. Elimelech, and U. Wiesner, Polymer, 2014. 55(1): p. 347-353. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.09.038.
2) A silica sol–gel design strategy for nanostructured metallic materials.
Warren, S.C., M.R. Perkins, A.M. Adams, M. Kamperman, A.A. Burns, H. Arora, E. Herz, T. Suteewong, H. Sai, Z. Li, J.G. Werner, J. Song, U. Werner-Zwanziger, J.W. Zwanziger, M. Grätzel, F.J. DiSalvo, and U. Wiesner, Nature Materials, 2012. 11(5): p. 460-467. DOI: 10.1038/nmat3274.
1) Tuning structure and properties of graded triblock terpolymer-based mesoporous and hybrid films.
Phillip, W.A., R.M. Dorin, J.G. Werner, E.M. Hoek, U. Wiesner, and M. Elimelech, Nano letters, 2011. 11(7): p. 2892-2900. DOI: 10.1021/nl2013554.