Takeshi Fujita, Yoshikazu Ito, Yongwen Tan, Hisato Yamaguchi, Daisuke Hojo,  Akihiko Hirata, Damien Voiry, Manish Chhowalla, Mingwei Chen, .Chemically exfoliated ReS₂ nanosheets. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 12458.PDF

Yongwen Tan, Jiajun Gu, Xu Wei, Zhipeng Chen, Dingxin Liu, Qinglei Liu, Di Zhang. Reduction of CuO Butterfly Wing Scales Generates Cu SERS Substrates for DNA Base Detection. Acs Appl.Mater. Inter.faces, 2013, 5, 9878.

Xiaowei Liu, Yongwen Tan, Fangyu Zhang, Peilu Ouyang, Jiajun Gu, Di Zhang. An ancient method-inspired route for fast fabrication of 'PbS bird feathers'. MRS Commun.,  2013, 3, 61.PDF

Yongwen Tan, Jiajun Gu*, Linhua Xu, Xining Zang, Dingxin Liu, Wang Zhang, Qinglei Liu, Shenmin Zhu, Huilan Su, Chuanliang Feng, Genlian Fan, Di Zhang*. High-Density Hotspots Engineered by Naturally Piled-Up Subwavelength Structures in Three-Dimensional Copper Butterfly Wing Scales for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 1578.PDF

Xining Zang, Yongwen Tan, Zhi Lv, Jiajun Gu, Di Zhang*. Moth wing scales as optical pH sensors. Sens. Actuators. B Chem., 2012, 166, 824.PDF

Yongwen Tan, Xining Zang, Jiajun Gu, Dingxin Liu, Shenmin Zhu, Huilan Su, Chuanliang Feng, Qinglei Liu, Woon-Ming Lau, Won-Jin Moon, Di Zhang. Morphological Effects on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Silver Butterfly Wing Scales Synthesized via Photoreduction. Langmuir, 2011, 27, 11742.PDF

 Yongwen Tan, Jiajun Gu*, Xining Zang, Xu Wei, Kaicheng Shi, Linhua Xu, Di Zhang*. Versatile Fabrication of Intact Three-Dimensional Metallic Butterfly Wing Scales with Hierarchical Sub-micrometer Structures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,  2011, 50, 8307.PDF (Highlighted by Nature (Nature, 2011,476, 9))