Publications

2026 Imaging from Macro to Nanoscale: Multimodal Advances in Chemical and Biomedical Imaging Peng Chen · Chemical & Biomedical Imaging · Scholar only — 2026 Spatiotemporal organization of membrane protein controls bacterial extracellular electron transfer Peng Chen · Nature Communications · Scholar only 2 2025 Biphasic mechanochemistry of single-chain polymerization Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 2 2025 Conformation-gated binding underlies kinetic asymmetry and negative cooperativity in ATP: cob (I) alamin adenosyltransferase Peng Chen · Cell Reports Physical Science · Scholar only 2 2025 Elucidating energy conversion pathways at biotic/abiotic interfaces in microbe–semiconductor hybrids Peng Chen · Journal of the American Chemical Society · Scholar only 17 2025 Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting at the Integrated Rh–MoRhOx Cluster Heterostructure on InGaN/GaN Nanowires Peng Chen · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · Scholar only 11 2025 Single-molecule reaction mapping uncovers diverse behaviours of electrocatalytic surface Pd–H intermediates Peng Chen · Nature Catalysis · Scholar only 19 2025 Spatially resolved charge-transfer kinetics at the quantum dot–microbe interface using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 10 2025 Transporter excess and clustering facilitate adaptor protein shuttling for bacterial efflux Peng Chen · Cell Reports Physical Science · Scholar only 7 2024 A ‘through-DNA’ mechanism for co-regulation of metal uptake and efflux Peng Chen · Nature Communications · Scholar only 5 2024 Determining the Young’s modulus of the bacterial cell envelope Peng Chen · ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering · Scholar only 21 2024 Long-range enhancements of micropollutant adsorption on metal-promoted photocatalysts Peng Chen · Nature Catalysis · Scholar only 57 2024 Memory effects of transcription regulator−DNA interactions in bacteria Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 4 2024 Molecular-scale insights into cooperativity switching of xTAB adsorption on gold nanoparticles Peng Chen · ACS Central Science · Scholar only 9 2024 Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers Peng Chen · Nature Chemistry · Scholar only 20 2024 Revealing the Origin of Cooperative Adsorption of Chains on Nanoparticle Surfaces through Coarse-Grained Simulations Peng Chen · Langmuir · Scholar only 5 2023 Fluorescence microscopy Peng Chen · Springer Handbook of Advanced Catalyst Characterization · Scholar only 3 2023 Mechanical stimuli activate gene expression via a cell envelope stress sensing pathway Peng Chen · Scientific Reports · Scholar only 31 2023 Single-cell multimodal imaging uncovers energy conversion pathways in biohybrids Peng Chen · Nature Chemistry · Scholar only 53 2022 Bioelectronic Platform to Investigate Charge Transfer between Photoexcited Quantum Dots and Microbial Outer Membranes Peng Chen · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · Scholar only 10 2022 Inter-facet junction effects on particulate photoelectrodes Peng Chen · Nature Materials · Scholar only 104 2022 Tuning single-polymer growth via hydrogen bonding in conformational entanglements Peng Chen · ACS Central Science · Scholar only 11 2021 Nanoscale cooperative adsorption for materials control Peng Chen · Nature Communications · Scholar only 70 2021 Real-Time Single-Polymer Growth towards Single-Monomer Resolution Peng Chen · Trends in Chemistry · Scholar only 9 2021 Scanning Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Microscopy on Finder Grids: Toward Correlative Multitechnique Imaging of Surfaces Peng Chen · Analytical Chemistry 93, 5377–5382 · Scholar only 25 2021 Single-chain polymerization dynamics and conformational mechanics of conjugated polymers Peng Chen · Chem · Scholar only 18 2021 Stochastic Kinetics of Nanocatalytic Systems Peng Chen · Physical Review Letters · Scholar only 6 2020 Biphasic unbinding of a metalloregulator from DNA for transcription (de)repression in Live Bacteria Peng Chen · Nucleic Acids Research 48, 2199–2208 · Scholar only 22 2020 Exploring Plasmonic Photocatalysis via Single-Molecule Reaction Imaging Peng Chen · Nano Letters · Scholar only 22 2020 Metal-induced sensor mobilization turns on affinity to activate regulator for metal detoxification in live bacteria Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 35 2019 Analogy between enzyme and nanoparticle catalysis: a single-molecule perspective Peng Chen · ACS Catalysis · Scholar only 54 2019 Correlated single-molecule reaction imaging and photocurrent measurements reveal underlying rate processes in photoelectrochemical water splitting Peng Chen · J. Electrochem. Soc · Scholar only 14 2019 Mechanical stress compromises multicomponent efflux complexes in bacteria Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 44 2019 Quantifying photocurrent loss of a single particle-particle interface in nanostructured photoelectrodes Peng Chen · Nano Letters · Scholar only 20 2019 Super-resolution imaging of nonfluorescent reactions via competition Peng Chen · Nature Chemistry · Scholar only 143 2018 Charge carrier activity on single-particle photo(electro)catalysts: Toward function in solar energy conversion Peng Chen · Journal of the American Chemical Society · Scholar only 71 2018 Cooperative communication within and between single nanocatalysts Peng Chen · Nature Chemistry · Scholar only 131 2018 Facilitated Unbinding via Multivalency-Enabled Ternary Complexes: New Paradigm for Protein–DNA Interactions Peng Chen · Accounts of Chemical Research · Scholar only 55 2018 Imaging Catalytic Hotspots on Single Plasmonic Nanostructures via Correlated Super-Resolution and Electron Microscopy Peng Chen · ACS nano · Scholar only 117 2017 Adaptor protein mediates dynamic pump assembly for bacterial metal efflux Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 41 2017 Bimetallic effect of single nanocatalysts visualized by super-resolution catalysis imaging Peng Chen · ACS Central Science · Scholar only 92 2017 Single polymer growth dynamics Peng Chen · Science · Scholar only 99 2016 Distinguishing Direct and Indirect Photoelectrocatalytic Oxidation Mechanisms Using Quantitative Single-Molecule Reaction Imaging and Photocurrent Measurements Peng Chen · The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · Scholar only 74 2016 Single‐molecule dynamics of the molecular chaperone trigger factor in living cells Peng Chen · Molecular Microbiology · Scholar only 22 2016 Sub-particle reaction and photocurrent mapping to optimize catalyst-modified photoanodes Peng Chen · Nature · Scholar only 423 2015 Concentration-and chromosome-organization-dependent regulator unbinding from DNA for transcription regulation in living cells Peng Chen · Nature communications · Scholar only 119 2015 Metalloregulator CueR biases RNA polymerase’s kinetic sampling of dead-end or open complex to repress or activate transcription Peng Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Scholar only 43 2015 Quantifying Multistate Cytoplasmic Molecular Diffusion in Bacterial Cells via Inverse Transform of Confined Displacement Distribution Peng Chen · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · Scholar only 25 2014 Approaches to single-nanoparticle catalysis Peng Chen · Annual Review of Physical Chemistry · Scholar only 221 2014 Single-Molecule Kinetics Reveals a Hidden Surface Reaction Intermediate in Single-Nanoparticle Catalysis Peng Chen · The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · Scholar only 77