Houyang Xu (Hau Yeung Tsui) joined the Nitschke group in 2021 as a PhD student with support from the Cambridge Trust in collaboration with the China Scholarship Council. His work mainly focuses on the structural dynamics and adaptability of metal-organic cages.
Publications
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation
– Nature chemistry
(2025)
17,
289
(doi: 10.1038/s41557-024-01708-5)
Supramolecular recognition and mechanically interlocked molecules based on imidazoliums and crown ethers
– SCIENTIA SINICA Chimica
(2023)
53,
2509
(doi: 10.1360/ssc-2023-0171)
Cyclization of an Achiral Flipping Panel to Homochiral Tubes Exhibiting Circularly Polarized Luminescence
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2023)
62,
e202303035
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202303035)
Fluorescence emission enhancement of a T-shaped benzimidazole with a mechanically-interlocked ‘suit’
– Chem Commun (Camb)
(2021)
57,
3239
(doi: 10.1039/d0cc07471c)
Graphene oxide induced enhancement of light-driven micromotor with biocompatible fuels
– Applied Materials Today
(2021)
22,
100943
(doi: 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.100943)