Publications

2025

1. Daming Chen, Jimin Fu, Yang Ming, Wei Cai, Yidi Wang, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Ming Yang, Yixin Hu, Benjamin Tawiah, Shuo Shi, Hanbai Wu, Zijian Li, Bin Fei*. High-Performance Wide-Temperature Zinc-Ion Batteries with K+/C3N4 Co-Intercalated Ammonium Vanadate Cathodes. Nano-Micro Letters, 2025. 

2. Xin Hu, Yingbo Zhang, Wei Cai, Yang Ming, Rujun Yu, Daming Chen, Shuang Qiu, Cancheng Jiang, Chi-Wai Kan, Jinlian Hu, Nuruzzaman Noor, Bin Fei.* Emissivity Regulated Fabric: Achieving Self‐Adaptive Radiative Cooling and Dynamic Body Radiation Manipulation. Small, 2025, e04951.

3. Zijian Li, Mingyang Li, Wanyu He, Bin Fei.* Electrospun fiber-based electrodes materials for flexible lithium-ion batteries. Energy Materials 2025, 5, 500069. 

4. Chang Liu, Jiachuan Hua, Yin Tung Lam, Yang Ming, Yidi Wang, Polly H.M. Leung, John H. Xin, Xing Zhang, Bin Fei.* Photo-synthesis of sensing silk fibroin fibers with double-network structures. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2025, 309, 142934. 

5. Benjamin Tawiah, Emmanuel A. Ofori, Daming Chen, Yang Ming, Yongdan Hou, Hao Jia, Bin Fei.* Carbon-Based Thermal Management Solutions and Innovations for Improved Battery Safety: A Review. Batteries 2025, 11, 144. 

6. Benjamin Tawiah, Sana Ullah, Ivan Miguel De Cachinho Cordeiro, Anthony C.Y. Yuen, Yang Ming, Mohammad Z. Rahman, Daming Chen, Wei Cai, Guangping Zheng, Bekeshev Amirbek, Lyazzat Tastanova, Bin Fei.* Nanodiamond decorated phosphor-silicone thermally conductive PA6 composites with excellent flame retardancy, nanomechanical and thermo-pyroelectric response. Chemical Engineering Journal 2025, 511, 162249. 

7. Yang Ming, Shuo Shi, Wei Cai, Jing Liu, Daming Chen, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Xia Zhou, Benjamin Tawiah, Bin Fei.* A scalable wood-based interfacial evaporator assisted with localized joule heating for round-the-clock operations. Chemical Engineering Journal 2025, 504, 158690. 

8. Daming Chen, Yang Ming, Wei Cai, Zhen Wang, Benjamin Tawiah, Shuo Shi, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Chi-sun Poon, Bin Fei.* Enhancing potassium ion storage through nanostructure engineering and ion-doped: A case study of Cu2+ doped Co0.85Se with yolk-shell structure. Small 2025, 21, 2408792. 

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2024

1. Riyue Ge, Juanjuan Huo, Peng Lu, Yuhai Dou, Zhongchao Bai,* Wenxian Li, Huakun Liu, Bin Fei,* Shixue Dou*. Multifunctional strategies of advanced electrocatalysts for efficient urea synthesis. Adv. Mater. 2024, 2412031. 

2. Wei Cai, Liangyuan Qi, Tianyang Cui, Bicheng Lin, Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, Xin Hu, Yang Ming, Ah Pun Chan, Weiyi Xing, De-Yi Wang, Bin Fei,* Jintu Fan. Chameleon-Inspired, Dipole Moment-Increasing, Fire-Retardant Strategies Toward Promoting the Practical Application of Radiative Cooling Materials. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2412902. 

3. Wei Cai, Bicheng Lin, Liangyuan Qi, Tianyang Cui, Zhaoxin Li, Junling Wang, Sicheng Li, Chengfei Cao, Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Shuo Shi, Weiyi Xing, Yuan Hu, Jixin Zhu, Bin Fei.* Bio-based and fireproof radiative cooling aerogel film: Achieving higher sustainability and safety. Chemical Eng J 2024, 488, 150784. 

4. Yang Ming, Zhixing Cheng, Shuo Shi, J Su, H Wu, Daming Chen, Wei Cai, Mengyan Yang, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Jiashen Li, Bin Fei.* Nanoarchitectonics towards full coverage of CdZnS nanospheres by layered double hydroxides for enhanced visible-light driven H2 evolution. Small, 2024, 202309750. 

5. Wei Cai, Zhaoxin Li, Heng Xie, Wei Wang, Tianyang Cui, Bicheng Lin, Liangyuan Qi, Xin Hu, Yu Du, Yang Ming, Shuo Shi, Daming Chen, Bin Fei,* Weiyi Xing, Yuan Hu. Thermally managed and fireproof composite aerogels for safer and year-round energy saving. Chem Eng J, 2024, 483, 149006. 

6. Xin Hu, Wei Cai, Yingbo Zhang, Shuo Shi, Yang Ming, Rujun Yu, Daming Chen, Mengyan Yang, Faming Wang, Hongyu Yang, Chi-Wai Kan, Nuruzzaman Noor, Bin Fei.* Facile and widely-applicable route to self-adaptive emissivity modulation: energy-saving demonstration with transparent wood. Nano Letters, 2024, 24, 657–66. 

7. Yang Ming, Chang Liu, Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Shuo Shi, Jiashen Li, Joanne Yip, Bin Fei.* Sustainable engineering of wool keratin towards cobalt atoms fixation for enhanced electrocatalytic water splitting. Materials Today Sustainability 2024, 25, 100635. 

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2023  

1. Chang Liu, Xin Hu, Xiang Zhou, Yan Ma, Polly H.M. Leung, John H. Xin, Bin Fei.* Guanidine-containing double-network silks with enhanced tensile and antibacterial property. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2023, 244, 125470. 

2. Xin Hu, Rujun Yu, Faming Wang, Zunfeng Liu, Hongyu Yang, Chaoji Chen, Yangling Li, Nuruzzaman Noor, Bin Fei.* Fabrication, functionalities and applications of transparent wood: a review. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2303278. 

3. ​Wenwen Guo, Fuwei Liang, Shun Chen, Liping Jin, Chenpeng Ji, Ping Zhang, Bin Fei*. A P/N-containing hardener endowing bio-based epoxy thermosets with excellent thermal, mechanical and intrinsically flame-retardant performances. Construction and Building Materials 2023, 373, 130707. ​

 

2022

1. Wenwen Guo, Fuwei Liang, Shun Chen, Kejing Yu, Jie Sun, Zengyuan Pang, Bin Fei.* Magnolol-derived thiol-ene photo-polymerized membranes with intrinsic anti-flammability and high transparency. Composites Part B 2022, 242, 110074. 

2. ​Chang Liu, Jiachuan Hua, Pui Fai Ng, Yidi Wang, Bin Fei,* Zhengzhong Shao. Bioinspired photo-cross-linking of stretched solid silks for enhanced strength. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2022, 8, 484−492.  

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2021

1. ​Cheuk Ying Chan, Ziqi Wang, Yangling Li, Hui Yu, Bin Fei,* John Xin. Single-ion conducting double network hydrogel electrolytes for long cycling zinc-ion batteries. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 2021, 13, 30594-602. 

2. Yuyang Zhou, Yichao Lin, Benjamin Tawiah, Jun Sun, Richard K.K. Yuen, Bin Fei.* DOPO decorated two-dimensional MXene (Ti3C2–DOPO) nanosheets for flame retardant, ultraviolet protective and reinforced polylactide composite. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 2021, 13, 21876-87.

3. Minghui Qiu, Dong Wang, Benjamin Tawiah, Hao Jia, Bin Fei,* Shaohai Fu. Constructing PEDOT:PSS/Graphene sheet nanofluidic channels to achieve dendrite-free Zn anode. Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021, 215, 108798. 

4. ​Yuyang Zhou, Benjamin Tawiah, Nuruzzaman Noor, Zheng Zhang, Jun Sun, Richard K.K.Yuen, Bin Fei.* A facile and sustainable approach for simultaneously flame retarded, UV protective and reinforced poly(lactic acid) composites using fully bio-based complexing couples. Composites Part B: Engineering 2021, 108833. 

5. Jiachuan Hua, Chang Liu, Pui Fai Ng, Bin Fei.* Bacterial cellulose reinforced double-network hydrogels for shape memory strand. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021, 259, 117737. 

6. ​Bin Yu, Chun Yin Yuen, Xiaodong Xu, Zhen-Cheng Zhang, Wei Yang, Hongdian Lu, Bin Fei*, Guan Heng Yeoh, Pingan Song, Hao Wang*. Engineering MXene surface with POSS for reducing fire hazards of polystyrene with enhanced thermal stability. J Hazard Mater 2021, 401, 123342. 

7. ​Ziqi Wang, Liubing Dong, Weiyuan Huang, Hao Jia, Qinghe Zhao, Yidi Wang, Bin Fei,* Feng Pan. Simultaneously regulating uniform Zn2+ flux and electron conduction by MOF/rGO interlayers for high-performance Zn anodes. Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 13, 73. 

8. Hao Jia, Ziqi Wang, Mahmut Dirican, Sheng Qiu, Cheuk Ying Chan, Shaohai Fu, Bin Fei,* Xiangwu Zhang. A liquid metal assisted dendrite-free anode for high-performance Zn-ion batteries. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 5597-5605. 

9. Cheuk Ying Chan, Ziqi Wang, Hao Jia, Pui Fai Ng, Lung Chow, Bin Fei*. Recent advances of hydrogel electrolytes in flexible energy storage devices. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 2043–2069. 

10. Chang Liu, Jiachuan Hua, Pui Fai Ng, Bin Fei*. Photochemistry of bioinspired dityrosine crosslinking. J Mater Sci Technol, 2021, 63, 182-91. 

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2020

1. ​Benjamin Tawiah, Yuyang Zhou, Richard K. K. Yuen, Bin Fei*. Microporous boron based intumescent macrocycle flame retardant for poly(lactic acid) with excellent UV protection. Chem Eng J, 2020, 402, 126209. 

2. ​Pui Fai Ng, Jiachuan Hua, Chang Liu, Yidi Wang, Rong Yin, Bin Fei*. Solar energy storage silks via coaxial wet spinning. ACS Materials Letters, 2020, 2, 801-7. 

3. Yidi Wang, Liangfeng Luo, Ziqi Wang, Benjamin Tawiah, Chang Liu, John H. Xin, Bin Fei*, Wai-Yeung Wong. Growing poly(norepinephrine) layer over individual nanoparticles to boost hybrid perovskite photocatalyst. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 2020, 12, 27578-86. 

4. Ziqi Wang, Weiyuan Huang, Jiachuan Hua, Yidi Wang, Haocong Yi, Wenguang Zhao, Qinghe Zhao, Hao Jia, Bin Fei*, Feng Pan. An anionic-MOF-based bifunctional separator for regulating lithium deposition and suppressing polysulfides shuttle in Li-S batteries. Small Methods, 2020, 4, 2000082.

5. ​Hao Jia, Ziqi Wang, Benjamin Tawiah, Yidi Wang, Cheuk-Ying Chan, Bin Fei*, Feng Pan. Recent advances in zinc anodes for high-performance aqueous Zn-ion batteries. Nano Energy, 2020, 70, 104523.

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2019

1. Benjamin Tawiah, Bin Yu, Ruichao Wei, Richard K.K. Yuen, Wei Chen, John H. Xin, Bin Fei*. Simultaneous fire safety enhancement and mechanical reinforcement of poly(lactic acid) biocomposites with hexaphenyl (nitrilotris(ethane-2,1-diyl))tris(phosphoramidate). Journal of Hazardous Materials 2019, 380, 120856.  

2. Liangfeng Luo, Yidi Wang, Siping Huo, Peng Lv, Jun Fang, Yang Yang, Bin Fei*. Cu-MOF assisted synthesis of CuS/CdS(H)/CdS(C): enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production under visible light. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2019, 44, 30965-73. 

3. Pui Fai Ng, Ka I Lee, Shengfei Meng, Jidong Zhang, Yuhong Wang, Bin Fei*. Wet spinning of silk fibroin-based core-sheath fibers. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2019, 56, 3119-30. 

4. Benjamin Tawiah, Bin Yu, Richard K.K. Yuen, Yuan Hu, Ruichao Wei, John H. Xin, Bin Fei*. Highly efficient flame retardant and smoke suppression mechanism of boron modified graphene oxide/poly(lactic acid) nanocomposites. Carbon, 2019, 150, 8-20. 

5. Pui Fai Ng, Ka I Lee, Mo Yang, Bin Fei.* Fabrication of 3D PDMS microchannels of adjustable cross-sections via versatile gel templates. Polymers, 2019, 11, 64. ​

 

2018

1. ​Benjamin Tawiah, Bin Yu, Bin Fei.* Advances in flame retardant poly(lactic acid). Polymers 2018, 10, 876. 

2. Jiachuan Hua, Pui Fai Ng, Bin Fei*. High-strength hydrogels: microstructure design, characterization and applications. J Polym Sci, B: Polym Phys 2018, 56, 1325–35. 

3. Benjamin Tawiah, Bin Yu, Wai Yi Cheung, Shuk Ying Chan, Wei Yang, Bin Fei*. Synthesis and application of synergistic azo-boron-BPA / polydopamine as efficient flame retardant for poly(lactic acid). Polym Degrad Stabil 2018, 152, 64-74. 

4. Shuk Ying Chan, Liping Si, Ka I Lee, Pui Fai Ng, Lei Chen, Bin Yu, Yuan Hu, Richard K.K. Yuen, John H. Xin, Bin Fei*. A novel boron–nitrogen intumescent flame retardant coating on cotton with improved washing durability. Cellulose 2018, 25, 843-57. 

5. Lei Chen, Feng Wu, Yangling Li, Yidi Wang, Liping Si, Ka I. Lee, Bin Fei*. Robust and elastic superhydrophobic breathable fibrous membrane with in situ grown hierarchical structures. J. Membrane Sci. 2018, 547, 93-8. 

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2017 

1. ​Ka I Lee, Xiaowen Wang, Xia Guo, Ka-Fu Yung, Bin Fei.* Highly water-absorbing silk yarn with interpenetrating network via in situ polymerization. Int J Biol Macromol 2017, 95, 826-32.  

2. Feng Wu, Lei Chen, Yangling Li, Ka I Lee, Bin Fei*. Super-tough hydrogels from shape-memory polyurethane with wide-adjustable mechanical properties. J Mater Sci 2017, 52, 4421-34.  

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2016 & before 

1. ​Lei Chen, Liping Si, Feng Wu, Shuk Ying Chan, Puiyan Yu and Bin Fei*. Electrical and mechanical self-healing membrane using gold nanoparticles as localized “nano-heaters”. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 10018-25. 

2. Xiaowen Wang, Huawen Hu, Wenyi Wang, Ka I Lee, Chang Gao, Liang He, Yuanfeng Wang, Chuilin Lai, Bin Fei,* John H Xin.* Antibacterial modification of an injectable, biodegradable, non-cytotoxic block copolymer-based physical gel with body temperature-stimulated sol-gel transition and controlled drug release. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2016, 143, 342-51. 

3. Lei Chen, Yunzhe Du, Yudong Huang, Feng Wu, Hei Man Cheng, Bin Fei,* John H. Xin. Hierarchical poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole)/graphene oxide reinforcement with multifunctional and biomimic middle layer. Composites: Part A 2016, 88, 123-30. 

4. Guodong Liang, Xiaodong Li, Bin Fei,* Xiaomei Wang, Fangming Zhu. Tiny nanoparticles of organometallic polymers through direct disassembly-assisted synthesis strategy for hydrogen peroxide sensing. Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 7179-87. 

5. Jianqiang Wang, Xinkun Lu, Pui Fai Ng, Ka I Lee, Bin Fei,* John H. Xin, Jian-Yong Wu. Polyethylenimine coated bacterial cellulose nanofiber membrane and application as adsorbent and catalyst. J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 2015, 440, 32–8.  

6. Xiaowen Wang, Huawen Hu, Zongyue Yang, Liang He, Yeeyee Kong, Bin Fei,* John H Xin. Smart hydrogel-functionalized textile system with moisture management property for skin application. Smart Mater. Struct. 2014, 23, 125027. 

7. Xinkun Lu, Ching Ying Chan, Ka I Lee, Pui Fai Ng, Bin Fei,* John H. Xin, Jun Fu. Super-tough and thermo-healable hydrogel – promising for shape-memory absorbent fiber. J. Mater. Chem. B 2014, 2, 7631-8. 

8. Ka I Lee, Jianhua Li, Bin Fei,* John H. Xin. Mechanism study of heat stabilization of polyacrylonitrile nanofibers against alkaline hydrolysis. Polym. Degrad. Stabil. 2014, 105, 80-5. 

9. Suping Bao, Jianhua Li, Ka I Lee, Sijie Shao, Jianhua Hao, Bin Fei,* John H. Xin. Reversible mechanochromism of a luminescent elastomer. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 4625–31. 

10. Jianhua Li, Ka I. Lee, Xinkun Lu, Suping Bao, Tao Hua, John H. Xin, Bin Fei.* In-situ growth of pine-needle-like tungsten oxide nanowire arrays on carbon nanofibers. Mater. Lett. 2013, 99, 131-3. 

11. Zongyue Yang, Xiaowen Wang, Dapeng Lei, Bin Fei, John H. Xin.* A durable flame retardant for cellulosic fabrics. Polym. Degrad. Stabil. 2012, 97, 2467-72. ​​​​