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2. Zhilin Yu, Aykut Erbas, Faifan Tantakitti, Liam C. Palmer, Joshua A. Jackman, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Nam-Joon Cho, Samuel I. Stupp, “Co-Assembly of Peptide Amphiphiles and Lipids into Supramolecular Nanostructures Driven by Anion-π Interactions”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7823–7830
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4. Zhilin Yu, Stefan Hecht, "Control over Unfolding Pathways by Localizing Photoisomerization Events within Heterosequence Oligoazobenzene Foldamers". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13740-13744.
5. Zhilin Yu, Steffen Weidner, Thomas Risse, Stefan Hecht, "The Role of Statistics and Microenvironment for The Photoresponse in Multi-Switch Architectures: The Case of Photoswitchable Oligoazobenzene Foldamers". Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 4156-4167.
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