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Journal Papers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Hamed Ghavami, <\/span>Christopher R. Lambert,\u00a0<\/span>Jessica Drozd,\u00a0<\/span>Yuxiang Liu, “Phage-Loaded Microfluidic Device for Selective Bacterium Detection with a High Potential for in-the-Field Applications,” ACS Applied Bio Materials<\/strong> (accepted) (2026).\u00a0 doi: 10.1021\/acsabm.5c01652. (link<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Alex J. Chiluisa, Kang Zhang, Lucas Burstein, Yao Shen, Thomas L. Carroll, Yuxiang Liu, and Loris Fichera, “Steerable Optical Fiber for Office-Based Laser Surgery of the Larynx: Design, Development, and Experimental Evaluation in a Phantom Model.” ASME. Journal of Medical Devices<\/strong> 20<\/strong> (3), 031001 (2026). doi: 10.1115\/1.4070782. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    3. Hamed Jafarishad, Hamed Ghavami, Mucheng Li, Sanjay Sarang, and Yuxiang Liu, \u201cIn-line measurements of below-the-surface food deformation during drying with an interference-based optical fiber strain sensor,\u201d\u00a0Drying Technology<\/strong>44<\/em><\/strong>(3), 400\u2013413 \u00a0(2026). doi: 10.1080\/07373937.2026.2619490. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    4. Hamed Ghavami and Yuxiang Liu, \u201cRecent Advancements in Liquid Marbles: Fabrication, Materials, Control Mechanisms, and Applications,\u201d Frontiers in Lab on a Chip Technologies 3<\/strong>, 1451278 (2024). doi: 10.3389\/frlct.2024.1451278. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    5. Hamed Jafarishad, Mucheng Li, Yao Shen, Pawan Singh Takhar, Yuxiang Liu “Intensity-modulated optical fibre strain sensor for continuous measurements of below-the-surface food deformation during drying,” Biosystems Engineering<\/strong><\/em> 238, 115-127 (2024). doi: 10.1016\/j.biosystemseng.2023.12.013. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    6. Fidele M. Abedi, Yuxiang Liu, Pawan S. Takhar, \u201cMultiscale modeling of transport mechanisms, strain, and stress in bananas during drying,\u201d Drying Technology<\/strong><\/em> 42, 540-562 (2023). doi:10.1080\/07373937.2023.2280912. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    7. Shang Gao,\u00a0Yiwei Jiang, Mucheng Li,\u00a0Yang Wang, Yao Shen,\u00a0Matthew C. Flegal,\u00a0Benjamin C. Nephew,\u00a0Gregory S. Fischer, Yuxiang Liu,\u00a0Loris Fichera, Haichong K. Zhang, “Laparoscopic Photoacoustic Imaging System Based on Side-illumination Diffusing Fibers,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering<\/strong><\/em>, early access with pending page numbers, (2023), doi: 10.1109\/TBME.2023.3279772. (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    8. Wei Wu, Tyler Nguyen, Josue D. Ordaz, Yi Ping Zhang, Nai-Kui Liu, Xinhua Hu, Yuxiang Liu, Xingjie Ping, Qi Han, Xiangbing Wu, Wenrui Qu, Sujuan Gao, Christopher B. Shields, Xiaoming Jin, and Xiao-Ming Xu, “Transhemispheric remodeling the motor cortex promotes forelimb recovery after mouse spinal cord injury,” JCI Insight<\/strong><\/em>\u00a07(12), e158150 (2022).(link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    9. Mingkang Wang, Rui Zhang, Robert Ilic, Yuxiang Liu, and Vladimir A. Aksyuk, “Fundamental limits and optimal estimation of the resonance frequency of a linear harmonic oscillator,”\u00a0Communications Physics<\/em><\/strong>\u00a04, 207 (2021). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    10. Chaoyang Ti, Yao Shen, Yiming Lei, and Yuxiang Liu, “Optical Trapping of Sub\u2212Micrometer Particles with Fiber Tapers Fabricated by Fiber Pulling Assisted Chemical Etching,”\u00a0Photonics<\/strong><\/em>\u00a08(9), 367 (2021). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    11. Yundong Ren,\u00a0Mucheng Li, Subhrodeep Ray, Brandon Johann Bozeat, and Yuxiang Liu, “Highly accessible low-loss fiber tapering by the ceramic housed electric furnace (CHEF) and frequency-domain real-time monitoring,”\u00a0Review of Scientific Instruments\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>92, 035109 (2021). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    12. Chaoyang Ti, Yao Shen, Minh-Tri Ho Thanh, Qi Wen, and Yuxiang Liu,\u00a0“Reliable and mobile all-fiber modular optical tweezers.”\u00a0Scientific Reports\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>10,\u00a020099 (2020). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    13. Feiyun Cui, Hamed Jafarishad, Zhiru Zhou, Jiazhang Chen, Jiahui Shao, Qi Wen, Yuxiang Liu, and H. Susan Zhou. “Batch fabrication of electrochemical sensors on a glycol-modified polyethylene terephthalate-based microfluidic device.” Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/strong> <\/em>167, 112521 (2020). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    14. Mingkang Wang*, Rui Zhang*, Robert Ilic, Vladimir Aksyuk, and Yuxiang Liu, “Frequency Stabilization of\u00a0Nanomechanical Resonators Using Thermally Invariant Strain Engineering,” Nano Letters<\/strong><\/em> 20, 3050\u20133057 (2020). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    15. Yundong Ren, Subhrodeep Ray, and Yuxiang Liu, “Reconfigurable Acrylic-tape Hybrid Microfluidics,” Scientific Reports<\/strong><\/em> 9, 4824 (2019). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    16. Jinqiang Ning, Chaoyang Ti, Yuxiang Liu, “Inchworm Inspired Pneumatic Soft Robot Based on Friction Hysteresis,”\u00a0Journal of Robotics and Automation<\/strong><\/em> 1, 54-64 (2017). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    17. Chaoyang Ti, Minh-Tri Ho-Thanh, Qi Wen & Yuxiang Liu, “Objective-lens-free Fiber-based Position Detection with Nanometer Resolution in a Fiber Optical Trapping System,” Scientific Reports<\/em><\/strong> 7, 13168 (2017). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    18. Yundong Ren, Rui Zhang, Chaoyang Ti, and Yuxiang Liu, “Tapered optical fiber loops and helices for integrated photonic device characterization and microfluidic roller coasters,” Optica\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>3, 1205-1208 (2016). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    19. Rui Zhang,\u00a0Chaoyang Ti,\u00a0Marcelo Davan\u00e7o,\u00a0Yundong Ren,\u00a0Vladimir Aksyuk,\u00a0Yuxiang Liu,\u00a0and\u00a0Kartik Srinivasan, “Integrated tuning fork nanocavity optomechanical transducers with high fMQM product and stress-engineered frequency tuning”, Applied Physics Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 107, 131110 (2015). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    20. Chaoyang Ti, Gawain M Thomas, Yundong Ren, Rui Zhang, Qi Wen, and Yuxiang Liu, “Fiber based optical tweezers for simultaneous in situ force exertion and measurements in a 3D polyacrylamide gel compartment,” Biomedical Optics Express<\/strong><\/em>\u00a06, 2325-2336 (2015). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    21. Marcelo Davanco, Serkan Ates,\u00a0Yuxiang Liu, and Kartik Srinivasan, \u201cSi3N4 optomechanical crystals in the resolved-sideband regime,\u201d\u00a0Applied Physics Letters<\/i><\/b>\u00a0104, 041101 (2014)\u00a0(link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    22. Yuxiang Liu*<\/span>, Marcelo Davanco*, Vladimir Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan, \u201cElectromagnetically induced transparency and wideband wavelength conversion in silicon nitride microdisk optomechanical resonators,\u201d Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/b> 110, 223603 (2013). (* equal contribution) (link<\/a>)
      \n(Highlighted in\u00a0      Phys.org<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    23. Yuxiang Liu<\/span>, Felix Stief, and Miao Yu, \u201cSubwavelength optical trapping with a fiber-based surface plasmonic lens,\u201d Optics Letters<\/i><\/b> 38, 721-723 (2013). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Selected for publication in the<\/i> Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics<\/i>, Editors: Andrew Dunn and Anthony Durkin, Vol. 8, Iss. 4, May 22, 2013).<\/li>\n
    24. Yuxiang Liu<\/span>, Houxun Miao, Vladimir Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan, \u201cWide cantilever stiffness range cavity optomechanical sensors for atomic force microscopy,\u201d Optics Express<\/i><\/b> 20, 18268-18280 (2012). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Highlighted in       Phys.org<\/a>, R&D Magazine<\/a>, Nanowerk<\/a>, Imaging & Microscopy<\/a>)<\/li>\n
    25. Ling Tong, Yuxiang Liu<\/span>, Bridget D. Dolash, Yookyung Jung, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Donald E. Bergstrom, Ji-Xin Cheng, “Label-free Imaging of Semiconducting and Metallic Carbon Nanotubes in Cells and Mice Using Transient Absorption Microscopy,” Nature Nanotechnology<\/i><\/b> 7, 56-61 (2012).\u00a0(link<\/a>)
      \n(Highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, Science Daily<\/i>, Biophotonics<\/i>, Microscope and Analysis<\/i>, BioOptics World<\/i>, Drug Discovery & Development<\/i>, and Medgadget<\/i>.)<\/li>\n
    26. Yuxiang Liu<\/span>, Hua Xu, Felix Stief, Nikolai Zhitenev, and Miao Yu, “Far-field superfocusing with an optical fiber based surface plasmonic lens made of nanoscale concentric annular slits,” Optics Express<\/i><\/b> 19, 20233-20243 (2011). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Featured in \u201cTechnology Review 2011: Photonics reaches from science to the consumer world\u201d in the       Laser Focus World<\/i><\/a> magazine<\/a>; Highlighted by Nanotechnology Now<\/a>, University of Maryland News<\/a>).<\/li>\n
    27. Yuxiang Liu<\/span> and Miao Yu, \u201cOptical Manipulation and Binding of Microrods with Multiple Traps Enabled in an Inclined Dual-fiber System,\u201d Biomicrofluidics<\/i><\/b> 4, 043010 (2010). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Highlighted in the News & Announcements from AIP Biomicrofluidics<\/i> in February 2011; among the top 20 downloaded papers on Biomicrofluidics<\/i> in February-March 2011).<\/li>\n
    28. Yuxiang Liu<\/span> and Miao Yu, \u201cMultiple traps created with an inclined dual-fiber system,\u201d Optics Express<\/i><\/b> 17, 21680-21690 (2009). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Selected for publication in the<\/i>Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics<\/i>, Editor: Gregory W. Faris, Vol. 4, Iss. 13, Dec. 2, 2009).<\/li>\n
    29. Yuxiang Liu<\/span> and Miao Yu, \u201cInvestigation of inclined dual-fiber optical tweezers for 3D manipulation and force sensing,\u201d Optics Express<\/i><\/b> 17, 13624-13638 (2009). (link<\/a>)
      \n(Selected for publication in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics<\/i>, Editor: Gregory W. Faris, Vol. 4, Iss. 10, Oct. 2, 2009).<\/li>\n
    30. X. M. Zhang, Yuxiang Liu<\/span>, H. Bae, C. Pang, and M. Yu, \u201cPhase modulation with micromachined resonant mirrors for low-coherence fiber-tip pressure sensors,\u201d Optics Express<\/i><\/b> 17, 23965-23974 (2009). (link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Conference Papers (starting from 2021)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. Mingzhang Zhu,\u00a0Yao Shen, Alex J. Chiluisa, Jialin Song, Loris Fichera, and Yuxiang Liu. “Optical Fiber Coupling System for Steerable Endoscopic Instruments.” In\u00a02021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)<\/i>, pp. 4871-4874. IEEE, (2021). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/EMBC46164.2021.9629658<\/a><\/li>\n
        2. Li, Mucheng, Mackenzie Damon, and Yuxiang Liu. “Motion-insensitive Lossy-mode-resonances Optical Fiber Sensor for Relative Humidity and Moisture Contents.” in\u00a0Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021<\/em>, C. Mazzali, T. (T.-C.) Poon, R. Averitt, and R. Kaindl, eds. Technical Digest Series,\u00a0Paper JW7A-11. Optica (formerly Optical Society of America),(2021).\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/FIO.2021.JW7A.11<\/a><\/li>\n
        3. Jafarishad, Hamed, Mucheng Li, and Yuxiang Liu. “Optical fiber strain sensor for real-time food deformation measurements in drying.” in\u00a0Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021<\/em>, C. Mazzali, T. (T.-C.) Poon, R. Averitt, and R. Kaindl, eds. Technical Digest Series, Paper JW7A.12. Optica (formerly Optical Society of America),\u00a0(2021).\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/FIO.2021.JW7A.12<\/a><\/li>\n
        4. Isabelle A. Chan, Jesse F. d’Almeida, Alex J. Chiluisa, Thomas L. Carroll, Yuxiang Liu, Loris Fichera, “On the merits of using angled fiber tips in office-based laser surgery of the vocal folds.” in\u00a0Medical Imaging 2021: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling<\/i>. Proceedings vol. 11598, Paper 115981Z. International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) (2021).\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1117\/12.2580454<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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