Xi Chen

Employment

• CUNY Advanced Science Research Center Associate Professor
  2016 - Present
• The City College of New York Associate Professor
  2016 - Present

Education

• Tsinghua University B.S.
• Stevens Institute of Technology PhD
• Columbia University in the City of New York Postdoc

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (56)

• Water-property-dependent impedance modulation for silk-based humidity sensor
  Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2026.118148
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• Interfacial Water Confinement Couples Hygroactuation and Mechanical Robustness in Free‐Standing Biocomposites
  Advanced Functional Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.77708
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• Reversible, Chemically Triggered Water Retention in Disulfide Cross-Linked Synthetic Conserved Anterior Mucus Proteins (SCAMPs)
  Macromolecules 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6c00640
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• Single-Residue Mutation Switch Reconfigures the Hierarchical Structure and Assembly of Amphiphilic Protein Block Copolymers for Hydration Layer-Dominated Water-Responsive Actuation
  Biochemistry 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6c00038
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• Backbone‐Constrained Tripeptides Enable Sequence Control of Solid‐State Dynamics
  Kuntrapakam Hema, Hamish W. A. Swanson, Elma Naranjo +7 more
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026 DOI: 10.1002/anie.5983894
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• Backbone‐Constrained Tripeptides Enable Sequence Control of Solid‐State Dynamics
  Kuntrapakam Hema, Hamish W. A. Swanson, Elma Naranjo

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  • Avishek Dey
  • Crisol L Aguirre Ortiz
  • Michelle C. Neary
  • Denize F Favaro
  • Tong Wang
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  Angewandte Chemie 2026 DOI: 10.1002/ange.5983894
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• Water-Assisted Adhesion and Reconfigurability of Mushroom-Derived Papers for Sustainable Materials Engineering
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c09559
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• Backbone Confinement and Aromatic Substitutions Direct Supramolecular Dynamics in Tripeptides
  2025 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-q6wqd
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• Adaptive peptide dispersions enable drying-induced biomolecule encapsulation
  Nature Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02300-z
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• Hydrogen-Bonding-Dependent Water-Responsive Actuation of Bacillus subtilis Cell Walls
  Langmuir 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c00490
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• Context dependence in assembly code for supramolecular peptide materials and systems
  Nature Reviews Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00782-6
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• Nanoconfined-liquid-dependent water-responsive actuation of Bacillus subtilis cell walls
  2025 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-g3rpr
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• Modulating water-responsive actuation energy of regenerated silk fibroin via tyrosine modification
  Soft Matter 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5SM00040H
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• Water‐Vapor Responsive Metallo‐Peptide Nanofibers
  Avishek Dey, Elma Naranjo, Ranajit Kumar Saha +5 more
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202409391
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• Water‐Vapor Responsive Metallo‐Peptide Nanofibers
  Avishek Dey, Elma Naranjo, Ranajit Kumar Saha +5 more
  Angewandte Chemie 2024 DOI: 10.1002/ange.202409391
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• The role of water mobility on water-responsive actuation of silk
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52715-6
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• Structure-Dependent Water Responsiveness of Protein Block Copolymers
  ACS Applied Bio Materials 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.4c00045
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• Water-Vapor Responsive and Erasable Metallo-Peptide Nanofibers
  2024 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-ddm5r
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• Comparative mucomic analysis of three functionally distinct Cornu aspersum Secretions
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41094-z
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• Hydration solids
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06144-y
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