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1. H. Oh, Y-M. Tu, L. Samineni, S.D. Respino, B. Mehrafrooz, H. Joshi, L. Massenburg, H. Lopez-Marques, N. Elessawy, W. Song, H. Behera, R. Dhiman, V.S. Boorla, K. Kher, Y-C. Lin, C. Maranas, A. Aksimentiev, B.D. Freeman, and M. Kumar*, Dehydrated biomimetic membranes with skinlike structure and function.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024 doi:10.1021/acsami.3c19572.

2. W. Song, Z. Zheng, A.H. Alawadhi, O.M. Yaghi, MOF water harvester produces water from Death Valley desert air in ambient sunlight. Nat. Water 2023 1, 626-634.

3. W. Song* and M. Kumar*, Beyond aquaporins: Recent developments in artificial water channels. Langmuir 2022 38(30), 9085-9091. 

4. W. Song†, J. Park†, S. Dasgupta, C. Yao, N. Maroli, H. Behera, X. Yin, D. Acharya, X. Zhang, C.M. Doherty, P.K. Maiti, B.D. Freeman*, and M. Kumar*, Scalable pillar[5]arene-integrated poly(arylate-amide) molecular sieve membranes to separate light gases. Chem. Mater. 2022 34(14), 6559-6567. (†Equal contribution)

5. J. Shen, A. Roy, H. Joshi, L. Samineni, R. Ye, Y.-M. Tu, W. Song, M. Skiles, M. Kumar, A. Aksimentiev, and H. Zeng*, Fluorofoldamer-based salt- and proton-rejecting artificial water channels for ultrafast water transport. Nano Lett. 2022 22(12), 4831-4838 .

6. A. Roy, J. Shen, H. Joshi, W. Song, Y.-M. Tu, R. Chowdhury, Y. Ruijuan, N. Li, C. Ren, M. Kumar, A. Aksimentiev, and H. Zeng*, Foldamer-based ultrapermeable and highly selective artificial water channels that exclude protons. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2021 16, 911-917 .

7. Y.-M. Tu, L. Samineni, T. Ren, A.B. Schantz, W. Song, S. Sharma, and M. Kumar*, Prospective applications of nanometer-scale pore size biomimetic and bioinspired membranes. J. Membr. Sci. 2021 620(15) 118968. 

8. Y.-M. Tu†, W. Song†, T. Ren†, Y.-x. Shen, R. Chowdhury, P. Rajapaksha, T.E. Culp, L. Samineni, C. Lang, A. Thokkadam, D. Carson, Y. Dai, A. Mukthar, M. Zhang, A. Parshin, J.N. Sloand, S.H. Medina, M. Grzelakowski, D. Bhattacharya, W.A. Phillip, E.D. Gomez, R.J. Hickey, Y. Wei, and M. Kumar*, Rapid fabrication of precise high-throughput filters from membrane protein nanosheets. Nat. Mater. 2020 19, 347-354. (†Equal contribution)

9. W. Song, H. Joshi, R. Chowdhury, J.S. Najem, Y.-x. Shen, C. Lang, C.B. Henderson, Y.-M. Tu, M. Farell, M.E. Pitz, C.D. Maranas, P.S. Cremer, R. J. Hickey, S.A. Sarles, J.-l. Hou, A. Aksimentiev, and M. Kumar*, Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2020 15, 73-79.

10. C. Lang, J.A. LaNasa, N. Utomo, Y. Xu, M.J. Nelson, W. Song, M.A. Hickner, R.H. Colby, M. Kumar*, and R.J. Hickey*, Solvent-non-solvent rapid-injection for preparing nanostructured materials from micelles to hydrogels. Nat. Commun. 2019 10, 3855.

11. W. Song, and M. Kumar*, Artificial water channels: toward and beyond desalination. Curr. Opin. Chem. Eng. 2019 25, 9-17.

12. C. Lang, D. Ye, W. Song, C. Yao, Y.-M. Tu, C. Capparelli, J. LaNasa, M. A. Hickner, E. Gomez, E. Gomez, R. J. Hickey*, and M. Kumar*, Biomimetic separation of transport and matrix functions in lamellar block copolymer channel-based membranes. ACS Nano 2019 13(7), 8292-8302.

13. W. Song, Y.-M. Tu, H. Oh, L. Samineni, and M. Kumar*, Hierarchical optimization of high performance biomimetic and bioinspired membranes. Langmuir 2019 35(3), 589-607.

14. Y.-x. Shen†, W. Song†, D.R. Barden, T. Ren, C. Lang, H. Feroz, C.B. Henderson, P.O. Saboe, D. Tsai, H. Yan, P.J. Butler, G.C. Bazan, W.A. Phillip, R.J. Hickey, P.S. Cremer, H. Vashisth, and M. Kumar* Achieving high permeability and enhanced selectivity for angstrom-scale separations using artificial water channel membranes. Nat. Commun. 2018 9, 2294. (†Equal contribution)

15. W. Song, C. Lang, Y.-x. Shen, and M. Kumar*, Design considerations for artificial water channel-based membranes. Ann. Rev. Mater. Res. 2018 48, 57-82.

16. M. Baaden, M. Barboiu, R.M. Bill, C.-L. Chen, J. Davis, M.D. Vincenzo, V. Freger, M. Fröba, P.A. Gale, B. Gong, C. Hélix-Nielsen, R. Hickey, B. Hinds, J.-L. Hou, G. Hummer, M. Kumar, Y.-M. Legrand, M. Lokesh, B. Mi, S. Murail, P. Pohl, M. Sansom, Q. Song, W. Song, S. Törnroth-Horsefield, H. Vashisth, and M. Vögele, Biomimetic water channels: general discussion. Faraday Discuss. 2018 209, 205-229.

17. M. Baaden, M. Barboiu, M.P. Borthakur, C.-L. Chen, R. Coason, J. Davis, V. Freger, B. Gong, C. Hélix-Nielsen, R. Hickey, B. Hinds, W. Hirunpinyopas, A. Horner, J.-L. Hou, G. Hummer, P. Iamprasertkun, K. Kazushi, M. Kumar, Y.-M. Legrand, M. Lokesh, B. Mi, S. Mitra, S. Murail, A. Noy, S. Nunes, P. Pohl, Q. Song, W. Song, S. Törnroth-Horsefield, and H. Vashisth, Applications to water transport systems: general discussion. Faraday Discuss. 2018 209, 389-414.

18. W. Song, Y.-x. Shen, C. Lang, P. Saha, I.V. Zenick, R.J. Hickey, and M. Kumar*, Unique selectivity trends of highly permeable PAP[5] water channel membranes. Faraday Discuss. 2018 209, 193-204.

19. C. Lang, Y.-x. Shen, J.A. LaNasa, D. Ye, W. Song, T.J. Zimudzi, M.A. Hickner, E.D. Gomez, E.W. Gomez, M. Kumar, and R.J. Hickey. Creating cross-linked lamellar block copolymer supporting layers for biomimetic membranes. Faraday Discuss. 2018 209, 179-191.

20. W.C. Song, K.-R. Kim, M. Park, K.E. Lee, and D.-R. Ahn*, Backbone-modified oligonucleotides for tuning the cellular uptake behavior of spherical nucleic acids. Biomater. Sci. 2017 5(3), 412-416.

21. M.S. Jang, W.C. Song, S.W. Shin, K.S. Park, B.-W. Kim, J. Kim, and S.H. Um*, A novel multigene cloning method for the production of a motile ATPase. J. Biotechnol. 2015 207, 1-7.

22. W.C. Song, S.W. Shin, K.S. Park, M.S. Jang, J.-H. Choi, B.-K. Oh, and S.H. Um*, Self-illuminative reaction-cascade-driven anticancer therapeutic cassettes made of cooperatively interactive nanocomplexes. Colloid Surf. B-Biointerfaces 2015 126, 580-584.

23. S.W. Shin, K.S. Park, M.S. Jang, W.C. Song, J. Kim, S.-W. Cho, J.Y. Lee, J.H. Cho, and S.H. Um*, X-DNA origami-networked core-supported lipid stratum. Langmuir 2015 31(3), 912-916.

24. B.J. Kim, S.H. Um, W.C. Song, Y.H. Kim, M.S. Kang, and J.H. Cho*, Water-gel for gating graphene transistors. Nano Lett. 2014 14(5), 2610-2616.

25. S.W. Shin†, W.C. Song†, A.R. Kim, S.-W. Cho, D.-I. Kim, and S.H. Um*, Novel stem-loop RNA and drug-bearing DNA hybrid nanostructures specific to LNCaP prostate carcinoma. Biomater. Sci. 2014 2, 76-83. (†Equal contribution)

26. W.C. Song, H.-J. Sung, K.S. Park, J.-W. Choi, J.-Y. Cho, and S.H. Um*, Novel functional Renilla luciferase mutant provides long-term serum stability and high luminescence activity. Protein Expr. Purif. 2013 91(2), 215-220.

27. S.J. Bae, W.C. Song, S.H. Jung, S.-W. Cho, D.-I. Kim, and S.H. Um*, A gene-networked gel matrix-supported lipid bilayer as a synthetic nucleus system. Langmuir 2012 28(49), 17036-17042.