D. Su, M. Yao, J. Liu, Y. Zhong, X. Chen, Z. Shao*, Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Silk Fibroin Hydrogel through Restricting the Growth of β-Sheet Domains, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 17489-17498.

K. Luo, Y. Yang, Z. Shao*, Physically Crosslinked Biocompatible Silk Fibroin Based Hydrogels with High Mechanical Performance, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26, 872–880.

Y. Sun, Q. Li, S. Sun, J. Huang, B. Zheng, Q. Chen*, Z. Shao*, H. Sun*, Aqueous multiphoton lithography with multifunctional silk-centred bio-resists, Nature Communications, 2015, 6: 8612

H. Guo, J. Zhang, D. Porter, H. Peng, D. W. P. M. Lowik, Y. Wang, Z. Zhang, X. Chen, Z. Shao*, Ultrafast and reversible thermochromism of a conjugated polymer material based on the assembly of peptide amphiphiles, Chemical Science, 2014, 5, 4189-4195.

Q. Li, Y. He, J. Chang, L. Wang, H. Chen, Y.-W. Tian, H. Wang, Z. Shao*, “Surface‐modified Silicon Nanoparticles with Ultrabright Photoluminescence and One‐exponential Decay for Nanoscale Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Temperature”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013, 135, 14924−14927.

Q. Wang, Y. Yang*, X. Chen, Z Shao*, “Investigation of Rheological Properties and Conformation of Silk Fibroin in the Solution of AmimCl”, Biomacromolecules, 2012, 13(6), 1875-1881.

T. Wang, D. Porter, Z. Shao*, “Intrinsic Ability of Silk Fibroin to Direct the Formation of Diverse Aragonite Aggregates”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22(2), 435-441.

C. Fu, D. Porter, X. Chen, F. Vollrath, Z. Shao*, “Understanding the Mechanical Properties of Antheraea Pernyi Silk—From Primary Structure to Condensed Structure of the Protein”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2011, 21, 729-737.

C. Fu, D. Porter and Z. Shao*, “Moisture Effects on Antheraea pernyi Silk’s Mechanical Property”, Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 7877-7880.

Y. Liu, Z. Shao*, F. Vollrath, “Relationships between supercontraction and mechanical properties of spider silk”, Nature Materials, 2005, 4(12), 901-905

Z. Shao*, F. Vollrath, “Surprising strength of silkworm silk”, Nature, 2002, 418,741.