- Lee, J. (2015). Proton-Electrostatic Localization: Explaining the Bioenergetic Conundrum in Alkalophilic Bacteria. Bioenergetics 4 (121), pp. 2.
- Andemichael, H. & Lee, J. (2016). Toxicological study of biofuel ethanol with blue green alga Spirulina platensis. Algal Research 18, pp. 110–115.
- Huff, M. D. & Lee, J. (2016). Biochar-surface oxygenation with hydrogen peroxide. Journal of Environmental Management 165, pp. 17–21.
- Smith, C. R., Hatcher, P. G., Kumar, S. & Lee, J. (2016). Investigation into the sources of biochar water-soluble organic compounds and their potential toxicity on aquatic microorganisms. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 4 (5), pp. 2550–2558.
- Lee, J. (2013). Synthetic Biology: A New Opportunity in the Field of Plant Biochemistry & Physiology. J Plant Biochem Physiol.
- Lee, J., Hawkins, B., Day, D. M. & Reicosky, D. C. (2010). Sustainability: the capacity of smokeless biomass pyrolysis for energy production, global carbon capture and sequestration. Energy Environ. Sci. 3 (11), pp. 1695–1705.
- Saeed, H. A. & Lee, J. (2016). Experimental Demonstration of Localized Excess Protons at a Water-Membrane Interface and the Effect of other Cations on Their Stability. The FASEB Journal 30 (1 Supplement), pp. 634–1.
- Lee, J. (2013). Membrane surface charges attracted protons are not relevant to proton motive force. Bioenerg.: Open Access 2 (2), pp. 1000e114/1–1000e114/3.
- Lee, J. W. (2021). Mitochondrial energetics with transmembrane electrostatically localized protons: Do we have a thermotrophic feature. Scientific Reports 11:14575; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93853-x.
- Lee, J. W. (2021). Energy renewal: Isothermal utilization of environmental heat energy with asymmetric structures. Entropy 23, pp. 665.
- Sacko, O., Whiteman, R., Kharel, G. W., Kumar, S. & Lee, J. W. (2020). Sustainable Chemistry: Solubilization of phosphorus from insoluble phosphate material hydroxyapatite with ozonized biochar. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8 (18), pp. 7068–7077.
- Kharel, G., Sacko, O., Feng, X., Morris, J. R., Phillips, C., Trippe, K., Kumar, S. & Lee, J. (2019). Biochar Surface Oxygenation by Ozonization for Super High Cation Exchange Capacity. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
- Nguyen, T. H., Barnes, C. L., Agola, J. P., Sherazi, S., Greene, L. H. & Lee, J. (2019). Demonstration of horizontal gene transfer from genetically engineered Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP1 to wild-type E. coli DH5α. Gene 704, pp. 49–58.
- Lee, J. (2019). Electrostatically localized proton bioenergetics: better understanding membrane potential. Heliyon 5 (7), pp. e01961.
- Lee, J. (2019). Protocol measuring horizontal gene transfer from algae to non-photosynthetic organisms. MethodsX 6, pp. 1564–1574.
- Saeed, H. A. & Lee, J. (2018). Experimental Determination of Proton-Cation Exchange Equilibrium Constants at Water-Membrane Interface Fundamental to Bioenergetics. WATER 9, pp. 116–140.
- Lee, J. (2018). Ozonized Biochar Compositions And Methods Of Making And Using The Same. United States Patent No. US 10,971,335 B2.
- Huff, M. D., Marshall, S., Saeed, H. A. & Lee, J. (2018). Surface oxygenation of biochar through ozonization for dramatically enhancing cation exchange capacity. Bioresources and Bioprocessing 5, pp. 1–9.
- Lee, J., Hawkins, B., Kidder, M. K., Evans, B. R., Buchanan, A. & Day, D. (2016). Characterization of biochars produced from peanut hulls and pine wood with different pyrolysis conditions. Bioresources and Bioprocessing 3 (1), pp. 15.
- Saeed, H. A. & Lee, J. (2015). Experimental Demonstration of Localized Excess Protons at a Water-Membrane Interface. Bioenergetics 4 (127).
- Abdel-Fattah, T. M., Mahmoud, M. E., Ahmed, S. B., Huff, M. D., Lee, J. & Kumar, S. (2014). Biochar from woody biomass for removing metal contaminants and carbon sequestration. J Ind Eng Chem.
- Huff, M. D., Kumar, S. & Lee, J. (2014). Comparative analysis of pinewood, peanut shell, and bamboo biomass derived biochars produced via hydrothermal conversion and pyrolysis. Journal of Environmental Management 146, pp. 303–308.
- Jones, R. L., Buxens, M., Wheeler, A., Westerfield, J. & Lee, J. (2013). Colorimetric assay for quantitative analysis of butanol and other higher alcohols. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 246.
- Huff, M., Kumar, S. & Lee, J. (2013). Comparative analysis of biochars produced via hydrothermal conversion and slow pyrolysis. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 246.
- Saeed, H. & Lee, J. (2013). Experimental bioenergetics study: Electrostatically localized protons. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 246.
- Smith, C. R., Sleighter, R. L., Hatcher, P. G. & Lee, J. (2013). Molecular Characterization of Inhibiting Biochar Water-Extractable Substances Using Electrospray Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology 47 (23), pp. 13294–13302.
- Smith, C. R., Buzan, E. M. & Lee, J. (2013). Potential Impact of Biochar Water-Extractable Substances on Environmental Sustainability. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 1 (1), pp. 118–126.
- Andemichael, H. & Lee, J. (2013). Tolerance of arthrospira platensis to biofuel alcohols. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 246.
- Lee, J. (2012). Proton-electrostatics hypothesis for localized proton coupling bioenergetics. Bioenerg.: Open Access 1 (2), pp. 1000104/1–1000104/9.
- Lee, J., Kidder, M., Evans, B. R., Paik, S., Buchanan, III, A. C., Garten, C. T. & Brown, R. (2010). Characterization of Biochars Produced from Cornstovers for Soil Amendment. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44 (20), pp. 7970–7974.
- Pereiro, R. & Lee, J. (2010). James Weifu Lee, Robert S. Foote (Eds.): Micro and nano technologies in bioanalysis. Methods and protocols. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 396 (4), pp. 1371–1372.
- Lee, J., Foote, R. S. & others (2009). Micro and nano technologies in bioanalysis. Humana Press.
- Lee, J. (2007). Nanoelectrode-gated detection of individual molecules with potential for rapid DNA sequencing. Solid State Phenomena 121, pp. 1379–1386.
- Lee, J. & Meller, A. (2007). Rapid DNA sequencing by direct nanoscale reading of nucleotide bases on individual DNA chains. Perspectives in Bioanalysis 2, pp. 245–263.
- Zhao, X., Payne, C. M., Cummings, P. T. & Lee, J. (2007). Single-strand DNA molecule translocation through nanoelectrode gaps. Nanotechnology 18 (42), pp. 424018.
- Krstić, P. S., Wells, J. C., Fuentes-Cabrera, M., Xu, D. & Lee, J. (2007). Toward electronic conductance characterization of DNA nucleotide bases. Solid State Phenomena 121, pp. 1387–1390.
- Day, D., Evans, R. J., Lee, J. & Reicosky, D. (2005). Economical CO₂, SOₓ, and NOₓ capture from fossil-fuel utilization with combined renewable hydrogen production and large-scale carbon sequestration. Energy 30 (14), pp. 2558–2579.
- Lee, J., Lee, I. & Greenbaum, E. (2005). Imaging nanometer metallocatalysts formed by photosynthetic deposition of water-soluble transition-metal compounds. J Phys Chem B 109 (12), pp. 5409–5413.
- Lee, J. & Greenbaum, E. (2004). Interfacial photoredox molecular interactions: A new class of Hill reagents for Photosystem II reaction centers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (12), pp. 3935–3939.
- Day, D., Evans, R. J., Lee, J. & Reicosky, D. (2004). The Utilization of CO₂ for the Creation of a Valuable and Stable Carbon Co-Product From Fossil Fuel Exhaust Scrubbing. Papers of the American Chemical Society, pp. U1093.