Likai Hao, Yuan Guo, James M. Byrne, Fabian Zeitvogel, Gregor Schmid, Pablo Ingino, Jianli Li, Thomas R. Neu, Elizabeth Swanner, Andreas Kappler, Martin Obst (2016).  Binding of heavy metal ions in aggregates of microbial cells, EPS and biogenic iron minerals measured in-situ using metal- and glycoconjugates-specific fluorophores. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 180, 66-96.

Likai Hao, Jianli Li, Andreas Kappler, Martin Obst (2013). Mapping of heavy metal ion sorption to cell-extracellular polymeric substance-mineral aggregates by using, metal-selective fluorescent probes and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(21), 6524-6534.

Likai Hao, Xiangmei Liu, Huiyan Wang, Jianqun Lin, Xin Pang, Jianqiang Lin (2012). Detection and validation of a small broad-host-range plasmid pBBR1MCS-2 for use in genetic manipulation of the extremely acidophilic Acidithiobacillus sp. Journal of Microbiological Methods 90(3): 309-314.

Zheng Yang, Likai Hao, Bing Yin, Mengyao She, Martin Obst, Andreas Kappler, Yifan Kang, Ping, Liu, Jianli Li, and Zhen Shi (2013). Six-membered spirocycle opening triggered fluorescent probe for visualizing Hg²⁺ in living cells and bacteria-EPS-mineral aggregates. Organic Letters 15(17): 4334-4337. Co-first author

Xilang Jin, Likai Hao, Mengyao She, Martin Obst, Andreas Kappler, Jianli Li, Zhen Shi (2015). Visualizing tributyltin (TBT) in bacterial aggregates by specific rhodamine-based fluorescent probes. Analytica Chimica Acta 853(0): 514-520. Co-first author

Gregor Schmid, Fabian Zeitvogel, Likai Hao, Pablo Ingino, Irini Adaktylou, Merle Eickhoff, Martin Obst (2016). Submicron-scale heterogeneities in Nickel sorption of various cell-mineral aggregates formed by Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria. Environ. Sci. Technol., 50 (1), 114–125

Mengyao She, Zheng Yang, Likai Hao, Zhaohui Wang, Tianyou Luo, Martin Obst, Ping Liu, Yehua Shen, Shengyong Zhang, Jianli Li (2016). "A novel approach to study the structure-property relationships and applications in living systems of modular Cu2+ fluorescent probes." Scientific Reports 6: 28972

G. Schmid, F. Zeitvogel, L. Hao, P. Ingino, M. Floetenmeyer, Y.‐D. Stierhof, B. Schroeppel, C. J. Burkhardt, A. Kappler, M. Obst(2014). 3-D analysis of bacterial cell-(iron)mineral aggregates formed during Fe(II) oxidation by the nitrate-reducing Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1 using complementary microscopy tomography approaches. Geobiology 12 (4): 340–361.