How to get 0-padded binary representation of an integer in java?

for example, for 1, 2, 128, 256 the output can be (16 digits): 0000000000000001 0000000000000010 0000000010000000 0000000100000000 I tried String.format("%16s", Integer.toBinaryString(1)); it puts spaces for left-padding: ` 1' How to put 0s for padding. I couldn't find it in Formatter. Is there another way to do it? P.S. this post describes how to format integers with left 0-padding, but it is not