Changhuo Xu

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Changhuo Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Changhuo Xu has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Materials Chemistry, 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Changhuo Xu's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (23 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (23 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers). Changhuo Xu is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (23 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (23 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers). Changhuo Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Macao. Changhuo Xu's co-authors include Ben Zhong Tang, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Hanchen Shen, Jianbin Tang, Quan Zhou, Zhuxian Zhou, Youqing Shen, Zhihua Gan, Jiajia Xiang and Zhen Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Changhuo Xu

28 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Enzyme-activatable polymer–drug conjugate augments tumour penetration and treatment efficacy

2019 707 citations Changhuo Xu et al. profile →
Rational Design of NIR-II AIEgens with Ultrahigh Quantum Yields for Photo- and Chemiluminescence Imaging

2022 214 citations Hanchen Shen, Feiyi Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Changhuo Xu China	16	1.1k	732	499	440	176	31	1.6k
Olena Taratula United States	23	772 0.7×	529 0.7×	409 0.8×	477 1.1×	218 1.2×	45	1.9k
Shao‐Kai Sun China	24	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.8×	535 1.1×	466 1.1×	124 0.7×	81	2.5k
Xianchuang Zheng China	22	1.8k 1.6×	958 1.3×	682 1.4×	613 1.4×	112 0.6×	38	2.4k
Haibin Shi China	25	1.3k 1.2×	657 0.9×	384 0.8×	758 1.7×	152 0.9×	76	2.2k
Yingsheng Cheng China	16	1.1k 1.0×	846 1.2×	309 0.6×	368 0.8×	85 0.5×	21	1.6k
Shaorui Jia China	14	983 0.9×	738 1.0×	230 0.5×	441 1.0×	239 1.4×	24	1.5k
Zhengze Yu China	23	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	581 1.2×	1.0k 2.3×	190 1.1×	33	2.6k
Yanlin Lv China	17	794 0.7×	508 0.7×	306 0.6×	521 1.2×	252 1.4×	28	1.5k
Anivind Kaur Bindra Singapore	14	847 0.8×	984 1.3×	348 0.7×	292 0.7×	165 0.9×	19	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Changhuo Xu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Shen, Hanchen, Changhuo Xu, Xinyan Zhu, et al.. (2025). From Molecule to Aggregate: Designing AIE Nanocrystals for Low‐Power Backward Third‐Harmonic Generation Angiography. Advanced Materials. 37(20). e2414419–e2414419.

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Shen, Hanchen, et al.. (2025). A Bright Organic Fluorophore for Accurate Measurement of the Relative Quantum Yield in the NIR‐II Window. Small. 21(13). e2411866–e2411866. 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Hanchen, Changhuo Xu, Bingzhe Wang, et al.. (2024). A Near-Infrared-II Excitable Pyridinium Probe with 1000-Fold ON/OFF Ratio for γ-Glutamyltranspeptidase and Cancer Detection. ACS Nano. 18(31). 20268–20282. 15 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xueqian, Fei Wang, Chuen Kam, et al.. (2024). Fluorescent Nanocable as a Biomedical Tool: Intracellular Self-Assembly Formed by a Natural Product Interconnects and Synchronizes Mitochondria. ACS Nano. 18(32). 21447–21458. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianyu, Hanchen Shen, Zuping Xiong, et al.. (2024). Two‐Photon Clusteroluminescence Enabled by Through‐Space Conjugation for In Vivo Bioimaging. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Xinwen Ou, Bingzhe Wang, et al.. (2024). Modulation of Heterotypic and Homotypic Interactions to Visualize the Evolution of Organic Aggregates in a Fluorescence Turn-on Manner. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(7). 4851–4863. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Hanchen Shen, Tzu‐Ming Liu, et al.. (2023). Restriction of molecular motion to a higher level: Towards bright AIE dots for biomedical applications. iScience. 26(5). 106568–106568. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Feiyi, Hanchen Shen, Qingqing Liu, et al.. (2023). Powerful Synergy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Aggregation-Induced Emission-Active Photosensitizer in Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Nano. 17(19). 18952–18964. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Xueqin, Changhuo Xu, Xun Zhang, et al.. (2023). Development of Sulfonamide‐Functionalized Charge‐Reversal AIE Photosensitizers for Precise Photodynamic Therapy in the Acidic Tumor Microenvironment. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(30). 38 indexed citations

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Shen, Hanchen, Changhuo Xu, Ruquan Ye, et al.. (2023). Water‐Soluble Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens with Near‐Infrared Emission for Advanced Phototheranostics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(9). 2300052–2300052. 15 indexed citations

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Shen, Hanchen, Feiyi Sun, Xinyan Zhu, et al.. (2022). Rational Design of NIR-II AIEgens with Ultrahigh Quantum Yields for Photo- and Chemiluminescence Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(33). 15391–15402. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Changhuo, Hang Zou, Lianrui Hu, et al.. (2022). A Photoactivatable AIEgen for Selective Imaging and Killing of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Cells. ACS Materials Letters. 4(9). 1831–1839. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianfu, Jianyu Zhang, Hui Cao, et al.. (2022). Mitochondria‐Targeting Phototheranostics by Aggregation‐Induced NIR‐II Emission Luminogens: Modulating Intramolecular Motion by Electron Acceptor Engineering for Multi‐Modal Synergistic Therapy. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(16). 88 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Ruquan Ye, Hanchen Shen, et al.. (2022). Molecular Motion and Nonradiative Decay: Towards Efficient Photothermal and Photoacoustic Systems. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(30). e202204604–e202204604. 160 indexed citations

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Sun, Feiyi, Wei Zhao, Hanchen Shen, et al.. (2022). Design of Smart Aggregates: Toward Rapid Clinical Diagnosis of Hyperlipidemia in Human Blood. Advanced Materials. 34(49). e2207671–e2207671. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Chen Peng, Xueqin Yang, et al.. (2022). One‐Pot Synthesis of Customized Metal–Phenolic‐Network‐Coated AIE Dots for In Vivo Bioimaging. Advanced Science. 9(11). e2104997–e2104997. 39 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Ruquan Ye, Hanchen Shen, et al.. (2022). Molecular Motion and Nonradiative Decay: Towards Efficient Photothermal and Photoacoustic Systems. Angewandte Chemie. 134(30). 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Hang Zou, Zheng Zhao, et al.. (2021). Turning on Light Emission of a Dark Pro‐Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen in Aqueous Media Through Reductase‐Modulated Derotation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 20 indexed citations

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Shen, Hanchen, Changhuo Xu, Feiyi Sun, et al.. (2021). Metal‐Based Aggregation‐Induced Emission Theranostic Systems. ChemMedChem. 17(3). 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Hang Zou, Zheng Zhao, et al.. (2019). A New Strategy toward “Simple” Water‐Soluble AIE Probes for Hypoxia Detection. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(34). 73 indexed citations

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