Cheng Zhong

21.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
358 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Cheng Zhong is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Zhong has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 167 papers in Materials Chemistry and 109 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Cheng Zhong's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (140 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (127 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (111 papers). Cheng Zhong is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (140 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (127 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (111 papers). Cheng Zhong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Cheng Zhong's co-authors include Chuluo Yang, Jingui Qin, Shaolong Gong, Xiaodong Shi, Guohua Xie, Dongge Ma, Jean‐Luc Brédas, Zuo‐Quan Jiang, Haitao Sun and Wei Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Zhong

351 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters

2020 632 citations Xun Tang, Lin‐Song Cui et al. Nature Materials profile →
Achieving Nearly 30% External Quantum Efficiency for Orange–Red Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Employing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Composed of 1,8‐Naphthalimide‐Acridine Hybrids

2017 564 citations Weixuan Zeng, Wei‐Kai Lee et al. profile →
When Organocatalysis Meets Transition‐Metal Catalysis

2010 544 citations Cheng Zhong et al. profile →
Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar‐Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

2022 402 citations Wei Gao, Francis Lin et al. profile →
Reliable Prediction with Tuned Range-Separated Functionals of the Singlet–Triplet Gap in Organic Emitters for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence

2015 380 citations Cheng Zhong et al. profile →
Precisely Controlling the Position of Bromine on the End Group Enables Well‐Regular Polymer Acceptors for All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 15%

2020 351 citations Ruijie Ma, Yiqun Xiao et al. profile →
Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture

2022 277 citations Kui Jiang, Jie Zhang et al. profile →
Extending the π‐Skeleton of Multi‐Resonance TADF Materials towards High‐Efficiency Narrowband Deep‐Blue Emission

2022 214 citations Jingsheng Miao, Cheng Zhong et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Acceleration of reverse intersystem crossing in multi-resonance TADF emitter

2024 76 citations Yang Zou, Cheng Zhong et al. profile →
Efficient all-small-molecule organic solar cells processed with non-halogen solvent

2024 75 citations Wei Gao, Ruijie Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Zhong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng Zhong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng Zhong based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cheng Zhong. Cheng Zhong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Regio-isomerization Optimization Strategy for Photosensitizers: Achieving Ultrahigh Type I Reactive Oxygen Species Generation to Enhance Cancer Photoimmunotherapy 2025 ·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·Quan Wang, Lili Yang, Xiaoyu Xing, Wenjie Liang, (unknown), Xiong Chen, (unknown), Cheng Zhong, Haoke Zhang, Shixuan Wang, Fan Xia, Xiaoding Lou, Dugang Chen, (unknown)	1
2	Photoluminescent delocalized excitons in donor polymers facilitate efficient charge generation for high-performance organic photovoltaics 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Kui Jiang, Robert J. E. Westbrook, Tian Xia, Cheng Zhong, Jianxun Lu, Azzaya Khasbaatar, Kaikai Liu, Francis Lin, (unknown), Jie Zhang, Yuqing Li, Ying Diao, Zhanhua Wei, Hin‐Lap Yip, David S. Ginger, Alex K.‐Y. Jen	9
3	Interfacial modification using the cross-linkable tannic acid for highly-efficient perovskite solar cells with excellent stability 2024 ·Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Xing Gao, (unknown), Fei Wu, Yen‐Hung Lin, Ye Zeng, (unknown), Rongxing He, Cheng Zhong, Linna Zhu	25
4	Benzobisthiazole unit in 4,8-connection mode to build D–A polymer donors achieving high short-circuit current density for organic solar cells 2024 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Chun Wang, Yajing Zhang, (unknown), Cheng Zhong, Xinhui Lu, Xiaowei Zhan, Xingguo Chen	2
5	Reducing CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effects by optically controlled chemical modifications of guide RNA 2024 ·Cell chemical biology ·Qianqian Qi, Xingyu Liu, Wei Xiong, (unknown), Weiliang Shen, Yuanyuan Zhang, (unknown), Cheng Zhong, (unknown), Tian Tian, Xiang Zhou	10
6	Efficient all-small-molecule organic solar cells processed with non-halogen solvent breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Wei Gao, Ruijie Ma, Top Archie Dela Peña, Cenqi Yan, Hongxiang Li, Mingjie Li, Jiaying Wu, Pei Cheng, Cheng Zhong, Zhanhua Wei, Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Gang Li	75
7	Electronic Configuration Tuning of Centrally Extended Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enabling Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Approaching 19 % 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Tainan Duan, Wanying Feng, Yulu Li, Zhixiang Li, Zhe Zhang, Huazhe Liang, Hongbin Chen, Cheng Zhong, Seonghun Jeong, Changduk Yang, Shanshan Chen, Shirong Lu, Олег А. Ракитин, Chenxi Li, Xiangjian Wan, Bin Kan, Yongsheng Chen	73
8	Mechanism Study of Molecular Trap in All‐Organic Polystyrene‐Based Dielectric Composite 2023 ·Small ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cheng Zhong, Hang Luo, (unknown)	21
9	Cascade Chirality Transfer Through Diastereomeric Interaction Enables Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Zhanxiang Chen, Manli Huang, Cheng Zhong, Xiaosong Cao, Guohua Xie, Shaolong Gong, Chuluo Yang	18
10	Subtle structural modification of thiophene-fused benzotriazole unit to simultaneously improve the J_SC and V_OC of OSCs 2023 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Yajing Zhang, Cheng Zhong, Guilong Cai, (unknown), Jiayu Wang, Heng Lu, Boyu Jia, Xinhui Lu, Yuze Lin, Xiaowei Zhan, Xingguo Chen	3
11	An Effective Approach toward Yellow‐to‐Orange Multi‐Resonance TADF Emitters by Integrating Strong Electron Donor into B/N‐Based Polycyclic Architecture: High Performance OLEDs with Nearly 40% EQE 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Wei Yang, Jingsheng Miao, (unknown), Yang Zou, Cheng Zhong, Shaolong Gong, Chuluo Yang	69
12	Unraveling hydridic-to-protonic dihydrogen bond predominance in monohydrated dodecaborate clusters 2022 ·Chemical Science ·Yanrong Jiang, Qinqin Yuan, Wenjin Cao, Zhubin Hu, Yan Yang, Cheng Zhong, Tao Yang, Haitao Sun, Xue‐Bin Wang, Zhenrong Sun	11
13	Supramolecular CRISPR-OFF switches with host–guest chemistry 2022 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Wei Xiong, Xingyu Liu, Qianqian Qi, Huimin Ji, Fengbo Liu, Cheng Zhong, Simin Liu, Tian Tian, Xiang Zhou	12
14	Narrowing the Electroluminescence Spectra of Multiresonance Emitters for High-Performance Blue OLEDs by a Peripheral Decoration Strategy 2021 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Yuntao Qiu, Xia Han, Jingsheng Miao, Zhongyan Huang, Nengquan Li, Xiaosong Cao, Jianmei Han, Changjiang Zhou, Cheng Zhong, Chuluo Yang	69
15	Gaseous cyclodextrin-closo-dodecaborate complexes χCD·B₁₂X₁₂²⁻ (χ = α, β, and γ; X = F, Cl, Br, and I): electronic structures and intramolecular interactions 2021 ·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Yanrong Jiang, Qinqin Yuan, Wenjin Cao, Markus Rohdenburg, (unknown), Zhipeng Li, Yan Yang, Cheng Zhong, Carsten Jenne, Jonas Warneke, Haitao Sun, Zhenrong Sun, Xue‐Bin Wang	14
16	Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Materials ·Xun Tang, Lin‐Song Cui, Hongcheng Li, Alexander J. Gillett, Florian Auras, Yang‐Kun Qu, Cheng Zhong, Saul T. E. Jones, Zuo‐Quan Jiang, Richard H. Friend, Liang‐Sheng Liao	632
17	Acceptor plane expansion enhances horizontal orientation of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters 2020 ·Science Advances ·Yepeng Xiang, Pan Li, Shaolong Gong, Yu‐Hsin Huang, (unknown), Cheng Zhong, Weixuan Zeng, Zhanxiang Chen, Wei‐Kai Lee, Xiaojun Yin, Chung‐Chih Wu, Chuluo Yang	87
18	Enhancing the J_SC of P3HT-Based OSCs via a Thiophene-Fused Aromatic Heterocycle as a “π-Bridge” for A−π–D−π–A-Type Acceptors 2019 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Jiacheng Wang, Tengfei Li, (unknown), Yiqun Xiao, Cheng Zhong, Jiayu Wang, Kuan Liu, Xinhui Lu, Xiaowei Zhan, Xingguo Chen	21
19	Diaryl ketone-based hole-transporting materials for efficient perovskite solar cells 2019 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Linna Zhu, Jing Xu, Yahan Shan, Cheng Zhong, Xiaosheng Tang, Dan Long, Yongping Zhang, Fei Wu	19
20	Synthesis and photovoltaic property of new kind of organic dyes containing 2,2′-bithiophene unit with three electron-donors 2014 ·Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry ·Tainan Duan, Ke Fan, Cheng Zhong, (unknown), Xingguo Chen, Tianyou Peng, Jingui Qin	12

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