He Tian

81.1k total citations · 32 hit papers
989 papers, 70.5k citations indexed

About

He Tian is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, He Tian has authored 989 papers receiving a total of 70.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 561 papers in Materials Chemistry, 294 papers in Organic Chemistry and 212 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in He Tian's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (285 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (174 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (150 papers). He Tian is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (285 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (174 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (150 papers). He Tian collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. He Tian's co-authors include Xiang Ma, Weihong Zhu, Da‐Hui Qu, Junji Zhang, Zhiqian Guo, Zhijun Ning, Qiaochun Wang, Jianli Hua, Jie Wang and Qi Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

He Tian

952 papers receiving 70.0k citations

Hit Papers

Recent progresses on diarylethene based photochromic swit... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2018 2010 2012 2015 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Recent progresses on diarylethene based photochromic switches
    2004 1.3k citations He Tian et al. profile →
  2. Excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT) based fluorescence sensors and imaging agents
    2018 1.2k citations Adam C. Sedgwick, Xiao‐Peng He et al. profile →
  3. Recent progress on polymer-based fluorescent and colorimetric chemosensors
    2010 894 citations Weihong Zhu, He Tian et al. profile →
  4. Photochromic Materials: More Than Meets The Eye
    2012 882 citations Junji Zhang, He Tian et al. profile →
  5. Photoresponsive Host–Guest Functional Systems
    2015 777 citations Da‐Hui Qu, He Tian et al. profile →
  6. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based small-molecule sensors and imaging agents
    2020 769 citations Adam C. Sedgwick, Xiao‐Peng He et al. profile →
  7. Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity
    2016 727 citations Da‐Hui Qu, He Tian et al. profile →
  8. Triarylamine: a promising core unit for efficient photovoltaic materials
    2009 725 citations He Tian et al. profile →
  9. Improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells: what we know and what we need to know
    2010 684 citations He Tian et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  10. Assembling-Induced Emission: An Efficient Approach for Amorphous Metal-Free Organic Emitting Materials with Room-Temperature Phosphorescence
    2019 645 citations He Tian et al. profile →
  11. Exploring a naturally tailored small molecule for stretchable, self-healing, and adhesive supramolecular polymers
    2018 625 citations Qi Zhang, Chenyu Shi et al. profile →
  12. Organic D‐A‐π‐A Solar Cell Sensitizers with Improved Stability and Spectral Response
    2010 620 citations Weihong Zhu, Yongzhen Wu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
  13. Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based materials for organic photovoltaics
    2012 591 citations He Tian et al. profile →
  14. Amorphous Metal-Free Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Small Molecules with Multicolor Photoluminescence via a Host–Guest and Dual-Emission Strategy
    2018 576 citations He Tian et al. profile →
  15. Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Polymers in Aqueous Solution
    2014 541 citations He Tian et al. profile →
  16. Fluorogenic probes for disease-relevant enzymes
    2018 533 citations Junji Zhang, Xiao‐Peng He et al. profile →
  17. Aggregation‐induced Emission (AIE)‐active Starburst Triarylamine Fluorophores as Potential Non‐doped Red Emitters for Organic Light‐emitting Diodes and Cl2 Gas Chemodosimeter
    2007 518 citations He Tian et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
  18. In Vivo and in Situ Tracking Cancer Chemotherapy by Highly Photostable NIR Fluorescent Theranostic Prodrug
    2014 497 citations Tony D. James, He Tian et al. profile →
  19. Real-Time Tracking and In Vivo Visualization of β-Galactosidase Activity in Colorectal Tumor with a Ratiometric Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe
    2016 454 citations Tony D. James, He Tian et al. profile →
  20. Amorphous Pure Organic Polymers for Heavy‐Atom‐Free Efficient Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Emission
    2018 448 citations He Tian et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  21. Molecular Engineering for Metal‐Free Amorphous Materials with Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence
    2019 432 citations He Tian et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  22. Rational Design of Near-Infrared Aggregation-Induced-Emission-Active Probes: In Situ Mapping of Amyloid-β Plaques with Ultrasensitivity and High-Fidelity
    2019 398 citations He Tian, Weihong Zhu et al. profile →
  23. Visible‐Light‐Excited Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence in Water by Cucurbit[8]uril‐Mediated Supramolecular Assembly
    2019 397 citations He Tian et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  24. Discrimination of oligonucleotides of different lengths with a wild-type aerolysin nanopore
    2016 346 citations He Tian, Yi‐Tao Long et al. profile →
  25. Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart Materials
    2022 322 citations Qi Zhang, Da‐Hui Qu et al. profile →
  26. Dual closed-loop chemical recycling of synthetic polymers by intrinsically reconfigurable poly(disulfides)
    2021 248 citations Qi Zhang, Yuanxin Deng et al. profile →
  27. Activating Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence of Organic Luminophores via External Heavy‐Atom Effect and Rigidity of Ionic Polymer Matrix**
    2021 247 citations He Tian et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  28. Highly Efficient Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Based on Single‐Benzene Structure Molecules and Photoactivated Luminescence with Afterglow
    2021 226 citations He Tian et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
  29. Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches
    2022 226 citations Da‐Hui Qu, He Tian et al. profile →
  30. A dynamic assembly-induced emissive system for advanced information encryption with time-dependent security
    2022 216 citations He Tian, Da‐Hui Qu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  31. Photoprogrammable circularly polarized phosphorescence switching of chiral helical polyacetylene thin films
    2022 175 citations He Tian et al. Nature Communications profile →
  32. Recent Advances of Pure Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence Based on Functional Polymers
    2023 129 citations He Tian et al. profile →

Peers

He Tian
Comparison fields: 5 of 190
  • Materials Chemistry 45.3k
  • Organic Chemistry 18.8k
  • Spectroscopy 17.6k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15.7k
  • Biomedical Engineering 10.2k
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Katsuhiko Ariga Japan
Michael R. Wasielewski United States
Vincenzo Balzani Italy
Jacky W. Y. Lam Hong Kong
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Kinetic Control of Self‐Assembly Pathway in Dual Dynamic Covalent Polymeric Systems
2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Ling Liu, Yuanxin Deng, Da‐Hui Qu, Ben L. Feringa, He Tian, Qi Zhang
14
2
Genomic characteristics and immune landscape of super multiple primary lung cancer
2024 ·EBioMedicine ·Zhenlin Yang, Bolun Zhou, Wei Guo, Peng Yue, He Tian, Jiachen Xu, (unknown), Xiaowei Chen, Bin Hu, Chengming Liu, Zhijie Wang, Chunxiang Li, Shugeng Gao, Jie He
6
3
Converting inorganic sulfur into degradable thermoplastics and adhesives by copolymerization with cyclic disulfides
2024 ·Nature Communications ·Yuanxin Deng, (unknown), Ben L. Feringa, He Tian, Qi Zhang, Da‐Hui Qu
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4
Photochemically Triggered and Autonomous Oscillatory pH‐Modulated Transient Assembly/Disassembly of DNA Microdroplet Coacervates
2024 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), Yang Sung Sohn, Xiang Li, Rachel Nechushtai, Junji Zhang, He Tian, Itamar Willner
0
5
PointUR-RL: Unified Self-Supervised Learning Method Based on Variable Masked Autoencoder for Point Cloud Reconstruction and Representation Learning
2024 ·Remote Sensing ·Kang Li, (unknown), Haoyu Wang, Shibo Wang, He Tian, Ping Zhou, Xin Cao
0
6
Closed-loop chemically recyclable covalent adaptive networks derived from elementary sulfur
2024 ·Chemical Science ·Chenyu Shi, Xiaoping Zhang, Qi Zhang, Meng Chen, He Tian, Da‐Hui Qu
17
7
Reversibly modulating a conformation-adaptive fluorophore in [2]catenane
2021 ·Chem ·Shun Yang, Cai‐Xin Zhao, Stefano Crespi, Xin Li, Qi Zhang, Zhiyun Zhang, Ju Mei, He Tian, Da‐Hui Qu
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8
Graphene nanoribbon-based supramolecular ensembles with dual-receptor targeting function for targeted photothermal tumor therapy
2021 ·Chemical Science ·Wei‐Tao Dou, Fugui Xu, (unknown), Jie Gao, (unknown), (unknown), Jiacheng Zhang, Ling Zhu, Adam C. Sedgwick, Guo-Rong Chen, Yi Zang, Tony D. James, He Tian, Jia Li, Yiyong Mai, Xiao‐Peng He
18
9
Electron-enriched thione enables strong Pb–S interaction for stabilizing high quality CsPbI3 perovskite films with low-temperature processing
2020 ·Chemical Science ·Xiaojia Xu, Hao Zhang, Erpeng Li, (unknown), Han Chen, Zhenhua Chen, Yongzhen Wu, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
35
10
Identification of novel biomarkers and candidate small molecule drugs in non-small-cell lung cancer by integrated microarray analysis
2019 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), Yao Sun, Ruxiang Xu, Xiao Hu, Sumei Ren, Qiang Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Qi Feng, He Tian, (unknown), (unknown)
2
11
Synergistic Coassembly of Highly Wettable and Uniform Hole‐Extraction Monolayers for Scaling‐up Perovskite Solar Cells
2019 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Erpeng Li, Enbing Bi, Yongzhen Wu, Weiwei Zhang, (unknown), Han Chen, Liyuan Han, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
78
12
Understanding How Ambiance Affects the Performance of Hole-Conductor-Free Perovskite Solar Cells from a Chemical Perspective
2019 ·ACS Applied Energy Materials ·Duo Xu, Xin Hua, (unknown), Wenjun Wu, Yi‐Tao Long, He Tian
5
13
Semi‐Locked Tetrathienylethene as a Building Block for Hole‐Transporting Materials: Toward Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
2019 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Chao Shen, Yongzhen Wu, Hao Zhang, Erpeng Li, Weiwei Zhang, Xiaojia Xu, Wenjun Wu, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
30
14
Molecular Engineering of Quinoxaline-Based D–A−π–A Organic Sensitizers: Taking the Merits of a Large and Rigid Auxiliary Acceptor
2018 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Huiyun Jiang, Yongzhen Wu, Ashraful Islam, Min Wu, Weiwei Zhang, Chao Shen, Hao Zhang, Erpeng Li, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
53
15
Comprehensive control of voltage loss enables 11.7% efficient solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells
2018 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Weiwei Zhang, Yongzhen Wu, (unknown), Yiming Cao, Chenyi Yi, Yasemin Saygılı, Jingshan Luo, Yuhang Liu, Ladislav Kavan, Jacques‐E. Moser, Anders Hagfeldt, He Tian, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Weihong Zhu, Michaël Grätzel
155
16
Hydrogen Sulfide-Activatable Second Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanoassemblies for Targeted Photothermal Cancer Therapy
2018 ·Nano Letters ·Ben Shi, Qinglong Yan, Jie Tang, Kai Xin, Jichao Zhang, Ying Zhu, Ge Xu, Rongchen Wang, Jian Chen, Wei Gao, Tianli Zhu, Jiye Shi, Chunhai Fan, Chunchang Zhao, He Tian
177
17
Skeleton labeled 13C-carbon nanoparticles for the imaging and quantification in tumor drainage lymph nodes
2017 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), He Tian, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)
2
18
Synthesis, characterization, and magnetochemical properties of two Mn 4 clusters derived from 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde Schiff base ligands
2017 ·Journal of Coordination Chemistry ·He Tian, Xin Qiao, Cheng‐Zhi Xie, Yan Ouyang, Jing‐Yuan Xu
4
19
Cosensitized Porphyrin System for High-Performance Solar Cells with TOF-SIMS Analysis
2017 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Wenjun Wu, (unknown), Wei Fan, Jinglin Wang, Haifeng Wang, Xin Hua, Zhaohui Wang, Yi‐Tao Long, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
11
20
Molecular engineering and sequential cosensitization for preventing the “trade-off” effect with photovoltaic enhancement
2016 ·Chemical Science ·Weiwei Zhang, Yongzhen Wu, Xin Li, Erpeng Li, (unknown), Huiyun Jiang, Chao Shen, Hao Zhang, He Tian, Weihong Zhu
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