Jacky W. Y. Lam

112.7k total citations · 42 hit papers
825 papers, 98.9k citations indexed

About

Jacky W. Y. Lam is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacky W. Y. Lam has authored 825 papers receiving a total of 98.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 663 papers in Materials Chemistry, 284 papers in Organic Chemistry and 249 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jacky W. Y. Lam's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (614 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (216 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (188 papers). Jacky W. Y. Lam is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (614 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (216 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (188 papers). Jacky W. Y. Lam collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Germany. Jacky W. Y. Lam's co-authors include Ben Zhong Tang, Yuning Hong, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Ju Mei, Nelson L. C. Leung, Anjun Qin, Ian D. Williams, Hoi Sing Kwok, Jianzhao Liu and Haoke Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Jacky W. Y. Lam

814 papers receiving 98.2k citations

Hit Papers

Aggregation-induced emiss... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2015 2011 2009 2014 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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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. Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole
    2001 7.2k citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. Chemical Communications profile →
  2. Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar!
    2015 7.0k citations Nelson L. C. Leung, Ryan T. K. Kwok et al. profile →
  3. Aggregation-induced emission
    2011 5.7k citations Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. profile →
  4. Aggregation-induced emission: phenomenon, mechanism and applications
    2009 3.6k citations Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Chemical Communications profile →
  5. Aggregation‐Induced Emission: The Whole Is More Brilliant than the Parts
    2014 3.0k citations Yuning Hong, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. Biosensing by luminogens with aggregation-induced emission characteristics
    2014 1.2k citations Ryan T. K. Kwok, Chris Wai Tung Leung et al. profile →
  7. Aggregation‐Induced Emission: New Vistas at the Aggregate Level
    2020 1.1k citations Zheng Zhao, Haoke Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  8. Synthesis, Light Emission, Nanoaggregation, and Restricted Intramolecular Rotation of 1,1-Substituted 2,3,4,5-Tetraphenylsiloles
    2003 1.1k citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ian D. Williams et al. profile →
  9. Acetylenic Polymers: Syntheses, Structures, and Functions
    2009 1.1k citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. profile →
  10. Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Aggregation-Induced Emission of BODIPY Derivatives
    2009 907 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H. Y. Sung et al. profile →
  11. Changing the Behavior of Chromophores from Aggregation‐Caused Quenching to Aggregation‐Induced Emission: Development of Highly Efficient Light Emitters in the Solid State
    2010 880 citations Shuming Chen, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  12. Crystallization-Induced Phosphorescence of Pure Organic Luminogens at Room Temperature
    2010 870 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zhiming Wang et al. profile →
  13. Tetraphenylethene: a versatile AIE building block for the construction of efficient luminescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes
    2012 791 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. profile →
  14. Rational Molecular Design for Achieving Persistent and Efficient Pure Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence
    2016 735 citations Weijun Zhao, Zikai He et al. profile →
  15. Aggregation-induced emission: fundamental understanding and future developments
    2018 726 citations Yuncong Chen, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Materials Horizons profile →
  16. White light emission from a single organic molecule with dual phosphorescence at room temperature
    2017 721 citations Zikai He, Weijun Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  17. A Photostable AIE Luminogen for Specific Mitochondrial Imaging and Tracking
    2012 691 citations Chris Wai Tung Leung, Yuning Hong et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  18. Functional Polyacetylenes
    2005 661 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang profile →
  19. Restriction of Intramolecular Motions: The General Mechanism behind Aggregation‐Induced Emission
    2014 631 citations Nelson L. C. Leung, Ni Xie et al. profile →
  20. Clusterization-triggered emission: Uncommon luminescence from common materials
    2019 583 citations Haoke Zhang, Zheng Zhao et al. profile →
  21. Molecular Motion in Aggregates: Manipulating TICT for Boosting Photothermal Theranostics
    2019 550 citations Shunjie Liu, Haoke Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  22. Click polymerization
    2010 510 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. profile →
  23. Efficient Solid Emitters with Aggregation-Induced Emission and Intramolecular Charge Transfer Characteristics: Molecular Design, Synthesis, Photophysical Behaviors, and OLED Application
    2012 497 citations Shuming Chen, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. profile →
  24. Aggregation-induced emissions of tetraphenylethene derivatives and their utilities as chemical vapor sensors and in organic light-emitting diodes
    2007 476 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. profile →
  25. A facile strategy for realizing room temperature phosphorescence and single molecule white light emission
    2018 459 citations Qian Peng, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Nature Communications profile →
  26. Synergy between Twisted Conformation and Effective Intermolecular Interactions: Strategy for Efficient Mechanochromic Luminogens with High Contrast
    2013 442 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ian D. Williams et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  27. AIE luminogens: emission brightened by aggregation
    2015 438 citations Engui Zhao, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. profile →
  28. Aggregate Science: From Structures to Properties
    2020 427 citations Haoke Zhang, Zheng Zhao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  29. Rational design of a water-soluble NIR AIEgen, and its application in ultrafast wash-free cellular imaging and photodynamic cancer cell ablation
    2018 394 citations Dong Wang, Ryan T. K. Kwok et al. profile →
  30. Two-photon AIE bio-probe with large Stokes shift for specific imaging of lipid droplets
    2017 392 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ryan T. K. Kwok et al. profile →
  31. Mechanochromic Luminescence of Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens
    2015 391 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang et al. profile →
  32. Highly efficient photothermal nanoagent achieved by harvesting energy via excited-state intramolecular motion within nanoparticles
    2019 386 citations Zheng Zhao, Chao Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  33. Design of AIEgens for near-infrared IIb imaging through structural modulation at molecular and morphological levels
    2020 374 citations Yuanyuan Li, Shunjie Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  34. Real‐Time and High‐Resolution Bioimaging with Bright Aggregation‐Induced Emission Dots in Short‐Wave Infrared Region
    2018 374 citations Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  35. Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens with Amplified Chirality and Delayed Fluorescence
    2018 371 citations Fengyan Song, Zheng Zhao et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
  36. Highly Efficient Photosensitizers with Far‐Red/Near‐Infrared Aggregation‐Induced Emission for In Vitro and In Vivo Cancer Theranostics
    2018 332 citations Dong Wang, Michelle M. S. Lee et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  37. Stimuli‐Responsive AIEgens
    2021 325 citations Parvej Alam, Haoke Zhang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  38. Rational Design of NIR-II AIEgens with Ultrahigh Quantum Yields for Photo- and Chemiluminescence Imaging
    2022 214 citations Feiyi Sun, Jianyu Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  39. Type-I AIE Photosensitizer Loaded Biomimetic System Boosting Cuproptosis to Inhibit Breast Cancer Metastasis and Rechallenge
    2023 207 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Tianfu Zhang et al. profile →
  40. Through-Space Interaction of Tetraphenylethylene: What, Where, and How
    2022 155 citations Junkai Liu, Haoke Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  41. Integration of AIEgens into covalent organic frameworks for pyroptosis and ferroptosis primed cancer immunotherapy
    2023 143 citations Jianwei Sun, Ryan T. K. Kwok et al. Nature Communications profile →
  42. Integration of Motion and Stillness: A Paradigm Shift in Constructing Nearly Planar NIR-II AIEgen with Ultrahigh Molar Absorptivity and Photothermal Effect for Multimodal Phototheranostics
    2025 26 citations Xinwen Ou, Ryan T. K. Kwok 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacky W. Y. Lam Hong Kong 146 81.4k 34.8k 26.4k 25.8k 24.9k 825 98.9k
Bin Liu China 131 45.5k 0.6× 12.7k 0.4× 16.6k 0.6× 8.2k 0.3× 28.4k 1.1× 1.1k 72.7k
He Tian China 138 45.3k 0.6× 17.6k 0.5× 15.7k 0.6× 18.8k 0.7× 10.2k 0.4× 989 70.5k
Ben Zhong Tang China 198 161.1k 2.0× 63.4k 1.8× 56.4k 2.1× 49.8k 1.9× 58.2k 2.3× 2.9k 210.8k
Juyoung Yoon South Korea 138 45.0k 0.6× 44.4k 1.3× 7.1k 0.3× 10.9k 0.4× 20.9k 0.8× 606 79.5k
J. Fraser Stoddart United States 160 54.2k 0.7× 28.6k 0.8× 18.3k 0.7× 63.4k 2.5× 11.9k 0.5× 1.3k 115.4k
Jonathan L. Sessler United States 126 39.1k 0.5× 27.6k 0.8× 4.3k 0.2× 22.4k 0.9× 9.6k 0.4× 965 65.6k
Jong Seung Kim South Korea 123 30.8k 0.4× 28.5k 0.8× 5.6k 0.2× 8.7k 0.3× 17.5k 0.7× 826 61.6k
Yanli Zhao Singapore 126 34.6k 0.4× 5.4k 0.2× 11.2k 0.4× 10.2k 0.4× 16.4k 0.7× 777 57.6k
Daoben Zhu China 130 43.8k 0.5× 9.9k 0.3× 39.3k 1.5× 12.1k 0.5× 16.3k 0.7× 1.1k 83.8k
Jean M. J. Fréchet United States 157 22.9k 0.3× 11.0k 0.3× 27.1k 1.0× 28.8k 1.1× 20.1k 0.8× 744 91.2k

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All Works

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Wang, Jin, Xinwen Ou, Yanzi Xu, et al.. (2025). Unveiling Migration Dynamics of Acid Molecules in Microenvironments via Fluorescence Signal: A Case Study in Polymer Emulsion Film Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(29). 25998–26008.
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Feng, Xing, Xinyuan Wang, Xinmeng Chen, et al.. (2025). A chameleon AIEgen exhibiting six distinct yet tunable thermal and photoswitchable states. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6312–6312. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Guiping, Feiyi Sun, Cheng Liu, et al.. (2025). Self‐Assembled Nanoconjugates with Aggregation‐Induced Emission for Near‐Infrared II Imaging and Transcytosis‐Driven Cancer Therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(44). e202506770–e202506770.
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Zhang, Siwei, Fulong Ma, Jinhui Jiang, et al.. (2025). Isotope Engineering of Tetraphenylethylene: Aggregate‐Dependent Enhancement of Luminescence Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(36). e202511678–e202511678. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Qicheng, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, et al.. (2024). Ligand Meta‐Anchoring Strategy in Metal–Organic Frameworks for Remarkable Promotion of Quantum Yields. Angewandte Chemie. 136(28). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tianfu, Xing Yang, Xinwen Ou, et al.. (2023). Tailoring the Amphiphilic Structure of Zwitterionic AIE Photosensitizers to Boost Antitumor Immunity. Advanced Materials. 35(38). e2303186–e2303186. 49 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xuepeng, Junkai Liu, Biao Chen, et al.. (2022). Highly efficient and persistent room temperature phosphorescence from cluster exciton enables ultrasensitive off-on VOC sensing. Matter. 5(10). 3499–3512. 117 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaolin, Ting Han, Jacky W. Y. Lam, & Ben Zhong Tang. (2020). Functional Heterochain Polymers Constructed by Alkyne Multicomponent Polymerizations. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 42(6). e2000386–e2000386. 23 indexed citations
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Alam, Parvej, Nelson L. C. Leung, Junkai Liu, et al.. (2020). Two Are Better Than One: A Design Principle for Ultralong‐Persistent Luminescence of Pure Organics. Advanced Materials. 32(22). e2001026–e2001026. 228 indexed citations
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Xu, Wenhan, Michelle M. S. Lee, Jing‐Jun Nie, et al.. (2020). Three‐Pronged Attack by Homologous Far‐red/NIR AIEgens to Achieve 1+1+1>3 Synergistic Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(24). 9610–9616. 171 indexed citations
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Song, Fengyan, Yanhua Cheng, Qiuming Liu, et al.. (2019). Tunable circularly polarized luminescence from molecular assemblies of chiral AIEgens. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 3(9). 1768–1778. 88 indexed citations
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Liu, Shunjie, Chao Chen, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2019). Constitutional Isomerization Enables Bright NIR‐II AIEgen for Brain‐Inflammation Imaging. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(7). 225 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuncong, Zheng Zhao, Yuefei Cai, et al.. (2018). An Easily Accessible Ionic Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen with Hydrogen‐Bonding‐Switchable Emission and Wash‐Free Imaging Ability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(18). 5011–5015. 83 indexed citations
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Leung, Chris Wai Tung, Zhiming Wang, Engui Zhao, et al.. (2015). A Lysosome‐Targeting AIEgen for Autophagy Visualization. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 5(4). 427–431. 64 indexed citations
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Zhao, Engui, Yilong Chen, Sijie Chen, et al.. (2015). A Luminogen with Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics for Wash‐Free Bacterial Imaging, High‐Throughput Antibiotics Screening and Bacterial Susceptibility Evaluation. Advanced Materials. 27(33). 4931–4937. 112 indexed citations
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Qin, Wei, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zhiyong Yang, et al.. (2015). Red emissive AIE luminogens with high hole-transporting properties for efficient non-doped OLEDs. Chemical Communications. 51(34). 7321–7324. 71 indexed citations
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Song, Zhegang, Yuning Hong, Ryan T. K. Kwok, et al.. (2014). A dual-mode fluorescence “turn-on” biosensor based on an aggregation-induced emission luminogen. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2(12). 1717–1723. 80 indexed citations
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Zhao, Na, Zhiyong Yang, Jacky W. Y. Lam, et al.. (2012). Benzothiazolium-functionalized tetraphenylethene: an AIE luminogen with tunable solid-state emission. Chemical Communications. 48(69). 8637–8637. 197 indexed citations

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