Kai‐Ning Tong

610 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 430 citations indexed

About

Kai‐Ning Tong is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai‐Ning Tong has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 430 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai‐Ning Tong's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (23 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (18 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (12 papers). Kai‐Ning Tong is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (23 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (18 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (12 papers). Kai‐Ning Tong collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and South Korea. Kai‐Ning Tong's co-authors include Jian Fan, Guodan Wei, Man‐Keung Fung, Liang‐Sheng Liao, Kefei Shi, Chengcheng Wu, Ziqi Feng, Yuanyuan Wang, Shuang‐Qiao Sun and Min Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Small and Advanced Science.

In The Last Decade

Kai‐Ning Tong

22 papers receiving 424 citations

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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.

Enhancing Light Outcoupling Efficiency via Anisotropic Low Refractive Index Electron Transporting Materials for Efficient Perovskite Light‐Emitting Diodes

2024 119 citations Shuang‐Qiao Sun, Ziqi Feng et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai‐Ning Tong China	12	395	287	84	60	18	25	430
Kleitos Stavrou United Kingdom	12	658 1.7×	525 1.8×	90 1.1×	42 0.7×	19 1.1×	23	729
Deli Li China	15	494 1.3×	347 1.2×	106 1.3×	68 1.1×	12 0.7×	39	567
Angela P. Gifford United States	6	438 1.1×	248 0.9×	227 2.7×	72 1.2×	11 0.6×	6	526
Zijun Feng China	11	449 1.1×	387 1.3×	88 1.0×	69 1.1×	10 0.6×	15	518
Wan‐Shan Shen China	15	412 1.0×	371 1.3×	53 0.6×	59 1.0×	50 2.8×	26	454
Guo‐Xi Yang China	17	604 1.5×	460 1.6×	124 1.5×	50 0.8×	10 0.6×	41	675
Takao Motoyama Japan	8	575 1.5×	342 1.2×	168 2.0×	116 1.9×	14 0.8×	9	622
Zhenyang Qiao China	10	463 1.2×	384 1.3×	67 0.8×	33 0.6×	7 0.4×	19	521
Stephan Haneder Germany	4	395 1.0×	201 0.7×	146 1.7×	107 1.8×	13 0.7×	5	450
Weiming Zhao China	12	412 1.0×	269 0.9×	155 1.8×	85 1.4×	10 0.6×	17	489

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Li, Siqi, Chengcheng Wu, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2025). Molecular Steric Engineering of Ir(III) Complexes Enables Color‐Pure and Efficient NonDoped Deep‐Blue Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes. Small Structures. 6(12).

Lin, Cunjian, Yajing Wang, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2025). Trap‐induced persistent luminescence in organic light‐emitting diodes. InfoMat. 7(5). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Chengcheng Wu, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2025). Highly Efficient Non‐Doped Phosphorescent Blue OLEDs with Novel Asymmetric Iridium(III) Complexes. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(12). 3 indexed citations

Wu, Chengcheng, Kai‐Ning Tong, Kefei Shi, et al.. (2025). Exceptionally high brightness and long lifetime of efficient blue OLEDs for programmable active-matrix display. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 156–156. 8 indexed citations

Wu, Chengcheng, Kai‐Ning Tong, Kefei Shi, et al.. (2025). Boosting electroluminescence efficiency based on TADF emitters featuring multiple resonance segment integrated with a co-host exciplex. Materials Today Energy. 49. 101833–101833. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Chengcheng, Yixin Wu, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2025). Blue-emitting iridium(iii) phosphors with functional imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-ylidene cyclometalates: designs aimed at greater steric hindrance. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(25). 12663–12674.

Yan, Jie, Chengcheng Wu, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2024). Structural Engineering of Iridium(III) Phosphors with Imidazo[4,5‐b]pyrazin‐2‐ylidene Cyclometalates for Efficient Blue Electroluminescence. Small Methods. 8(11). e2301555–e2301555. 16 indexed citations

Shi, Kefei, Chengcheng Wu, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Emitting Dipole Orientation Based on Asymmetric Iridium(III) Complexes for Efficient Saturated‐Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs. Advanced Science. 11(38). e2402349–e2402349. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Meng, Maggie Ng, Chengcheng Wu, et al.. (2024). Correction: Saturated-blue-emitting [3+2+1] coordinated iridium(iii) complexes for vacuum-deposited organic light-emitting devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(19). 7110–7110. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Yixin, Kai‐Ning Tong, Chengcheng Wu, et al.. (2024). Blue electroluminescence and hyperluminescence facilitated by Ir(iii) phosphors with 5-cyano-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-ylidene cyclometalates. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(7). 3501–3510. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Chengcheng, Kefei Shi, Siqi Li, et al.. (2024). Design strategies of iridium(III) complexes for highly efficient saturated blue phosphorescent OLEDs with improved lifetime. 6(2). 100120–100120. 43 indexed citations

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Wu, Chengcheng, Kai‐Ning Tong, Kefei Shi, et al.. (2023). New [3+2+1] Iridium Complexes as Effective Phosphorescent Sensitizers for Efficient Narrowband Saturated–Blue Hyper–OLEDs. Advanced Science. 10(29). e2301112–e2301112. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Siqi, Imran Murtaza, Hongyang Li, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Horizontal Dipole Orientation by Novel Penta‐Helicene Anthracene‐Based Host for Efficient Blue Fluorescent OLEDs. Small. 20(24). e2311114–e2311114. 9 indexed citations

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Tong, Kai‐Ning, Chengcheng Wu, Wu Yuan, et al.. (2023). Cascading Energy Transfer for Highly Efficient Deep−Red OLED Emission with Cyclometalated [3+2+1] Iridium Complexes. Small. 20(12). e2307500–e2307500. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Chengcheng, Min Wang, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2022). Blue Iridium (III) Phosphorescent OLEDs with High Brightness Over 10 000 cd m⁻² and Ultralow Efficiency Roll‐Off. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(1). 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Chengcheng, Kai‐Ning Tong, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Low Efficiency Roll‐Off Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs at High Brightness Based on [3+2+1] Coordinated Iridium (III) Complexes. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(13). 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Meng, Maggie Ng, Chengcheng Wu, et al.. (2022). Saturated-blue-emitting [3+2+1] coordinated iridium(iii) complexes for vacuum-deposited organic light-emitting devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(39). 14616–14625. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuanyuan, Kai‐Ning Tong, Kai Zhang, et al.. (2021). Positive impact of chromophore flexibility on the efficiency of red thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials. Materials Horizons. 8(4). 1297–1303. 44 indexed citations

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Luo, Wei, Xing Chen, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2020). High-performance organic light-emitting diodes with natural white emission based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(30). 10431–10437. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuanyuan, Yuan‐Lan Zhang, Kai‐Ning Tong, et al.. (2019). Highly efficient red thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials based on a cyano-containing planar acceptor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(48). 15301–15307. 35 indexed citations

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