Lichao Su

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Lichao Su is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lichao Su has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 26 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lichao Su's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (57 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (17 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (13 papers). Lichao Su is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (57 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (17 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (13 papers). Lichao Su collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Lichao Su's co-authors include Jibin Song, Huanghao Yang, Xiaoguang Ge, Ying Wu, Qingqing Li, Jiamin Ye, Lichan Chen, Shu‐Feng Zhou, Qinrui Fu and Zhi Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lichao Su

81 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Gas-Mediated Cancer Bioimaging and Therapy

2019 284 citations Lichan Chen, Shu‐Feng Zhou et al. ACS Nano profile →
Molecular radio afterglow probes for cancer radiodynamic theranostics

2023 131 citations Jingsheng Huang, Lichao Su et al. Nature Materials profile →
Design and Synthesis of SERS Materials for In Vivo Molecular Imaging and Biosensing

2023 118 citations Qingqing Li, Hongqi Huo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lichao Su China	34	2.2k	1.3k	817	458	340	83	3.2k
Xiaoguang Ge China	24	1.3k 0.6×	951 0.7×	418 0.5×	221 0.5×	291 0.9×	45	1.9k
Han Xu China	24	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	395 0.5×	501 1.1×	440 1.3×	95	2.8k
Liqin Xiong China	28	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 2.1×	980 1.2×	640 1.4×	242 0.7×	58	4.5k
Hongjie Dai United States	15	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	586 0.7×	234 0.5×	165 0.5×	17	3.0k
Cheng Xu Singapore	29	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	491 1.1×	138 0.4×	56	3.5k
Benhao Li China	27	2.9k 1.3×	2.6k 2.0×	822 1.0×	378 0.8×	125 0.4×	39	4.0k
Yukun Duan Singapore	28	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	819 1.0×	419 0.9×	125 0.4×	37	3.3k
Omar Yaghi United States	11	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	787 1.0×	231 0.5×	188 0.6×	18	3.2k
Haibin Shi China	25	1.3k 0.6×	657 0.5×	758 0.9×	384 0.8×	189 0.6×	76	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lichao Su

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Chen, Zhongxiang, Qian Li, Ying Wu, et al.. (2025). Molecular Engineering of Direct Activated NIR-II Chemiluminescence Platform for In Vivo Chemiluminescence-fluorescence Duplex Imaging. Nature Communications. 16(1). 238–238. 21 indexed citations

Jiang, Yifan, Lisha Li, Xiao Fang, et al.. (2025). Self-assembling chemically modified siRNA nanorings for RNAi therapy and neuroprotection in Alzheimer’s disease. Science China Chemistry. 68(6). 2552–2564.

Su, Lichao, et al.. (2025). Multi-field induced reconfigurable point defect state of flexural waves in magnetostrictive phononic crystals plates. Mechanics of Materials. 208. 105415–105415. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Wei, Ying Wu, Bowen Li, et al.. (2024). A General Strategy for Tumor-Specific In Situ Synthesis of Copper Sulfide for Gas Therapy and Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Phototherapy. ACS Materials Letters. 7(1). 181–192. 5 indexed citations

Yuan, Meng, Xiao Fang, Wenzheng Liu, et al.. (2024). Ultrasound-Activated Near-Infrared-II Afterglow Luminescence for Precise Cancer Imaging. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 8(1). 368–373. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Jingsheng, Lichao Su, Cheng Xu, et al.. (2023). Molecular radio afterglow probes for cancer radiodynamic theranostics. Nature Materials. 22(11). 1421–1429. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Zhongxiang, Lichao Su, Ying Wu, et al.. (2023). Design and synthesis of a small molecular NIR-II chemiluminescence probe for in vivo - activated H ₂ S imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(8). e2205186120–e2205186120. 58 indexed citations

Sun, Xiang, Xin Pang, Lin Lin, et al.. (2023). Sonodynamic Bacterial Inactivation Enhanced by an Actuator‐Integrated Mechanism. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(30). 24 indexed citations

Zheng, Liting, Qingqing Li, Ying Wu, et al.. (2023). Quantitative detection of microRNA-21 in vivo using in situ assembled photoacoustic and SERS nanoprobes. Chemical Science. 14(47). 13860–13869. 9 indexed citations

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Su, Lichao, Yifei Zhu, Fengyun Guo, et al.. (2022). Photo-responsive NIR-II biomimetic nanomedicine for efficient cancer-targeted theranostics. Materials Today Chemistry. 24. 100879–100879. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianyong, Zhongxiang Chen, Hongqi Huo, et al.. (2022). An Activatable Near‐Infrared Molecular Chemiluminescence Probe for Visualization of NQO1 Activity In Vivo^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(20). 2400–2406. 16 indexed citations

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Yuan, Meng, Ying Wu, Caiyan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Activated molecular probes for enzyme recognition and detection. Theranostics. 12(3). 1459–1485. 38 indexed citations

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Li, Qian, Zhongxiang Chen, Lichao Su, et al.. (2022). Constructing turn-on bioluminescent probes for real-time imaging of reactive oxygen species during cisplatin chemotherapy. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 216. 114632–114632. 9 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yifan, Yichang Liu, Min Wang, et al.. (2021). siRNA-Based Carrier-Free System for Synergistic Chemo/Chemodynamic/RNAi Therapy of Drug-Resistant Tumors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(1). 361–372. 22 indexed citations

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Jia, Ruizhen, Han Xu, Chenlu Wang, et al.. (2021). NIR-II emissive AIEgen photosensitizers enable ultrasensitive imaging-guided surgery and phototherapy to fully inhibit orthotopic hepatic tumors. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 19(1). 419–419. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baolin, et al.. (2020). Attachment of streptavidin-modified superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles to the PC-12 cell membrane. Biomedical Materials. 15(4). 45014–45014. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaofei, Lichao Su, Baolin Zhang, et al.. (2020). Uncovering a possible role of reactive oxygen species in magnetogenetics. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13096–13096. 26 indexed citations

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Ge, Xiaoguang, Qinrui Fu, Lichao Su, et al.. (2020). Light-activated gold nanorod vesicles with NIR-II fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging performances for cancer theranostics. Theranostics. 10(11). 4809–4821. 72 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baolin, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with different particle sizes and its magneto-calorific effects under alternating current magnetic field. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Lichan, Shu‐Feng Zhou, Lichao Su, & Jibin Song. (2019). Gas-Mediated Cancer Bioimaging and Therapy. ACS Nano. 13(10). 10887–10917. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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