Menghua Xiong

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Menghua Xiong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Menghua Xiong has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Biomaterials and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Menghua Xiong's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (17 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (14 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (14 papers). Menghua Xiong is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (17 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (14 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (14 papers). Menghua Xiong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Menghua Xiong's co-authors include Jun Wang, Yucai Wang, Yan Bao, Xianzhu Yang, Tianmeng Sun, Feng Wang, Shuang Dou, Yanhua Zhu, Jianjun Cheng and Baolin Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Menghua Xiong

52 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Doxorubicin-Tethered Responsive Gold Nanoparticles Facilitate Intracellular Drug Delivery for Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells

2011 672 citations Feng Wang, Yucai Wang et al. ACS Nano profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Menghua Xiong China	31	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	817	665	56	3.9k
Pui Lai Rachel Ee Singapore	38	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	762 0.9×	813 1.2×	74	4.9k
Aleksandar F. Radovic‐Moreno United States	14	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	462 0.6×	676 1.0×	19	5.0k
Cuihong Yang China	37	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	579 0.7×	590 0.9×	97	4.3k
Zhan Yuin Ong Singapore	29	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	699 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	443 0.7×	40	3.4k
Ziyuan Song United States	39	2.8k 1.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 2.1×	748 1.1×	102	5.2k
Avinash Bajaj India	35	2.1k 1.3×	795 0.5×	931 0.7×	603 0.7×	610 0.9×	109	3.8k
Giancarlo Morelli Italy	38	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	881 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	1.8k 2.7×	176	5.6k
Jeremy P. K. Tan Singapore	33	877 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	693 0.5×	1.9k 2.3×	459 0.7×	55	3.5k
Yu Zhao China	43	2.8k 1.7×	781 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	728 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	172	6.1k
Yingli An China	44	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	2.1k 2.6×	1.6k 2.4×	154	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Menghua Xiong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Menghua Xiong

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Luo, Dong, Jie Hu, Xueyi Li, et al.. (2025). Selective recognition of bacterial phospholipids by antimicrobial peptides: Employing a host-guest-mediated competitive inhibition strategy. Biomaterials. 322. 123392–123392. 3 indexed citations

Xiang, Huandong, Xin Li, Haoran Wei, et al.. (2025). Biomimetic Engineering of Hybrid Radiosensitizers to Boost Radiotherapy against Cancer Metastasis. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2501077–e2501077.

Luo, Dong, Xueyi Li, Hao Zhou, et al.. (2025). Bacterial Phospholipid-Inducible Helix-Transformable Antimicrobial Polypeptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(45). 41800–41808. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xueyi, Liping Zhao, Songyin Huang, et al.. (2025). Hydrophobicity-to-cationic amphipathicity transformable antimicrobial polypeptides for the prevention of medical implant-associated infections. Biomaterials. 325. 123564–123564. 1 indexed citations

Bao, Yan, et al.. (2023). pH Window for High Selectivity of Ionizable Antimicrobial Polymers toward Bacteria. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(18). 21781–21791. 6 indexed citations

Li, Jie, Jiajie Zhang, Qi Long, Weisheng Guo, & Menghua Xiong. (2022). Modulation of Conformational Transition of Polypeptides under Slightly Acidic Environment^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(24). 2981–2987. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Weinan, Li Wang, Wenbin Zhang, et al.. (2022). A transistor-like pH-sensitive nanodetergent for selective cancer therapy. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(5). 541–551. 105 indexed citations

Cao, Zhiting, Wei Jiang, Jilong Wang, et al.. (2020). Protein Binding Affinity of Polymeric Nanoparticles as a Direct Indicator of Their Pharmacokinetics. ACS Nano. 14(3). 3563–3575. 60 indexed citations

Sun, Madi, Yue Zhang, Menghua Xiong, et al.. (2019). Green synthesis of carrier-free curcumin nanodrugs for light-activated breast cancer photodynamic therapy. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 180. 313–318. 57 indexed citations

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Zhan, Ying, Lu Cheng, Menghua Xiong, & Jianfang Zhang. (2018). Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase gene mutation: a case report. Zhonghua weichan yixue zazhi. 21(12). 825–829.

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Xiong, Menghua, Qian Lei, Xinyu You, et al.. (2017). Mannosylated liposomes improve therapeutic effects of paclitaxel in colon cancer models. Journal of Microencapsulation. 34(6). 513–521. 40 indexed citations

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Xiong, Menghua, Zhiyuan Han, Ziyuan Song, et al.. (2017). Bacteria‐Assisted Activation of Antimicrobial Polypeptides by a Random‐Coil to Helix Transition. Angewandte Chemie. 129(36). 10966–10969. 9 indexed citations

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Song, Xuejiao, Tiantao Gao, Ningyu Wang, et al.. (2016). Selective inhibition of EZH2 by ZLD1039 blocks H3K27methylation and leads to potent anti-tumor activity in breast cancer. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20864–20864. 50 indexed citations

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Xiong, Menghua, Yan Bao, Xianzhu Yang, Yanhua Zhu, & Jun Wang. (2014). Delivery of antibiotics with polymeric particles. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 78. 63–76. 240 indexed citations

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Yu, Chao, Bing He, Menghua Xiong, et al.. (2013). The effect of hydrophilic and hydrophobic structure of amphiphilic polymeric micelles on their transport in epithelial MDCK cells. Biomaterials. 34(26). 6284–6298. 39 indexed citations

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Wu, Juan, Tianmeng Sun, Xianzhu Yang, et al.. (2013). Enhanced drug delivery to hepatocellular carcinoma with a galactosylated core–shell polyphosphoester nanogel. Biomaterials Science. 1(11). 1143–1143. 12 indexed citations

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Yuan, Youyong, Jin‐Zhi Du, Wenjing Song, et al.. (2012). Biocompatible and functionalizable polyphosphate nanogel with a branched structure. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 22(18). 9322–9322. 25 indexed citations

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Xiong, Menghua, Yajuan Li, Yan Bao, et al.. (2012). Bacteria‐Responsive Multifunctional Nanogel for Targeted Antibiotic Delivery. Advanced Materials. 24(46). 6175–6180. 249 indexed citations

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Wang, Feng, Yucai Wang, Shuang Dou, et al.. (2011). Doxorubicin-Tethered Responsive Gold Nanoparticles Facilitate Intracellular Drug Delivery for Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells. ACS Nano. 5(5). 3679–3692. 672 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Yucai, et al.. (2007). Self-Assembled Micelles of Biodegradable Triblock Copolymers Based on Poly(ethyl ethylene phosphate) and Poly(ϵ-caprolactone) as Drug Carriers. Biomacromolecules. 9(1). 388–395. 136 indexed citations

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