Ming Lee Tang

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
97 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Ming Lee Tang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Lee Tang has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 58 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ming Lee Tang's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (35 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (29 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (24 papers). Ming Lee Tang is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (35 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (29 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (24 papers). Ming Lee Tang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Ming Lee Tang's co-authors include Zhenan Bao, Zhiyuan Huang, A. Paul Alivisatos, Harald Gießen, Mario Hentschel, Anna D. Reichardt, Na Liu, Melika Mahboub, Xin Li and Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ming Lee Tang

94 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus

2011 789 citations Ming Lee Tang, Mario Hentschel et al. Nature Materials profile →
Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus

2011 653 citations Ming Lee Tang, Mario Hentschel et al. profile →
Halogenated Materials as Organic Semiconductors

2010 533 citations Ming Lee Tang, Zhenan Bao Chemistry of Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Lee Tang United States	45	4.5k	3.8k	1.7k	1.5k	1.2k	97	7.6k
Luca Beverina Italy	46	3.0k 0.7×	3.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	169	6.8k
Kasper Moth‐Poulsen Sweden	50	4.2k 0.9×	5.1k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	836 0.6×	758 0.6×	202	8.8k
Qingxiao Wang United States	39	4.0k 0.9×	6.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	470 0.4×	136	8.9k
Hongxiang Li China	51	5.8k 1.3×	3.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	792 0.5×	3.1k 2.5×	244	8.5k
Alexander Mikhailovsky United States	44	5.7k 1.3×	7.4k 2.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	102	10.1k
Egbert Zojer Austria	52	6.3k 1.4×	5.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	231	9.7k
Dongchen Qi Australia	50	5.4k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	885 0.7×	214	8.7k
Christian Kloc Singapore	48	8.1k 1.8×	8.9k 2.4×	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	139	13.5k
Yuan‐Zhi Tan China	42	2.3k 0.5×	4.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	679 0.6×	137	6.6k
Gema de la Torre Spain	35	1.9k 0.4×	6.5k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	789 0.7×	116	7.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Qiao, Tian, et al.. (2025). Chiral Gold Nanoprisms by Tuning the Wavelength and Handedness of Light. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(6). 3352–3358. 2 indexed citations

Qiao, Tian, et al.. (2025). Increasing the Structural Chirality of Metal Nanocrystals Created by Circularly Polarized Light via Surface Ligand Engineering. Small. 21(32). e2502440–e2502440. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Kefu, Tomoyasu Mani, Adam Schwartzberg, et al.. (2025). Tunable Spin Qubit Pairs in Quantum Dot–Molecule Conjugates. ACS Nano. 19(12). 12194–12207. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Kefu, Lorenzo Mangolini, Sean T. Roberts, et al.. (2025). Intermediate Electronic Coupling via Silane and Germane Bridges in Silicon Quantum Dot–Molecular Hybrid Systems. Nano Letters. 25(13). 5299–5306.

Lian, Tianquan, et al.. (2024). Triplet energy transfer from quantum dots increases Ln(iii) photoluminescence, enabling excitation at visible wavelengths. Chemical Science. 15(12). 4556–4563. 8 indexed citations

Qiao, Tian, et al.. (2024). Tuning the Chiral Growth of Plasmonic Bipyramids via the Wavelength and Polarization of Light. Nano Letters. 24(8). 2611–2618. 14 indexed citations

Tang, Ming Lee, et al.. (2023). Protective effects of methylprednisolone–cyclophosphamide treatment on bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. Cytokine. 166. 156188–156188. 2 indexed citations

Han, Sanyang, Renren Deng, Qifei Gu, et al.. (2020). Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright. Nature. 587(7835). 594–599. 192 indexed citations

Roo, Jonathan De, Zhiyuan Huang, Nathaniel J. Schuster, et al.. (2020). Anthracene Diphosphate Ligands for CdSe Quantum Dots; Molecular Design for Efficient Upconversion. Chemistry of Materials. 32(4). 1461–1466. 55 indexed citations

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Xu, Zihao, Zhiyuan Huang, Tao Jin, Tianquan Lian, & Ming Lee Tang. (2020). Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design of Quantum Dot/Mediator Interfaces for Efficient Photon Upconversion. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(1). 70–80. 59 indexed citations

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Fishman, Dmitry A., et al.. (2020). On the size-dependence of CdSe nanocrystals for photon upconversion with anthracene. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(11). 114702–114702. 22 indexed citations

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Tang, Ming Lee, Xiaohui Zhu, Yuehong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Near-Infrared Excited Orthogonal Emissive Upconversion Nanoparticles for Imaging-Guided On-Demand Therapy. ACS Nano. 13(9). 10405–10418. 129 indexed citations

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Xia, Pan, Emily K. Raulerson, Carter S. Gerke, et al.. (2019). Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion. Nature Chemistry. 12(2). 137–144. 113 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chen, et al.. (2019). A three-step sequence strategy for facile construction of donor–acceptor type molecules: triphenylamine-substituted acenes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 98(1). 40–48. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Aiping, Ming Lee Tang, Xingping Liu, et al.. (2012). Synthesis, insecticidal and acaricidal activities of novel 2-arylpyrroles. Science China Chemistry. 56(1). 117–123. 10 indexed citations

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Tang, Ming Lee, et al.. (2011). Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus. Nature Materials. 10(8). 631–636. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tang, Ming Lee, D. Grauer, Benedikt Lassalle‐Kaiser, et al.. (2011). Structural and Electronic Study of an Amorphous MoS₃ Hydrogen‐Generation Catalyst on a Quantum‐Controlled Photosensitizer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(43). 10203–10207. 161 indexed citations

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Sun, Yujie, J.P. Bigi, Nicholas A. Piro, et al.. (2011). Molecular Cobalt Pentapyridine Catalysts for Generating Hydrogen from Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(24). 9212–9215. 404 indexed citations

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Tang, Ming Lee, et al.. (2006). Structure Property Relationships: Asymmetric Oligofluorene−Thiophene Molecules for Organic TFTs. Chemistry of Materials. 18(26). 6250–6257. 40 indexed citations

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Zhu, Tao, et al.. (1996). Fabricating Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)-Active Substrates by Assembling Colloidal Au Nanoparticles with Self-Assembled Monolayers. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 35(10B). L1381–L1381. 13 indexed citations

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