Qingkai Qi

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Qingkai Qi is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingkai Qi has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 13 papers in Spectroscopy and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Qingkai Qi's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (20 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (12 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (11 papers). Qingkai Qi is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (20 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (12 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (11 papers). Qingkai Qi collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Qingkai Qi's co-authors include Wenjing Tian, Bin Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Zhaochao Xu, Jingyu Qian, Jibo Zhang, Sean Xiao‐An Zhang, Richmond Lee, Shan Jiang and Lijuan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Qingkai Qi

28 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Solid-State Photoinduced Luminescence Switch for Advanced Anticounterfeiting and Super-Resolution Imaging Applications

2017 381 citations Qingkai Qi, Chong Li 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						Papers	Cites
Qingkai Qi China	20	1.6k	715	463	404	245	28	1.9k
Hai Qian China	18	1.2k 0.7×	436 0.6×	593 1.3×	260 0.6×	153 0.6×	36	1.7k
Aisen Li China	25	1.6k 1.0×	510 0.7×	474 1.0×	628 1.6×	238 1.0×	81	1.9k
Chen‐Jie Fang China	25	1.0k 0.6×	429 0.6×	325 0.7×	233 0.6×	161 0.7×	61	1.9k
Ru Sun China	28	1.2k 0.8×	982 1.4×	303 0.7×	726 1.8×	528 2.2×	130	2.6k
Shigeyuki Yagi Japan	28	1.4k 0.9×	452 0.6×	623 1.3×	668 1.7×	162 0.7×	120	2.1k
Peter Štacko Netherlands	21	759 0.5×	310 0.4×	768 1.7×	121 0.3×	261 1.1×	46	1.5k
Easwaran Arunkumar United States	18	1.0k 0.6×	640 0.9×	617 1.3×	140 0.3×	236 1.0×	20	1.6k
Antonia R. Agarrabeitia Spain	25	2.4k 1.5×	732 1.0×	1.5k 3.1×	458 1.1×	732 3.0×	73	2.9k
Agnieszka Nowak‐Król Germany	26	1.4k 0.9×	319 0.4×	823 1.8×	689 1.7×	185 0.8×	56	2.1k
Simon Pascal France	23	1.1k 0.7×	227 0.3×	754 1.6×	208 0.5×	353 1.4×	77	1.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Taddei, Maria Letizia, Baihao Shao, Qingkai Qi, et al.. (2025). Substituent effect on the excited state dynamics of bistable photochromic hydrazones. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(34). 17910–17921. 1 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, S. Patra, Zdeněk Švindrych, et al.. (2025). Photoswitchable Fluorescent Hydrazone for Super-Resolution Cell Membrane Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(19). 16404–16411. 2 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Shiqing Huang, Xiaogang Liu, & Ivan Aprahamian. (2024). 1,2-BF₂ Shift and Photoisomerization Induced Multichromatic Response. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(10). 6471–6475. 20 indexed citations

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Qiu, Qian‐Feng, et al.. (2023). Visible light activated energy storage in solid-state Azo-BF₂ switches. Chemical Science. 14(41). 11359–11364. 24 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Tianruo Shen, Jan Scrimgeour, et al.. (2021). Force-Induced Near-Infrared Chromism of Mechanophore-Linked Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(42). 17337–17343. 62 indexed citations

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Chi, Weijie, Qingkai Qi, Richmond Lee, Zhaochao Xu, & Xiaogang Liu. (2020). A Unified Push–Pull Model for Understanding the Ring-Opening Mechanism of Rhodamine Dyes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 14 indexed citations

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Chi, Weijie, Qingkai Qi, Richmond Lee, Zhaochao Xu, & Xiaogang Liu. (2020). A Unified Push–Pull Model for Understanding the Ring-Opening Mechanism of Rhodamine Dyes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(6). 3793–3801. 71 indexed citations

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Chi, Weijie, Jie Chen, Wenjuan Liu, et al.. (2020). A General Descriptor ΔE Enables the Quantitative Development of Luminescent Materials Based on Photoinduced Electron Transfer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(14). 6777–6785. 170 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Shan Jiang, Qinglong Qiao, et al.. (2020). Direct observation of intramolecular coplanarity regulated polymorph emission of a tetraphenylethene derivative. Chinese Chemical Letters. 31(11). 2985–2987. 14 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shan, Shengda Liu, Lingchen Meng, et al.. (2020). Covalent organic hollow nanospheres constructed by using AIE-active units for nitrophenol explosives detection. Science China Chemistry. 63(4). 497–503. 20 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shan, Lingchen Meng, Wenyue Ma, et al.. (2020). Morphology controllable conjugated network polymers based on AIE-active building block for TNP detection. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(3). 1037–1040. 50 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Weijie Chi, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2019). A H-bond strategy to develop acid-resistant photoswitchable rhodamine spirolactams for super-resolution single-molecule localization microscopy. Chemical Science. 10(18). 4914–4922. 86 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shan, Jiayu Wang, Qingkai Qi, et al.. (2019). Organic polymorphs with fluorescence switching: direct evidence for mechanical and thermal modulation of excited state transitions. Chemical Communications. 55(26). 3749–3752. 30 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Chong Li, Xiaogang Liu, et al.. (2017). Solid-State Photoinduced Luminescence Switch for Advanced Anticounterfeiting and Super-Resolution Imaging Applications. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(45). 16036–16039. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Fengli, Yue Li, Qingkai Qi, et al.. (2017). Highly efficient Far Red/Near-Infrared fluorophores with aggregation-induced emission for bioimaging. Dyes and Pigments. 142. 491–498. 30 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Jingyu Qian, Xiao Tan, et al.. (2015). Piezochromic Materials: Remarkable Turn‐On and Color‐Tuned Piezochromic Luminescence: Mechanically Switching Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Molecular Crystals (Adv. Funct. Mater. 26/2015). Advanced Functional Materials. 25(26). 4171–4171. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Jinxia, Jia Tang, Hailong Wang, et al.. (2015). Reversible Piezofluorochromic Property and Intrinsic Structure Changes of Tetra(4-methoxyphenyl)ethylene under High Pressure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 119(35). 9218–9224. 40 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Jingyu Qian, Suqian Ma, et al.. (2014). Reversible Multistimuli‐Response Fluorescent Switch Based on Tetraphenylethene–Spiropyran Molecules. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(3). 1149–1155. 100 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Jibo Zhang, Bin Xu, et al.. (2013). Mechanochromism and Polymorphism-Dependent Emission of Tetrakis(4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)ethylene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117(47). 24997–25003. 145 indexed citations

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Qi, Qingkai, Xiaofeng Fang, Yifei Liu, et al.. (2013). A TPE-oxazoline molecular switch with tunable multi-emission in both solution and solid state. RSC Advances. 3(38). 16986–16986. 47 indexed citations

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