Ran Lu

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
297 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Ran Lu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Lu has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 222 papers in Materials Chemistry, 104 papers in Organic Chemistry and 78 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Ran Lu's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (126 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (77 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (63 papers). Ran Lu is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (126 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (77 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (63 papers). Ran Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Ran Lu's co-authors include Pengchong Xue, Jingbo Sun, Zhenqi Zhang, Peng Gong, Jiabao Sun, Boqi Yao, Panpan Wang, Xingliang Liu, Jipeng Ding and Ming Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ran Lu

290 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Selective separation of methyl orange from water using magnetic ZIF-67 composites

2017 410 citations Ran Lu et al. profile →
Recent progress in the mechanochromism of phosphorescent organic molecules and metal complexes

2016 410 citations Pengchong Xue, Ran Lu et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry C profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Cu metallization of Al2O3 ceramics via CuO reduction: Role of SiO2 additive and sintering atmosphere 2024 ·Ceramics International ·(unknown), Minhao Shen, (unknown), (unknown), Ran Lu, (unknown)	1
2	Constructing BiOBr/TiO2 heterostructure nanotubes for enhanced adsorption/photocatalytic performance 2023 ·Journal of Water Process Engineering ·Shengzhe Zhao, Yun Lu, Ran Lu, Yongda Hu, Raúl D. Rodriguez, Jin‐Ju Chen	21
3	Bio-barcode assay: A useful technology for ultrasensitive and logic-controlled specific detection in food safety: A review 2023 ·Analytica Chimica Acta ·(unknown), Ruipeng Chen, Zhiguang Wang, Ran Lu, (unknown), Shuyue Ren, Shuang Li, Yu Wang, Tie Han, Shiping Yang, Huanying Zhou, Zhixian Gao	10
4	Polymorphism manipulating topo-photochemical reactions, photoactuation, and the mechanofluorochromism of benzimidazoleylaryl acrylonitriles 2023 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Cheng Liu, Jingbo Sun, Chao Chen, Kaiqi Ye, Haoran Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Ran Lu	8
5	Halogen effect in photomechanical molecular crystals 2023 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·(unknown), Jingbo Sun, Kaiqi Ye, Ran Lu	17
6	Fast photoactuation of elastic crystals based on 3-(naphthalen-1-yl)-2-phenylacrylonitriles triggered by subtle photoisomerization 2022 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Cheng Liu, Kaiqi Ye, Zhonglin Wei, Jiang Peng, (unknown), Jingbo Sun, Ran Lu	36
7	Molecular Twisting Affects the Solid‐State Photochemical Reactions of Unsaturated Ketones and the Photomechanical Effects of Molecular Crystals 2022 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Yuan Yue, (unknown), Kaiqi Ye, Jingbo Sun, Cheng Liu, Shuting Dai, (unknown), (unknown), Ran Lu	15
8	Synthesis of bioactive fluoropyrrolidines via copper( i )-catalysed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides 2021 ·Chemical Science ·Xiao Li Xu, (unknown), Ran Lu, (unknown), (unknown), Chun‐Jiang Wang, Huailong Teng	17
9	Fluorine as a robust balancer for tuning the reactivity of topo-photoreactions of chalcones and the photomechanical effects of molecular crystals 2021 ·CrystEngComm ·(unknown), Kaiqi Ye, Yuan Yue, Jingbo Sun, Haoran Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Hongqiang Gao, Ran Lu	30
10	Scanning the optical properties of 4-(1,1-difluoro-1H-1λ⁴,10λ⁴-benzo[4,5]thiazolo[3,2-c][1,3,2]oxazaborinin-3-yl)-N,N-diphenylaniline in mono-disperse and aggregation systems 2021 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·(unknown), Ning Sui, Quan Wang, (unknown), Xiaochun Chi, Hanzhuang Zhang, Ran Lu, Zhi‐Hui Kang, Yinghui Wang	4
11	Thermo‐Induced Single‐Crystal‐to‐Single‐Crystal Transformations and Photo‐Induced [2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions in Polymorphs of Chalcone‐Based Molecular Crystals: Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Actuators 2021 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·(unknown), Kaiqi Ye, Jingbo Sun, Yuan Yue, Cheng Liu, Haoran Wang, Ran Lu	23
12	Photoactuators based on the dynamic molecular crystals of naphthalene acrylic acids driven by stereospecific [2+2] cycloaddition reactions 2020 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Jiaxi Liu, Kaiqi Ye, Yanbing Shen, Jiang Peng, Jingbo Sun, Ran Lu	38
13	Mechanofluorochromic behaviors of triphenylamine functionalized salicylaldimine difluoroboron complexes 2019 ·New Journal of Chemistry ·Jingbo Sun, Hao Yang, Oudjaniyobi Simalou, (unknown), Lu Zhai, Jinyu Zhao, Ran Lu	21
14	H- and J-aggregates formed from a nontraditional π-gelator depending on the solvent polarity for the detection of amine vapors 2018 ·Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry ·Jingbo Sun, Chong Qian, (unknown), Xiaoyu Jia, Lu Zhai, Jinyu Zhao, Ran Lu	16
15	Iron(II)‐Catalyzed Site‐Selective Functionalization of Unactivated C(sp³)−H Bonds Guided by Alkoxyl Radicals 2018 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Shutao Sun, Ying Mao, Lei Chen, Ran Lu, Jiancheng Huang, Lei Liu	104
16	Red-emitting dyes based on phenothiazine-modified 2-hydroxychalcone analogues: mechanofluorochromism and gelation-induced emission enhancement 2018 ·New Journal of Chemistry ·Hongqiang Gao, Pengchong Xue, Jiang Peng, Lu Zhai, Meng Sun, Jingbo Sun, Ran Lu	15
17	Diarylethene-based xerogels: the fabrication of more entangled networks driven by isomerization and acidofluorochromism 2018 ·Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry ·Haoran Wang, Jinyu Zhao, Guojian Yang, (unknown), Jingbo Sun, Ran Lu	14
18	Regio- and Diastereoselective Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of Tetrahydropyridines with 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds 2017 ·Organic Letters ·(unknown), Gang Wang, Ran Lu, Mengmeng Xu, (unknown), (unknown), Yiheng He, Yuxiang Bu, Lei Liu	24
19	Preparation and Photochromic Properties of Hybrid Thin Films Based on Heteropolyoxometallate and Polyacrylamide 2009 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·Wei Feng, Tierui Zhang, Yan Liu, Ran Lu, Cheng Guan, Yingying Zhao, Jiannian Yao	1
20	A Light Active Barbituric Acid Derivative as A Fluorescence Probe of Molecular Self-assembly. 1996 ·Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ·(unknown), (unknown), Ran Lu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Lianshe Fu, (unknown)	1

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