Songnan Qu

15.4k total citations · 10 hit papers
167 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Songnan Qu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Songnan Qu has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Songnan Qu's work include Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (110 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (77 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (51 papers). Songnan Qu is often cited by papers focused on Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (110 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (77 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (51 papers). Songnan Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and Hong Kong. Songnan Qu's co-authors include Pengtao Jing, Xingyuan Liu, Ding Zhou, Dezhen Shen, Qipeng Lü, Andrey L. Rogach, Xiaoyun Wang, Lijun Wang, Di Li and Wenyu Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Songnan Qu

163 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A Biocompatible Fluorescent Ink Based on Water‐Soluble Luminescent Carbon Nanodots

2012 1.2k citations Songnan Qu et al. profile →
Doping Lanthanide into Perovskite Nanocrystals: Highly Improved and Expanded Optical Properties

2017 786 citations Pengtao Jing, Songnan Qu et al. Nano Letters profile →
Common Origin of Green Luminescence in Carbon Nanodots and Graphene Quantum Dots

2014 701 citations Songnan Qu et al. profile →
Toward Efficient Orange Emissive Carbon Nanodots through Conjugated sp²‐Domain Controlling and Surface Charges Engineering

2016 643 citations Songnan Qu, Ding Zhou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Near‐Infrared Excitation/Emission and Multiphoton‐Induced Fluorescence of Carbon Dots

2018 459 citations Di Li, Pengtao Jing et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Full‐Color Inorganic Carbon Dot Phosphors for White‐Light‐Emitting Diodes

2017 424 citations Xutao Zhang, Ding Zhou et al. profile →
Time‐Dependent Phosphorescence Colors from Carbon Dots for Advanced Dynamic Information Encryption

2021 402 citations Jing Tan, Qijun Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
In vivo theranostics with near-infrared-emitting carbon dots—highly efficient photothermal therapy based on passive targeting after intravenous administration

2018 359 citations Jingqin Chen, Di Li et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
Carbon Dots‐Inked Paper with Single/Two‐Photon Excited Dual‐Mode Thermochromic Afterglow for Advanced Dynamic Information Encryption

2024 89 citations Yupeng Liu, Dengke Cheng et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Recent advances in photo‐responsive carbon dots for tumor therapy

2024 73 citations Huiqi Zhang, Yupeng Liu et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Songnan Qu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Songnan Qu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Songnan Qu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Songnan Qu. Songnan Qu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Reprogramming Tumor Cell Death via Processing Natural Drug to Carbon Dots Overcomes Collagen Barrier and Activates Antitumor Immunity 2025 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Z. R. Yan, Hongwei Cheng, Yupeng Liu, Wenfeng Xu, Quansheng Cheng, Lingyun Li, Xue‐Ru Wu, (unknown), Jing Zhao, Gang Liu, Shao-Ping Li, Songnan Qu	1
2	Carbon-Dot-Assisted Room-Temperature Crystallization of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskite Emitting Layers for Annealing-Free Light-Emitting Diodes 2025 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Di Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Elena V. Ushakova, Songnan Qu, (unknown)	2
3	J-type assembled Pt(IV)-coordinated carbon dots for near-infrared light-triggered pyroptosis 2025 ·Light Science & Applications ·Dongbo Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Bingzhe Wang, Tesen Zhang, Quansheng Cheng, Maohua Chen, Lixiao Huang, Guichuan Xing, Songnan Qu	4
4	Advancements in research on the carbon dots nanomaterials in immune modulate and immunotherapy 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Feng He, (unknown), Qinglin Li, Songnan Qu	2
5	Enhanced performance of carbon dots and Mn3O4 composite by phosphate in peroxymonosulfate activation 2024 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·(unknown), (unknown), Bolun Zhang, (unknown), Jie Wang, Xinxin Zhang, Chi Zhang, Tao Yang, Xing He, Songnan Qu, Yeqing Chen, Ping Liang	26
6	Metal and non-metal doped carbon dots: properties and applications 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Runnan Yu, (unknown), (unknown), Changxiao Li, Songnan Qu, Zhan’ao Tan	12
7	Recent Advances in Highly Luminescent Carbon Dots 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Yupeng Liu, Zhujun Huang, Xuanye Wang, Yiming Hao, Junxiang Yang, H. Wang, Songnan Qu	34
8	Toward Rational Design of Carbon Nanodots with High Photothermal Efficiency for Tumor Photothermal Therapy^† 2023 ·Chinese Journal of Chemistry ·Enshan Liu, Jun Wu, Tao Liang, (unknown), Zikang Tang, Songnan Qu	26
9	Moist‐Electric Generator with Efficient Output and Scalable Integration Based on Carbonized Polymer Dot and Liquid Metal Active Electrode 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Qijun Li, Yukun Qin, Dengke Cheng, Ming Cheng, Hongjia Zhao, Lvzhou Li, Songnan Qu, Jing Tan, Jianning Ding	48
10	Aggregation-induced color fine-tunable carbon dot phosphorescence covering from green to near-infrared for advanced information encryption 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Qijun Li, Dengke Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), Yuchen Li, Shuai Meng, Yunyang Zhao, Zikang Tang, Yibo Zhang, Jing Tan, Songnan Qu	66
11	Constructing Oxygen‐Related Defects in Carbon Nanodots with Janus Optical Properties: Noninvasive NIR Fluorescent Imaging and Effective Photocatalytic Therapy 2023 ·Advanced Materials ·Tesen Zhang, Quansheng Cheng, Josh Haipeng Lei, Bingzhe Wang, (unknown), Yupeng Liu, Guichuan Xing, Chuxia Deng, Zikang Tang, Songnan Qu	62
12	Red-Emissive Center Formation within Carbon Dots Based on Citric Acid and Formamide 2023 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Evgeniia A. Stepanidenko, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Songnan Qu, Elena V. Ushakova	19
13	Toward Strong Near‐Infrared Absorption/Emission from Carbon Dots in Aqueous Media through Solvothermal Fusion of Large Conjugated Perylene Derivatives with Post‐Surface Engineering 2022 ·Advanced Science ·Yupeng Liu, Josh Haipeng Lei, Gang Wang, Zhiming Zhang, Jun Wu, Bohan Zhang, Huiqi Zhang, Enshan Liu, Liming Wang, (unknown), Guichuan Xing, (unknown), Chuxia Deng, Zikang Tang, Songnan Qu	131
14	Aluminum-Based Surface Polymerization on Carbon Dots with Aggregation-Enhanced Luminescence 2021 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Yunyang Zhao, Bingchen He, Enshan Liu, Jielei Li, Liming Wang, Shi Chen, Yeqing Chen, Zhan’ao Tan, Kar Wei Ng, Shuangpeng Wang, Zikang Tang, Songnan Qu	21
15	Carbon Dots for Intracellular pH Sensing with Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy 2020 ·Nanomaterials ·(unknown), Xinyue Liang, (unknown), Jing Wang, Yiyan Fei, Jiong Ma, Songnan Qu, Lan Mi	51
16	Carbon-Dots-Derived 3D Highly Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Framework for High-Performance Lithium Ion Storage 2019 ·ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Xutao Zhang, Zhongyu Zhang, Fang Hu, Di Li, Ding Zhou, Pengtao Jing, Fei Du, Songnan Qu	56
17	Surface related intrinsic luminescence from carbon nanodots: solvent dependent piezochromism 2018 ·Nanoscale Horizons ·Pengtao Jing, Dong Han, Di Li, Ding Zhou, Dezhen Shen, Guanjun Xiao, Bo Zou, Songnan Qu	45
18	Hydrogen Peroxide‐Treated Carbon Dot Phosphor with a Bathochromic‐Shifted, Aggregation‐Enhanced Emission for Light‐Emitting Devices and Visible Light Communication 2018 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), Pengfei Tian, Xiaoyan Liu, Shiliang Mei, Ding Zhou, Di Li, Pengtao Jing, Wanlu Zhang, Ruiqian Guo, Songnan Qu, Andrey L. Rogach	138
19	Red carbon dots-based phosphors for white light-emitting diodes with color rendering index of 92 2018 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Yuechen Zhai, Yi Wang, Di Li, Ding Zhou, Pengtao Jing, Dezhen Shen, Songnan Qu	54
20	In Vivo Tumor Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy Based on Supra‐(Carbon Nanodots) 2018 ·Advanced Healthcare Materials ·Guiying Xu, Xin Bao, Jingqin Chen, (unknown), Di Li, Ding Zhou, Xiaoyun Wang, Chengbo Liu, Yingli Wang, Songnan Qu	67

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