Tiankai Chen

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Tiankai Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tiankai Chen has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Materials Chemistry, 39 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tiankai Chen's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (51 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (40 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers). Tiankai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (51 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (40 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers). Tiankai Chen collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and France. Tiankai Chen's co-authors include Jianping Xie, Qiaofeng Yao, Xun Yuan, Nirmal Goswami, Ricca Rahman Nasaruddin, Jingguo Li, Zhentao Luo, Yitao Cao, Ning Yan and Yanbiao Liu 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

Tiankai Chen

62 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters with Aggregation-Induced Emission

2016 649 citations Qiaofeng Yao, Zhentao Luo et al. profile →
Toward Total Synthesis of Thiolate-Protected Metal Nanoclusters

2018 503 citations Qiaofeng Yao, Tiankai Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tiankai Chen Singapore	32	3.9k	2.2k	355	349	319	64	4.3k
Yuanxin Du China	23	1.9k 0.5×	918 0.4×	295 0.8×	284 0.8×	677 2.1×	55	2.6k
Shan Jin China	35	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	131 0.4×	472 1.4×	150 0.5×	109	4.0k
Megalamane S. Bootharaju South Korea	25	3.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	99 0.3×	146 0.4×	492 1.5×	43	3.6k
Hadi Abroshan United States	32	2.6k 0.7×	806 0.4×	124 0.3×	359 1.0×	1.2k 3.8×	69	3.5k
Jiale Liu China	23	1.9k 0.5×	780 0.4×	222 0.6×	172 0.5×	530 1.7×	85	2.5k
Xu Liu China	30	1.7k 0.4×	788 0.4×	83 0.2×	564 1.6×	795 2.5×	81	3.2k
Ke Hou China	22	1.3k 0.3×	648 0.3×	327 0.9×	330 0.9×	571 1.8×	40	2.5k
Prasenjit Maity India	21	1.2k 0.3×	449 0.2×	85 0.2×	412 1.2×	185 0.6×	55	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tiankai Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tiankai Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tiankai Chen 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 Tiankai Chen. Tiankai Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yang, Zhucheng, et al.. (2025). Glutathione: a naturally occurring tripeptide for functional metal nanomaterials. Chemical Science. 16(16). 6542–6572. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruixuan, Zhucheng Yang, Bihan Zhang, Tiankai Chen, & Jianping Xie. (2025). Photoluminescence Modulation of Cation-Induced Gold(I)-Thiolate Aggregates. Chemistry of Materials. 37(15). 6069–6076.

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Yang, Zhucheng, et al.. (2025). Precise Surface Engineering of Metal Nanoclusters: Ligand Programming for Functionality Design. Advanced Materials. 37(50). e08578–e08578. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai, et al.. (2024). Understanding the Dynamic Aggregation in Single‐Atom Catalysis. Advanced Science. 11(13). e2308046–e2308046. 44 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhucheng, Anye Shi, Ruixuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). When Metal Nanoclusters Meet Smart Synthesis. ACS Nano. 18(40). 27138–27166. 17 indexed citations

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Lin, Hongbin, Yitao Cao, Qiaofeng Yao, et al.. (2024). The synthesis of fluorescent nanoclusters based on the etching reaction. Nano Research. 17(5). 4631–4638. 1 indexed citations

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Qian, Feng, et al.. (2023). Path Planning Algorithm of Mobile Robot Based on Improved Q-learning Algorithm. 133–136. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai, et al.. (2023). Lidar Point Semantic Segmentation Using Dual Attention Mechanism. Journal of Russian Laser Research. 44(2). 224–234. 1 indexed citations

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Yao, Qiaofeng, Lingmei Liu, Sami Malola, et al.. (2022). Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics. Nature Chemistry. 15(2). 230–239. 116 indexed citations

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Cao, Yitao, Ruili Li, Hongbin Lin, et al.. (2022). Cation polymer-induced aggregation of water-soluble Au(i)–thiolate complexes and their photoluminescence properties. Chemical Communications. 58(59). 8234–8237. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai, et al.. (2022). Semantic Segmentation Algorithms for Ground AGV and UAV Medical Transport Scenes. 252–255. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Yitao, Tongyu Liu, Tiankai Chen, et al.. (2021). Revealing the etching process of water-soluble Au25 nanoclusters at the molecular level. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3212–3212. 46 indexed citations

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Cao, Yitao, Victor Fung, Qiaofeng Yao, et al.. (2020). Control of single-ligand chemistry on thiolated Au25 nanoclusters. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5498–5498. 93 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhennan, Yonghua Du, Jiale Liu, et al.. (2019). Aurophilic Interactions in the Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanoclusters into Nanoribbons with Enhanced Luminescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(24). 8139–8144. 224 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhennan, Yonghua Du, Jiale Liu, et al.. (2019). Aurophilic Interactions in the Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanoclusters into Nanoribbons with Enhanced Luminescence. Angewandte Chemie. 131(24). 8223–8228. 28 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai, Victor Fung, Qiaofeng Yao, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of Water-Soluble [Au₂₅(SR)₁₈]⁻ Using a Stoichiometric Amount of NaBH₄. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(36). 11370–11377. 102 indexed citations

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Chen, Tiankai & Jianping Xie. (2016). Carbon Monoxide: A Mild and Efficient Reducing Agent towards Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters. The Chemical Record. 16(4). 1761–1771. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanbiao, Qiaofeng Yao, Xue‐Jun Wu, et al.. (2016). Gold nanocluster sensitized TiO₂nanotube arrays for visible-light driven photoelectrocatalytic removal of antibiotic tetracycline. Nanoscale. 8(19). 10145–10151. 94 indexed citations

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Ma, Weibing, et al.. (2015). The piezoelectric properties of SrBi4Ti4O15-Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 solid solution. Electronic Materials Letters. 11(5). 902–905. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Jie Zheng, Tiankai Chen, et al.. (2013). One step preparation of a high performance Ge–C nanocomposite anode for lithium ion batteries by tandem plasma reactions. Chemical Communications. 50(16). 2052–2052. 37 indexed citations

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