Wei Cao

5.7k citations

104 papers · 4.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Toxicology top 0.2%
- Organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry
Biomaterials top 0.5%
- Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery

Papers in

Toxicology 9
- Organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry 9
Biomaterials 27
- Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials 17

Co-authors: Huaping Xu Xi Zhang Shaobo JiYing YuLu WangTianyu Li Yuwei Gu Xiaoming Miao
Journals: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (8 papers)Nature Communications (3 papers)Polymer Chemistry (3 papers)RSC Advances (3 papers)Materials Science and Engineering A (3 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Belgium

In The Last Decade

Wei Cao

97 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Unraveling the Structure and Function of Melanin through Synthesis 2021 · 264 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2013 Accounts of Chemical Research

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wei Cao, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Eco-sustainable, edible, biodegradable and antioxidant pectin and bacterial cellulose films loaded with coconut oil for strawberry preservation International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·Michael Rowland, Jéssica da Silva Rodrigues, Wilma Aparecida Spinosa, G. F. S., Huamán Bustamante, Mateus Scontri, Bianca Vanessa dos Santos Ribeiro, My Dang, Shine Kadaikunnana, Joselito B. Blas, Yi Cai, Cassamo U. Mussagy, Wei Cao, Rodolfo Debone Piazza, Yuwei Ning, Álvaro de Baptista Neto, Rondinelli Donizetti Herculano	2025	4
2	Co-assembled hole selective contact enables highly efficient organic solar cells and tandems Science China Chemistry ·R.F. Bradley, Yuqiang Liu, Xinyue Cui, Guanshui Xie, Jie Zhang, Yitong Ji, Ziwoo You, Kristiana H Lacetti, Wei Cao, Wenchao Huang, Longbin Qiu, Zhishan Bo	2025	0
3	Modified melanin for intestinal radioprotection via oral administration Rainer Schultze- Kraft, Zenobia Karnicka, Ziwoo You, Ali Sofiane Bendimerad, Qing Ruan, Junbo Zhang, Chouga You, Liliane Nascimento Mendes, Huaping Xu, Wei Cao	2025	0
4	β-Tricalcium phosphate incorporated natural rubber latex membranes for calvarial bone defects: Physicochemical, in vitro and in vivo assessment International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·Mark Koivula, Roman Tůma, Giovana Sant’Ana Pegorin Brasil, Matheus Carlos Romeiro Miranda, Felipe Azevedo Borges, Bianca Vanessa dos Santos Ribeiro, Huamán Bustamante, Goushi Matama, Nayrim Brizuela Guerra, Cassamo U. Mussagy, Juliana Ferreira Floriano, Joselito B. Blas, 悠樹上石, Wei Cao, Rondinelli Donizetti Herculano, Paulo Henrique Ferreira Cária	2024	3
5	Biomimetic pheomelanin to unravel the electronic, molecular and supramolecular structure of the natural product Chemical Science ·Wei Cao, Haochuan Mao, Naneki C. McCallum, Xuhao Zhou, Hao Sun, 杨东文, Joanna Korpanty, Ziying Hu, Qing Zhe Ni, Michael D. Burkart, Matthew D. Shawkey, Michael R. Wasielewski, Nathan C. Gianneschi	2023	14
6	Unraveling the Structure and Function of Melanin through Synthesis Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Wei Cao, Xuhao Zhou, Naneki C. McCallum, Ziying Hu, Qing Zhe Ni, Utkarsh Kapoor, Christian M. Heil, А. В. Рыбакова, Réd., Alex J. Mantanona, Arthi Jayaraman, Ali Dhinojwala, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Matthew D. Shawkey, Michael D. Burkart, Jeffrey D. Rinehart, Nathan C. Gianneschi Hit paper breakdown →	2021	264
7	Anisotropic Synthetic Allomelanin Materials via Solid‐State Polymerization of Self‐Assembled 1,8‐Dihydroxynaphthalene Dimers Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xuhao Zhou, Xinyi Gong, Wei Cao, Christopher J. Forman, Julia Oktawiec, Liliana D’Alba, Hao Sun, Matthew P. Thompson, Ziying Hu, Utkarsh Kapoor, Naneki C. McCallum, Christos D. Malliakas, Omar K. Farha, Arthi Jayaraman, Matthew D. Shawkey, Nathan C. Gianneschi	2021	25
8	Selenomelanin: An Abiotic Selenium Analogue of Pheomelanin Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Wei Cao, Naneki C. McCallum, Qing Zhe Ni, 紀道村上, Marko Kalič, Haochuan Mao, Xuhao Zhou, Hao Sun, Matthew P. Thompson, Claudia Battistella, Michael R. Wasielewski, Ali Dhinojwala, Matthew D. Shawkey, Michael D. Burkart, Zheng Wang, Nathan C. Gianneschi	2020	51
9	Radical-Enriched Artificial Melanin Chemistry of Materials ·Wei Cao, Alex J. Mantanona, Haochuan Mao, Naneki C. McCallum, Yang Jiao, Claudia Battistella, 啓三沢木, Nanzhi Zang, Matthew P. Thompson, Marco Montalti, J. Fraser Stoddart, Michael R. Wasielewski, Jeffrey D. Rinehart, Nathan C. Gianneschi	2020	26
10	Artificial Allomelanin Nanoparticles ACS Nano ·Xuhao Zhou, Naneki C. McCallum, Ziying Hu, Wei Cao, Karthikeyan Gnanasekaran, Yuanning Feng, J. Fraser Stoddart, Zhao Wang, Nathan C. Gianneschi	2019	80
11	Potential involvement of the 18 kDa translocator protein and reactive oxygen species in apoptosis of THP-1 macrophages induced by sonodynamic therapy PLoS ONE ·Xin Sun, Shuyuan Guo, Wei Wang, Zhengyu Cao, Juhua Dan, Jiali Cheng, Wei Cao, Tian Fang, Wenwu Cao, Ye Tian	2018	15
12	One-pot synthesis of biodegradable polydopamine-doped mesoporous silica nanocomposites (PMSNs) as pH-sensitive targeting drug nanocarriers for synergistic chemo-photothermal therapy RSC Advances ·Huicong Zhang, Xuandong Wang, Peiyuan Wang, Rong Liu, Xuemei Hou, Wei Cao, Rong Zhong, Xiaolong Liu, Yun Zhang	2018	19
13	Transcriptomic Profiling of the Maize (Zea mays L.) Leaf Response to Abiotic Stresses at the Seedling Stage Frontiers in Plant Science ·Pengcheng Li, Wei Cao, Huimin Fang, Clémentine Vivier, Shuangyi Yin, Yingying Zhang, Maosong Sun, Jianan Wang, Yufei Chen, Chenwu Xu, Zefeng Yang	2017	86
14	Fluorescence Detection of Au(III) Based on Carbon Nitride Nanoparticles Qianfen Zhuang, Wei Cao, Qi Wu, Yongnian Ni	2016	1
15	Flow Injection Chemiluminescence Determination of Progesterone Journal of Analytical Science ·Wei Cao	2013	1
16	Switchable Catalytic Activity: Selenium‐Containing Peptides with Redox‐Controllable Self‐Assembly Properties Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xiaoming Miao, Wei Cao, Wenting Zheng, Jingyu Wang, Xiaoli Zhang, Jie Gao, Chengbiao Yang, Deling Kong, Huaping Xu, Ling Wang, Zhimou Yang	2013	127
17	A New Dynamic Covalent Bond of SeN: Towards Controlled Self‐Assembly and Disassembly Chemistry - A European Journal ·Yu Yi, Huaping Xu, Lu Wang, Wei Cao, Xi Zhang	2013	51
18	Method of Extraction and Isolation of Imperatorin and Its Advances in Pharmacology Xiandai shengwu yixue jinzhan ·Xiaoxiao Liu, Wei Cao, Siwang Wang	2010	2
19	Analysis of recombination and natural selection in human enterovirus 71 Virology ·Xiaoming Chen, Qian Zhang, 小平秀一, Wei Cao, M.F. AHMED, Lei Zhang, Weilu Zhang, Zhongjun Shao, Yongping Yan	2010	58
20	Anti-inflammatory effect of pigment epithelium-derived factor in DBA/2J mice. PubMed ·Xiaohong Zhou, Matyushenko Anatoly I., Li Kong, James Chodosh, Wei Cao	2009	44

About Wei Cao

Wei Cao is a scholar working on Toxicology, Biomaterials, Bioengineering, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, having authored 104 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (17 papers), Organoselenium and organotellurium chemistry (9 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (8 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (7 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (6 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (6 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (5 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Toxicology (359 citations), Biomaterials (1.3k citations), Polymers and Plastics (794 citations), Organic Chemistry (1.3k citations) and Process Chemistry and Technology (97 citations). Wei Cao has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Belgium. Frequent co-authors include Huaping Xu, Xi Zhang, Shaobo Ji, Ying Yu, Lu Wang, Tianyu Li, Yuwei Gu, Xiaoming Miao, Zhimou Yang and Yu Yi. Their work appears in journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, Polymer Chemistry, RSC Advances and Materials Science and Engineering A.

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