Weijun Zhao

6.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Weijun Zhao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Weijun Zhao has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Weijun Zhao's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (39 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (16 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (13 papers). Weijun Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (39 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (16 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (13 papers). Weijun Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Weijun Zhao's co-authors include Ben Zhong Tang, Zikai He, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Huili Ma, Qian Peng, Zhigang Shuai, Guodong Liang, Zheng Zhao, Xuepeng Zhang and Gongxun Bai and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Weijun Zhao

49 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggregates

2020 1.4k citations Weijun Zhao, Zikai He et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
Rational Molecular Design for Achieving Persistent and Efficient Pure Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence

2016 735 citations Weijun Zhao, Zikai He et al. Chem profile →
White light emission from a single organic molecule with dual phosphorescence at room temperature

2017 721 citations Zikai He, Weijun Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens with Amplified Chirality and Delayed Fluorescence

2018 371 citations Zheng Zhao, Weijun Zhao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weijun Zhao China	24	5.3k	3.2k	1.8k	1.2k	792	53	5.8k
Manman Fang China	33	4.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	689 0.9×	71	5.2k
Yujun Xie China	39	5.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	104	6.7k
Zikai He China	36	6.4k 1.2×	3.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	71	7.1k
Suzhi Cai China	28	4.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	772 0.6×	516 0.7×	35	4.8k
Zongliang Xie China	31	5.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	553 0.7×	51	6.1k
Jianbing Shi China	43	4.9k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	917 1.2×	166	6.1k
Yunxiang Lei China	31	3.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	673 0.5×	422 0.5×	80	3.4k
Huifang Shi China	52	9.8k 1.9×	6.2k 1.9×	3.3k 1.8×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	144	11.0k
Chunmei Deng China	25	2.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	394 0.5×	34	3.6k
Bo W. Laursen Denmark	39	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	579 0.7×	153	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weijun Zhao

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All Works

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Li, Fanghui, Mengqi Li, Yiqi Shi, et al.. (2025). Single-visible-light performed STORM imaging with activatable photoswitches. Chemical Science. 16(31). 14270–14277.

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Wang, Ying, Jiahong Yu, Zixing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Organic Ionic Host–Guest Phosphor with Dual-Confined Nonradiation for Constructing Ultrahigh-Temperature X-ray Scintillator. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(13). 11098–11107. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijun, et al.. (2024). Trade-Off and Synergy Mechanism of Agricultural Water Resource Spatial Allocation in Monsoon Climate Areas Based on Machine Learning: A Case Study of Reservoir Layout Optimization in Shandong Province, China. Agronomy. 14(9). 1902–1902. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Jiahong, Huili Ma, Chengyun Wang, et al.. (2023). Efficient Visible‐Light‐Activated Ultra‐Long Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Triggered by Multi‐Esterification. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(52). e202316647–e202316647. 36 indexed citations

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Yu, Jiahong, Huili Ma, Chengyun Wang, et al.. (2023). Efficient Visible‐Light‐Activated Ultra‐Long Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Triggered by Multi‐Esterification. Angewandte Chemie. 135(52). 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijun, Yue Wu, Zhengong Meng, et al.. (2022). Photo-thermo-induced room-temperature phosphorescence through solid-state molecular motion. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3887–3887. 56 indexed citations

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Pan, Chao, Weijun Zhao, Xiaolei Zhao, et al.. (2022). Type I photosensitizer based on AIE chromophore tricyano-methylene-pyridine for photodynamic therapy. Green Chemical Engineering. 4(3). 324–330. 11 indexed citations

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Xu, Fangzhou, Chengyun Wang, Qi Wang, et al.. (2022). Water-soluble bright NIR AIEgens with hybrid ROS for wash-free mitochondrial “off–on” imaging and photodynamic therapy. Chemical Communications. 58(44). 6393–6396. 17 indexed citations

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Mao, Huiting, Jing Gao, Weijun Zhao, et al.. (2022). Boosting ultralong organic phosphorescence performance by synergistic heavy-atom effect and multiple intermolecular interactions in molecular crystal. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(16). 6334–6340. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijun, Zikai He, & Ben Zhong Tang. (2020). Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggregates. Nature Reviews Materials. 5(12). 869–885. 1371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Weijun, Zhiyang Liu, Jie Yu, et al.. (2020). Turning On Solid‐State Luminescence by Phototriggered Subtle Molecular Conformation Variations. Advanced Materials. 33(2). e2006844–e2006844. 93 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhe, Le Zhang, Zijie Qiu, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Visible Monitoring of Heterogeneous Local Strain Response through an Organic Mechanoresponsive AIE Luminogen. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(19). 22129–22136. 19 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijun, Tsz Shing Cheung, Nan Jiang, et al.. (2019). Boosting the efficiency of organic persistent room-temperature phosphorescence by intramolecular triplet-triplet energy transfer. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1595–1595. 239 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuepeng, Lili Du, Weijun Zhao, et al.. (2019). Ultralong UV/mechano-excited room temperature phosphorescence from purely organic cluster excitons. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5161–5161. 283 indexed citations

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Xiong, Yu, Zheng Zhao, Weijun Zhao, et al.. (2018). Designing Efficient and Ultralong Pure Organic Room‐Temperature Phosphorescent Materials by Structural Isomerism. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(27). 7997–8001. 268 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijun, Zikai He, Qian Peng, et al.. (2018). Highly sensitive switching of solid-state luminescence by controlling intersystem crossing. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3044–3044. 233 indexed citations

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Kwok, Ryan T. K., Congping Chen, Weijun Zhao, et al.. (2017). Ultrafast Delivery of Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanoparticles and Pure Organic Phosphorescent Nanocrystals by Saponin Encapsulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(41). 14792–14799. 144 indexed citations

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He, Zikai, Weijun Zhao, Jacky W. Y. Lam, et al.. (2017). White light emission from a single organic molecule with dual phosphorescence at room temperature. Nature Communications. 8(1). 416–416. 721 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Weijun, Zikai He, Jacky W. Y. Lam, et al.. (2016). Rational Molecular Design for Achieving Persistent and Efficient Pure Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence. Chem. 1(4). 592–602. 735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qin, Wei, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zhiyong Yang, et al.. (2015). Red emissive AIE luminogens with high hole-transporting properties for efficient non-doped OLEDs. Chemical Communications. 51(34). 7321–7324. 71 indexed citations

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