Zhaocun Shen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Zhaocun Shen is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhaocun Shen has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Biomaterials, 14 papers in Organic Chemistry and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhaocun Shen's work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (17 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (11 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (8 papers). Zhaocun Shen is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (17 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (11 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (8 papers). Zhaocun Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Singapore. Zhaocun Shen's co-authors include Minghua Liu, Tianyu Wang, Yuqian Jiang, Li Zhang, Lin Shi, Zhiyong Tang, Yutao Sang, Xiao Liang, Dongdong Wang and Manjeet Singh 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

Zhaocun Shen

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Circularly Polarized Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Amorphous Copolymers

2021 246 citations Long Gu, Wenpeng Ye et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhaocun Shen China	14	920	920	798	201	189	23	1.5k
Michihiro Shirakawa Japan	13	1.0k 1.1×	878 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	152 0.8×	170 0.9×	26	1.7k
Marina M. Safont‐Sempere Germany	8	853 0.9×	898 1.0×	697 0.9×	381 1.9×	503 2.7×	8	1.9k
Lukang Ji China	12	719 0.8×	656 0.7×	400 0.5×	149 0.7×	113 0.6×	30	956
José Augusto Berrocal Netherlands	22	475 0.5×	618 0.7×	347 0.4×	140 0.7×	138 0.7×	57	1.1k
Daniel Görl Germany	11	804 0.9×	630 0.7×	673 0.8×	147 0.7×	182 1.0×	14	1.2k
Fátima García Spain	26	923 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	750 0.9×	146 0.7×	317 1.7×	47	1.8k
Franco King‐Chi Leung Hong Kong	17	664 0.7×	782 0.8×	569 0.7×	88 0.4×	74 0.4×	41	1.3k
Jeroen van Herrikhuyzen Netherlands	10	898 1.0×	569 0.6×	631 0.8×	84 0.4×	411 2.2×	13	1.4k
Bing Shi Li China	25	1.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.4×	449 0.6×	704 3.5×	395 2.1×	48	2.3k
M. B. Avinash India	18	528 0.6×	401 0.4×	523 0.7×	94 0.5×	155 0.8×	24	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhaocun Shen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Shen, Zhaocun, Fang Zhang, Yu An, et al.. (2025). Circularly Polarized Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from Marine Polysaccharide-Based Helical Assemblies. ACS Materials Letters. 7(4). 1171–1178. 1 indexed citations

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An, Yu, et al.. (2025). Inversion of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in the Left‐Handed Chitosan‐Templated Co‐assemblies. Advanced Science. 12(12). e2415260–e2415260. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Guanghui, et al.. (2025). Triple circularly polarized luminescence of phenylalanine-based supramolecular gels regulated by kinetic and thermodynamic assembly pathways. Chemical Communications. 61(14). 2965–2968. 3 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, et al.. (2024). Flexible carbon nanocomposite fabric with negative permittivity property prepared by electrostatic spinning. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 8(1). 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Linan, Qingxu Zhang, Haiyan Qiao, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Injectable Alginate Supramolecular Nanofibril Hydrogels for Hemostasis In Vivo. Advanced Fiber Materials. 6(2). 489–500. 21 indexed citations

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Liu, Xueli, et al.. (2024). Tunable circularly polarized luminescence of hybrid supramolecular nanofibers based on a cinnamic acid gelator and spiropyran by photoisomerization. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 7(4). 12 indexed citations

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Shi, Zujin, Wei Yuan, Gemeng Liang, et al.. (2024). Flexible multicolor-emitting lanthanide-alginate hybrid fibers with multi-stimuli responsiveness for anti-counterfeiting. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 7(6). 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, et al.. (2023). Disassembly of spherical structures into nanohelices by good solvent dilution. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 657. 853–857. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Yi, et al.. (2023). Tunable molecular packing modes via H- or J-aggregates in the supramolecular helical nanostructures from an achiral C₃ symmetric molecule. Soft Matter. 19(26). 4909–4915. 6 indexed citations

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Gu, Long, Wenpeng Ye, Xiao Liang, et al.. (2021). Circularly Polarized Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Amorphous Copolymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(44). 18527–18535. 246 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sang, Yutao, Dong Yang, Zhaocun Shen, Pengfei Duan, & Minghua Liu. (2020). Mechanically Controlled and Consecutively Boosted Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Nanoassemblies from Achiral Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(31). 17274–17281. 39 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Yutao Sang, Tianyu Wang, et al.. (2019). Asymmetric catalysis mediated by a mirror symmetry-broken helical nanoribbon. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3976–3976. 105 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaoqin, Qingxian Jin, Li Zhang, et al.. (2016). Self‐Assembly of Hierarchical Chiral Nanostructures Based on Metal–Benzimidazole Interactions: Chiral Nanofibers, Nanotubes, and Microtubular Flowers. Small. 12(34). 4743–4752. 53 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Yuqian Jiang, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2015). Symmetry Breaking in the Supramolecular Gels of an Achiral Gelator Exclusively Driven by π–π Stacking. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(51). 16109–16115. 247 indexed citations

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Liu, Xufei, Zhaocun Shen, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2014). Sensitive and photo-triggered transformation of hierarchical helices assembled from achiral bolaamphiphiles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 435. 1–7. 6 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2014). Macroscopic Chirality of Supramolecular Gels Formed from Achiral Tris(ethyl cinnamate) Benzene‐1,3,5‐tricarboxamides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(49). 13424–13428. 155 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2014). Tuning the Gelation Ability of Racemic Mixture by Melamine: Enhanced Mechanical Rigidity and Tunable Nanoscale Chirality. Langmuir. 30(35). 10772–10778. 30 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2014). Macroscopic Chirality of Supramolecular Gels Formed from Achiral Tris(ethyl cinnamate) Benzene‐1,3,5‐tricarboxamides. Angewandte Chemie. 126(49). 13642–13646. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Ling, Yaqing Liu, Zhaocun Shen, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2014). Supramolecular copolymers obtained from two-component gels: metal ion-mediated cross-linking, enhanced viscoelasticity and supramolecular yarns. Chemical Communications. 50(100). 15874–15877. 19 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhaocun, Tianyu Wang, & Minghua Liu. (2013). H-bond and π–π stacking directed self-assembly of two-component supramolecular nanotubes: tuning length, diameter and wall thickness. Chemical Communications. 50(17). 2096–2096. 72 indexed citations

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