Zhen Lei

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Zhen Lei is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Lei has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Materials Chemistry, 18 papers in Organic Chemistry and 14 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhen Lei's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (42 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (16 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (11 papers). Zhen Lei is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (42 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (16 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (11 papers). Zhen Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Malaysia. Zhen Lei's co-authors include Quan‐Ming Wang, Zong‐Jie Guan, Shang‐Fu Yuan, Xian‐Kai Wan, Xiao‐Li Pei, Gen Li, Jiao‐Jiao Li, Zhan‐Guo Jiang, Feng Hu and Yang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Lei

71 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Alkynyl Approach toward the Protection of Metal Nanoclusters

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Efficient synthesis of Au₃₆(SR)₂₄ nanoclusters via the cluster-from-cluster approach 2025 ·Nanoscale ·Yanyan Lin, Zi‐Ang Nan, Zhen Lei, Quan‐Ming Wang	0
2	Atomic‐Level Engineering of Au–Ag Nanoclusters Enables Divergent Triplet Emission 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Wei Zhang, Jie Kong, Wenting Liu, Rui Zhao, Jia‐Chen Zhang, (unknown), Zhen Lei, Quan‐Ming Wang, Yi Luo, Meng Zhou	2
3	α-Hydroxyalkynyl-protected copper( i ) acetelyenediide nanoclusters with anion-dependent photoluminescence 2025 ·Nanoscale ·(unknown), Pei Zhao, Feng Hu, Yanan Yang, Zi‐Ang Nan, Qiuqin Huang, Jingyu Li, Jian Chen, Zhen Lei, Qiao‐Hua Wei, Masahiro Ehara, Quan‐Ming Wang	0
4	Generating Gezi Opera Scores with a Large Language Model and a High-Quality Dataset 2025 ·Zhen Lei, Ke Gu, Peng Bai, (unknown)	0
5	Efficient purification of impurities from depleted uranium chips by hydrogen plasma arc melting 2025 ·Vacuum ·(unknown), Cun Hu, Yao Cheng, Zhen Lei, Hongya Li	0
6	Weak compound fault identification of gearboxes based on improved symplectic geometric mode decomposition and optimized cyclic kurtosis deconvolution 2024 ·Measurement Science and Technology ·(unknown), Hong Jiang, (unknown), Zhen Lei, Yu Bai	1
7	Single-gold etching at the hypercarbon atom of C-centred hexagold(I) clusters protected by chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Xiao‐Li Pei, Pei Zhao, Hitoshi Ube, Zhen Lei, Masahiro Ehara, Mitsuhiko Shionoya	6
8	‘Passivated Precursor’ Approach to All‐Alkynyl‐Protected Gold Nanoclusters and Total Structure Determination of Au₁₃₀ 2024 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Zhen Lei, Pei Zhao, Zong‐Jie Guan, Zi‐Ang Nan, Masahiro Ehara, Quan‐Ming Wang	2
9	Antibiofilm Metabolites from Marine‐Derived Streptomyces sp. ZS‐A31 2024 ·Chemistry & Biodiversity ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yanping Wu, Zhen Lei, (unknown)	1
10	Treatment of antibiotics in water by SO3H-modified Ti3C2 Mxene photocatalytic collaboration with g-C3N4 2024 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·Jian Zhang, Chen Shao, Zhen Lei, Yuanchun Li, (unknown), Lanhe Zhang, (unknown), Xinyan Wang	35
11	Carbon dots and polyurethane composite for photo-induced elimination of uranium under air atmosphere 2023 ·Chinese Chemical Letters ·Zhe Wang, Lingyu Zhang, Zhen Lei, Liyuan Zheng, Liqin Huang, Shuang Liu, Yuexiang Lu	7
12	Reversible Luminochromism of an N‐Heterocyclic Carbene‐Protected Carbon‐Centered Hexagold(I) Cluster by Solvent and Mechanical Stimuli 2023 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), Xiao‐Li Pei, Pei Zhao, Hitoshi Ube, Zhen Lei, Masahiro Ehara, Mitsuhiko Shionoya	5
13	Photoluminescence control by atomically precise surface metallization of C-centered hexagold(i) clusters using N-heterocyclic carbenes 2023 ·Chemical Science ·Zhen Lei, Pei Zhao, Xiao‐Li Pei, Hitoshi Ube, Masahiro Ehara, Mitsuhiko Shionoya	6
14	Anion‐Directed Regulation of Structures and Luminescence of Heterometallic Clusters 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Jiaojiao Li, Chunyu Liu, Zong‐Jie Guan, Zhen Lei, Quan‐Ming Wang	9
15	Asymmetric Twisting of C-Centered Octahedral Gold(I) Clusters by Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligation 2022 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xiao‐Li Pei, Pei Zhao, Hitoshi Ube, Zhen Lei, Koichi Nagata, Masahiro Ehara, Mitsuhiko Shionoya	40
16	Anion‐Directed Regulation of Structures and Luminescence of Heterometallic Clusters 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Jiaojiao Li, Chunyu Liu, Zong‐Jie Guan, Zhen Lei, Quan‐Ming Wang	24
17	N-Heterocyclic carbene-based C-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with intense phosphorescence and organelle-selective translocation in cells 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Zhen Lei, Mizuki Endo, Hitoshi Ube, (unknown), Pei Zhao, Koichi Nagata, Xiao‐Li Pei, (unknown), Toshiaki Kamachi, Masahiro Ehara, Takeaki Ozawa, Mitsuhiko Shionoya	43
18	A stable well-defined copper hydride cluster consolidated with hemilabile phosphines 2021 ·Chemical Communications ·Shang‐Fu Yuan, (unknown), Zhen Lei, Xian‐Kai Wan, Jiao Jiao Li, Quan‐Ming Wang	21
19	Effects of l-lysine on thermal gelation properties of chicken breast actomyosin 2017 ·Food Science and Biotechnology ·Zhen Lei, Yuan Fu, Yadong Zheng, Peng Xu, Cunliu Zhou	9
20	A phosphorescent silver(I)–gold (I) cluster complex that specifically lights up the nucleolus of living cells with FLIM imaging 2013 ·Biomaterials ·Min Chen, Zhen Lei, Wei Feng, Chunyan Li, Quan‐Ming Wang, Fuyou Li	61

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