Zikai He

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Zikai He is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zikai He has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 23 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zikai He's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (57 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (25 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (17 papers). Zikai He is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (57 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (25 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (17 papers). Zikai He collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Germany. Zikai He's co-authors include Ben Zhong Tang, Weijun Zhao, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Huili Ma, Qian Peng, Zhigang Shuai, Wenbin Huang, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Guodong Liang and Qian Miao 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

Zikai He

67 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggreg... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2020 2016 2017 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggregates
    2020 1.4k citations Weijun Zhao, Zikai He et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  2. Rational Molecular Design for Achieving Persistent and Efficient Pure Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence
    2016 735 citations Weijun Zhao, Zikai He et al. profile →
  3. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zikai He China 36 6.4k 3.5k 2.3k 1.6k 1.0k 71 7.1k
Yujun Xie China 39 5.8k 0.9× 3.6k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 104 6.7k
Liangliang Zhu China 46 4.9k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 2.4k 1.5× 937 0.9× 181 6.4k
Weijun Zhao China 24 5.3k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 792 0.8× 53 5.8k
Jianbing Shi China 43 4.9k 0.8× 2.3k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 917 0.9× 166 6.1k
Zhu Mao China 42 8.4k 1.3× 6.0k 1.7× 2.7k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 857 0.8× 83 9.5k
Chengfeng Qiu China 12 6.7k 1.1× 2.3k 0.7× 3.1k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 39 7.5k
Byeong‐Kwan An South Korea 31 5.4k 0.9× 2.4k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 537 0.5× 63 6.5k
Zhiyong Yang China 52 9.8k 1.5× 6.3k 1.8× 3.3k 1.4× 2.2k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 143 11.1k
Manman Fang China 33 4.8k 0.8× 2.9k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 689 0.7× 71 5.2k
Wanhua Wu China 52 6.2k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.0× 2.9k 1.9× 1.6k 1.5× 166 8.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zikai He

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zikai He

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All Works

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Sun, Yan, Qi Wu, Fei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Molecular Dipole Moment Regulation of NIR‐Ir(III) Complex for Boosting Tumor Phototheranostics. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46). 1 indexed citations
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Song, Lijuan, et al.. (2023). Manipulating D–A interaction to achieve stable photoinduced organic radicals in triphenylphosphine crystals. Chemical Science. 14(7). 1871–1877. 13 indexed citations
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Huang, Wenbin, et al.. (2023). Boosting Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Alkyl‐Locked Axial Chirality Scaffold by Restriction of Molecular Motions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(14). e202303667–e202303667. 10 indexed citations
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Ho, Po‐Yu, Chuen Kam, Wenbin Huang, et al.. (2023). A dual organelle-targeting mechanosensitive probe. Science Advances. 9(2). eabn5390–eabn5390. 19 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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Xie, Weiwei, Wenbin Huang, Zikai He, et al.. (2023). Anti-Kasha triplet energy transfer and excitation wavelength dependent persistent luminescence from host-guest doping systems. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8098–8098. 53 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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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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Yu, Jie, Xinggui Gu, Xiaoyan Zheng, et al.. (2020). Highly emissive phenylene-expanded [5]radialene. Chemical Communications. 56(27). 3911–3914. 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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Huang, Guangxi, Qing Xia, Wenbin Huang, et al.. (2019). Multiple Anti‐Counterfeiting Guarantees from a Simple Tetraphenylethylene Derivative – High‐Contrasted and Multi‐State Mechanochromism and Photochromism. Angewandte Chemie. 131(49). 17978–17983. 60 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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He, Zikai, et al.. (2018). Journey of Aggregation-Induced Emission Research. ACS Omega. 3(3). 3267–3277. 260 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haoke, Xiaoyan Zheng, Ni Xie, et al.. (2017). Why Do Simple Molecules with “Isolated” Phenyl Rings Emit Visible Light?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(45). 16264–16272. 227 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuncong, Weijie Zhang, Yuanjing Cai, et al.. (2016). AIEgens for dark through-bond energy transfer: design, synthesis, theoretical study and application in ratiometric Hg2+ sensing. Chemical Science. 8(3). 2047–2055. 196 indexed citations
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Chen, Chao, Zhegang Song, Xiaoyan Zheng, et al.. (2016). AIEgen-based theranostic system: targeted imaging of cancer cells and adjuvant amplification of antitumor efficacy of paclitaxel. Chemical Science. 8(3). 2191–2198. 101 indexed citations

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