Zonghai Sheng

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
149 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Zonghai Sheng is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zonghai Sheng has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 59 papers in Molecular Biology and 43 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zonghai Sheng's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (99 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (62 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (27 papers). Zonghai Sheng is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (99 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (62 papers) and Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (27 papers). Zonghai Sheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and France. Zonghai Sheng's co-authors include Dehong Hu, Lintao Cai, Duyang Gao, Yifan Ma, Ping Gong, Heyou Han, Hairong Zheng, Mingbin Zheng, Pengfei Zhang and Guanhui Gao 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

Zonghai Sheng

146 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

Single-Step Assembly of DOX/ICG Loaded Lipid–Polymer Nanoparticles for Highly Effective Chemo-photothermal Combination Therapy

2013 721 citations Ping Gong, Zonghai Sheng et al. ACS Nano profile →
Smart Human Serum Albumin-Indocyanine Green Nanoparticles Generated by Programmed Assembly for Dual-Modal Imaging-Guided Cancer Synergistic Phototherapy

2014 655 citations Zonghai Sheng, Dehong Hu et al. ACS Nano profile →
Facile synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots using watermelon peel as a carbon source

2011 504 citations Zonghai Sheng et al. profile →
Bright Aggregation‐Induced‐Emission Dots for Targeted Synergetic NIR‐II Fluorescence and NIR‐I Photoacoustic Imaging of Orthotopic Brain Tumors

2018 398 citations Zonghai Sheng, Dehong Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zonghai Sheng China	54	6.6k	4.2k	2.4k	2.1k	1.2k	149	9.2k
Zhantong Wang United States	55	5.8k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	94	8.8k
Xiao Zhang China	50	5.4k 0.8×	5.1k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	882 0.7×	164	9.7k
Wei Tang China	48	5.9k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	105	8.8k
Zheyu Shen China	53	6.7k 1.0×	4.5k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	3.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	151	11.3k
Xiaoyuan Ji China	55	7.1k 1.1×	5.6k 1.3×	3.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	658 0.5×	134	11.6k
Rui Tian China	46	6.2k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	99	9.1k
Ligeng Xu China	38	8.8k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	62	11.8k
Zhèn Yáng China	60	8.5k 1.3×	6.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.1×	2.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	207	12.6k
Zhongmin Tang China	42	6.0k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	783 0.6×	84	8.5k
Dan Yang China	52	5.6k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	889 0.7×	136	8.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zonghai Sheng

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Shi, Yesi, Di Hu, Duyang Gao, et al.. (2025). Bioengineered photosynthetic nanothylakoids reshape the inflammatory microenvironment for rheumatoid arthritis therapy. Nature Nanotechnology. 21(1). 125–139.

Liu, Yanliang, C. Gao, Dong Li, et al.. (2024). Dynamic X-ray imaging with screen-printed perovskite CMOS array. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1588–1588. 47 indexed citations

Liu, Yuxia, Duyang Gao, Yuanyuan He, et al.. (2024). Single-point mutated lanmodulin as a high-performance MRI contrast agent for vascular and kidney imaging. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9834–9834. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Dehong, Menglei Zha, Hairong Zheng, Duyang Gao, & Zonghai Sheng. (2024). Recent Advances in Indocyanine Green-Based Probes for Second Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging and Therapy. Research. 8. 583–583. 21 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanfeng, Qian Li, Tiantian Zhou, et al.. (2024). Semiconducting Polymers Based on Asymmetric Thiadiazoloquinoxaline for Augmented In Vivo NIR-II Photoacoustic Imaging. Biomacromolecules. 25(5). 3153–3162. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Yu, Dehong Hu, Duyang Gao, et al.. (2023). Engineered apoptotic bodies hitchhiking across the blood-brain barrier achieved a combined photothermal-chemotherapeutic effect against glioma. Theranostics. 13(9). 2966–2978. 18 indexed citations

Luo, Zichao, Yayun Wu, Yuenan Wang, et al.. (2023). Clinical radiation dose verification by topographic persistent luminescence dosimetry. Nano Today. 50. 101854–101854. 6 indexed citations

Gao, Duyang, Zichao Luo, Yang He, et al.. (2023). Low‐Dose NIR‐II Preclinical Bioimaging Using Liposome‐Encapsulated Cyanine Dyes. Small. 19(17). e2206544–e2206544. 39 indexed citations

Dan, Qing, Zhen Yuan, Huanrong Ma, et al.. (2022). Gold Nanoclusters-Based NIR-II Photosensitizers with Catalase-like Activity for Boosted Photodynamic Therapy. Pharmaceutics. 14(8). 1645–1645. 39 indexed citations

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Wu, Yayun, Dehong Hu, Duyang Gao, et al.. (2022). Miniature NIR‐II Nanoprobes for Active‐Targeted Phototheranostics of Brain Tumors. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 11(23). e2202379–e2202379. 25 indexed citations

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Jia, Yali, Xiaobing Wang, Dehong Hu, et al.. (2021). Correction to Phototheranostics: Active Targeting of Orthotopic Glioma Using Biomimetic Proteolipid Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 15(6). 10733–10733. 3 indexed citations

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Sheng, Zonghai, Yali Jia, Dehong Hu, et al.. (2021). Correction to “Indocyanine Green-holo-Transferrin Nanoassemblies for Tumor-Targeted Dual-Modal Imaging and Photothermal Therapy of Glioma”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(21). 25574–25574. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yaxi, Dehong Hu, Shuxian Wang, et al.. (2021). Targeted NIR-II emissive nanoprobes for tumor detection in mice and rabbits. Chemical Communications. 57(52). 6420–6423. 13 indexed citations

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Mai, Bingjie, Mengqi Jia, Shupei Liu, et al.. (2021). Correction to Smart Hydrogel-Based DVDMS/bFGF Nanohybrids for Antibacterial Phototherapy with Multiple Damaging Sites and Accelerated Wound Healing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(20). 24341–24341. 7 indexed citations

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Geng, Xiaorui, Duyang Gao, Dehong Hu, et al.. (2020). Active-Targeting NIR-II Phototheranostics in Multiple Tumor Models Using Platelet-Camouflaged Nanoprobes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(50). 55624–55637. 53 indexed citations

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Li, Ying, Rongbing Tang, Xiaoyan Liu, et al.. (2020). Bright Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanoparticles for Two-Photon Imaging and Localized Compound Therapy of Cancers. ACS Nano. 14(12). 16840–16853. 91 indexed citations

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Dong, Lei, Di Hu, Yanding Wang, et al.. (2020). A zeolite-based ship-in-a-bottle route to ultrasmall carbon dots for live cell labeling and bioimaging. Nanoscale Advances. 2(12). 5803–5809. 6 indexed citations

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Gao, Duyang, Dehong Hu, Xin Liu, Zonghai Sheng, & Hairong Zheng. (2019). Recent advances in functional nanomaterials for photoacoustic imaging of glioma. Nanoscale Horizons. 4(5). 1037–1045. 24 indexed citations

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Jia, Yali, Xiaobing Wang, Dehong Hu, et al.. (2018). Phototheranostics: Active Targeting of Orthotopic Glioma Using Biomimetic Proteolipid Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 13(1). 386–398. 187 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiangwei, Chengbo Liu, Zonghai Sheng, et al.. (2018). Highly Sensitive Fluorescence and Photoacoustic Detection of Metastatic Breast Cancer in Mice Using Dual-Modal Nanoprobes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(31). 26064–26074. 22 indexed citations

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