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Materials Science

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award

Overview

He Tian is affiliated with East China University of Science and Technology in China, focusing extensively on materials science with a strong interdisciplinary approach incorporating materials chemistry, organic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

Their research emphasizes the development and study of advanced materials, with particular attention to luminescence and fluorescent materials, molecular sensors and ion detection, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, and organic light-emitting diodes. They also explore topics related to photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, and nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics.

He Tian has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based small-molecule sensors and imaging agents," 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells," 2023, Science
  • "Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks," 2022, Nature
  • "Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart Materials," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Toughening a Self-Healable Supramolecular Polymer by Ionic Cluster-Enhanced Iron-Carboxylate Complexes," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with the most common coauthors including Da-Hui Qu, Xiang Ma, Qi Zhang, Ben L. Feringa, and Junji Zhang.

He Tian's work is regularly published in prominent scientific journals and conferences, with recurrent appearances in venues such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Recent progresses on diarylethene based photochromic switches

    He Tian;Songjie Yang

  • Excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT) based fluorescence sensors and imaging agents

    Adam C. Sedgwick;Luling Wu;Hai Hao Han;Steven D. Bull

  • Photochromic Materials: More Than Meets The Eye

    Junji Zhang;Qi Zou;He Tian

  • Recent progress on polymer-based fluorescent and colorimetric chemosensors

    Ha Na Kim;Zhiqian Guo;Weihong Zhu;Juyoung Yoon

  • Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based small-molecule sensors and imaging agents.

    Luling Wu;Chusen Huang;Chusen Huang;Ben P. Emery;Adam C. Sedgwick

  • Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity.

    Chuancheng Jia;Agostino Migliore;Na Xin;Shaoyun Huang

  • Photoresponsive Host–Guest Functional Systems

    Da-Hui Qu;Qiao-Chun Wang;Qi-Wei Zhang;Xiang Ma

  • Improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells: what we know and what we need to know

    Zhijun Ning;Zhijun Ning;Ying Fu;He Tian

  • Triarylamine: a promising core unit for efficient photovoltaic materials

    Zhijun Ning;He Tian

  • Organic D-A-π-A Solar Cell Sensitizers with Improved Stability and Spectral Response

    Weihong Zhu;Yongzhen Wu;Shutao Wang;Wenqin Li

  • Exploring a naturally tailored small molecule for stretchable, self-healing, and adhesive supramolecular polymers

    Qi Zhang;Chen-Yu Shi;Da-Hui Qu;Yi-Tao Long

  • Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based materials for organic photovoltaics

    Sanyin Qu;He Tian

  • Assembling-Induced Emission: An Efficient Approach for Amorphous Metal-Free Organic Emitting Materials with Room-Temperature Phosphorescence

    Xiang Ma;Jie Wang;He Tian

  • Stimuli-responsive supramolecular polymers in aqueous solution.

    Xiang Ma;He Tian

  • Amorphous Metal-Free Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Small Molecules with Multicolor Photoluminescence via a Host–Guest and Dual-Emission Strategy

    Dengfeng Li;Feifei Lu;Jie Wang;Wende Hu

  • Aggregation‐induced Emission (AIE)‐active Starburst Triarylamine Fluorophores as Potential Non‐doped Red Emitters for Organic Light‐emitting Diodes and Cl2 Gas Chemodosimeter

    Zhijun Ning;Zhao Chen;Qiong Zhang;Yongli Yan

  • Fluorogenic probes for disease-relevant enzymes.

    Junji Zhang;Xianzhi Chai;Xiao Peng He;Hae Jo Kim

  • A selective fluorescent ratiometric chemodosimeter for mercury ion

    Bin Liu;He Tian

  • Photochromic bisthienylethene as multi-function switches

    He Tian;Sheng Wang

  • In vivo and in situ tracking cancer chemotherapy by highly photostable NIR fluorescent theranostic prodrug.

    Xumeng Wu;Xuanrong Sun;Zhiqian Guo;Jianbin Tang

  • Facile Yb(OTf)3 promoted one-pot synthesis of polyhydroquinoline derivatives through Hantzsch reaction

    Li-Min Wang;Jia Sheng;Liang Zhang;Jian-Wei Han

  • Advanced Functional Materials

    Alberto Credi;H. Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Weihong Zhu
Weihong Zhu East China University of Science and Technology
Xiang Ma
Xiang Ma East China University of Science and Technology
Jianli Hua
Jianli Hua East China University of Science and Technology
Da-Hui Qu
Da-Hui Qu East China University of Science and Technology
Yi-Tao Long
Yi-Tao Long Nanjing University
Zhiqian Guo
Zhiqian Guo East China University of Science and Technology
Xiao-Peng He
Xiao-Peng He East China University of Science and Technology
Wenjun Wu
Wenjun Wu East China University of Science and Technology
Hans Ågren
Hans Ågren Uppsala University
Zhijun Ning
Zhijun Ning ShanghaiTech University

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