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Overview

Pengfei Yan is affiliated with Heilongjiang University in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with notable focus on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomaterials.

Their scholarly output reflects significant contributions in several main research topics, including:

  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics

Pengfei Yan has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Hongfeng Li
  • Ting Gao
  • Yanyan Zhou
  • Shaoping Sun
  • Na Liang

Their publications appear regularly in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Dalton Transactions
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Carbohydrate Polymers
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Materials Today Chemistry

Recent papers by Pengfei Yan illustrate a consistent focus on luminescent materials and supramolecular chemistry. Selected recent works include:

  • Phosphine-Oxide-Balanced Intra- and Interchain Through-Space Charge Transfer in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Polymers: Beyond 30% External Quantum Efficiency, published in 2023 in Advanced Materials
  • Eu(III) Tetrahedron Cage as a Luminescent Chemosensor for Rapidly Reversible and Turn-On Detection of Volatile Amine/NH3, published in 2020 in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Point Chirality Controlled Diastereoselective Self-Assembly and Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Quadruple-Stranded Europium(III) Helicates, published in 2020 in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Inclusion Complex Based on N-acetyl-L-cysteine and Arginine Modified Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin for Oral Insulin Delivery, published in 2020 in Carbohydrate Polymers
  • A Light Triggered Optical and Chiroptical Switch Based on a Homochiral Eu2L3 Helicate, published in 2020 in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Best Publications

  • High symmetry or low symmetry, that is the question – high performance Dy(III) single-ion magnets by electrostatic potential design

    Wen-Bin Sun;Wen-Bin Sun;Peng-Fei Yan;Shang-Da Jiang;Bing-Wu Wang

  • A Highly Luminescent Chiral Tetrahedral Eu4L4(L')4 Cage: Chirality Induction, Chirality Memory, and Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

    Yanyan Zhou;Hongfeng Li;Tianyu Zhu;Ting Gao

  • An unsymmetrical coordination environment leading to two slow relaxation modes in a Dy2 single-molecule magnet

    Po-Heng Lin;Wen-Bin Sun;Mang-Fei Yu;Guang-Ming Li

  • Short-Axis Substitution Approach Selectively Optimizes Electrical Properties of Dibenzothiophene-Based Phosphine Oxide Hosts

    Chunmiao Han;Zhensong Zhang;Hui Xu;Shouzhen Yue

  • A simple phosphine-oxide host with a multi-insulating structure: high triplet energy level for efficient blue electrophosphorescence.

    Chunmiao Han;Yongbiao Zhao;Hui Xu;Jiangshan Chen

  • Highly luminescent bis-diketone lanthanide complexes with triple-stranded dinuclear structure

    Hong-Feng Li;Peng-Fei Yan;Peng Chen;Yan Wang

  • High Catalytic Performance of a CeO2-Supported Ni Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes, Fabricated via Coordination-Assisted Strategy

    Wei She;Tianqinji Qi;Mengxing Cui;Pengfei Yan

  • Planar Tetranuclear Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnet and Its Sm(III), Gd(III), and Tb(III) Analogues Encapsulated by Salen-Type and β-Diketonate Ligands

    Peng-Fei Yan;Po-Heng Lin;Fatemah Habib;Tomoko Aharen

  • Synthesis, crystal structure, and luminescent properties of 2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)-1-indone lanthanide complexes.

    Jingya Li;Hongfeng Li;Pengfei Yan;Peng Chen

  • Ternary ambipolar phosphine oxide hosts based on indirect linkage for highly efficient blue electrophosphorescence: towards high triplet energy, low driving voltage and stable efficiencies.

    Donghui Yu;Fangchao Zhao;Chunmiao Han;Hui Xu

  • Highly Efficient White-Light Emission and UV-Visible/NIR Luminescence Sensing of Lanthanide Metal-Organic Frameworks

    Xinyu Wang;Pengfei Yan;Yuxin Li;Guanghui An

  • Assembly of Polyoxometalate-Based Hybrids with Different Helical Channels upon Subtle Ligand Variation

    Meng-Ting Li;Meng-Ting Li;Jing-Quan Sha;Jing-Quan Sha;Xi-Ming Zong;Jing-Wen Sun

  • Highly efficient multifluorenyl host materials with unsymmetrical molecular configurations and localized triplet States for green and red phosphorescent devices.

    Chunmiao Han;Liping Zhu;Jing Li;Fangchao Zhao

  • Significant Surface Modification of Polyoxometalate by Smart Silver-tetrazolate Units

    Jing-Quan Sha;Jing-Quan Sha;Li-Ye Liang;Jing-Wen Sun;Ai-Xiang Tian

  • Series of dinuclear and tetranuclear lanthanide clusters encapsulated by salen-type and β-diketionate ligands: single-molecule magnet and fluorescence properties.

    Wen-Bin Sun;Bing-Lu Han;Po-Heng Lin;Hong-Feng Li

  • A New Phosphine Oxide Host based on ortho-Disubstituted Dibenzofuran for Efficient Electrophosphorescence: Towards High Triplet State Excited Levels and Excellent Thermal, Morphological and Efficiency Stability

    Chunmiao Han;Guohua Xie;Jing Li;Zhensong Zhang

  • Local coordination geometry perturbed β-diketone dysprosium single-ion magnets.

    Jing Zhu;Changzheng Wang;Fang Luan;Tianqi Liu

  • A Novel Deep Blue-Emitting ZnII Complex Based on Carbazole-Modified 2-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole: Synthesis, Bright Electroluminescence, and Substitution Effect on Photoluminescent, Thermal, and Electrochemical Properties

    Hui Xu;Zhi-Feng Xu;Zheng-Yu Yue;Peng-Fei Yan

  • N,N′-Ethylene-bis(3-methoxysalicylideneimine) mononuclear (4f) and heterodinuclear (3d–4f) metal complexes: Synthesis, crystal structure and luminescent properties

    Ting Gao;Peng-Fei Yan;Guang-Ming Li;Guang-Feng Hou

  • Luminescence and white-light emitting luminescent sensor of tetrafluoroterephthalate-lanthanide metal–organic frameworks

    Yongqiang Han;Pengfei Yan;Jingwen Sun;Guanghui An

  • Towards Highly Efficient Blue‐Phosphorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with Low Operating Voltage and Excellent Efficiency Stability

    Chunmiao Han;Guohua Xie;Hui Xu;Zhensong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Xu
Hui Xu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dongge Ma
Dongge Ma South China University of Technology
Yasuaki Einaga
Yasuaki Einaga Keio University
Qiang Li
Qiang Li Brookhaven National Laboratory
Muralee Murugesu
Muralee Murugesu University of Ottawa
Seik Weng Ng
Seik Weng Ng University of Malaya
Guohua Xie
Guohua Xie Xiamen University
Bing-Wu Wang
Bing-Wu Wang Peking University
Song Gao
Song Gao Sun Yat-sen University
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University

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