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D-Index
57
Citations
10714
World Ranking
11166
National Ranking
1798

Wanhua Wu publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wanhua Wu sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 145 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Wanhua Wu D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wanhua Wu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wanhua Wu is a researcher affiliated with Sichuan University in China, specializing in the intersecting fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary focus of Wu's research includes several core topics:

  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Wu has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures (2020, Nature Chemistry)
  • Host-Guest Complexation-Induced Aggregation Based on Pyrene-Modified Cyclodextrins for Improved Electronic Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarized Luminescence (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Redox-Triggered Chirality Switching and Guest-Capture/Release with a Pillar[6]arene-Based Molecular Universal Joint (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Overtemperature-protection intelligent molecular chiroptical photoswitches (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Bisindole [3]arenes-Indolyl Macrocyclic Arenes Having Significant Iodine Capture Capacity (2021, CCS Chemistry)

Wu frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chinese Chemical Letters
  • Chemical Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Organic Letters

Frequent co-authors working alongside Wu include:

  • Cheng Yang
  • Da-Yang Zhou
  • Jiecheng Ji
  • Wenting Liang
  • Chao Xiao

Best Publications

  • Triplet photosensitizers: from molecular design to applications

    Jianzhang Zhao;Wanhua Wu;Jifu Sun;Song Guo

  • Organic Triplet Sensitizer Library Derived from a Single Chromophore (BODIPY) with Long-Lived Triplet Excited State for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Based Upconversion

    Wanhua Wu;Huimin Guo;Wenting Wu;Shaomin Ji

  • Intramolecular RET enhanced visible light-absorbing bodipy organic triplet photosensitizers and application in photooxidation and triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion.

    Caishun Zhang;Jianzhang Zhao;Shuo Wu;Zilong Wang

  • Ruthenium(II) Polyimine Complexes with a Long‐Lived 3IL Excited State or a 3MLCT/3IL Equilibrium: Efficient Triplet Sensitizers for Low‐Power Upconversion

    Shaomin Ji;Wanhua Wu;Wenting Wu;Huimin Guo

  • Tuning the luminescence lifetimes of ruthenium(II) polypyridine complexes and its application in luminescent oxygen sensing

    Shaomin Ji;Wanhua Wu;Wenting Wu;Peng Song

  • Styryl Bodipy-C60 dyads as efficient heavy-atom-free organic triplet photosensitizers.

    Ling Huang;Xuerong Yu;Wanhua Wu;Jianzhang Zhao

  • Light-harvesting fullerene dyads as organic triplet photosensitizers for triplet-triplet annihilation upconversions.

    Wanhua Wu;Jianzhang Zhao;Jifu Sun;Song Guo

  • Transition metal complexes with strong absorption of visible light and long-lived triplet excited states: from molecular design to applications

    Jianzhang Zhao;Shaomin Ji;Wanhua Wu;Wenting Wu

  • Long‐Lived Room‐Temperature Near‐IR Phosphorescence of BODIPY in a Visible‐Light‐Harvesting N^C^N PtII–Acetylide Complex with a Directly Metalated BODIPY Chromophore

    Wanhua Wu;Jianzhang Zhao;Huimin Guo;Jifu Sun

  • A highly selective OFF-ON red-emitting phosphorescent thiol probe with large stokes shift and long luminescent lifetime.

    Shaomin Ji;Huimin Guo;Xiaolin Yuan;Xiaohuan Li

  • Temperature-Driven Planar Chirality Switching of a Pillar[5]arene-Based Molecular Universal Joint

    Jiabin Yao;Wanhua Wu;Wenting Liang;Yujun Feng

  • Tuning the emissive triplet excited states of platinum(II) Schiff base complexes with pyrene, and application for luminescent oxygen sensing and triplet–triplet-annihilation based upconversions

    Wanhua Wu;Jifu Sun;Shaomin Ji;Wenting Wu

  • Enhanced Triplet–Triplet Energy Transfer and Upconversion Fluorescence through Host–Guest Complexation

    Chunying Fan;Wanhua Wu;Wanhua Wu;Jason J. Chruma;Jianzhang Zhao

  • Accessing the long-lived emissive 3IL triplet excited states of coumarin fluorophores by direct cyclometallation and its application for oxygen sensing and upconversion.

    Wenting Wu;Wanhua Wu;Shaomin Ji;Huimin Guo

  • Accessing the Long-Lived Triplet Excited States in Bodipy-Conjugated 2-(2-Hydroxyphenyl) Benzothiazole/Benzoxazoles and Applications as Organic Triplet Photosensitizers for Photooxidations

    Pei Yang;Jianzhang Zhao;Wanhua Wu;Xuerong Yu

  • Room-Temperature Long-Lived Triplet Excited States of Naphthalenediimides and Their Applications as Organic Triplet Photosensitizers for Photooxidation and Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversions

    Song Guo;Wanhua Wu;Huimin Guo;Jianzhang Zhao

  • Observation of the room temperature phosphorescence of Bodipy in visible light-harvesting Ru(II) polyimine complexes and application as triplet photosensitizers for triplet–triplet-annihilation upconversion and photocatalytic oxidation

    Wanhua Wu;Jifu Sun;Xiaoneng Cui;Jianzhang Zhao

  • Visible‐Light Harvesting with Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes Having Long‐Lived 3IL Excited States and Their Application in Triplet–Triplet‐Annihilation Based Upconversion

    Jifu Sun;Wanhua Wu;Huimin Guo;Jianzhang Zhao

  • Accessing the long-lived near-IR-emissive triplet excited state in naphthalenediimide with light-harvesting diimine platinum(II) bisacetylide complex and its application for upconversion.

    Yifan Liu;Wanhua Wu;Jianzhang Zhao;Xin Zhang

  • Visible-light harvesting iridium complexes as singlet oxygen sensitizers for photooxidation of 1,5-dihydroxynaphthalene

    Jifu Sun;Jianzhang Zhao;Huimin Guo;Wanhua Wu

  • Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures.

    Xueqin Wei;Xueqin Wei;Junjun Liu;Guang-Jie Xia;Junhong Deng

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianzhang Zhao
Jianzhang Zhao Dalian University of Technology
Huimin Guo
Huimin Guo Dalian University of Technology
Shaomin Ji
Shaomin Ji Guangdong University of Technology
Wenting Wu
Wenting Wu China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Yoshihisa Inoue
Yoshihisa Inoue Osaka University
Tadashi Mori
Tadashi Mori Osaka University
Xin Zhang
Xin Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Ke-Li Han
Ke-Li Han Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Zhonggang Wang
Zhonggang Wang Dalian University of Technology
Qiyong Gong
Qiyong Gong Sichuan University

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