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Overview

Weihong Zhu is affiliated with East China University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on several specialized areas within these disciplines.

The main subfields of their work include Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Organic Chemistry. Their research topics notably cover Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Conducting polymers and applications, and Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells, 2023, Science
  • Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks, 2022, Nature
  • Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE), Life and Health, 2023, ACS Nano
  • Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • Molecular engineering strategies for fabricating efficient porphyrin-based dye-sensitized solar cells, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science

Their frequent coauthors include Zhiqian Guo, Chenxu Yan, Yongzhen Wu, Zhirong Zhu, and He Tian.

They have published extensively in several scholarly venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in Angewandte Chemie, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Science, Advanced Functional Materials, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Best Publications

  • Organic sensitizers from D-π-A to D-A-π-A: effect of the internal electron-withdrawing units on molecular absorption, energy levels and photovoltaic performances.

    Yongzhen Wu;Weihong Zhu

  • Sulfone-containing covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

    Xiaoyan Wang;Linjiang Chen;Samantha Y. Chong;Marc A. Little

  • Recent progress on polymer-based fluorescent and colorimetric chemosensors

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

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

    Weihong Zhu;Yongzhen Wu;Shutao Wang;Wenqin Li

  • Development of Ion Chemosensors Based on Porphyrin Analogues

    Yubin Ding;Wei-Hong Zhu;Yongshu Xie

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

    Xumeng Wu;Xuanrong Sun;Zhiqian Guo;Jianbin Tang

  • Real-Time Tracking and In Vivo Visualization of β-Galactosidase Activity in Colorectal Tumor with a Ratiometric Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe.

    Kaizhi Gu;Yisheng Xu;Hui Li;Zhiqian Guo

  • Fluorescent and colorimetric ion probes based on conjugated oligopyrroles

    Yubin Ding;Yubin Ding;Yunyu Tang;Weihong Zhu;Yongshu Xie

  • Rational Design of Near-Infrared Aggregation-Induced-Emission-Active Probes: In Situ Mapping of Amyloid-β Plaques with Ultrasensitivity and High-Fidelity

    Wei Fu;Chenxu Yan;Zhiqian Guo;Jingjing Zhang

  • Far-Red and Near-IR AIE-Active Fluorescent Organic Nanoprobes with Enhanced Tumor-Targeting Efficacy: Shape-Specific Effects.

    Andong Shao;Yongshu Xie;Shaojia Zhu;Zhiqian Guo

  • Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Switchable Self-Assembled Micellar Nanoprobe: Ratiometric Fluorescent Trapping of Endogenous H2S Generation via Fluvastatin-Stimulated Upregulation.

    Chunchang Zhao;Xiuli Zhang;Kaibin Li;Shaojia Zhu

  • High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells: molecular engineering on D–A–π-A featured organic indoline dyes

    Yongzhen Wu;Magdalena Marszalek;Shaik M. Zakeeruddin;Qiong Zhang

  • Porphyrin Cosensitization for a Photovoltaic Efficiency of 11.5%: A Record for Non-Ruthenium Solar Cells Based on Iodine Electrolyte

    Yongshu Xie;Yunyu Tang;Wenjun Wu;Yueqiang Wang

  • Efficient and Stable Chemical Passivation on Perovskite Surface via Bidentate Anchoring

    Hao Zhang;Yongzhen Wu;Chao Shen;Erpeng Li

  • Insight into D-A-π-A Structured Sensitizers: A Promising Route to Highly Efficient and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.

    Yongzhen Wu;Wei-Hong Zhu;Shaik M. Zakeeruddin;Michael Grätzel

  • Aggregation-induced emission: a coming-of-age ceremony at the age of eighteen

    Jie Yang;Zhenguo Chi;Weihong Zhu;Ben Zhong Tang;Ben Zhong Tang

  • Incorporating Benzotriazole Moiety to Construct D–A−π–A Organic Sensitizers for Solar Cells: Significant Enhancement of Open-Circuit Photovoltage with Long Alkyl Group

    Yan Cui;Yongzhen Wu;Xuefeng Lu;Xi Zhang

  • A near-infrared colorimetric fluorescent chemodosimeter for the detection of glutathione in living cells

    Meng Li;Xumeng Wu;Yao Wang;Yongsheng Li

  • A dual-response BODIPY-based fluorescent probe for the discrimination of glutathione from cystein and homocystein

    Feiyi Wang;Li Zhou;Chunchang Zhao;Rui Wang

  • Dicyanomethylene-4H-pyran chromophores for OLED emitters, logic gates and optical chemosensors

    Zhiqian Guo;Weihong Zhu;He Tian

  • A Fluorophore Capable of Crossword Puzzles and Logic Memory

    Zhiqian Guo;Weihong Zhu;Liangjun Shen;He Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

He Tian
He Tian East China University of Science and Technology
Zhiqian Guo
Zhiqian Guo East China University of Science and Technology
Yongshu Xie
Yongshu Xie East China University of Science and Technology
Yongzhen Wu
Yongzhen Wu East China University of Science and Technology
Wenjun Wu
Wenjun Wu East China University of Science and Technology
Tony D. James
Tony D. James University of Bath
Yongsheng Li
Yongsheng Li East China University of Science and Technology
Jianlin Shi
Jianlin Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Youqing Shen
Youqing Shen Zhejiang University
Liyuan Han
Liyuan Han Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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