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Overview

Zhongfu An is affiliated with Nanjing Tech University in China and works primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research activity spans several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, Biomedical Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics cover Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Huili Ma, Huifang Shi, Wei Huang, Anqi Lv, and Xiaokang Yao. These collaborations contribute to a wide range of research outputs across diverse areas of materials science and engineering.

They have published extensively in notable venues, with frequent appearances in The Cambridge Structural Database, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Communications.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Confining isolated chromophores for highly efficient blue phosphorescence, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Organic phosphors with bright triplet excitons for efficient X-ray-excited luminescence, 2021, Nature Photonics
  • Color-tunable ultralong organic room temperature phosphorescence from a multicomponent copolymer, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Wide-range lifetime-tunable and responsive ultralong organic phosphorescent multi-host/guest system, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Circularly Polarized Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Amorphous Copolymers, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Stabilizing triplet excited states for ultralong organic phosphorescence

    Zhongfu An;Chao Zheng;Ye Tao;Runfeng Chen

  • Colour-tunable ultra-long organic phosphorescence of a single-component molecular crystal

    Long Gu;Huifang Shi;Lifang Bian;Mingxing Gu

  • Efficient and Long-Lived Room-Temperature Organic Phosphorescence: Theoretical Descriptors for Molecular Designs

    Huili Ma;Huili Ma;Qian Peng;Zhongfu An;Wei Huang

  • Ultralong Phosphorescence of Water‐Soluble Organic Nanoparticles for In Vivo Afterglow Imaging

    Xu Zhen;Ye Tao;Zhongfu An;Peng Chen

  • Simultaneously Enhancing Efficiency and Lifetime of Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence Materials by Molecular Self-Assembly.

    Lifang Bian;Huifang Shi;Xuan Wang;Kun Ling

  • Confining isolated chromophores for highly efficient blue phosphorescence.

    Wenpeng Ye;Huili Ma;Huifang Shi;He Wang

  • Recent Advances in Polymer-Based Metal-Free Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Materials

    Nan Gan;Huifang Shi;Zhongfu An;Wei Huang;Wei Huang;Wei Huang

  • Organic phosphors with bright triplet excitons for efficient X-ray-excited luminescence

    Xiao Wang;Huifang Shi;Huili Ma;Wenpeng Ye

  • Color-tunable ultralong organic room temperature phosphorescence from a multicomponent copolymer

    Long Gu;Hongwei Wu;Huili Ma;Wenpeng Ye

  • Visible-Light-Excited Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence by Manipulating Intermolecular Interactions

    Suzhi Cai;Huifang Shi;Huifang Shi;Jiewei Li;Long Gu

  • Enhancing Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence by Effective π-Type Halogen Bonding

    Suzhi Cai;Huifang Shi;Dan Tian;Huili Ma

  • Dynamic Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence by Photoactivation.

    Long Gu;Huifang Shi;Mingxing Gu;Kun Ling

  • Circularly Polarized Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence from Amorphous Copolymers.

    Long Gu;Long Gu;Wenpeng Ye;Xiao Liang;Anqi Lv

  • Wide-range lifetime-tunable and responsive ultralong organic phosphorescent multi-host/guest system

    Zongliang Xie;Xiayu Zhang;Hailan Wang;Cheng Huang

  • Enabling long-lived organic room temperature phosphorescence in polymers by subunit interlocking

    Suzhi Cai;Huili Ma;Huifang Shi;He Wang

  • Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Aromatic Frameworks for Ultralong Phosphorescence by Intralayer π-π Interactions.

    Suzhi Cai;Huifang Shi;Zaiyong Zhang;Xuan Wang

  • Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence: From Material Design to Applications.

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  • X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage.

    Yixi Zhuang;Dunrong Chen;Wenjing Chen;Wenxing Zhang

  • Excitation Wavelength Dependent Fluorescence of an ESIPT Triazole Derivative for Amine Sensing and Anti‐Counterfeiting Applications

    Yujian Zhang;Heyi Yang;Huili Ma;Gaofeng Bian

  • Electroluminescence from europium(III) complexes

    Hui Xu;Qiang Sun;Zhongfu An;Ying Wei

  • Ultrasmall Phosphorescent Polymer Dots for Ratiometric Oxygen Sensing and Photodynamic Cancer Therapy

    Huifang Shi;Huifang Shi;Xing Ma;Qiang Zhao;Bin Liu

  • Understanding the Control of Singlet-Triplet Splitting for Organic Exciton Manipulating: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach

    Ting Chen;Lei Zheng;Jie Yuan;Zhongfu An

  • Bright triplet excitons for efficient X-ray excited luminescence

    Xiao Wang;Huifang Shi;Huili Ma;Wenpeng Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

Huifang Shi
Huifang Shi Nanjing Tech University
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University
Huili Ma
Huili Ma Nanjing Tech University
Xiaogang Liu
Xiaogang Liu National University of Singapore
Runfeng Chen
Runfeng Chen Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Qiang Zhao
Qiang Zhao Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jun Yin
Jun Yin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shujuan Liu
Shujuan Liu Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Yanli Zhao
Yanli Zhao Nanyang Technological University
Zhigang Shuai
Zhigang Shuai Tsinghua University

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