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ACS Publications Research Highlights from China

Though there is no way to showcase all of the important research from our distinguished Chinese authors, the articles listed here represent some highlights of the research published in ACS journals from China. This list is compiled based on a selection of ACS Editors’ Choice, ACS Author Choice, most cited, most downloaded, and general interest articles based on our internal data and recommendations. Finally, we thank our Chinese authors for their contributions that made ACS journals #1 in six chemistry categories according to the Thomson Reuters 2014 Journal Citation Report.

Analytical
Biosensor Based on Ultrasmall MoS2 Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Detection of H2O2 Released by Cells at the Nanomolar Level
Tanyuan Wang, Haichuan Zhu, Junqiao Zhuo, Zhiwei Zhu, Pagona Papakonstantinou, Gennady Lubarsky, Jian Lin, and Meixian Li
DOI: 10.1021/ac402114c
Aqueous and Nonaqueous Electrochemical Sensing on Whole-Teflon Chip
Bo Shen and Hongkai Wu
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00124
Simple, Cost-Effective 3D Printed Microfluidic Components for Disposable, Point-of-Care Colorimetric Analysis
Ho Nam Chan, Yiwei Shu, Bin Xiong, Yangfan Chen, Yin Chen, Qian Tian, Sean A. Michael, Bo Shen, and Hongkai Wu
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00100
Quantitative Neuropeptidome Analysis Reveals Neuropeptides Are Correlated with Social Behavior Regulation of the Honeybee Workers
Bin Han, Yu Fang, Mao Feng, Han Hu, Yuping Qi, Xinmei Huo, Lifeng Meng, Bin Wu, and Jianke Li
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00632
Plasma Metabolite Biomarkers for the Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
Guoxiang Xie, Lingeng Lu, Yunping Qiu, Quanxing Ni, Wei Zhang, Yu-Tang Gao, Harvey A. Risch, Herbert Yu, and Wei Jia
DOI: 10.1021/pr501135f
Applied

Fabrication and Characterization of a Novel Anticancer Drug Delivery System: Salecan/Poly(methacrylic acid) Semi-interpenetrating Polymer Network Hydrogel
Xiaoliang Qi, Wei Wei, Junjian Li, Yucheng Liu, Xinyu Hu, Jianfa Zhang, Lirong Bi, and Wei Dong
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00346
Nontargeted Modification-Specific Metabolomics Study Based on Liquid Chromatography–High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Weidong Dai, Peiyuan Yin, Zhongda Zeng, Hongwei Kong, Hongwei Tong, Zhiliang Xu, Xin Lu, Rainer Lehmann, and Guowang Xu
DOI: 10.1021/ac502045j
Mesoporous TiO2 Mesocrystals: Remarkable Defects-Induced Crystallite-Interface Reactivity and Their in Situ Conversion to Single Crystals
Yong Liu, Yongfeng Luo, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Wei Luo⊥, Renchao Che, Jianwei Fan, Kun Lan, Abdullah M. Al-Enizi, Zhenkun Sun, Bin Li, Zhengwang Liu, Dengke Shen, Yun Ling, Chun Wang, Jingxiu Wang, Wenjun Gao, Chi Yao, Kaiping Yuan, Huisheng Peng, Yun Tang, Yonghui Deng, Gengfeng Zheng, Gang Zhou, and Dongyuan Zhao
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00256
Microplastic Pollution in Table Salts from China
Dongqi Yang, Huahong Shi, Lan Li, Jiana Li, Khalida Jabeen, and Prabhu Kolandhasamy
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03163
Inkjet Printing Patterns of Highly Conductive Pristine Graphene on Flexible Substrates
Yahui Gao, Wen Shi, Wucong Wang, Yuanpeng Leng, and Yaping Zhao
DOI: 10.1021/ie502675z
Biological
Folate-Decorated and Reduction-Sensitive Micelles Assembled from Amphiphilic Polymer–Camptothecin Conjugates for Intracellular Drug Delivery
Chaoyu Liu, Jiang Yuan, Xiaoming Luo, Maohua Chen, Zhoujiang Chen, Yuancong Zhao, and Xiaohong Li
DOI: 10.1021/mp500468d
New Strategy for Reversible Modulation of Protein Activity through Site-Specific Conjugation of Small Molecule and Polymer
Lei Wang, Lin Yuan, Hongwei Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Xinming Li, and Hong Chen
DOI: 10.1021/bc5000934
A Cis-Membrane FRET-Based Method for Protein-Specific Imaging of Cell-Surface Glycans
Wei Lin, Yifei Du, Yuntao Zhu, and Xing Chen
DOI: 10.1021/ja410086d
Scaffold Diversity Inspired by the Natural Product Evodiamine: Discovery of Highly Potent and Multitargeting Antitumor Agents
Shengzheng Wang, Kun Fang, Guoqiang Dong, Shuqiang Chen, Na Liu, Zhenyuan Miao, Jianzhong Yao, Jian Li, Wannian Zhang, and Chunquan Sheng
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00910
Exploration of Type II Binding Mode: A Privileged Approach for Kinase Inhibitor Focused Drug Discovery?
Zheng Zhao, Hong Wu, Li Wang, Yi Liu, Stefan Knapp, Qingsong Liu, and Nathanael S. Gray
DOI: 10.1021/cb500129t
Materials Science & Engineering
Generalized Modeling of Spontaneous Imbibition Based on Hagen-Poiseuille Flow in Tortuous Capillaries with Variably Shaped Apertures
Jianchao Cai, Edmund Perfect, Chu-Lin Cheng, and Xiangyun Hu
DOI: 10.1021/la5007204
Splitting a Droplet for Femtoliter Liquid Patterns and Single Cell Isolation
Huizeng Li, Qiang Yang, Guannan Li, Mingzhu Li, Shutao Wang, and Yanlin Song
DOI: 10.1021/am509177s
Molybdenum-Carbide-Modified Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Vesicle Encapsulating Nickel Nanoparticles: A Highly Efficient, Low-Cost Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Shiping Wang, Jing Wang, Minglei Zhu, Xiaobing Bao, Bingyang Xiao, Diefeng Su, Haoran Li, and Yong Wang
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07924
Integrated Ternary Bioinspired Nanocomposites via Synergistic Toughening of Reduced Graphene Oxide and Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Shanshan Gong, Wei Cui, Qi Zhang, Anyuan Cao, Lei Jiang, and Qunfeng Cheng
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05252
Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells with 6.1% Efficiency through Fine-Tuning Parameters of the Film-Forming Process
Xin Zhang, Chuanlang Zhan, and Jiannian Yao
DOI: 10.1021/cm504140c
Organic/Inorganic
Efficient Carbazole Synthesis via Pd/Cu-Cocatalyzed Cross-Coupling/Isomerization of 2-Allyl-3-iodoindoles and Terminal Alkynes
Can Zhu and Shengming Ma
DOI: 10.1021/ol500119r
Structure, Crystallographic Sites, and Tunable Luminescence Properties of Eu2+ and Ce3+/Li+-Activated Ca1.65Sr0.35SiO4 Phosphors
Zhiguo Xia, Shihai Miao, Mingyue Chen, Maxim S. Molokeev, and Quanlin Liu
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00455
A Three-Step Synthesis of Acotiamide for the Treatment of Patients with Functional Dyspepsia
Kai Fu, Liu Yang, Qiu-Fen Wang, Fu-Xu Zhan, Bin Wang, Qian Yang, Zhi-Jia Ma, and Geng-Xiu Zheng
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.5b00256
Au19 Nanocluster Featuring a V-Shaped Alkynyl–Gold Motif
Xian-Kai Wan, Qing Tang, Shang-Fu Yuan, De-en Jiang, and Quan-Ming Wang
DOI: 10.1021/ja512133a
Our Journey to the Chemistry of Metallabenzynes
Guochen Jia DOI: 10.1021/om400716v
Physical
Sequential Deposition of CH3NH3PbI3 on Planar NiO Film for Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells
Long Hu, Jun Peng, Weiwei Wang, Zhe Xia, Jianyu Yuan, Jialing Lu, Xiaodong Huang, Wanli Ma, Huaibing Song, Wei Chen, Yi-Bing Cheng, and Jiang Tang
DOI: 10.1021/ph5000067
Graphene-Based Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Generation
Quanjun Xiang and Jiaguo Yu DOI: 10.1021/jz302048d
Freestanding Three-Dimensional Graphene/MnO2 Composite Networks As Ultralight and Flexible Supercapacitor Electrodes
Yongmin He, Wanjun Chen, Xiaodong Li, Zhenxing Zhang, Jiecai Fu, Changhui Zhao, and Erqing Xie
DOI: 10.1021/nn304833s
Doped Semiconductor-Nanocrystal Emitters with Optimal Photoluminescence Decay Dynamics in Microsecond to Millisecond Range: Synthesis and Applications
Chaodan Pu, Junliang Ma, Haiyan Qin, Ming Yan, Tao Fu, Yuan Niu, Xiaoli Yang, Yifan Huang, Fei Zhao, and Xiaogang Peng
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00327
Efficient Visible Light Nitrogen Fixation with BiOBr Nanosheets of Oxygen Vacancies on the Exposed {001} Facets
Hao Li, Jian Shang, Zhihui Ai, and Lizhi Zhang
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03105