1.Dongmei Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuting Lin, Lulu Wu, Zhichen Zhao, Xu Xu, Shilong Yang, Jianyu Zhang*, Wen-Jin Wang, Zheng Zhao, Shifa Wang*, Ben Zhong Tang*, and Xu-Min Cai*. From nature-inspired electron acceptors to BioAIE materials with polarity- and polymorphism-dependence for anti-counterfeiting. Chemical Science, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D5SC09027J
原文链接: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC09027J
2.Xiao Chen, Cheng Cheng, Yu Yang, Weiren Zhong, Zhichen Zhao, Shilong Yang, Zheng Zhao, Jianyu Zhang* and Xu-Min Cai*.Tunable photo-deformation of simple AIE-active salicylideneaniline Schiff bases via ESIPT-ISO process.Chemical Communications,2025, DOI:10.1039/d5cc04671h. AIE25周年专刊
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc04671h
3.Ping Wu, Pengyu Li, Mingxing Chen, Gegu Chen, Mingfei Li, Baozhong Lü*, Xu‐Min Cai*, Junli Ren, Feng Peng*.Modulating Molecular Aggregations via Konjac Glucomannan for High-Contrast Time-Dependent Phosphorescence Color.Aggregate,2025,DOI: 10.1002/agt2.70124.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/agt2.70124
4.Yanchen Wu ,Zhuo-Yang Xin , Yuting Lin , Shilong Yang , Zheng Zhao , Wen-Jin Wang ,* Ben Zhong Tang ,* and Xu-Min Cai*.Facile Engineering of A Rosin-Derived Natural Electron Acceptor toward Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer Active BioAlE Materials with Dual Functionalities. Advanced functional materials.,2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202508618.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202508618
5.Min Cai , Zhaoshuang Li* , Rongkang Chen , Yin He , Xu Xu , Xu-Min Cai , Wei Yuanfeng , Zhenfei Yang , Chuntao Kuang , Guoen Yang , Yan Qing , Xingong Li , Yiqiang Wu*.Room temperature phosphorescent materials based on rosin acid with time-dependent afterglow and visible light excitation.Chemical Engineering Journal,2025,DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.163281.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.163281
6.Shouji Li, Xiaobin Li, Junyu Liu, Yuting Lin, Xuedan Zhang, Weiren Zhong, Juan Li*, Caifa You, Dong Wang, Jisong Zhang, Xu Xu*,Xu-Min Cai*, Can Yang Zhang*.Molecule engineering of coumarin to reverse aggregation-caused quenching: Facile access to BioAIEgens.iScience,2025,DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112520.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112520
7.Yuting Lin, Jianyu Zhang, Wen-Jin Wang, Zhenguo Tang, Xianying Fang, Xu Xu, Fritz E. Kühn, Zheng Zhao*, Qiang Yong*, Ben Zhong Tang*, Xu-Min Cai*. Pyrene-based aggregation-induced emission: A bridge model to regulate aggregation. The innovation, 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100884. (中科院一区top,影响因子33.2)
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.100884
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8.Wen-Jin Wang, Zhuo-Yang Xin, Xuxian Su, Liang Hao, Zijie Qiu, Kang Li, Yumei Luo, Xu-Min Cai, Jianquan Zhang, Parvej Alam, Jing Feng,* Shaojuan Wang,* Zheng Zhao,* and Ben Zhong Tang*. Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens Realizing High-Contrast Bioimaging. ACS Nano, 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14887.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c14887

9.Wen-Jin Wang, Rongyuan Zhang, Liping Zhang, LiangHao, Xu-Min Cai, QianWu, Zijie Qiu, RuijuanHan, JingFeng, Shaojuan Wang*, Parvej Alam, Guoqing Zhang, Zheng Zhao* and Ben Zhong Tang*. Enzymatically catalyzed molecular aggregation. Nature Communications, 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54291-1.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54291-1

10.Yilin Zhu#, Rongyuan Zhang#, Xu-Min Cai#, Liping Zhang, Bo Wu, Haozhe Tan, Kun Zhou,Haoran Wang, Yong Liu, Yumei Luo*, Ryan T. K. Kwok*, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Zheng Zhao*, Cuiping Yao*, and Ben Zhong Tang*. Acceptor Elongation Boosted Intersystem Crossing AffordsEfficient NIR Type-I and AIE-Active Photosensitizers forTargeting Ferroptosis-Based Cancer Therapy. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202404505.
原文链接: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202404505

11.Weiren Zhong#, Yuting Lin#, Zhichen Zhao, Xu-Min Cai*, and Bo Zhang*. Sustainable production of BioAIE materials from biomass. ChemCatChem, 2024, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202401510. Concept邀稿
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202401510


12.Wen-Jin Wang, Zhuo-Yang Xin, Dan Liu, Qian Liu, Yong Liu*, Zijie Qiu, Jianquan Zhang, Parvej Alam, Xu-Min Cai*, Zheng Zhao*, Ben Zhong Tang*. Intracellularly manipulable aggregation of the aggregation-induced emission luminogens. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116800.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2024.116800

13.Weiren Zhong#, Yanchen Wu#, Yuting Lin, Shouji Li, Jianyu Zhang* and Xu-Min Cai*. Fabrication of efficient and red-emissive salicylaldehyde Schiff base isomers toward multi-scenario information decryption. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01287. 新锐科学家专刊
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC01287

14. Weiren Zhong#, Jianyu Zhang#, Yuting Lin, Shouji Li, Yalan Yang, Wen-Jin Wang, Chuanling Si*, Fritz E. Kühn, Zheng Zhao, Xu-Min Cai*, and Ben Zhong Tang*. Multi-site isomerization of synergistically regulated stimuli-responsive AIE materials toward multi-level decryption. Chemical Science, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06191d. 2024 Chemical Science热点论文集,高被引文章
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC06191D

15. Jianwei Ji#, Chuangchi Ding#, Shouji Li#, Tenglong Guo, Julian Skagfjörd Reinhold, Sen Meng, Wenqing Zhu, Xiaohui Ji, Xu-Min Cai*, and Bo Zhang*. Sustainable production of carbazole-based BioAIEgens from lignin major motifs. Green Chemistry, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/d3gc04384c.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1039/D3GC04384C

16. Wei Liu, Bo Pang, Meng Zhang, Jiayi Lv, Ting Xu*, Long Bai, Xu-Min Cai*, Shuangquan Yao*, Siqi Huan*, Chuanling Si*, Pickering multiphase materials using plant-based cellulosic micro/nanoparticles. Aggregate, 2024, 5, e486. 封面文章
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/agt2.486
17. Xu-Min Cai*, Shouji Li, Wen-Jin Wang, Yuting Lin, Weiren Zhong, Yalan Yang, Fritz E. Kühn, Ying Li, Zheng Zhao*, and Ben Zhong Tang*, Natural Acceptor of Coumarin-Isomerized Red-Emissive BioAIEgen for Monitoring Cu2+ Concentration in Live Cells via FLIM. Advanced Science 2023, 2307078.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202307078

Figure 1. The comprehensive advantages of BioAIEgens derived from biomass.
18.Yaxuan Wang, Ting Xu*, Kun Liu, Meng Zhang, Xu-Min Cai*, Chuanling Si*, Biomass-based materials for advanced supercapacitor: principles, progress, and perspectives. Aggregate, 2024, 5, e428. 封面文章
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1002/agt2.428

19.Tenglong Guo, Yuting Lin, Deng Pan, Xuedan Zhang, Wenqing Zhu, Xu-Min Cai*, Genping Huang*, Hua Wang, Dezhu Xu, Fritz E. Kühn, Bo Zhang* & Tao Zhang*, Towards bioresource-based aggregation-induced emission luminogens from lignin β-O-4 motifs as renewable resources. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 6067.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41681-0

20. Xu-Min Cai*, Yuting Lin, Jianyu Zhang, Ying Li, Zhenguo Tang, Xuedan Zhang, Ying Jia, Wenjin Wang, Shenlin Huang*, Parvej Alam, Zheng Zhao* and Ben Zhong Tang*, Chromene-based BioAIEgens: “in water” synthesis, regiostructure-dependent fluorescence and ER-specific imaging. National Science Review 2023, nwad233. 国家科学评论亮点评述,EurekAlert 报道
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad233

21.Yutong Xiong, Weiren Zhong, Xuedan Zhang, Yuting Lin, Zhenguo Tang, Shouji Li, Xu-Min Cai *, Dehydroabietic acid and triphenylamine combined BioAIEgens with an imine linker and RIM: mechanochromism and acidichromism, Dyes and Pigments 2023, 218, 111475.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2023.111475

22. Xu-Min Cai*, Weiren Zhong, Ziwei Deng, Yuting Lin, Zhenguo Tang, Xuedan Zhang, Jianyu Zhang, Wenjin Wang, Shenlin Huang, Zheng Zhao*, Ben Zhong Tang*, A simple AIE-active salicylideneaniline towards bimodal encryption-decryption with unique ESIPT-inhibited amorphous state. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 466, 143353.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.143353

23. Xu-Min Cai*, Yuting Lin, Zhenguo Tang, Xuedan Zhang, Tianqi Mu, Shenlin Huang, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang*, Filling the gap between molecular and aggregate states: how does molecular packing affect photophysical properties? Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 451, 138627.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.138627

24. Xu-Min Cai*, Xuedan Zhang, Yuting Lin, Zhenguo Tang, Shenlin Huang*, Two distinctly fluorescent BioAIEgens originated from the combination of natural rosin and chromophoric triphenylamine, Journal of Molecular Structure 2023, 1272, 134230.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.134230

25. Xu-Min Cai*, Zhenguo Tang, Xinfei Chen, Yuting Lin, Xuedan Zhang, Shenlin Huang*, Construction of two rosin-based BioAIEgens with distinct fluorescence and mechanochromic propertites for rewritable paper, Dyes and Pigments 2022, 204, 110454.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.110454

26. 黄申林,仲伟仁,张雪丹,李守济,蔡旭敏*,植物化学品基聚集诱导发光材料研究进展[J].林业工程学报,2022,7(06):34-45.
原文链接:10.13360/j.issn.2096-1359.202202008

27. Xu-Min Cai*, Yuting Lin#, Ying Li#, Zaiyu Wang, Xueqian Zhao, Shenlin Huang*, Zheng Zhao*, Ben Zhong Tang*, BioAIEgens Derived from Rosin: How Does Molecular Motion Affect Their Photophysical Processes in Solid State? Nature Communications 2021, 12, 1773.
原文链接:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22061-y

28. Xu-Min Cai*, Tianqi Mu, Yuting Lin, Xuedan Zhang, Zhenguo Tang, Shenlin Huang*, Syntheses and photophysical properties of natural dehydroabietic acid-based ligands and their zinc complexes, Journal of Molecular Structure,Volume 2021, 1229,129793.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.129793

29. Xu-Min Cai, Xiao Chen, Xinfei Chen, Yu Li, Fei Wang*, A luminescent cellulose ether with a regenerated crystal form obtained in tetra(n-butyl)ammonium hydroxide/dimethyl sulfoxide. Carbohydrate Polymers 2020, 230, 115649.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115649

30. Dengfeng Chen, Yaming Wang, Xu-Min Cai, Xiaoji Cao, Ping Jiang, Fei Wang, Shenlin Huang*, Synthesis of Spiroisoxazolines via TEMPO/NaNO2-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Dearomatization, Organic Letters 2020, 22, 6847-6851.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02372

31. Xiangtai Meng, Hehua Xu, Xiaoji Cao, Xu-Min Cai, Jinyue Luo, Fei Wang, Shenlin Huang*, Electrochemically Enabled Sulfonylation of Alkynes with Sodium Sulfinates, Organic Letters 2020, 22, 6827-6831.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02341

32. Xu-Min Cai*, A-Liang Li, Yuting Lin, Wenyan Wang, Shifa Wang, Wen Gu*, Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Antibacterial Activity of New N-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)benzenesulfonamide Derivatives of Dehydroabietic Acid, Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry 2020, 39, 1539-1545.
原文链接:10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-2640

33. Xu-Min Cai*, Yuting Lin, Xinfei Chen, Xiao Chen, Tianqi Mu, Shenlin Huang*, Fei Wang, Linker Regulation: Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Ferrocene-Decorated Cellulose, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials 2020, 30, 3771-3780.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-020-01562-1

34. Xu-Min Cai*, Xinfei Chen, Tianqi Mu, Yuting Lin, Shenlin Huang*, Min-Xia Yao*, Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Electrochemical Properties of Dehydroabietic Acid-based Schiff Bases, Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry 2020, 39, 1699-1706.
原文链接:10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-2639

35. Xu-Min Cai*, Xinfei Chen, Xuedan Zhang, Yuan Huang, Wen Gu, Fei Wang, Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Electrochemical Properties of Three Anhydrides Based on Ferrocenecarboxylic Acid and Dehydroabietic Acid, Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry 2020, 39, 579-587.
原文链接:10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-2472

36. Xiao Chen, Xinfei Chen, Xu-Min Cai*, Shenlin Huang, Fei Wang*, Cellulose Dissolution in a Mixed Solvent of Tetra(n-butyl)ammonium Hydroxide/Dimethyl Sulfoxide via Radical Reactions, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2018, 6, 2898-2904.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04491

37. Min-Xia Yao*, Li-Zheng Cai, Xiao-Wei Deng, Wei Zhang, Sui-Jun Liu*, Xu-Min Cai*, Self-assembly of rare octanuclear quad(doublestranded) cluster helicates showing slow magnetic relaxation and the magnetocaloric effect, New Journal of Chemistry 2018, 42, 17652-17658.
38. Dengfeng Chen, Qingyuan Feng, Yunqin Yang, Xu-Min Cai, Fei Wang, Shenlin Huang*, Metal-free O–H/C–H difunctionalization of phenols by o-hydroxyarylsulfonium salts in water, Chemical Science 2017, 8, 1601-1606.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SC04504A

39. Xu-Min Cai, Teresa K. Meister, Alexander Pöthig, Fritz E. Kühn*, Filling a Gap: Electrochemical Property Comparison of the Completed Compound Series [Mo2(DArF)n(O2C-Fc)4-n] (DArF = N,N′-diarylformamidinate; O2C–Fc = Ferrocenecarboxylate), Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55, 858-864.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02329

40. Xu-Min Cai, Teresa K. Zimmermann, Alexander Pöthig, Fritz E. Kühn*, Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Cis- and Trans-[Mo2(O2C-Fc)2(DArF)2] (O2C–Fc = Ferrocenecarboxylate; DArF = N,N′-diarylformamidinate), Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 54, 6631-6640.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00964

41. Xu-Min Cai, Korbinian Riener, Eberhardt Herdtweck, Alexander Pöthig, Fritz E. Kühn*, Rational Synthesis and Characterization of Dimolybdenum(II) Compounds Bearing Fc-containing Ligands towards Modulation of Electronic Coupling, Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 54, 3272-3280.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic502913w

42. Xu-Min Cai, Dominik Höhne, Mathias Köberl, Mirza Cokoja, Alexander Pöthig, Eberhardt Herdtweck, Stefan Haslinger, Wolfgang A. Herrmann*, Fritz E. Kühn*, Synthesis and Characterization of Dimolybdenum(II) Complexes Connected by Carboxylate Linkers, Organometallics 2013, 32, 6004-6011.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/om400518f

43. Xu-Min Cai, Xiang-Yi Zhang, Julia Savchenko, Zhi Cao, Tong Ren, Jing-Lin Zuo*, New Linear p-Conjugated Diruthenium Compounds Containing Axial Tetrathiafulvalene-acetylide Ligands, Organometallics 2012, 31, 8591-8597.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/om300985z

44. Min-Xia Yao, Qi Zheng, Xu-Min Cai, Yi-Zhi Li, You Song, Jing-Lin Zuo*, Chiral Cyanide-Bridged CrIII-MnIII Heterobimetallic Chains Based on [(Tp)Cr(CN)3]-: Synthesis, Structures, and Magnetic Properties, Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 2140-2149.
原文链接:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic201982d
