| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nanometre-scale thermometry in a living cell | Nature | 2013 | 1,440 |
| 2 | Comparison of the Levels of Bacterial Diversity in Freshwater, Intertidal Wetland, and Marine Sediments by Using Millions of Illumina Tags | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2012 | 764 |
| 3 | Ammonia toxicity in fish | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 749 |
| 4 | Hypoxia: from molecular responses to ecosystem responses | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 661 |
| 5 | Formation of Silicon Carbide Nanotubes and Nanowires via Reaction of Silicon (from Disproportionation of Silicon Monoxide) with Carbon Nanotubes | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2002 | 527 |
| 6 | Oriented Silicon Carbide Nanowires: Synthesis and Field Emission Properties | Advanced Materials | 2000 | 523 |
| 7 | Analysis of fluorotelomer alcohols, fluorotelomer acids, and short- and long-chain perfluorinated acids in water and biota | Journal of Chromatography A | 2005 | 519 |
| 8 | Spatial variation of heavy metals in surface sediments of Hong Kong mangrove swamps | Environmental Pollution | 2000 | 516 |
| 9 | Effective Mercury Sorption by Thiol-Laced Metal–Organic Frameworks: in Strong Acid and the Vapor Phase | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2013 | 492 |
| 10 | Luminescent Rhenium(I) and Iridium(III) Polypyridine Complexes as Biological Probes, Imaging Reagents, and Photocytotoxic Agents | Accounts of Chemical Research | 2015 | 451 |
| 11 | Bisphenol A and other bisphenol analogues including BPS and BPF in surface water samples from Japan, China, Korea and India | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2015 | 446 |
| 12 | THE COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF FOOD DEPRIVATION: From Feast to Famine | Annual Review of Physiology | 2006 | 440 |
| 13 | Enhanced selectivity in mixed matrix membranes for CO2 capture through efficient dispersion of amine-functionalized MOF nanoparticles | Nature Energy | 2017 | 428 |
| 14 | Microfluidics technology for manipulation and analysis of biological cells | Analytica Chimica Acta | 2006 | 425 |
| 15 | Osteoclast-derived exosomal miR-214-3p inhibits osteoblastic bone formation | Nature Communications | 2016 | 424 |
| 16 | Removal of antibiotics from wastewater by sewage treatment facilities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China | Water Research | 2008 | 421 |
| 17 | Identifying specific protein interaction partners using quantitative mass spectrometry and bead proteomes | Journal of Cell Biology | 2008 | 404 |
| 18 | The application of histo-cytopathological biomarkers in marine pollution monitoring: a review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2004 | 400 |
| 19 | Gold Nanoparticles Promote Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells through p38 MAPK Pathway | ACS Nano | 2010 | 375 |
| 20 | Perfluorinated Compounds in Coastal Waters of Hong Kong, South China, and Korea | Environmental Science & Technology | 2004 | 368 |
| 21 | Relationships between tissue concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and antioxidative responses of marine mussels, Perna viridis | Aquatic Toxicology | 2001 | 353 |
| 22 | Applications of luminescent inorganic and organometallic transition metal complexes as biomolecular and cellular probes | Dalton Transactions | 2012 | 350 |
| 23 | EFFECT OF CARBON NANOTUBES ON DEVELOPING ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO) EMBRYOS | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 2007 | 349 |
| 24 | Asia-Pacific mussel watch: monitoring contamination of persistent organochlorine compounds in coastal waters of Asian countries | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2003 | 346 |
| 25 | Antibacterial activity of ZnO nanorods prepared by a hydrothermal method | Thin Solid Films | 2008 | 339 |
| 26 | Multivariate statistical evaluation of dissolved trace elements and a water quality assessment in the middle reaches of Huaihe River, Anhui, China | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 330 |
| 27 | Design of luminescent iridium(III) and rhenium(I) polypyridine complexes as in vitro and in vivo ion, molecular and biological probes | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 2010 | 320 |
| 28 | Distribution, fate and risk assessment of antibiotics in sewage treatment plants in Hong Kong, South China | Environment International | 2012 | 320 |
| 29 | Upconverting Near‐Infrared Light through Energy Management in Core–Shell–Shell Nanoparticles | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2013 | 315 |
| 30 | Distribution of polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water, suspended particulate matter and sediment from Tokyo Bay, Japan | Chemosphere | 2010 | 314 |
| 31 | Illumina Sequencing of 16S rRNA Tag Revealed Spatial Variations of Bacterial Communities in a Mangrove Wetland | Microbial Ecology | 2013 | 314 |
| 32 | Effects of composting on phytotoxicity of spent pig-manure sawdust litter | Environmental Pollution | 1996 | 313 |
| 33 | Perfluorooctanesulfonate and Related Fluorochemicals in Human Blood Samples from China | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 308 |
| 34 | Developmental toxicity and alteration of gene expression in zebrafish embryos exposed to PFOS | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology | 2008 | 307 |
| 35 | Emerging chemicals of concern: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in Asia, with particular reference to Southern China | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2005 | 306 |
| 36 | Aquatic Hypoxia Is an Endocrine Disruptor and Impairs Fish Reproduction | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 305 |
| 37 | Perfluorinated compounds in the Pearl River and Yangtze River of China | Chemosphere | 2007 | 302 |
| 38 | Perfluorinated acids as novel chemical tracers of global circulation of ocean waters | Chemosphere | 2008 | 297 |
| 39 | Occurrence, distribution and ecological risk assessment of multiple classes of UV filters in surface waters from different countries | Water Research | 2014 | 296 |
| 40 | Molecular Catalysis of the Electrochemical and Photochemical Reduction of CO2 with Earth-Abundant Metal Complexes. Selective Production of CO vs HCOOH by Switching of the Metal Center | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2015 | 294 |
| 41 | Luminescent Biological Probes Derived from Ruthenium(II) Estradiol Polypyridine Complexes | Inorganic Chemistry | 2008 | 291 |
| 42 | Induction of oxidative stress and apoptosis by PFOS and PFOA in primary cultured hepatocytes of freshwater tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) | Aquatic Toxicology | 2007 | 289 |
| 43 | Ordered silicon nanowire arrays via nanosphere lithography and metal-induced etching | Applied Physics Letters | 2007 | 286 |
| 44 | New Luminescent Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diimine Complexes as Biological Labeling Reagents | Inorganic Chemistry | 2003 | 285 |
| 45 | Perfluorinated Compounds in Tap Water from China and Several Other Countries | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 280 |
| 46 | A dual-mode nanosensor based on carbon quantum dots and gold nanoparticles for discriminative detection of glutathione in human plasma | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 2014 | 278 |
| 47 | Catalytic Conversion of Fructose, Glucose, and Sucrose to 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural and Levulinic and Formic Acids in γ-Valerolactone As a Green Solvent | ACS Catalysis | 2014 | 277 |
| 48 | Synthesis of Uniform Hexagonal Prismatic ZnO Whiskers | Chemistry of Materials | 2002 | 276 |
| 49 | Highly Efficient and Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Iron and Cobalt Quaterpyridine Complexes | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2016 | 276 |
| 50 | Contamination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface sediments of mangrove swamps | Environmental Pollution | 2001 | 267 |
