Cheng Xu, et al., A cascade X-ray energy converting approach toward radio-afterglow cancer theranostics. Nature Nanotechnology, 2025, 20, 286–295.
Cheng Xu, Yan Zhang, Gaolin Liang & Kanyi Pu. Molecular afterglow imaging for biomedical applications. Nature Materials,2025,24, 1694–1708.
Cheng Xu, et al.,Sonoafterglow nanoprobes for deep-tissue imaging of peroxynitrite. Nature Protocols, 2025, 20, 3188–3208.
Cheng Xu & Kanyi Pu. Artificial urinary biomarker probes for diagnosis. Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024, 2, 425–441.
Cheng Xu, et al., Nanoparticles with ultrasound-induced afterglow luminescence for tumour-specific theranostics. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023, 7, 298–312. (Highly cited paper)
Jingsheng Huang, Lichao Su, Cheng Xu (co-first author), et al., Molecular radio afterglow probes for cancer radiodynamic theranostics. Nature Materials, 2023, 22, 1421–1429. (Highly cited paper)
Cheng Xu, et al., Ingestible Artificial Urinary Biomarker Probes for Urine Test of Gastrointestinal Cancer. Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2314084.
Cheng Xu, et al., Semiconducting polymer nanospherical nucleic acid probe for transcriptomic imaging of cancer chemo‐immunotherapy. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2306739.
Cheng Xu, et al., Activatable sonoafterglow nanoprobes for T cell imaging. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2211651.
Cheng Xu, et al., Second near-infrared light-activatable polymeric nanoantagonist for photothermal immunometabolic cancer therapy. Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2101410.
Cheng Xu, et al., Polymer multicellular nanoengager for synergistic second near-infrared photothermal immunotherapy. Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2008061. (Highly cited paper)
Cheng Xu & Kanyi Pu. Second near-infrared photothermal materials for combinational nanotheranostics. Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50, 1111-1137. (Highly cited paper)