共发表高质量论文150余篇(h-index=32，他引>3000)，其中第一/通讯作者50余篇(IF>10的12篇),包括Science Advances(2篇)、Advanced Materials、Angew Chem等。主持国家自然科学基金2项（青年、面上各1项），参与3项，获授权中国发明专利10项。
Tian X#, Cesare D-P, Lorena L-P, Chen B, Su R, Zhang M, Zhang R, Giuseppe B, Tian Y, Zhang Z. A Cyclometalated Iridium (III) Complex as a Microtubule Probe for Correlative Super-Resolution Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy. Advanced Materials. 2020.32(39) 2003901 (JCR1区, Top期刊，影响因子30.849)
Cao H, Zhong S, Shen Y, Lv M, Zhu Y, Tian Y, Luo K, Battaglia G, Gong Q, Tian X*. MtDNA specific fluorescent probe uncovering mitochondrial nucleoids dynamics during programmed cell death under super-resolution nanoscopy. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.137763 (JCR1区, Top期刊，影响因子13.273)
Tian X#, Stefano A U, Battaglia G. On the design of precision nanomedicines. Science Advances. 2020;6: eaat0919 (JCR1区, Top期刊，影响因子14.136)
