Aleksei Aksimentiev

19.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
212 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Aleksei Aksimentiev is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleksei Aksimentiev has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 114 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aleksei Aksimentiev's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (129 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (55 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (34 papers). Aleksei Aksimentiev is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (129 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (55 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (34 papers). Aleksei Aksimentiev collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Aleksei Aksimentiev's co-authors include Jejoong Yoo, Klaus Schulten, Christopher Maffeo, David B. Wells, G. Timp, Jeffrey Comer, Binquan Luan, Cees Dekker, J.B. Heng and Maxim Belkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Aleksei Aksimentiev

209 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Imaging α-Hemolysin with Molecular Dynamics: Ionic Conductance, Osmotic Permeability, and the Electrostatic Potential Map

2005 562 citations Aleksei Aksimentiev et al. profile →
Electrical recognition of the twenty proteinogenic amino acids using an aerolysin nanopore

2019 336 citations Kumar Sarthak, Tobias Ensslen et al. profile →
Multiple rereads of single proteins at single–amino acid resolution using nanopores

2021 305 citations Aleksei Aksimentiev, Cees Dekker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleksei Aksimentiev United States	64	7.6k	6.2k	2.2k	1.9k	1.4k	212	12.0k
Ulrich F. Keyser United Kingdom	59	8.1k 1.1×	5.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	208	12.2k
John J. Kasianowicz United States	41	6.6k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	958 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	81	8.6k
M. Muthukumar United States	72	5.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	5.7k 3.0×	1.2k 0.9×	301	16.4k
Meni Wanunu United States	47	7.7k 1.0×	2.9k 0.5×	3.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	125	9.8k
Stefan Howorka United Kingdom	48	5.1k 0.7×	4.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	814 0.4×	564 0.4×	130	8.0k
A. MELLER Germany	46	7.6k 1.0×	3.3k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	189	9.6k
Abraham M. Lenhoff United States	58	3.3k 0.4×	5.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	555 0.4×	212	11.6k
Hsueh‐Chia Chang United States	57	6.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.2×	3.3k 1.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	248	9.7k
Christian Holm Germany	58	4.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.4×	559 0.4×	310	11.9k
Joshua B. Edel United Kingdom	53	7.7k 1.0×	2.6k 0.4×	3.2k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	882 0.6×	173	9.8k

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Badiee, Mohsen, et al.. (2024). Cation-induced intramolecular coil-to-globule transition in poly(ADP-ribose). Nature Communications. 15(1). 7901–7901. 3 indexed citations

Thielges, Megan C., et al.. (2024). Conformation-Dependent Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in a Switchable Artificial Metalloprotein. Biochemistry. 63(16). 2040–2050. 1 indexed citations

Ferrari, Giovanni, Lars Richter, John F. Hartmann, et al.. (2024). Single-molecule dynamic structural biology with vertically arranged DNA on a fluorescence microscope. Nature Methods. 22(1). 135–144. 2 indexed citations

Sarthak, Kumar, et al.. (2023). Benchmarking Molecular Dynamics Force Fields for All-Atom Simulations of Biological Condensates. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(12). 3721–3740. 33 indexed citations

Shi, Xin, Christopher Maffeo, Fabian Köhler, et al.. (2023). A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(3). 338–344. 34 indexed citations

Ensslen, Tobias, Kumar Sarthak, Aleksei Aksimentiev, & Jan C. Behrends. (2022). Resolving Isomeric Posttranslational Modifications Using a Biological Nanopore as a Sensor of Molecular Shape. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(35). 16060–16068. 54 indexed citations

Shen, Jie, Arundhati Roy, Himanshu Joshi, et al.. (2022). Fluorofoldamer-Based Salt- and Proton-Rejecting Artificial Water Channels for Ultrafast Water Transport. Nano Letters. 22(12). 4831–4838. 34 indexed citations

Maffeo, Christopher, et al.. (2022). Leakless end-to-end transport of small molecules through micron-length DNA nanochannels. Science Advances. 8(36). eabq4834–eabq4834. 21 indexed citations

Benabbas, Abdelkrim, et al.. (2021). Electrical unfolding of cytochrome c during translocation through a nanopore constriction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 33 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, Stephen J. Terry, Jonathan R. Burns, et al.. (2021). Hydrophobic Interactions between DNA Duplexes and Synthetic and Biological Membranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(22). 8305–8313. 36 indexed citations

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Qiao, Dan, Himanshu Joshi, Huangtianzhi Zhu, et al.. (2021). Synthetic Macrocycle Nanopore for Potassium-Selective Transmembrane Transport. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(39). 15975–15983. 49 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, et al.. (2021). Determining the In-Plane Orientation and Binding Mode of Single Fluorescent Dyes in DNA Origami Structures. ACS Nano. 15(3). 5109–5117. 28 indexed citations

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Roy, Arundhati, Jie Shen, Himanshu Joshi, et al.. (2021). Foldamer-based ultrapermeable and highly selective artificial water channels that exclude protons. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(8). 911–917. 92 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, Henri G. Franquelim, Barbara Saccà, et al.. (2021). DNA Origami Voltage Sensors for Transmembrane Potentials with Single-Molecule Sensitivity. Nano Letters. 21(20). 8634–8641. 24 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, et al.. (2021). Membrane Activity of a DNA-Based Ion Channel Depends on the Stability of Its Double-Stranded Structure. Nano Letters. 21(22). 9789–9796. 11 indexed citations

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Maffeo, Christopher & Aleksei Aksimentiev. (2020). MrDNA: a multi-resolution model for predicting the structure and dynamics of DNA systems. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(9). 5135–5146. 63 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, Han‐Yi Chou, Kumar Sarthak, et al.. (2020). High-Fidelity Capture, Threading, and Infinite-Depth Sequencing of Single DNA Molecules with a Double-Nanopore System. ACS Nano. 14(11). 15566–15576. 25 indexed citations

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Joshi, Himanshu, et al.. (2020). Tailoring Interleaflet Lipid Transfer with a DNA-based Synthetic Enzyme. Nano Letters. 20(6). 4306–4311. 14 indexed citations

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Restrepo-Pérez, Laura, et al.. (2017). SDS-assisted protein transport through solid-state nanopores. Nanoscale. 9(32). 11685–11693. 68 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Aaron J., Wei Si, Zhengqi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Quantification of Membrane Protein-Detergent Complex Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(44). 10228–10241. 22 indexed citations

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