Alessandro Curioni

7.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
95 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Curioni is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Curioni has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Materials Chemistry, 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Curioni's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (15 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (11 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (7 papers). Alessandro Curioni is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (15 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (11 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (7 papers). Alessandro Curioni collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Alessandro Curioni's co-authors include Wanda Andreoni, Henrik Grönbeck, Teodoro Laino, William F. Schneider, K. C. Hass, Mauro Boero, Jürg Hutter, Salomon R. Billeter, Costas Bekas and Nikolaj Moll and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Curioni

94 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Thiols and Disulfides on the Au(111) Surface:  The Headgr... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2000 1998 2018 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Thiols and Disulfides on the Au(111) Surface:  The Headgroup−Gold Interaction
    2000 570 citations Alessandro Curioni, Wanda Andreoni et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. The Chemistry of Water on Alumina Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics from First Principles
    1998 492 citations Alessandro Curioni, Wanda Andreoni et al. profile →
  3. Mixed-precision in-memory computing
    2018 333 citations Matteo Manica, Alessandro Curioni et al. profile →
  4. Accelerating materials discovery using artificial intelligence, high performance computing and robotics
    2022 241 citations Edward O. Pyzer‐Knapp, Peter Staar et al. npj Computational Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Curioni Switzerland 37 2.8k 2.5k 1.3k 695 571 95 5.8k
Hongyan Wang China 38 2.7k 1.0× 2.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 741 1.1× 434 0.8× 452 6.8k
Jun Ye China 38 2.4k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 657 0.5× 572 0.8× 297 0.5× 151 4.5k
Christian Robert Trott United States 12 1.3k 0.5× 4.5k 1.8× 940 0.7× 1.3k 1.8× 299 0.5× 23 8.7k
Stan Moore United States 12 1.1k 0.4× 4.0k 1.6× 914 0.7× 1.3k 1.9× 310 0.5× 27 7.5k
Debra J. Searles Australia 44 2.5k 0.9× 3.2k 1.3× 1.9k 1.5× 1.4k 2.0× 419 0.7× 194 8.7k
Paul Crozier United States 22 1.3k 0.5× 4.7k 1.9× 1.1k 0.9× 1.5k 2.2× 394 0.7× 46 9.0k
Yang Zhao China 45 2.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 3.0k 2.4× 1.6k 2.3× 549 1.0× 297 7.8k
Hasan Metin Aktulga United States 20 1.8k 0.7× 5.7k 2.3× 1.5k 1.1× 1.8k 2.6× 434 0.8× 56 10.6k
Sergei Manzhos Singapore 45 3.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 265 0.4× 320 0.6× 250 6.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Curioni

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pyzer‐Knapp, Edward O., Matteo Manica, Peter Staar, et al.. (2025). Foundation models for materials discovery – current state and future directions. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 20 indexed citations
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Bon, Marta, Teodoro Laino, Alessandro Curioni, & Michele Parrinello. (2016). Characterization of Vanadium Species in Mixed Chloride–Sulfate Solutions: An Ab Initio Metadynamics Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(20). 10791–10798. 23 indexed citations
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Zipoli, Federico, Daniel Krebs, & Alessandro Curioni. (2016). Structural origin of resistance drift in amorphous GeTe. Physical review. B.. 93(11). 60 indexed citations
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Weber, Valéry, et al.. (2015). Computational Study of Lithium Titanate as a Possible Cathode Material for Solid-State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(18). 9681–9691. 15 indexed citations
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Zipoli, Federico & Alessandro Curioni. (2013). Reactive potential for the study of phase-change materials: GeTe. New Journal of Physics. 15(12). 123006–123006. 13 indexed citations
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Laino, Teodoro & Alessandro Curioni. (2012). A New Piece in the Puzzle of Lithium/Air Batteries: Computational Study on the Chemical Stability of Propylene Carbonate in the Presence of Lithium Peroxide. Chemistry - A European Journal. 18(12). 3510–3520. 49 indexed citations
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Moll, Nikolaj, Leo Groß, Fabian Mohn, Alessandro Curioni, & Gerhard Meyer. (2012). A simple model of molecular imaging with noncontact atomic force microscopy. New Journal of Physics. 14(8). 83023–83023. 42 indexed citations
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Shemella, Philip, Teodoro Laino, O. Fritz, & Alessandro Curioni. (2011). Surface Dynamics of Amorphous Polymers Used for High-Voltage Insulators. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(46). 13508–13512. 5 indexed citations
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Curioni, Alessandro. (2011). GLACIER and related R&D. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 309. 12012–12012. 3 indexed citations
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Michel, Bruno, et al.. (2009). Hydrogen-bond enhanced thermal energy transport at functionalized, hydrophobic and hydrophilic silica–water interfaces. Chemical Physics Letters. 476(4-6). 271–276. 29 indexed citations
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Pignedoli, Carlo A., Alessandro Curioni, & Wanda Andreoni. (2006). Reply to Comment on “Disproving a Silicon Analog of an Alkyne with the Aid of Topological Analyses of the Electronic Structure and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Calculations”. ChemPhysChem. 7(4). 801–802. 14 indexed citations
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Ashworth, Mike, Ian J. Bush, Martyn F. Guest, et al.. (2005). HPCx: towards capability computing: Research Articles. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 17(10). 1329–1361. 2 indexed citations
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Hutter, Jürg & Alessandro Curioni. (2005). Dual-level parallelism for ab initio molecular dynamics: Reaching teraflop performance with the CPMD code. Parallel Computing. 31(1). 1–17. 51 indexed citations
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Curioni, Alessandro, Tiziana Mordasini, & Wanda Andreoni. (2004). Enhancing the accuracy of virtual screening: molecular dynamics with quantum-refined force fields. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 18(12). 773–784. 9 indexed citations
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Curioni, Alessandro. (2004). Laboratory and balloon flight performance of the liquid xenon gamma ray imaging telescope. PhDT. 1907.
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Fischer, Dominik, Alessandro Curioni, Salomon R. Billeter, & Wanda Andreoni. (2004). Effects of Nitridation on the Characteristics of Silicon Dioxide: Dielectric and Structural Properties fromab initioCalculations. Physical Review Letters. 92(23). 236405–236405. 27 indexed citations
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Mordasini, Tiziana, Alessandro Curioni, & Wanda Andreoni. (2003). Why Do Divalent Metal Ions Either Promote or Inhibit Enzymatic Reactions?. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(7). 4381–4384. 49 indexed citations
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Andreoni, Wanda & Alessandro Curioni. (2000). New advances in chemistry and materials science with CPMD and parallel computing. Parallel Computing. 26(7-8). 819–842. 125 indexed citations
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Pichler, Thomas, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, et al.. (1997). On-Ball Doping of Fullerenes: The Electronic Structure ofC59N Dimers from Experiment and Theory. Physical Review Letters. 78(22). 4249–4252. 64 indexed citations
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Curioni, Alessandro, Michiel Sprik, Wanda Andreoni, et al.. (1997). Density Functional Theory-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Acid-Catalyzed Chemical Reactions in Liquid Trioxane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(31). 7218–7229. 84 indexed citations

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