Alexander O. Govorov

32.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
320 papers, 27.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander O. Govorov is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander O. Govorov has authored 320 papers receiving a total of 27.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 124 papers in Materials Chemistry and 110 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexander O. Govorov's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (105 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (85 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (77 papers). Alexander O. Govorov is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (105 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (85 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (77 papers). Alexander O. Govorov collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Alexander O. Govorov's co-authors include Zhiyuan Fan, Hugh H. Richardson, Lucas V. Besteiro, Nicholas A. Kotov, Jaebeom Lee, Tim Liedl, Anton Kuzyk, Robert Schreiber, Rajesh R. Naik and Hui Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alexander O. Govorov

316 papers receiving 27.0k citations

Hit Papers

DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic na... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2012 2007 2000 2015 2014 500 1000 1.5k
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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. DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical response
    2012 1.9k citations Zhiyuan Fan, Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  2. Generating heat with metal nanoparticles
    2007 1.1k citations Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  3. Spectroscopy of Nanoscopic Semiconductor Rings
    2000 668 citations Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  4. Circularly polarized light detection with hot electrons in chiral plasmonic metamaterials
    2015 657 citations Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules
    2014 602 citations Hui Zhang, Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  6. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Light-to-Heat Conversion and Collective Heating Effects in Metal Nanoparticle Solutions
    2009 590 citations Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  7. Theory of Circular Dichroism of Nanomaterials Comprising Chiral Molecules and Nanocrystals: Plasmon Enhancement, Dipole Interactions, and Dielectric Effects
    2010 573 citations Alexander O. Govorov, Zhiyuan Fan et al. profile →
  8. Gold nanoparticle ensembles as heaters and actuators: melting and collective plasmon resonances
    2006 531 citations Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
  9. Broadband Metamaterial Absorbers
    2018 525 citations Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov et al. Advanced Optical Materials profile →
  10. Theory of Photoinjection of Hot Plasmonic Carriers from Metal Nanostructures into Semiconductors and Surface Molecules
    2013 492 citations Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander O. Govorov United States 85 13.3k 10.9k 10.8k 6.8k 5.7k 320 27.6k
Stephan Link United States 70 20.2k 1.5× 16.3k 1.5× 13.3k 1.2× 4.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.9× 217 31.1k
Martin Moskovits United States 89 18.4k 1.4× 14.4k 1.3× 17.7k 1.6× 5.5k 0.8× 9.9k 1.7× 345 37.3k
Teri W. Odom United States 67 6.6k 0.5× 10.3k 0.9× 8.3k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 5.6k 1.0× 238 19.2k
F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo Spain 97 21.0k 1.6× 26.1k 2.4× 9.6k 0.9× 14.6k 2.1× 8.9k 1.6× 496 39.1k
Qiaoliang Bao China 88 6.6k 0.5× 11.4k 1.0× 21.0k 1.9× 10.7k 1.6× 20.2k 3.6× 316 37.6k
Hongxing Xu China 68 9.4k 0.7× 10.1k 0.9× 5.6k 0.5× 4.2k 0.6× 4.8k 0.9× 388 17.5k
David J. Norris United States 67 5.1k 0.4× 7.4k 0.7× 24.2k 2.2× 7.7k 1.1× 18.8k 3.3× 232 33.1k
Christopher B. Murray United States 90 8.2k 0.6× 6.8k 0.6× 26.1k 2.4× 3.4k 0.5× 12.8k 2.3× 299 34.7k
Mark L. Brongersma United States 90 17.3k 1.3× 22.9k 2.1× 11.5k 1.1× 11.9k 1.8× 16.5k 2.9× 332 38.9k
Klaus Kern Germany 93 4.9k 0.4× 9.4k 0.9× 17.1k 1.6× 16.1k 2.4× 12.8k 2.3× 608 35.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Santiago, Eva Yazmin, et al.. (2025). Light-to-matter chirality transfer in plasmonics. Materials Horizons. 12(14). 4940–4969. 1 indexed citations
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Santiago, Eva Yazmin, et al.. (2024). Reshaping and induction of optical activity in gold@silver nanocuboids by chiral glutathione molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(2). 3 indexed citations
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Wynne, Klaas, Affar S. Karimullah, Nikolaj Gadegaard, et al.. (2024). Electromagnetic Enantiomer: Chiral Nanophotonic Cavities for Inducing Chemical Asymmetry. ACS Nano. 18(33). 22220–22232. 5 indexed citations
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Gao, Yang, Weiyu Xie, Bo Wang, et al.. (2024). Observing the Role of Electron Delocalization in Electronic Transport by Incorporating Actinides into Ligated Metal-Chalcogenide Superatoms. Langmuir. 40(29). 15023–15030. 2 indexed citations
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Tohgha, Urice N., et al.. (2024). Liquid crystal-induced tunable circular dichroism in CdSe and ZnSe nanoplatelets. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 398. 124187–124187. 1 indexed citations
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Besteiro, Lucas V., Artur Movsesyan, Audrey Moores, et al.. (2024). Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticle Solutions by Circularly Polarized Light. ACS Nano. 18(41). 28279–28291. 17 indexed citations
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Movsesyan, Artur, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Lothar Houben, et al.. (2023). Anisotropic Circular Dichroism in Aligned Chiral Tellurium Nanorods. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(18). 4 indexed citations
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Movsesyan, Artur, Lucas V. Besteiro, Eva Yazmin Santiago, et al.. (2023). Creating Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures Using Chiral Light in a Solution and on a Substrate: The Near‐Field and Hot‐Electron Routes. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(18). 23 indexed citations
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Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, V. Bahamondes, Lucas V. Besteiro, et al.. (2023). Universal imprinting of chirality with chiral light by employing plasmonic metastructures. Applied Physics Reviews. 10(3). 12 indexed citations
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Movsesyan, Artur, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Sven Burger, et al.. (2022). Plasmonic Nanocrystals with Complex Shapes for Photocatalysis and Growth: Contrasting Anisotropic Hot‐Electron Generation with the Photothermal Effect. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(10). 32 indexed citations
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Santiago, Eva Yazmin, et al.. (2022). Onset of Chirality in Plasmonic Meta-Molecules and Dielectric Coupling. ACS Nano. 16(10). 16143–16149. 18 indexed citations
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Chen, Yang, Wei Du, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2021). Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics. Nature Reviews Physics. 4(2). 113–124. 154 indexed citations
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Chen, Yang, Wei Du, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics. Nature Reviews Physics. 4(2). 138–138. 5 indexed citations
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Fu, Jie, Faze Wang, Yequan Xiao, et al.. (2020). Identifying Performance-Limiting Deep Traps in Ta3N5 for Solar Water Splitting. ACS Catalysis. 10(18). 10316–10324. 90 indexed citations
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Proppe, Andrew H., Oleksandr Voznyy, Ryan D. Pensack, et al.. (2019). Spectrally Resolved Ultrafast Exciton Transfer in Mixed Perovskite Quantum Wells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(3). 419–426. 82 indexed citations
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Dutta, Aveek, Alberto Naldoni, Alexander O. Govorov, Vladimir M. Shalaev, & Alexandra Boltasseva. (2019). Hot Carrier Induced Plasmon Enhanced Photocatalysis in Hematite Thin Films. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations
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Platt, Geoffrey W., Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Nikolaj Gadegaard, et al.. (2017). Superchiral Plasmonic Phase Sensitivity for Fingerprinting of Protein Interface Structure. ACS Nano. 11(12). 12049–12056. 67 indexed citations
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Karimullah, Affar S., Larousse Khosravi Khorashad, Brian Fitzpatrick, et al.. (2016). Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10946–10946. 40 indexed citations
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Fan, Zhiyuan, Hui Zhang, & Alexander O. Govorov. (2013). Plasmonic Circular Dichroism of Chiral Nanoparticle Assemblies. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Govorov, Alexander O., A. V. Chaplik, L. Wendler, & V. M. Fomin. (1994). Does the persistent current in a quantum loop depend on an electron-electron interaction?. JETPL. 60. 633. 1 indexed citations

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