Alexander Ryabchun

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander Ryabchun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Ryabchun has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Materials Chemistry, 28 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 17 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alexander Ryabchun's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (28 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (24 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers). Alexander Ryabchun is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (28 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (24 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers). Alexander Ryabchun collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Russia and Germany. Alexander Ryabchun's co-authors include Nathalie Katsonis, Alexey Bobrovsky, Federico Lancia, Valéry Shibaev, Joachim Stumpe, Ivan Aprahamian, Quan Li, Oksana Sakhno, Ben L. Feringa and Dmitry Morozov and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Ryabchun

51 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Life-like motion driven by artificial molecular machines
    2019 280 citations Federico Lancia, Alexander Ryabchun et al. profile →

Peers

Alexander Ryabchun
Federico Lancia Netherlands
Nadia Kapernaum Germany
Hideyuki Nakano Japan
Emre Büküşoğlu Türkiye
Paul J. Wesson United States
Yannian Li United States
Linda S. Hirst United States
Suk‐Won Choi South Korea
Daigo Miyajima Japan
Gautam Singh India
Federico Lancia Netherlands
Alexander Ryabchun
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Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Ryabchun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Ryabchun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Ryabchun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Ryabchun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander Ryabchun. Alexander Ryabchun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Boer, J. de, et al.. (2026). Light‐ and Heat‐Induced Reversal of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in a Single Molecule. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(7). e22699–e22699.
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Elucidating the physicochemical processes of light-activated rotary motors embedded in lipid membranes. Chem. 11(10). 102574–102574. 2 indexed citations
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Hein, Robert, et al.. (2025). Light-gated redox switching and actuation in polymer hydrogels. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9106–9106.
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Photo‐Controlled Dynamics of Cholesteric Polymer Coatings via Hydrazone Crosslinking. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(31). e202507358–e202507358. 1 indexed citations
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Hou, Jiaxin, Jinghao Wang, Alexander Ryabchun, & Ben L. Feringa. (2024). Amplification of Light‐Induced Helix Inversion of Intrinsically Chiral Diarylethene Molecular Switches. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(17). 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Sujun, et al.. (2024). Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(18). e202401291–e202401291. 13 indexed citations
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Sheng, Jinyu, Wojciech Danowski, Jiaxin Hou, et al.. (2024). Formylation boosts the performance of light-driven overcrowded alkene-derived rotary molecular motors. Nature Chemistry. 16(8). 1330–1338. 21 indexed citations
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Hein, Robert, et al.. (2024). A Multiresponsive Ferrocene‐Based Chiral Overcrowded Alkene Twisting Liquid Crystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413047–e202413047. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Sujun, et al.. (2024). Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch. Angewandte Chemie. 136(18). 2 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, & Nathalie Katsonis. (2023). Light‐Responsive Springs from Electropatterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(12). 7 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Run-and-halt motility of droplets in response to light. Chem. 8(8). 2290–2300. 14 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Acceleration of lipid reproduction by emergence of microscopic motion. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2959–2959. 33 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, Jiawen Chen, et al.. (2020). Helix Inversion Controlled by Molecular Motors in Multistate Liquid Crystals. Advanced Materials. 32(47). e2004420–e2004420. 72 indexed citations
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Lancia, Federico, Takaki Yamamoto, Alexander Ryabchun, et al.. (2019). Reorientation behavior in the helical motility of light-responsive spiral droplets. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5238–5238. 60 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Humidity-responsive actuators from integrating liquid crystal networks in an orienting scaffold. Soft Matter. 13(44). 8070–8075. 43 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, Alexey Bobrovsky, Yuri Gritsai, et al.. (2014). Stable Selective Gratings in LC Polymer by Photoinduced Helix Pitch Modulation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 7(4). 2554–2560. 17 indexed citations
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Bogdanov, Alexey V., Alexey Bobrovsky, Alexander Ryabchun, & Andrey Kh. Vorobiev. (2012). Laser-induced holographic light scattering in a liquid-crystalline azobenzene-containing polymer. Physical Review E. 85(1). 11704–11704. 5 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, Alexey Bobrovsky, Anna Sobolewska, Valéry Shibaev, & Joachim Stumpe. (2012). Dual photorecording on cholesteric azobenzene-containing LC polymer films using helix pitch phototuning and holographic grating recording. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 22(13). 6245–6245. 27 indexed citations
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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2012). A Novel Type of Crown Ether‐Containing Metal Ions Optical Sensors Based on Polymer‐Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Films. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 33(21). 1875–1881. 24 indexed citations

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