Ben M. Alston

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ben M. Alston is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben M. Alston has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 5 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ben M. Alston's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (4 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (4 papers). Ben M. Alston is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (4 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (4 papers). Ben M. Alston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Ben M. Alston's co-authors include Andrew I. Cooper, Rob Clowes, Catherine M. Aitchison, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Nicola Rankin, Michael E. Briggs, Xiaobo Li, Phillip M. Maffettone, Yang Bai and Buyi Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ben M. Alston

15 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

A mobile robotic chemist

2020 939 citations Phillip M. Maffettone, Vladimir V. Gusev et al. Nature profile →

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Loı̈c M. Roch Switzerland

Edward O. Pyzer‐Knapp United Kingdom

Catherine M. Aitchison United Kingdom

Katherine C. Elbert United States

Philip J. Kitson United Kingdom

Yang Yu China

Yuhao Wang China

Zhaoxia Zhang China

Milad Abolhasani United States

Loı̈c M. Roch Switzerland

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben M. Alston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben M. Alston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben M. Alston 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 Ben M. Alston. Ben M. Alston is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Longley, Louis, Alexander E. White, Nicola Rankin, et al.. (2023). Modular, multi-robot integration of laboratories: an autonomous workflow for solid-state chemistry. Chemical Science. 15(7). 2456–2463. 54 indexed citations

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Maffettone, Phillip M., Vladimir V. Gusev, Catherine M. Aitchison, et al.. (2020). A mobile robotic chemist. Nature. 583(7815). 237–241. 939 indexed citations breakdown →

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Greenaway, Rebecca L., Valentina Santolini, Angeles Pulido, et al.. (2019). From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi‐Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self‐Sorting. Angewandte Chemie. 131(45). 16421–16427. 23 indexed citations

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Greenaway, Rebecca L., Valentina Santolini, Angeles Pulido, et al.. (2019). From Concept to Crystals via Prediction: Multi‐Component Organic Cage Pots by Social Self‐Sorting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(45). 16275–16281. 62 indexed citations

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Alston, Ben M., et al.. (2019). Accelerated robotic discovery of type II porous liquids. Chemical Science. 10(41). 9454–9465. 96 indexed citations

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Cui, Peng, David P. McMahon, Peter R. Spackman, et al.. (2019). Mining predicted crystal structure landscapes with high throughput crystallisation: old molecules, new insights. Chemical Science. 10(43). 9988–9997. 80 indexed citations

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Greenaway, Rebecca L., Valentina Santolini, Michael J. Bennison, et al.. (2018). High-throughput discovery of organic cages and catenanes using computational screening fused with robotic synthesis. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2849–2849. 161 indexed citations

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Berardo, Enrico, Rebecca L. Greenaway, Lukas Turcani, et al.. (2018). Computationally-inspired discovery of an unsymmetrical porous organic cage. Nanoscale. 10(47). 22381–22388. 42 indexed citations

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Piper, Andrew, Ben M. Alston, Dave J. Adams, & Andrew R. Mount. (2018). Functionalised microscale nanoband edge electrode (MNEE) arrays: the systematic quantitative study of hydrogels grown on nanoelectrode biosensor arrays for enhanced sensing in biological media. Faraday Discussions. 210(0). 201–217. 16 indexed citations

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Sprick, Reiner Sebastian, Catherine M. Aitchison, Enrico Berardo, et al.. (2018). Maximising the hydrogen evolution activity in organic photocatalysts by co-polymerisation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(25). 11994–12003. 94 indexed citations

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Slater, Anna G., Paul S. Reiss, Angeles Pulido, et al.. (2017). Computationally-Guided Synthetic Control over Pore Size in Isostructural Porous Organic Cages. ACS Central Science. 3(7). 734–742. 72 indexed citations

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Lee, Jet‐Sing M., Tzu−Ho Wu, Ben M. Alston, et al.. (2016). Porosity-engineered carbons for supercapacitive energy storage using conjugated microporous polymer precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 4(20). 7665–7673. 137 indexed citations

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Kubiak, Peter S., Wentao Deng, Ben M. Alston, et al.. (2015). Polymerization of low molecular weight hydrogelators to form electrochromic polymers. Chemical Communications. 51(52). 10427–10430. 23 indexed citations

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Raeburn, Jaclyn, Ben M. Alston, Tom O. McDonald, et al.. (2014). Electrochemically-triggered spatially and temporally resolved multi-component gels. Materials Horizons. 1(2). 241–246. 77 indexed citations

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Chvanov, Michael, Wei Huang, Tao Jin, et al.. (2014). Novel Lipophilic Probe for Detecting Near-Membrane Reactive Oxygen Species Responses and Its Application for Studies of Pancreatic Acinar Cells: Effects of Pyocyanin and L-Ornithine. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 22(6). 451–464. 20 indexed citations

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