Benjamin Messer

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Messer is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Messer has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 12 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Messer's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (5 papers). Benjamin Messer is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (8 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (5 papers). Benjamin Messer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Benjamin Messer's co-authors include Hannes Kind, Matt Law, Pinyi Yang, Yan Han, Peidong Yang, Christopher D. Cappa, Richard J. Saykally, Franklin Kim, R. C. Cohen and Jae Hee Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Messer

35 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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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.

Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches

2002 2.0k citations Hannes Kind, Yan Han et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Photochemical Sensing of NO2 with SnO2 Nanoribbon Nanosensors at Room Temperature This work was supported by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 3M Corporation, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California, Berkeley. P.Y. is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was supported by the Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science of the US Department of Energy. We thank the National Center for Electron Microscopy for the use of their facilities.

2002 770 citations Matt Law, Hannes Kind et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Messer United States	23	3.2k	2.7k	1.4k	1.1k	994	35	5.3k
R. Bruce Lennox Canada	51	3.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	2.0k 2.0×	139	7.8k
Alfons Schulte United States	34	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	666 0.5×	816 0.7×	681 0.7×	116	5.0k
Saroj K. Nayak United States	49	4.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	157	7.5k
Takashi Yamamoto Japan	38	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	755 0.6×	963 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	242	5.2k
Pulak Dutta United States	44	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	2.5k 2.3×	948 1.0×	162	7.4k
Jacob Sagiv Israel	40	1.8k 0.5×	4.2k 1.6×	2.1k 1.6×	2.3k 2.0×	475 0.5×	68	6.6k
Bert Nickel Germany	36	2.4k 0.7×	3.9k 1.5×	891 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	372 0.4×	126	5.6k
Manfred Buck Germany	42	2.9k 0.9×	4.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	431 0.4×	128	5.7k
Christian von Borczyskowski Germany	33	3.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	2.2k 2.0×	540 0.5×	234	5.5k
Hisao Yanagi Japan	36	2.4k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	897 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	543 0.5×	239	4.5k

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Messer, Benjamin, et al.. (2009). Multiscale simulations of protein landscapes: Using coarse‐grained models as reference potentials to full explicit models. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 78(5). 1212–1227. 61 indexed citations

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Roca, Maite, Benjamin Messer, Donald Hilvert, & Arieh Warshel. (2008). On the relationship between folding and chemical landscapes in enzyme catalysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(37). 13877–13882. 73 indexed citations

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Roca, Maite, Benjamin Messer, & Arieh Warshel. (2007). Electrostatic contributions to protein stability and folding energy. FEBS Letters. 581(10). 2065–2071. 47 indexed citations

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Roca, Maite, Hanbin Liu, Benjamin Messer, & Arieh Warshel. (2007). On the Relationship between Thermal Stability and Catalytic Power of Enzymes. Biochemistry. 46(51). 15076–15088. 87 indexed citations

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Cappa, Christopher D., Jared D. Smith, Benjamin Messer, R. C. Cohen, & Richard J. Saykally. (2006). Effects of Cations on the Hydrogen Bond Network of Liquid Water: New Results from X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Liquid Microjets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110(11). 5301–5309. 114 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin, Christopher D. Cappa, J. D. Smith, et al.. (2005). pH Dependence of the Electronic Structure of Glycine. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 109(11). 5375–5382. 87 indexed citations

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Cappa, Christopher D., Jared D. Smith, Kevin R. Wilson, et al.. (2005). Effects of Alkali Metal Halide Salts on the Hydrogen Bond Network of Liquid Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 109(15). 7046–7052. 146 indexed citations

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Cappa, Christopher D., Kevin R. Wilson, Benjamin Messer, Richard J. Saykally, & R. C. Cohen. (2004). Optical cavity resonances in water micro‐droplets: Implications for shortwave cloud forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(10). 5 indexed citations

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Law, Matt, Hannes Kind, Benjamin Messer, Franklin Kim, & Peidong Yang. (2002). Photochemical Sensing of NO2 with SnO2 Nanoribbon Nanosensors at Room Temperature This work was supported by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 3M Corporation, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California, Berkeley. P.Y. is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was supported by the Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science of the US Department of Energy. We thank the National Center for Electron Microscopy for the use of their facilities.. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41(13). 2405–2405. 770 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kind, Hannes, Yan Han, Benjamin Messer, Matt Law, & Pinyi Yang. (2002). Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches. Advanced Materials. 14(2). 158–160. 2040 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Yiying, Haoquan Yan, Michael H. Huang, et al.. (2002). Inorganic Semiconductor Nanowires: Rational Growth, Assembly, and Novel Properties. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(6). 1260–1268. 351 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiying, Haoquan Yan, Michael H. Huang, et al.. (2002). Inorganic Semiconductor Nanowires: Rational Growth, Assembly, and Novel Properties. Chemistry - A European Journal. 8(6). 1260–1260. 8 indexed citations

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Song, Jae Hee, Yiying Wu, Benjamin Messer, Hannes Kind, & Peidong Yang. (2001). ChemInform Abstract: Metal Nanowire Formation Using Mo₃Se^‐₃ as Reducing and Sacrificing Templates.. ChemInform. 32(52). 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiying, Benjamin Messer, & Pinyi Yang. (2001). Superconducting MgB2 Nanowires. Advanced Materials. 13(19). 1487–1489. 151 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin, Jae Hee Song, & Peidong Yang. (2000). Microchannel Networks for Nanowire Patterning. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122(41). 10232–10233. 186 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin, et al.. (2000). Computational and experimental studies of chemical ionization mass spectrometric detection techniques for atmospherically relevant peroxides. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 197(1-3). 219–235. 16 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin, Jie Song, Michael H. Huang, et al.. (2000). Surfactant-Induced Mesoscopic Assemblies of Inorganic Molecular Chains. Advanced Materials. 12(20). 1526–1528. 54 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin & Matthew J. Elrod. (1999). A theoretical study of ROX (R=H, CH3; X=F, Cl, Br) enthalpies of formation, ionization potentials and fluoride affinities. Chemical Physics Letters. 301(1-2). 10–18. 18 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin & H. Tributsch. (1987). Silicon-hydrogen interaction seen by microwave-photoelectrochemical techniques. Chemical Physics Letters. 142(6). 546–550. 7 indexed citations

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Messer, Benjamin & H. Tributsch. (1986). Microwave Photoelectrochemistry of n ‐ WSe2. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 133(10). 2212–2213. 10 indexed citations

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