Chan Cao

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Chan Cao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chan Cao has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chan Cao's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (36 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (17 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (11 papers). Chan Cao is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (36 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (17 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (11 papers). Chan Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Chan Cao's co-authors include Yi‐Tao Long, Yi‐Lun Ying, He Tian, Zheng‐Li Hu, Matteo Dal Peraro, Zhen Gu, Yaqian Wang, Jie Yu, Nuria Cirauqui and Shuang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

Chan Cao

47 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Discrimination of oligonucleotides of different lengths with a wild-type aerolysin nanopore

2016 346 citations Chan Cao, Yi‐Lun Ying et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chan Cao China	24	1.5k	797	429	335	161	54	1.8k
Erik C. Yusko United States	11	1.4k 1.0×	628 0.8×	414 1.0×	321 1.0×	167 1.0×	16	1.7k
Daniel Fologea United States	16	1.3k 0.8×	518 0.6×	474 1.1×	365 1.1×	283 1.8×	45	1.6k
David P. Hoogerheide United States	17	632 0.4×	484 0.6×	236 0.6×	175 0.5×	117 0.7×	46	1.1k
David B. Wells United States	8	780 0.5×	459 0.6×	253 0.6×	163 0.5×	225 1.4×	10	1.1k
Panchika Prangkio Thailand	9	650 0.4×	371 0.5×	183 0.4×	147 0.4×	85 0.5×	21	953
Christopher Maffeo United States	20	522 0.4×	924 1.2×	127 0.3×	50 0.1×	114 0.7×	40	1.3k
Yujia Qing United Kingdom	13	523 0.4×	422 0.5×	166 0.4×	77 0.2×	159 1.0×	25	930
Yunjiao Wang China	20	413 0.3×	316 0.4×	170 0.4×	84 0.3×	150 0.9×	82	1.1k
Martin vandeVen Belgium	19	398 0.3×	459 0.6×	172 0.4×	30 0.1×	219 1.4×	43	1.3k
Carsten Wloka Netherlands	16	652 0.4×	730 0.9×	123 0.3×	149 0.4×	40 0.2×	24	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chan Cao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lange, M., et al.. (2025). The impact of microplastics on small organism dispersal: mechanisms, risks, and research gaps. Evolutionary Ecology. 39(6). 731–743.

Cao, Chan, et al.. (2025). Eliminating the Interference of Neighboring Nucleobases in Aerolysin for Nanopore Sequencing. ACS Sensors. 10(6). 4202–4208. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Chan, Yali Zhao, Yi Dai, et al.. (2025). ZIF-8 membranes for highly efficient SF6 recovery. Separation and Purification Technology. 369. 133005–133005. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Wufeng, Chan Cao, Yali Zhao, Qibin Xia, & Yanying Wei. (2025). Mixed matrix membranes embedded stiffer ZIF-8 for highly efficient SF6 recovery. Journal of Membrane Science. 734. 124399–124399.

Cao, Chan, et al.. (2025). Solvent-mediated structural regulation of MXene membranes for H2 purification. Chemical Engineering Science. 308. 121407–121407.

Rebeaud, Mathieu E., et al.. (2024). Single-molecule evidence of Entropic Pulling by Hsp70 chaperones. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8604–8604. 9 indexed citations

Zheng, Yingying, et al.. (2024). The influence of COVID-19 on short-term mortality in acute ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine. 103(39). e39761–e39761.

Cao, Chan, Pedro Magalhães, Lucien F. Krapp, et al.. (2023). Deep Learning-Assisted Single-Molecule Detection of Protein Post-translational Modifications with a Biological Nanopore. ACS Nano. 18(2). 1504–1515. 32 indexed citations

Cao, Chan, Lucien F. Krapp, Abdelaziz Al Ouahabi, et al.. (2022). Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage. 2022 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). 17.6.1–17.6.4. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Jinming, Chan Cao, R. Loch, Ann Tiiman, & Jinghui Luo. (2020). Single-molecule studies of amyloid proteins: from biophysical properties to diagnostic perspectives. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 53. e12–e12. 17 indexed citations

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Cao, Chan, et al.. (2018). A General Strategy of Aerolysin Nanopore Detection for Oligonucleotides with the Secondary Structure. Small. 14(18). e1704520–e1704520. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Yaqian, Chan Cao, Yi‐Lun Ying, et al.. (2018). Rationally Designed Sensing Selectivity and Sensitivity of an Aerolysin Nanopore via Site-Directed Mutagenesis. ACS Sensors. 3(4). 779–783. 55 indexed citations

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Hu, Zheng‐Li, Yi‐Lun Ying, Junji Zhang, et al.. (2018). Real-Time and Accurate Identification of Single Oligonucleotide Photoisomers via an Aerolysin Nanopore. Analytical Chemistry. 90(7). 4268–4272. 33 indexed citations

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Wang, Yaqian, Meng‐Yin Li, Hu Qiu, et al.. (2018). Identification of Essential Sensitive Regions of the Aerolysin Nanopore for Single Oligonucleotide Analysis. Analytical Chemistry. 90(13). 7790–7794. 58 indexed citations

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Hu, Zheng‐Li, Jihui Du, Yi‐Lun Ying, et al.. (2017). Single-Molecule Analysis of Colorectal Cancer-associated MicroRNAs via a Biological Nanopore. Acta Chimica Sinica. 75(11). 1087–1087. 8 indexed citations

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Cao, Chan, et al.. (2017). Construction of an aerolysin nanopore in a lipid bilayer for single-oligonucleotide analysis. Nature Protocols. 12(9). 1901–1911. 48 indexed citations

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Cao, Chan, et al.. (2016). Detection of Single Oligonucleotide by an Aerolysin Nanopore. Acta Chimica Sinica. 74(9). 734–734. 12 indexed citations

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Cao, Chan, et al.. (2016). Discrimination of oligonucleotides of different lengths with a wild-type aerolysin nanopore. Nature Nanotechnology. 11(8). 713–718. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cao, Chan, Heong‐Wai Tse, David E. Jane, Richard H. Evans, & P.M. Headley. (1997). Antagonism of mGlu Receptors and Potentiation of EPSCs at Rat Spinal Motoneurones In Vitro. Neuropharmacology. 36(3). 313–318. 19 indexed citations

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Cao, Chan, Richard H. Evans, P.M. Headley, & Peter M. Udvarhelyi. (1995). A comparison of the effects of selective metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists on synaptically evoked whole cell currents of rat spinal ventral horn neurones in vitro. British Journal of Pharmacology. 115(8). 1469–1474. 32 indexed citations

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