Christine M. Aikens

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
153 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Christine M. Aikens is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine M. Aikens has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Materials Chemistry, 103 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Christine M. Aikens's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (105 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (96 papers) and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (56 papers). Christine M. Aikens is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (105 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (96 papers) and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (56 papers). Christine M. Aikens collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Finland. Christine M. Aikens's co-authors include George C. Schatz, Rongchao Jin, Manzhou Zhu, Frederick J. Hollander, K. L. Dimuthu M. Weerawardene, Emilie B. Guidez, Lasse Jensen, Amendra Fernando, Natalia V. Karimova and Hannu Häkkinen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christine M. Aikens

152 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Correlating the Crystal Structure of A Thiol-Protected Au... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Correlating the Crystal Structure of A Thiol-Protected Au25 Cluster and Optical Properties
    2008 2.0k citations Christine M. Aikens, George C. Schatz et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Electronic structure methods for studying surface-enhanced Raman scattering
    2008 566 citations Christine M. Aikens, George C. Schatz 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
Christine M. Aikens United States 50 8.8k 6.3k 992 930 727 153 10.4k
Sami Malola Finland 49 8.8k 1.0× 4.8k 0.7× 460 0.5× 592 0.6× 414 0.6× 149 9.6k
Yuichi Negishi Japan 64 14.5k 1.7× 7.9k 1.2× 707 0.7× 842 0.9× 862 1.2× 295 16.4k
Katsuyuki Nobusada Japan 37 5.5k 0.6× 3.5k 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 333 0.4× 252 0.3× 119 6.7k
Tatsuya Tsukuda Japan 69 16.3k 1.9× 8.8k 1.4× 830 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 884 1.2× 281 19.0k
T. Gregory Schaaff United States 23 5.0k 0.6× 4.1k 0.6× 372 0.4× 786 0.8× 841 1.2× 31 6.8k
Hironori Tsunoyama Japan 37 6.1k 0.7× 2.9k 0.5× 341 0.3× 468 0.5× 250 0.3× 89 7.3k
Amala Dass United States 52 8.4k 1.0× 5.3k 0.8× 111 0.1× 642 0.7× 483 0.7× 129 9.5k
Bokwon Yoon United States 34 6.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.3× 1.3k 1.3× 352 0.4× 173 0.2× 59 6.7k
Olga Lopez‐Acevedo Finland 24 3.4k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 328 0.3× 405 0.4× 354 0.5× 44 4.0k
Marcos M. Alvarez United States 27 6.4k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 852 0.9× 915 1.0× 471 0.6× 40 8.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Deng, Hao, et al.. (2025). Gaussian Process Approach to Constructing Transferable Force Fields for Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanoclusters. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(8). 3892–3902. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Xueli, Qingyuan Wu, Ying‐Zi Han, et al.. (2024). Cu66 nanoclusters from hierarchical square motifs: Synthesis, assembly, and catalysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 6 indexed citations
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Havenridge, Shana, et al.. (2024). Implementation of energy and gradient for the TDDFT-approximate auxiliary function (aas) method. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(2). 2 indexed citations
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Pittenauer, Ernst, Sami Malola, María Francisca Matus, et al.. (2023). Directing Intrinsic Chirality in Gold Nanoclusters: Preferential Formation of Stable Enantiopure Clusters in High Yield and Experimentally Unveiling the “Super” Chirality of Au144. ACS Nano. 17(20). 20376–20386. 18 indexed citations
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Aikens, Christine M., et al.. (2023). Chiral and Achiral Crystal Structures of Au25(PET)180 Reveal Effects of Ligand Rotational Isomerization on Optoelectronic Properties. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(2). e202202760–e202202760. 2 indexed citations
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Bae, Gyun‐Tack & Christine M. Aikens. (2022). Time‐dependent density functional theory study of the optical properties of tetrahedral aluminum nanoparticles. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 43(15). 1033–1041. 2 indexed citations
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Aikens, Christine M., et al.. (2021). Real-Time Electron Dynamics Study of Plasmon-Mediated Photocatalysis on an Icosahedral Al13–1 Nanocluster. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 125(22). 4847–4860. 13 indexed citations
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Yang, Junjie, Zheng Pei, Yuezhi Mao, et al.. (2020). Analysis and visualization of energy densities. I. Insights from real-time time-dependent density functional theory simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(46). 26838–26851. 13 indexed citations
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Pei, Zheng, Junjie Yang, Yuezhi Mao, et al.. (2020). Analysis and visualization of energy densities. II. Insights from linear-response time-dependent density functional theory calculations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(46). 26852–26864. 12 indexed citations
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Matus, María Francisca, et al.. (2020). A topological isomer of the Au25(SR)18−nanocluster. Chemical Communications. 56(58). 8087–8090. 36 indexed citations
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Lingerfelt, David B., et al.. (2020). Ultrafast Nonlinear Plasmon Decay Processes in Silver Nanoclusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(37). 20477–20487. 13 indexed citations
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Weerawardene, K. L. Dimuthu M., Hannu Häkkinen, & Christine M. Aikens. (2018). Connections Between Theory and Experiment for Gold and Silver Nanoclusters. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 69(1). 205–229. 86 indexed citations
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Fernando, Amendra, Tej B. Shrestha, Yao Liu, et al.. (2016). Insights from Theory and Experiment on the Photochromic spiro-Dihydropyrrolo–Pyridazine/Betaine System. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120(6). 875–883. 8 indexed citations
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Guidez, Emilie B. & Christine M. Aikens. (2014). Quantum mechanical origin of the plasmon: from molecular systems to nanoparticles. Nanoscale. 6(20). 11512–11527. 96 indexed citations
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Aikens, Christine M., et al.. (2014). Water Adsorption and Dissociation Processes on Small Mn-Doped TiO2 Complexes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(3). 598–605. 17 indexed citations
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Bae, Gyun‐Tack & Christine M. Aikens. (2012). Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Studies of Optical Properties of Ag Nanoparticles: Octahedra, Truncated Octahedra, and Icosahedra. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(18). 10356–10367. 91 indexed citations
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Aikens, Christine M., et al.. (2012). The Golden Pathway to Thiolate-Stabilized Nanoparticles: Following the Formation of Gold(I) Thiolate from Gold(III) Chloride. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(30). 12590–12595. 47 indexed citations
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Lopez‐Acevedo, Olga, et al.. (2011). Chirality and Electronic Structure of the Thiolate-Protected Au$_{38}$ Nanocluster. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 3 indexed citations
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Aikens, Christine M.. (2010). Geometric and Electronic Structure of Au25(SPhX)18− (X = H, F, Cl, Br, CH3, and OCH3). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 1(17). 2594–2599. 110 indexed citations
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Bakr, Osman M., Vincenzo Amendola, Christine M. Aikens, et al.. (2009). Silver Nanoparticles with Broad Multiband Linear Optical Absorption. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(32). 5921–5926. 242 indexed citations

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