Christopher B. Murray

40.9k total citations · 18 hit papers
299 papers, 34.7k citations indexed

About

Christopher B. Murray is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher B. Murray has authored 299 papers receiving a total of 34.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Materials Chemistry, 108 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 79 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Christopher B. Murray's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (128 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (73 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (55 papers). Christopher B. Murray is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (128 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (73 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (55 papers). Christopher B. Murray collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Netherlands. Christopher B. Murray's co-authors include Dmitri V. Talapin, Cherie R. Kagan, Xingchen Ye, Elena V. Shevchenko, Stephen O’Brien, Yijin Kang, Thomas R. Gordon, Matteo Cargnello, Benjamin T. Diroll and Moungi G. Bawendi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christopher B. Murray

296 papers receiving 34.3k citations

Hit Papers

Structural diversity in binary nanoparticle superlattices 1994 2026 2004 2015 2006 2005 2013 2005 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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. Structural diversity in binary nanoparticle superlattices
    2006 1.8k citations Nicholas A. Kotov, Christopher B. Murray et al. Nature profile →
  2. PbSe Nanocrystal Solids for n- and p-Channel Thin Film Field-Effect Transistors
    2005 1.5k citations Christopher B. Murray et al. profile →
  3. Control of Metal Nanocrystal Size Reveals Metal-Support Interface Role for Ceria Catalysts
    2013 1.2k citations Matteo Cargnello, Eric A. Stach et al. profile →
  4. Designing PbSe Nanowires and Nanorings through Oriented Attachment of Nanoparticles
    2005 1.1k citations Christopher B. Murray et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals
    2015 1.0k citations Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray et al. ACS Nano profile →
  6. Using Binary Surfactant Mixtures To Simultaneously Improve the Dimensional Tunability and Monodispersity in the Seeded Growth of Gold Nanorods
    2013 929 citations Christopher B. Murray et al. profile →
  7. Nonaqueous Synthesis of TiO2 Nanocrystals Using TiF4 to Engineer Morphology, Oxygen Vacancy Concentration, and Photocatalytic Activity
    2012 851 citations Matteo Cargnello, Taejong Paik et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. A Generalized Ligand-Exchange Strategy Enabling Sequential Surface Functionalization of Colloidal Nanocrystals
    2010 770 citations James M. Kikkawa, Christopher B. Murray et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. Electronic Energy Transfer in CdSe Quantum Dot Solids
    1996 753 citations Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray et al. profile →
  10. Binary nanocrystal superlattice membranes self-assembled at the liquid–air interface
    2010 749 citations James M. Kikkawa, Christopher B. Murray et al. Nature profile →
  11. Improved Size-Tunable Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods through the Use of Aromatic Additives
    2012 740 citations Nader Engheta, Cherie R. Kagan et al. ACS Nano profile →
  12. Three-dimensional binary superlattices of magnetic nanocrystals and semiconductor quantum dots
    2003 716 citations Christopher B. Murray et al. Nature profile →
  13. Long-range resonance transfer of electronic excitations in close-packed CdSe quantum-dot solids
    1996 635 citations Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray et al. profile →
  14. Cluster-Assembled Materials
    2009 589 citations Christopher B. Murray et al. ACS Nano profile →
  15. Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids
    2015 507 citations Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray profile →
  16. Synergism in binary nanocrystal superlattices leads to enhanced p-type conductivity in self-assembled PbTe/Ag2Te thin films
    2007 471 citations Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray et al. profile →
  17. Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Barium Titanate:  Toward a Generalized Strategy of Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis
    2001 390 citations Christopher B. Murray et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  18. Langmuir-Blodgett Manipulation of Size-Selected CdSe Nanocrystallites
    1994 228 citations Christopher B. Murray 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
Christopher B. Murray United States 90 26.1k 12.8k 8.2k 6.8k 6.3k 299 34.7k
Jiannian Yao China 99 20.4k 0.8× 20.5k 1.6× 4.8k 0.6× 4.4k 0.7× 6.5k 1.0× 703 37.3k
Yong Ding United States 94 21.0k 0.8× 16.3k 1.3× 12.3k 1.5× 8.6k 1.3× 8.3k 1.3× 300 35.0k
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo Belgium 97 23.6k 0.9× 9.5k 0.7× 10.1k 1.2× 5.8k 0.9× 5.1k 0.8× 946 38.9k
Mauricio Terrones United States 114 42.0k 1.6× 20.5k 1.6× 7.4k 0.9× 11.3k 1.7× 5.7k 0.9× 736 54.3k
Sara Bals Belgium 79 14.8k 0.6× 8.2k 0.6× 5.6k 0.7× 4.5k 0.7× 4.6k 0.7× 568 24.9k
Christof Wöll Germany 101 24.1k 0.9× 14.4k 1.1× 3.5k 0.4× 7.7k 1.1× 4.5k 0.7× 661 38.7k
Jianfang Wang Hong Kong 92 20.8k 0.8× 9.9k 0.8× 15.0k 1.8× 17.0k 2.5× 7.5k 1.2× 405 39.1k
Thomas E. Mallouk United States 127 26.3k 1.0× 19.3k 1.5× 6.6k 0.8× 16.5k 2.4× 14.5k 2.3× 501 55.6k
Chun‐Hua Yan China 123 37.5k 1.4× 15.8k 1.2× 9.6k 1.2× 7.6k 1.1× 13.6k 2.2× 661 52.7k
Clemens Burda United States 77 19.7k 0.8× 8.3k 0.6× 6.1k 0.7× 6.5k 1.0× 8.9k 1.4× 255 29.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kumar, Prashant, Thi Vo, Minjeong Cha, et al.. (2023). Photonically active bowtie nanoassemblies with chirality continuum. Nature. 615(7952). 418–424. 115 indexed citations
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Marino, Emanuele, et al.. (2023). Controlled Assembly of CdSe Nanoplatelet Thin Films and Nanowires. Langmuir. 39(36). 12533–12540. 4 indexed citations
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Jo, Kiyoung, Emanuele Marino, Jason Lynch, et al.. (2023). Direct nano-imaging of light-matter interactions in nanoscale excitonic emitters. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2649–2649. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingzhu, et al.. (2022). Shape Morphing Directed by Spatially Encoded, Dually Responsive Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Micro‐Actuators. Advanced Materials. 35(5). e2208613–e2208613. 37 indexed citations
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Foucher, Alexandre C., Shengsong Yang, Daniel J. Rosen, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Shell Cu-Ru, Cu-Rh, and Cu-Ir Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(17). 7919–7928. 23 indexed citations
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Marino, Emanuele, et al.. (2022). Nanoparticle dynamics in hydrogel networks with controlled defects. Soft Matter. 18(47). 9045–9056. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingzhu, Shengsong Yang, Yuchen Wang, et al.. (2022). Janus Microdroplets with Tunable Self‐Recoverable and Switchable Reflective Structural Colors. Advanced Materials. 35(5). 37 indexed citations
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Gouget, Guillaume, et al.. (2021). Rare-Earth Sulfide Nanocrystals from Wet Colloidal Synthesis: Tunable Compositions, Size-Dependent Light Absorption, and Sensitized Rare-Earth Luminescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(9). 3300–3305. 31 indexed citations
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Elbert, Katherine C., et al.. (2021). Anisotropic nanocrystal shape and ligand design for co-assembly. Science Advances. 7(23). 2 indexed citations
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Foucher, Alexandre C., Nicholas Marcella, Jennifer D. Lee, et al.. (2021). Structural and Valence State Modification of Cobalt in CoPt Nanocatalysts in Redox Conditions. ACS Nano. 15(12). 20619–20632. 22 indexed citations
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Marino, Emanuele, Alice Sciortino, Katherine E. MacArthur, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous Photonic and Excitonic Coupling in Spherical Quantum Dot Supercrystals. ACS Nano. 14(10). 13806–13815. 32 indexed citations
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Cargnello, Matteo, et al.. (2020). Nanoparticle diffusion during gelation of tetra poly(ethylene glycol) provides insight into nanoscale structural evolution. Soft Matter. 16(9). 2256–2265. 13 indexed citations
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Lee, Jennifer D., et al.. (2020). Engineering the composition of bimetallic nanocrystals to improve hydrodeoxygenation selectivity for 2-acetylfuran. Applied Catalysis A General. 606. 117808–117808. 2 indexed citations
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Gouget, Guillaume, et al.. (2020). Efficient photoluminescence of isotropic rare-earth oxychloride nanocrystals from a solvothermal route. Chemical Communications. 56(23). 3429–3432. 11 indexed citations
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Greybush, Nicholas J., Víctor Pacheco‐Peña, Nader Engheta, Christopher B. Murray, & Cherie R. Kagan. (2019). Plasmonic Optical and Chiroptical Response of Self-Assembled Au Nanorod Equilateral Trimers. ACS Nano. 13(2). 1617–1624. 101 indexed citations
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Banerjee, Soham, Jennifer D. Lee, Viktoria Grasmik, et al.. (2018). Improved Models for Metallic Nanoparticle Cores from Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(51). 29498–29506. 43 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenghao, Chang Liu, Dong Su, et al.. (2018). Bimetallic synergy in cobalt–palladium nanocatalysts for CO oxidation. Nature Catalysis. 2(1). 78–85. 249 indexed citations
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Wang, Cong, Xinyu Mao, Jennifer D. Lee, et al.. (2018). A Characterization Study of Reactive Sites in ALD-Synthesized WOx/ZrO2 Catalysts. Catalysts. 8(7). 292–292. 21 indexed citations
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Jishkariani, Davit, Jennifer D. Lee, Hongseok Yun, et al.. (2017). The dendritic effect and magnetic permeability in dendron coated nickel and manganese zinc ferrite nanoparticles. Nanoscale. 9(37). 13922–13928. 8 indexed citations
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He, Kai, Sen Zhang, Jing Li, et al.. (2016). Visualizing non-equilibrium lithiation of spinel oxide via in situ transmission electron microscopy. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11441–11441. 169 indexed citations

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