Christopher D. Snow

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher D. Snow is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher D. Snow has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Materials Chemistry and 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christopher D. Snow's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Christopher D. Snow is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Christopher D. Snow collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Christopher D. Snow's co-authors include Vijay S. Pande, Frances H. Arnold, Bojan Žagrović, Martin Gruebele, Houbi Nguyen, Michael R. Shirts, Eric J. Sorin, Young Min Rhee, Ian T. Suydam and Steven G. Boxer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher D. Snow

74 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Absolute comparison of simulated and experimental protein-folding dynamics
    2002 581 citations Christopher D. Snow, Vijay S. Pande et al. profile →

Peers

Christopher D. Snow
Shibasish Chowdhury India
Volkhard Helms Germany
Sarah Rauscher Canada
Grzegorz Nawrocki United States
Romelia Salomón–Ferrer United States
Pavel Banáš Czechia
Karel Berka Czechia
Guoming Xiong United States
Per Jemth Sweden
Shibasish Chowdhury India
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher D. Snow

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

All Works

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Zhang, Min, Miao Qiu, Rui Xu, et al.. (2025). Luminescent bio-sensors via co-assembly of hen egg white lysozyme with Eu3+/Tb3+-complexes. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(9). 3198–3208. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, Jin Liu, Yao Wang, et al.. (2024). Full fluorescence paper of Eu3+– induced diblock copolymer nanoaggregates for negative multiple mode photon information storage and encryption. Applied Materials Today. 40. 102416–102416. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Longlong, Jin Liu, Yao Wang, et al.. (2024). Smart Cancer-Targeting and Super-Sensitive Sensing of Eu3+/Tb3+-Induced Hyaluronan Characteristic Nano-Micelles with Effective Drug Loading and Release. Molecules. 29(21). 5070–5070. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingjing, Wenfei Shen, Yao Wang, et al.. (2024). A smart microporous block copolymer membrane containing fluorescent europium complexes reports drug release through fluorescence changes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(32). 12608–12614.
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Kading, Rebekah C., et al.. (2023). Scalable Combinatorial Assembly of Synthetic DNA for Tracking Applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(3). 2549–2549. 1 indexed citations
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Shen, Wenfei, Tonghui Li, Yao Wang, et al.. (2023). Improved performance for polymer solar cells though photon energy harvesting and down-conversion of Eu3+-induced diblock polymer aggregates (EIPAs). Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(37). 12730–12739. 6 indexed citations
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Hedayati, Mohammadhasan, et al.. (2023). Ligand presentation inside protein crystal nanopores: Tunable interfacial adhesion noncovalently modulates cell attachment. Materials Today Nano. 24. 100432–100432. 3 indexed citations
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Wei, Heng, Jin Liu, Qian Wang, et al.. (2022). Smart Wearable Fluorescence Sensing of Bacterial Pathogens and Toxic Contaminants by Eu3+-Induced Sodium Alginate/Ag Nanoparticle Aggregates. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(6). 8393–8403. 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Jin, Cuicui Li, Yanying Zhang, et al.. (2022). Lanthanide (Eu3+/Tb3+)-Loaded γ-Cyclodextrin Nano-Aggregates for Smart Sensing of the Anticancer Drug Irinotecan. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(12). 6597–6597. 5 indexed citations
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Hartman, Daniel A., et al.. (2022). Mosquito tagging using DNA-barcoded nanoporous protein microcrystals. PNAS Nexus. 1(4). pgac190–pgac190. 10 indexed citations
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Passos, Carolina dos Santos, Yun‐Seok Choi, Christopher D. Snow, Tingting Yao, & Robert E. Cohen. (2021). Design of genetically encoded sensors to detect nucleosome ubiquitination in live cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(4). 7 indexed citations
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Snow, Christopher D., et al.. (2021). Measuring interactions of DNA with nanoporous protein crystals by atomic force microscopy. Nanoscale. 13(24). 10871–10881. 8 indexed citations
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Snow, Christopher D., et al.. (2011). Polarizable protein packing. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 32(7). 1334–1344. 3 indexed citations
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Maiolo, James R., et al.. (2009). SHARPEN—Systematic Hierarchical Algorithms for Rotamers and Proteins on an Extended Network. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 30(6). 999–1005. 12 indexed citations
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Snow, Christopher D.. (2008). Hunting for predictive computational drug-discovery models. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy. 6(3). 291–293. 1 indexed citations
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Snow, Christopher D., Young Min Rhee, & Vijay S. Pande. (2006). Kinetic Definition of Protein Folding Transition State Ensembles and Reaction Coordinates. Biophysical Journal. 91(1). 14–24. 33 indexed citations
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Snow, Christopher D., Linlin Qiu, Deguo Du, et al.. (2004). Trp zipper folding kinetics by molecular dynamics and temperature-jump spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(12). 4077–4082. 164 indexed citations
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Pande, Vijay S., Ian S. Baker, Jarrod Chapman, et al.. (2002). Atomistic protein folding simulations on the submillisecond time scale using worldwide distributed computing. Biopolymers. 68(1). 91–109. 262 indexed citations

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