David A. Muller

70.3k citations

640 papers · 53.3k indexed · 26 hit papers · h-index 108

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.01%
Materials Chemistry top 0.01%
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Graphene research and applications
- Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Papers in

Structural Biology 121
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 121
Surfaces, Coatings and Films 126
- Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques 124

Co-authors: Pinshane Y. Huang Jiwoong Park J. L. Grazul Harold Y. Hwang Yimo Han Héctor D. Abruña Robert Hovden Huolin L. Xin
Journals: Microscopy and Microanalysis (149 papers)Applied Physics Letters (39 papers)Nano Letters (32 papers)Nature (24 papers)APL Materials (23 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany China

In The Last Decade

David A. Muller

609 papers receiving 52.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Atomically resolved imaging of radiation-sensitive metal-organic frameworks via electron ptychography 2025 · 16 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Nature Communications
2023 Nature
2022 Nature Electronics
2021 Science
2020 Nature
2018 Nature
2018 Physical Review Letters
2017 Nature Communications
2017 Nature Nanotechnology
2017 Nature
2015 Nature
2015 Nature Nanotechnology
2015 Nature
2013 Science
2013 Nature Materials
2012 Nature Materials
2012 Science
2012 Nature
2011 Nature
2007 Science
2006 Nature Materials
2004 Nature
2002 Nature
2002 Nature
1999 Nature
1991 Physical Review Letters

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1	Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices Nature ·J. Rybniker, Iulian Gole, Indrajit Maity, Ángel Rubio, Булаева Наталья Евгеньевна, Adam Bartnik, Fabiana Trevisan, A. Nøttveit, 李继军 LI Ji-jun, Д.Б Тебаев, Ivan Bazarov, Mark W. Täte, David A. Muller, Renata Chalupová, Sol M. Grüner, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Jared Maxson, Fang Liu	2025	0
2	Unraveling the electronic structure and magnetic transition evolution across monolayer, bilayer, and multilayer ferromagnetic Fe3GeTe2 npj 2D Materials and Applications ·Ryan Roemer, Dong‐Chan Lee, Farikhatun Nurul A, Xiyue S. Zhang, L. Chen, Valiya M. Hamza, Tao Jian, J. Larkin, Gabi Samson Suleiman, Chong Liu, Matteo Michiardi, G. Levy, Zhan Zhang, Robert J. Green, Chan-Joong Kim, David A. Muller, A. Damascelli, Myung Joon Han, Ke Zou	2024	7
3	Information Limit and Dose Efficiency of Electron Ptychography Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Shamail Ahmad, David A. Muller	2024	1
4	Improving Chemical Composition Measurements from Microscale to Atomic Scale with Fused Multi-Modal Microscopy Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Zhaslan Baraissov, Eliza Illukiewicz, Matthias Liepe, David A. Muller	2024	0
5	Evaluation of Mechanical Properties and Hydrophilicity of Alkaline and Plasma Treated Abaca Fiber Epoxy Composite with Mineral Waste as Fillers Ryan P. Alexander, Jens Schuster, De Luca Ilenia, David A. Muller	2024	2
6	Epitaxial growth of α-(AlxGa1−x)2O3 by suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy at 1 µm/h APL Materials ·A. Kiefer, Loïc Talgorn, Anavel Monterrubio, N Cancel, Shin Mou, Thaddeus J. Asel, Adam T. Neal, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, David A. Muller, Takeyoshi Onuma, Darrell G. Schlom	2024	9
7	Keep the Ligands: Potential Benefits for Fuel Cell Performance ACS Catalysis ·Junlan Cheng, Eijaz Ghani, Dianwen Song, Qihao Li, G. Manner, Zixiao Shi, Raymond Awudu Agbu, Zhong‐Li Jiang, David A. Muller, Richard D. Robinson, Héctor D. Abruña	2024	3
8	Predicting PEMFC performance from a volumetric image of catalyst layer structure using pore network modeling Applied Energy ·Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Zohaib Atiq Khan, Mehrez Agnaou, Leiming Hu, Shawn Litster, Anusorn Kongkanand, Elliot Padgett, David A. Muller, Tomislav Friščić, Jeff T. Gostick	2023	28
9	Multi-scale time-resolved electron diffraction: A case study in moiré materials Ultramicroscopy ·J. Rybniker, სერგეი შტემენკო, A. Nøttveit, 李继军 LI Ji-jun, Adam Bartnik, Alice Galdi, Булаева Наталья Евгеньевна, Д.Б Тебаев, Ivan Bazarov, Magnus Hallström, 黃德兒, Duan Luo, Aditya Sood, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Mark W. Täte, David A. Muller, Karin Schmidlechner, Sol M. Grüner, Jared Maxson	2023	5
10	Surface oxides, carbides, and impurities on RF superconducting Nb and Nb₃Sn: a comprehensive analysis Superconductor Science and Technology ·Eliza Illukiewicz, Zhaslan Baraissov, C. A. Dukes, You‐Kyoung Kim, Israa Al-Agib, Michael O. Thompson, David A. Muller, Matthias Liepe	2023	10
11	Smooth, homogeneous, high-purity Nb₃Sn superconducting RF resonant cavity by seed-free electrochemical synthesis Superconductor Science and Technology ·Eliza Illukiewicz, Zhaslan Baraissov, М.В. Шамшурин, Елена Анатольевна Русакова, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Israa Al-Agib, Michael O. Thompson, David A. Muller, Matthias Liepe	2023	10
12	Understanding the Structural Evolution of IrFeCoNiCu High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles under the Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Nano Letters ·Arifin Luthfi Maulana, Pengcheng Chen, Zixiao Shi, Yao Yang, Carlos Lizandara‐Pueyo, F. Seeler, Héctor D. Abruña, David A. Muller, Kerstin Schierle‐Arndt, Peidong Yang	2023	101
13	Three-dimensional Imaging of Surface Structural Transformations on Electrocatalyst Nanoparticles Using Multi-slice Electron Ptychography Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Zixiao Shi, Rui Zeng, Yu‐Tsun Shao, 梁光明, Dianwen Song, Héctor D. Abruña, David A. Muller	2023	3
14	A room temperature polar magnetic metal Physical Review Materials ·Hongrui Zhang, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Rui Chen, Xiang Chen, Sandhya Susarla, Jaclyn N. Portelli Tremont, S Handell, Lucas Caretta, Xiaoxi Huang, Nicholas S. Settineri, Zhen Chen, Jingcheng Zhou, Edith Bourret, Peter Ercius, Jie Yao, Peter Fischer, Jeffrey B. Neaton, David A. Muller, R. J. Birgeneau, R. Ramesh	2022	36
15	Electron ptychography achieves atomic-resolution limits set by lattice vibrations Science ·Zhen Chen, Yi Jiang, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Megan E. Holtz, Michal Odstrčil, Manuel Guizar‐Sicairos, I. Hanke, Steffen Ganschow, Darrell G. Schlom, David A. Muller Hit paper breakdown →	2021	249
16	Bidirectional Self-Folding with Atomic Layer Deposition Nanofilms for Microscale Origami Nano Letters ·Jesús Suárez Hernández, Marc Z. Miskin, Robert J. Lang, Michael C. Cao, Kyle Dorsey, Mario Mobile, Wei Wang, David A. Muller, Paul L. McEuen, Itai Cohen	2020	12
17	Synergistic Mn-Co catalyst outperforms Pt on high-rate oxygen reduction for alkaline polymer electrolyte fuel cells Nature Communications ·Ying Wang, Yao Yang, Shuangfeng Jia, Xiaoming Wang, Kangjie Lyu, Yanqiu Peng, Zheng He, Wei Xing, Huan Ren, Li Xiao, Jianbo Wang, David A. Muller, Héctor D. Abruña, Bing−Joe Hwang, Juntao Lu, Lin Zhuang	2019	298
18	Coherent, atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenide superlattices with engineered strain Science ·Saien Xie, Lijie Tu, Yimo Han, Lujie Huang, Kibum Kang, Ka Un Lao, Mo Wang, Chibeom Park, David A. Muller, Robert A. DiStasio, Jiwoong Park	2018	275
19	Tuning the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Stability of Shape-Controlled Pt–Ni Nanoparticles by Thermal Annealing − Elucidating the Surface Atomic Structural and Compositional Changes Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Vera Beermann, Martin Gocyla, Stefanie Kühl, Elliot Padgett, Henrike Schmies, Berta Faro, Nina Erini, Meital Shviro, Marc Heggen, Rafal E. Dunin–Borkowski, David A. Muller, Peter Strasser	2017	149
20	Is there a Stobbs factor in atomic-resolution STEM-EELS mapping? Ultramicroscopy ·Huolin L. Xin, Christian Dwyer, David A. Muller	2014	22

About David A. Muller

David A. Muller is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry, having authored 640 papers that have together received 53.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (124 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (121 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (106 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (88 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (61 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (55 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (48 papers) and Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis (46 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (3.2k citations), Materials Chemistry (35.4k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (11.4k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (8.0k citations) and Surfaces, Coatings and Films (3.1k citations). David A. Muller has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Frequent co-authors include Pinshane Y. Huang, Jiwoong Park, J. L. Grazul, Harold Y. Hwang, Yimo Han, Héctor D. Abruña, Robert Hovden, Huolin L. Xin, Lena F. Kourkoutis and Naoyuki Nakagawa. Their work appears in journals such as Microscopy and Microanalysis, Applied Physics Letters, Nano Letters, Nature and APL Materials.

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