Davide Mandelli

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Davide Mandelli is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Mandelli has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Materials Chemistry, 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Davide Mandelli's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers). Davide Mandelli is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers). Davide Mandelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Israel and Germany. Davide Mandelli's co-authors include Michael Urbakh, Oded Hod, Wengen Ouyang, Ming Ma, Quanshui Zheng, Yiming Song, Itai Leven, Erio Tosatti, Andrea Vanossi and Giuseppe Di Gioia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Davide Mandelli

27 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Robust microscale superlubricity in graphite/hexagonal boron nitride layered heterojunctions

2018 386 citations Yiming Song, Davide Mandelli et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Mandelli Italy	14	788	586	270	178	132	28	1.2k
Kyu‐Hwan Lee South Korea	14	431 0.5×	114 0.2×	69 0.3×	46 0.3×	294 2.2×	63	856
Haikuan Dong China	20	1.1k 1.4×	382 0.7×	54 0.2×	87 0.5×	326 2.5×	68	1.5k
Penghua Ying China	16	822 1.0×	95 0.2×	87 0.3×	103 0.6×	164 1.2×	48	962
Joseph D. Harris United States	14	226 0.3×	147 0.3×	75 0.3×	54 0.3×	71 0.5×	31	1.1k
Jhih‐Sian Tu Germany	13	548 0.7×	159 0.3×	51 0.2×	23 0.1×	178 1.3×	17	678
Huajing Song United States	17	342 0.4×	183 0.3×	43 0.2×	182 1.0×	61 0.5×	40	646
Huilong Zhu China	19	473 0.6×	148 0.3×	57 0.2×	112 0.6×	833 6.3×	117	1.4k
Petr Voňka Czechia	12	550 0.7×	101 0.2×	33 0.1×	225 1.3×	92 0.7×	60	1.0k
Simon R. Hemelaar Netherlands	9	526 0.7×	158 0.3×	46 0.2×	50 0.3×	40 0.3×	10	608
Jiří Prokop Germany	14	101 0.1×	580 1.0×	18 0.1×	38 0.2×	123 0.9×	42	808

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Rizzi, Andrea & Davide Mandelli. (2025). High performance-oriented computer aided drug design approaches in the exascale era. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 20(3). 391–400. 1 indexed citations

Magauer, Thomas, Davide Mandelli, Jörg B. Schulz, et al.. (2025). Refining Ligand Poses in RNA/Ligand Complexes of Pharmaceutical Relevance: A Perspective by QM/MM Simulations and NMR Measurements. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(7). 1702–1708.

Rizzi, Andrea, et al.. (2024). Effective data-driven collective variables for free energy calculations from metadynamics of paths. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae159–pgae159. 6 indexed citations

Rossetti, Giulia & Davide Mandelli. (2024). How exascale computing can shape drug design: A perspective from multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning-aided enhanced sampling algorithms. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 86. 102814–102814. 12 indexed citations

Ippoliti, Emiliano, et al.. (2023). MiMiCPy: An Efficient Toolkit for MiMiC-Based QM/MM Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(5). 1406–1412. 5 indexed citations

Mazzei, Luca, et al.. (2023). Kinetic and structural details of urease inactivation by thiuram disulphides. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 250. 112398–112398. 4 indexed citations

Rizzi, Andrea, Emiliano Ippoliti, Davide Mandelli, et al.. (2023). Drug Design in the Exascale Era: A Perspective from Massively Parallel QM/MM Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(12). 3647–3658. 34 indexed citations

Rizzi, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Enhanced-Sampling Simulations for the Estimation of Ligand Binding Kinetics: Current Status and Perspective. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 899805–899805. 42 indexed citations

Mandelli, Davide, Barak Hirshberg, & Michele Parrinello. (2020). Metadynamics of Paths. Physical Review Letters. 125(2). 26001–26001. 27 indexed citations

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Mandelli, Davide, Wengen Ouyang, Oded Hod, & Michael Urbakh. (2019). Negative Friction Coefficients in Superlubric Graphite–Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterojunctions. Physical Review Letters. 122(7). 76102–76102. 81 indexed citations

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Mandelli, Davide, Wengen Ouyang, Michael Urbakh, & Oded Hod. (2019). The Princess and the Nanoscale Pea: Long-Range Penetration of Surface Distortions into Layered Materials Stacks. ACS Nano. 13(7). 7603–7609. 32 indexed citations

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Song, Yiming, Davide Mandelli, Oded Hod, et al.. (2018). Robust microscale superlubricity in graphite/hexagonal boron nitride layered heterojunctions. Nature Materials. 17(10). 894–899. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mandelli, Davide, Itai Leven, Oded Hod, & Michael Urbakh. (2017). Sliding friction of graphene/hexagonal –boron nitride heterojunctions: a route to robust superlubricity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10851–10851. 124 indexed citations

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Mandelli, Davide, Andrea Vanossi, Nicola Manini, & Erio Tosatti. (2015). Friction Boosted by Equilibrium Misalignment of Incommensurate Two-Dimensional Colloid Monolayers. Physical Review Letters. 114(10). 108302–108302. 23 indexed citations

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Mandelli, Davide & Erio Tosatti. (2015). Microscopic friction emulators. Nature. 526(7573). 332–333. 6 indexed citations

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Salmaso, Bianca, Andrea Bianco, O. Citterio, et al.. (2013). Micro-roughness improvement of slumped glass foils for x-ray telescopes via dip coating. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8861. 88610W–88610W. 1 indexed citations

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Gioia, Giuseppe Di, Celeste Scotti, Davide Mandelli, & Giuseppe Sala. (2011). Posterior spinal instrumentation: biomechanical study on the role of rods on hardware response to axial load. European Spine Journal. 20(S1). 3–7. 9 indexed citations

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Albertin, A., Luca La Colla, Eleonora Colnaghi, et al.. (2008). Greater Peripheral Blood Flow but Less Bleeding With Propofol Versus Sevoflurane During Spine Surgery. Spine. 33(18). 2017–2022. 20 indexed citations

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Gioia, Giuseppe Di, et al.. (1999). Surgical Treatment of Far Lateral Lumbar Disc Herniation. Spine. 24(18). 1952–1952. 34 indexed citations

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Gioia, Giuseppe Di, et al.. (1998). Postlaminectomy Cervical Dislocation in von Recklinghausenʼs Disease. Spine. 23(2). 273–276. 4 indexed citations

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