Fei Zhang

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
63 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Fei Zhang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Fei Zhang has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Fei Zhang's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (30 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Fei Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (30 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Fei Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Fei Zhang's co-authors include Hao Yan, Yan Liu, Hong Fan, Jeanette Nangreave, Shuoxing Jiang, Mark Bathe, Sakul Ratanalert, Wah Chiu, Kaiming Zhang and Rémi Veneziano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Fei Zhang

56 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

DNA Origami: Scaffolds for Creating Higher Order Structures

2017 914 citations Fei Zhang, Yan Liu et al. profile →
Designer nanoscale DNA assemblies programmed from the top down

2016 506 citations Sakul Ratanalert, Fei Zhang et al. Science profile →
Structural DNA Nanotechnology: State of the Art and Future Perspective

2014 485 citations Fei Zhang, Yan Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Complex silica composite nanomaterials templated with DNA origami

2018 407 citations Xiaoguo Liu, Fei Zhang et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fei Zhang United States	27	4.1k	1.3k	885	443	388	63	4.6k
Jeanette Nangreave United States	23	4.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	783 0.9×	478 1.1×	384 1.0×	25	4.8k
Chenxiang Lin United States	35	3.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	768 0.9×	864 2.0×	312 0.8×	95	5.1k
Ruojie Sha United States	32	3.5k 0.8×	820 0.6×	725 0.8×	515 1.2×	283 0.7×	113	4.0k
Shawn M. Douglas United States	16	6.4k 1.6×	2.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	401 0.9×	366 0.9×	19	6.9k
Veikko Linko Finland	36	3.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	506 0.6×	317 0.7×	302 0.8×	86	4.1k
Yu He United States	23	3.1k 0.8×	804 0.6×	671 0.8×	435 1.0×	307 0.8×	37	3.7k
Björn Högberg Sweden	24	4.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	987 1.1×	335 0.8×	276 0.7×	69	5.3k
Suchetan Pal United States	23	2.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	400 0.5×	598 1.3×	305 0.8×	48	3.2k
Shuoxing Jiang United States	29	2.4k 0.6×	816 0.6×	501 0.6×	233 0.5×	178 0.5×	58	2.7k
Zhen‐Gang Wang China	34	3.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	292 0.3×	839 1.9×	567 1.5×	79	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Fei Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fei Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fei Zhang

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lee, Jung Yeon, et al.. (2025). Folding Competition and Dynamic Transformation in DNA Origami: Parallel Versus Antiparallel Crossovers. Small Methods. 9(6). e2401343–e2401343. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Teng, Fei Zhang, Yongcheng Pan, et al.. (2025). Microliter-scale ethanol confinement array with biofluidic triggered release for dual-enhanced precision chemotherapy. Biomaterials. 325. 123577–123577.

Pedrielli, Giulia, et al.. (2024). Predicting RNA sequence-structure likelihood via structure-aware deep learning. BMC Bioinformatics. 25(1). 316–316. 3 indexed citations

Narayanan, Raghu Pradeep, Lei Zou, Nour Eddine Fahmi, et al.. (2023). High‐Affinity Host–Guest Recognition for Efficient Assembly and Enzymatic Responsiveness of DNA Nanostructures. Small. 20(9). e2307585–e2307585. 7 indexed citations

Jiang, Li, et al.. (2023). SPRi/SERS dual-mode biosensor based on ployA-DNA/ miRNA/AuNPs-enhanced probe sandwich structure for the detection of multiple miRNA biomarkers. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 308. 123664–123664. 15 indexed citations

Qi, Zhijie, et al.. (2023). Tetrahedral DNA frameworks for biosensing and imaging analysis in living cells. Nano Today. 54. 102127–102127. 26 indexed citations

Narayanan, Raghu Pradeep, Yang Xu, Erik Poppleton, et al.. (2022). Coarse-Grained Simulations for the Characterization and Optimization of Hybrid Protein–DNA Nanostructures. ACS Nano. 16(9). 14086–14096. 6 indexed citations

Dey, Swarup, Adam Dorey, Yongzheng Xing, et al.. (2022). A reversibly gated protein-transporting membrane channel made of DNA. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2271–2271. 59 indexed citations

Poppleton, Erik, et al.. (2020). Design, optimization and analysis of large DNA and RNA nanostructures through interactive visualization, editing and molecular simulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(12). e72–e72. 106 indexed citations

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Yao, Guangbao, Fei Zhang, Fei Wang, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Meta-DNA structures. Nature Chemistry. 13(6). 614–614. 3 indexed citations

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Simmons, C.R., et al.. (2020). A Self‐Assembled Rhombohedral DNA Crystal Scaffold with Tunable Cavity Sizes and High‐Resolution Structural Detail. Angewandte Chemie. 132(42). 18778–18785. 6 indexed citations

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Yao, Guangbao, Fei Zhang, Fei Wang, et al.. (2020). Meta-DNA structures. Nature Chemistry. 12(11). 1067–1075. 137 indexed citations

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Simmons, C.R., et al.. (2020). A Self‐Assembled Rhombohedral DNA Crystal Scaffold with Tunable Cavity Sizes and High‐Resolution Structural Detail. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(42). 18619–18626. 27 indexed citations

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Xu, Yang, Shuoxing Jiang, C.R. Simmons, et al.. (2019). Tunable Nanoscale Cages from Self-Assembling DNA and Protein Building Blocks. ACS Nano. 13(3). 3545–3554. 125 indexed citations

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Jing, Xinxin, Fei Zhang, Muchen Pan, et al.. (2019). Solidifying framework nucleic acids with silica. Nature Protocols. 14(8). 2416–2436. 37 indexed citations

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Jun, Hyungmin, Fei Zhang, Tyson R. Shepherd, et al.. (2019). Autonomously designed free-form 2D DNA origami. Science Advances. 5(1). eaav0655–eaav0655. 111 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, Xiaodong Qi, Yan Liu, Fei Zhang, & Hao Yan. (2019). DNA‐Nanoscaffold‐Assisted Selection of Femtomolar Bivalent Human α‐Thrombin Aptamers with Potent Anticoagulant Activity. ChemBioChem. 20(19). 2494–2503. 32 indexed citations

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Han, Dongran, Xiaodong Qi, Cameron Myhrvold, et al.. (2017). Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami. Science. 358(6369). 217 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fei & Hao Yan. (2017). DNA self-assembly scaled up. Nature. 552(7683). 34–35. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fei, Yan Liu, & Hao Yan. (2013). Complex Archimedean Tiling Self-Assembled from DNA Nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(20). 7458–7461. 62 indexed citations

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