Flemming Besenbacher

70.2k total citations · 16 hit papers
726 papers, 58.5k citations indexed

About

Flemming Besenbacher is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Flemming Besenbacher has authored 726 papers receiving a total of 58.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Materials Chemistry, 274 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 265 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Flemming Besenbacher's work include Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (141 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (125 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (120 papers). Flemming Besenbacher is often cited by papers focused on Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (141 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (125 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (120 papers). Flemming Besenbacher collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and United States. Flemming Besenbacher's co-authors include Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Jens K. Nørskov, Mingdong Dong, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Bjørk Hammer, Morten Foss, Trolle R. Linderoth, Jørgen Kjems and Stefan Wendt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Flemming Besenbacher

724 papers receiving 57.5k citations

Hit Papers

Self-assembly of a nanosc... 1993 2026 2004 2015 2009 2001 1998 2008 2000 400 800 1.2k
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. Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid
    2009 1.3k citations Mingdong Dong, Ramesh Subramani et al. profile →
  2. Oxygen Vacancies as Active Sites for Water Dissociation on RutileTiO2(110)
    2001 880 citations I. Stensgaard, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  3. Design of a Surface Alloy Catalyst for Steam Reforming
    1998 866 citations Flemming Besenbacher, I. Stensgaard et al. profile →
  4. The Role of Interstitial Sites in the Ti 3d Defect State in the Band Gap of Titania
    2008 799 citations Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  5. Atomic-Scale Structure of Single-LayerMoS2Nanoclusters
    2000 752 citations Jeppe V. Lauritsen, I. Stensgaard et al. profile →
  6. Building an appropriate active-site motif into a hydrogen-evolution catalyst with thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2− clusters
    2014 745 citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  7. Size-dependent structure of MoS2 nanocrystals
    2007 618 citations Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Jakob Kibsgaard et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  8. One-step production of O-N-S co-doped three-dimensional hierarchical porous carbons for high-performance supercapacitors
    2018 591 citations Dengfeng Yu, Chenhui Yang et al. profile →
  9. One-Dimensional Metallic Edge States inMoS2
    2001 547 citations Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  10. Chiral recognition in dimerization of adsorbed cysteine observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy
    2002 526 citations Trolle R. Linderoth, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  11. Oxygen vacancies on TiO2(110) and their interaction with H2O and O2: A combined high-resolution STM and DFT study
    2005 524 citations Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  12. Influence of nanoscale surface topography on protein adsorption and cellular response
    2010 505 citations Morten Foss, Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  13. Enhancement of Protein Adsorption Induced by Surface Roughness
    2006 501 citations Mads Bruun Hovgaard, Morten Foss et al. profile →
  14. Complex hydrides for hydrogen storage – new perspectives
    2014 440 citations Flemming Besenbacher, Torben R. Jensen et al. profile →
  15. Oxygen chemisorption on metal surfaces: General trends for Cu, Ni and Ag
    1993 426 citations Flemming Besenbacher et al. profile →
  16. Three-dimensional scaffolding framework of porous carbon nanosheets derived from plant wastes for high-performance supercapacitors
    2016 405 citations Dengfeng Yu, Baosheng Du 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
Flemming Besenbacher Denmark 123 29.5k 15.5k 14.9k 13.0k 10.1k 726 58.5k
Shouheng Sun United States 135 33.3k 1.1× 17.5k 1.1× 13.7k 0.9× 9.1k 0.7× 25.9k 2.6× 350 64.2k
Yadong Yin United States 129 41.9k 1.4× 21.5k 1.4× 16.1k 1.1× 8.1k 0.6× 20.0k 2.0× 501 69.7k
Galen D. Stucky United States 139 63.9k 2.2× 15.8k 1.0× 12.2k 0.8× 5.1k 0.4× 12.5k 1.2× 820 98.0k
Ralph G. Nuzzo United States 88 15.9k 0.5× 25.7k 1.7× 18.7k 1.3× 7.9k 0.6× 3.6k 0.4× 362 48.1k
Gábor A. Somorjai United States 131 44.2k 1.5× 16.2k 1.0× 10.8k 0.7× 18.8k 1.4× 17.5k 1.7× 890 73.3k
Thomas E. Mallouk United States 127 26.3k 0.9× 19.3k 1.2× 16.5k 1.1× 3.7k 0.3× 14.5k 1.4× 501 55.6k
Geoffrey A. Ozin Canada 106 25.6k 0.9× 11.2k 0.7× 6.9k 0.5× 10.2k 0.8× 11.8k 1.2× 728 43.9k
James M. Tour United States 150 52.4k 1.8× 49.1k 3.2× 30.2k 2.0× 11.4k 0.9× 11.7k 1.2× 802 102.2k
Wei Chen China 113 31.5k 1.1× 26.6k 1.7× 9.8k 0.7× 4.6k 0.3× 13.2k 1.3× 1.1k 56.3k
Yu Huang United States 125 39.0k 1.3× 38.1k 2.5× 15.8k 1.1× 5.8k 0.4× 16.5k 1.6× 392 66.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Flemming Besenbacher

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All Works

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Zhang, Dongsheng, Kristina Maliutina, Jialu Li, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic Partial Water Oxidation Promoted by a Hydrogen Acceptor‐Hydroxyl Mediator Couple. Advanced Science. 12(6). e2410680–e2410680. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Yaru, Dongsheng Zhang, Wei Qiao, et al.. (2022). Nanostructured heterogeneous photocatalyst materials for green synthesis of valuable chemicals. Chemical Synthesis. 2(2). 9–9. 58 indexed citations
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Yang, Chenhui, Hüsnü Aslan, Peng Zhang, et al.. (2020). Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1379–1379. 188 indexed citations
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Su, Yingchun, Mehmet Berat Taskin, Mingdong Dong, et al.. (2020). A biocompatible artificial tendril with a spontaneous 3D Janus multi-helix-perversion configuration. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 4(7). 2149–2156. 16 indexed citations
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Du, Baosheng, Chengchun Tang, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2019). Diameter-optimized high-order waveguide nanorods for fluorescence enhancement applied in ultrasensitive bioassays. Nanoscale. 11(30). 14322–14329. 23 indexed citations
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Yu, Miao, Chong Chen, Nataliya Kalashnyk, et al.. (2018). Three-dimensional hydrogen bonding between Landers and planar molecules facilitated by electrostatic interactions with Ni adatoms. Chemical Communications. 54(64). 8845–8848. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruodan, Flemming Besenbacher, & Menglin Chen. (2016). The 3D mechanical environment and chemical milieu influence the hMSC fibrogenesis and fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition. RSC Advances. 7(1). 20–25. 6 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Thomas K., et al.. (2015). Mechanism and kinetics of early transition metal hydrides, oxides, and chlorides to enhance hydrogen release and uptake properties of MgH 2. Powder Diffraction. 30(S1). S9–S15. 31 indexed citations
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Rubert, Marina, Yanfang Li, Mehmet Berat Taskin, et al.. (2014). Electrospun PCL/PEO coaxial fibers for basic fibroblast growth factor delivery. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2(48). 8538–8546. 57 indexed citations
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Jiang, Zaixing, Qiang Li, Menglin Chen, et al.. (2013). Mechanical reinforcement fibers produced by gel-spinning of poly-acrylic acid (PAA) and graphene oxide (GO) composites. Nanoscale. 5(14). 6265–6265. 39 indexed citations
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Hovgaard, Mads Bruun, et al.. (2012). In Vivo Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Ions in Zebrafish (Danio rerio). 28 indexed citations
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Tuxen, Anders, Jakob Kibsgaard, Erik Lægsgaard, et al.. (2010). Size Threshold in the Dibenzothiophene Adsorption on MoS2Nanoclusters. ACS Nano. 4(8). 4677–4682. 151 indexed citations
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Voigt, Niels V., Thomas Tørring, Alexandru Rotaru, et al.. (2010). Single-molecule chemical reactions on DNA origami. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(3). 200–203. 457 indexed citations
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Gao, Shan, Frederik Dagnæs‐Hansen, Ebbe Juel Bech Nielsen, et al.. (2009). The Effect of Chemical Modification and Nanoparticle Formulation on Stability and Biodistribution of siRNA in Mice. Molecular Therapy. 17(7). 1225–1233. 226 indexed citations
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Lovmand, Jette, Morten Foss, Ernst‐Martin Füchtbauer, et al.. (2009). Identification of Distinct Topographical Surface Microstructures Favoring Either Undifferentiated Expansion or Differentiation of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 18(9). 1331–1342. 58 indexed citations
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Rahbek, Ulrik L., Kenneth A. Howard, David Oupický, et al.. (2007). Intracellular siRNA and precursor miRNA trafficking using bioresponsive copolypeptides. The Journal of Gene Medicine. 10(1). 81–93. 35 indexed citations
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Sevcencu, Cristian, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz, Morten Foss, et al.. (2007). The effect of modification of the nano-topography of implantable surfaces on the proliferation of fibroblasts. Artificial Organs. 31(8). 275–278. 1 indexed citations
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Andersen, Morten Østergaard, Kenneth A. Howard, Søren R. Paludan, Flemming Besenbacher, & Jørgen Kjems. (2007). Delivery of siRNA from lyophilized polymeric surfaces. Biomaterials. 29(4). 506–512. 90 indexed citations
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Contera, Sonia, J. Justesen, Mogens Duch, et al.. (2005). Cell volume increase in murine MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts attaching onto biocompatible Tantalum observed by magnetic AC mode Atomic Force Microscopy. European Cells and Materials. 10. 61–69. 22 indexed citations

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