K. G. Ayappa

4.3k total citations
123 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

K. G. Ayappa is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, K. G. Ayappa has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in K. G. Ayappa's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (33 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (24 papers) and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (22 papers). K. G. Ayappa is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (33 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (24 papers) and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (22 papers). K. G. Ayappa collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Switzerland. K. G. Ayappa's co-authors include H. T. Davis, E. A. Davis, Tanmay Basak, J. Gordon, Ateeque Malani, Prabal K. Maiti, Guillermo H. Crapiste, Sheryl A. Barringer, J. K. Basu and Sohail Murad and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

K. G. Ayappa

121 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
K. G. Ayappa India 34 903 881 823 763 656 123 3.5k
Mustafa Akbulut United States 30 581 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.6× 524 0.7× 492 0.8× 130 4.4k
Jens Rieger Germany 33 807 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 1.7k 2.1× 453 0.6× 244 0.4× 111 5.5k
Stoyan K. Smoukov United Kingdom 38 670 0.7× 1.5k 1.7× 2.2k 2.7× 869 1.1× 434 0.7× 100 4.8k
Henrich Frielinghaus Germany 36 1.1k 1.2× 661 0.8× 1.4k 1.7× 488 0.6× 659 1.0× 184 3.7k
Aurel Rădulescu Germany 39 1.3k 1.4× 943 1.1× 1.7k 2.0× 404 0.5× 1.3k 2.0× 241 5.4k
Alexander F. Routh United Kingdom 35 928 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 1.6k 2.0× 1.8k 2.3× 258 0.4× 127 5.0k
E. B. Sirota United States 40 1.3k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 2.4k 3.0× 387 0.5× 899 1.4× 104 6.0k
R. Hidalgo‐Álvarez Spain 40 1.4k 1.5× 2.5k 2.9× 1.6k 2.0× 627 0.8× 921 1.4× 244 7.2k
Boualem Hammouda United States 40 1.9k 2.1× 983 1.1× 2.3k 2.8× 412 0.5× 776 1.2× 148 5.8k
Paul D. Brown United Kingdom 36 531 0.6× 856 1.0× 2.1k 2.6× 1.2k 1.5× 345 0.5× 190 4.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. G. Ayappa

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All Works

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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2025). Gated CO2 permeation across dynamic graphene pores. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6252–6252.
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2024). Structure of the Bacterial Cell Envelope and Interactions with Antimicrobials: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Langmuir. 40(15). 7791–7811. 15 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2023). Martini-3 Coarse-Grained Models for the Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Outer Membrane of Escherichia coli. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(4). 1704–1716. 13 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2023). Graphene Nanopores Enhance Water Evaporation from Salt Solutions: Exploring the Effects of Ions and Concentration. Langmuir. 39(25). 8787–8800. 5 indexed citations
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Ananthanarayanan, Vaishnavi, et al.. (2022). Coupling of mitochondrial population evolution to microtubule dynamics in fission yeast cells: a kinetic Monte Carlo study. Soft Matter. 18(23). 4483–4492. 3 indexed citations
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Roy, Rahul, et al.. (2022). Conformational Flexibility Is a Key Determinant for the Lytic Activity of the Pore-Forming Protein, Cytolysin A. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(1). 69–84. 3 indexed citations
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Lee, Wan‐Chi, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Shiqi Huang, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Water Evaporation from Å-Scale Graphene Nanopores. ACS Nano. 16(9). 15382–15396. 30 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2022). Influence of the extent of hydrophobicity on water organization and dynamics on 2D graphene oxide surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(24). 14909–14923. 9 indexed citations
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Leppla, Stephen H., et al.. (2021). Hydrophobic Gating and 1/f Noise of the Anthrax Toxin Channel. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(21). 5466–5478. 6 indexed citations
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Raut, Janhavi S., et al.. (2020). Assessing Barriers for Antimicrobial Penetration in Complex Asymmetric Bacterial Membranes: A Case Study with Thymol. Langmuir. 36(30). 8800–8814. 32 indexed citations
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Puranik, Mrinalini, et al.. (2020). Developing a Coarse-Grained Model for Bacterial Cell Walls: Evaluating Mechanical Properties and Free Energy Barriers. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 16(8). 5369–5384. 26 indexed citations
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Sathyanarayana, Pradeep, Sandhya S. Visweswariah, & K. G. Ayappa. (2020). Mechanistic Insights into Pore Formation by an α-Pore Forming Toxin: Protein and Lipid Bilayer Interactions of Cytolysin A. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(1). 120–131. 14 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2020). Dynamical Transitions of Supercooled Water in Graphene Oxide Nanopores: Influence of Surface Hydrophilicity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(23). 4805–4820. 8 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2019). Enhancing the Dynamics of Water Confined between Graphene Oxide Surfaces with Janus Interfaces: A Molecular Dynamics Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 123(13). 2978–2993. 26 indexed citations
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Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2018). Dendrimer Interactions with Lipid Bilayer: Comparison of Force Field and Effect of Implicit vs Explicit Solvation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 14(7). 3825–3839. 20 indexed citations
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Dasgupta, Chandan, et al.. (2018). Influence of surface commensurability on the structure and relaxation dynamics of a confined monatomic fluid. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(6). 64503–64503. 8 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Ayush, et al.. (2017). Transmembrane oligomeric intermediates of pore forming toxin Cytolysin A determine leakage kinetics. RSC Advances. 7(82). 51750–51762. 12 indexed citations

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