Meni Wanunu

15.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
125 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Meni Wanunu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Meni Wanunu has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 50 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Meni Wanunu's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (89 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (27 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (20 papers). Meni Wanunu is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (89 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (27 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (20 papers). Meni Wanunu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Meni Wanunu's co-authors include A. MELLER, Marija Drndić, Robert Y. Henley, Hirohito Yamazaki, Vishva Ray, Armin VahidMohammadi, Jacob K. Rosenstein, Mehrnaz Mojtabavi, Christopher A. Merchant and Will Morrison and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Meni Wanunu

120 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 Translocation through Graphene Nanopores

2010 772 citations Christopher A. Merchant, Meni Wanunu et al. profile →
Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins

2017 648 citations Robert Y. Henley, Meni Wanunu et al. profile →
Rapid electronic detection of probe-specific microRNAs using thin nanopore sensors

2010 613 citations Meni Wanunu, Marija Drndić et al. profile →
Electrostatic focusing of unlabelled DNA into nanoscale pores using a salt gradient

2009 603 citations Meni Wanunu, A. MELLER et al. profile →
Nanopores: A journey towards DNA sequencing

2012 471 citations Meni Wanunu profile →
Solid-state nanopore sensors

2020 464 citations Hirohito Yamazaki, Meni Wanunu et al. profile →
Integrated nanopore sensing platform with sub-microsecond temporal resolution

2012 403 citations Jacob K. Rosenstein, Meni Wanunu et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers

Meni Wanunu

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Jan C. T. Eijkel Netherlands

Marija Drndić United States

Joshua B. Edel United Kingdom

Yi‐Lun Ying China

Tomoji Kawai Japan

Hai‐Chen Wu China

Serge G. Lemay Netherlands

Steven A. Soper United States

Heng‐Kwong Tsao Taiwan

Makusu Tsutsui Japan

Jan C. T. Eijkel Netherlands

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Citations per year, relative to Meni Wanunu Meni Wanunu (= 1×) peers Jan C. T. Eijkel

Countries citing papers authored by Meni Wanunu

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meni Wanunu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meni Wanunu

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

All Works

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Liu, Yifang, et al.. (2025). inCu-click: DNA-enhanced ligand enables live-cell, intracellular click chemistry reaction with copper catalyst. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4788–4788. 1 indexed citations

Pandey, Laxmi, et al.. (2024). Hydrophilicity and surface charge modulation of Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x MXene based membranes for water desalination. RSC Advances. 14(30). 21635–21643. 8 indexed citations

Gamper, Howard, Thomas Christian, Robert Y. Henley, et al.. (2024). Post-transcriptional methylation of mitochondrial-tRNA differentially contributes to mitochondrial pathology. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9008–9008.

MacCoss, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Sampling the proteome by emerging single-molecule and mass spectrometry methods. Nature Methods. 20(3). 339–346. 45 indexed citations

Gamper, Howard, et al.. (2023). Semi-quantitative detection of pseudouridine modifications and type I/II hypermodifications in human mRNAs using direct long-read sequencing. Nature Communications. 14(1). 334–334. 64 indexed citations

Gamper, Howard, et al.. (2023). Enzymatic synthesis of RNA standards for mapping and quantifying RNA modifications in sequencing analysis. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 692. 127–153. 4 indexed citations

Benabbas, Abdelkrim, et al.. (2021). Electrical unfolding of cytochrome c during translocation through a nanopore constriction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 33 indexed citations

Pandey, Laxmi, Bedanga Sapkota, & Meni Wanunu. (2020). Ions Exclusion by the Bio-Inspired WS2 Lamellar Membrane Under Different Driving Forces. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 476a–476a. 3 indexed citations

Sapkota, Bedanga, Wentao Liang, Armin VahidMohammadi, et al.. (2020). High permeability sub-nanometre sieve composite MoS2 membranes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2747–2747. 143 indexed citations

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Hu, Rui, João V. Rodrigues, Pradeep Waduge, et al.. (2018). Differential Enzyme Flexibility Probed Using Solid-State Nanopores. ACS Nano. 12(5). 4494–4502. 89 indexed citations

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Qiu, Yinghua, et al.. (2018). Nanopore Fabrication in Ultrathin HFO2 Membranes for Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 179a–179a. 2 indexed citations

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Sarabadani, Jalal, et al.. (2017). Driven translocation of a semi-flexible polymer through a nanopore. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7423–7423. 33 indexed citations

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Goodfellow, Kenneth M., Chitraleema Chakraborty, Kelly L. Sowers, et al.. (2016). Distance-dependent energy transfer between CdSe/CdS quantum dots and a two-dimensional semiconductor. Applied Physics Letters. 108(2). 51 indexed citations

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Henley, Robert Y., Spencer Carson, & Meni Wanunu. (2016). Studies of RNA Sequence and Structure Using Nanopores. Progress in molecular biology and translational science. 139. 73–99. 14 indexed citations

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Carson, Spencer, James Wilson, Aleksei Aksimentiev, & Meni Wanunu. (2014). Smooth DNA Transport through a Narrowed Pore Geometry. Biophysical Journal. 107(10). 2381–2393. 79 indexed citations

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Ivankin, Andrey, Spencer Carson, Shannon R. Morey Kinney, & Meni Wanunu. (2014). Fast, Label-Free Force Spectroscopy of Histone-DNA Interactions in Individual Nucleosomes using Nanopores. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 213a–213a. 9 indexed citations

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Larkin, Joseph, Robert Y. Henley, David C. Bell, et al.. (2014). Detection of Single Biopolymers at High Current Bandwidth with Hafnium Oxide Nanopores. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 413a–414a. 2 indexed citations

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Rosenstein, Jacob K., Meni Wanunu, Christopher A. Merchant, Marija Drndić, & Kenneth L. Shepard. (2012). Integrated nanopore sensing platform with sub-microsecond temporal resolution. Nature Methods. 9(5). 487–492. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rosenstein, Jacob K., Meni Wanunu, Marija Drndić, & Kenneth L. Shepard. (2012). High-Bandwidth Solid-State Nanopore Sensors. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 428a–428a. 1 indexed citations

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Wanunu, Meni, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Jérôme Mathé, David R. Nelson, & A. MELLER. (2008). Orientation-dependent interactions of DNA with anα-hemolysin channel. Physical Review E. 77(3). 31904–31904. 24 indexed citations

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