Mohammad Heiranian

3.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
26 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Mohammad Heiranian is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohammad Heiranian has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Water Science and Technology and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mohammad Heiranian's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (8 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (8 papers). Mohammad Heiranian is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (8 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (8 papers). Mohammad Heiranian collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Mohammad Heiranian's co-authors include N. R. Aluru, Amir Barati Farimani, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Jiandong Feng, Vishnu VR, Dumitru Dumcenco, Michael Graf, Aleksandra Rađenović, Ke Liu and András Kis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Society Reviews and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mohammad Heiranian

26 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 2020 2023 250 500 750 1000
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. Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators
    2016 1.0k citations Mohammad Heiranian, N. R. Aluru et al. profile →
  2. Water desalination with a single-layer MoS2 nanopore
    2015 638 citations Mohammad Heiranian, Amir Barati Farimani et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids using deformed graphene channel field effect biosensors
    2020 332 citations Michael Taeyoung Hwang, Mohammad Heiranian et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Water transport in reverse osmosis membranes is governed by pore flow, not a solution-diffusion mechanism
    2023 159 citations Li Wang, Jinlong He et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mohammad Heiranian United States 21 2.2k 1.1k 1.1k 992 391 26 3.0k
Sumedh P. Surwade United States 23 2.4k 1.1× 2.5k 2.2× 790 0.7× 1.9k 1.9× 489 1.3× 35 4.7k
Liuxuan Cao China 22 2.1k 1.0× 549 0.5× 726 0.6× 1.2k 1.2× 324 0.8× 46 2.6k
Francesco Fornasiero United States 23 1.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 669 0.6× 569 0.6× 85 0.2× 53 2.4k
K. S. Vasu India 21 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 1.4× 875 0.8× 925 0.9× 152 0.4× 28 2.8k
Hongxia Guo China 33 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 153 0.1× 349 0.4× 171 0.4× 113 3.0k
Xuegeng Yang Germany 27 553 0.3× 481 0.4× 176 0.2× 814 0.8× 73 0.2× 79 1.8k
Steven P. Koenig Singapore 10 1.2k 0.5× 2.6k 2.3× 430 0.4× 1.0k 1.0× 61 0.2× 11 3.0k
Ananth Govind Rajan United States 25 584 0.3× 1.4k 1.2× 167 0.1× 685 0.7× 57 0.1× 57 2.0k
Katsumi Tanigaki Japan 15 603 0.3× 1.6k 1.4× 373 0.3× 912 0.9× 46 0.1× 30 3.0k
Minmin Xue China 15 585 0.3× 455 0.4× 173 0.2× 490 0.5× 71 0.2× 33 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fan, Hanqing, Mohammad Heiranian, & Menachem Elimelech. (2024). The solution-diffusion model for water transport in reverse osmosis: What went wrong?. Desalination. 580. 117575–117575. 26 indexed citations
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Fan, Hanqing, Jinlong He, Mohammad Heiranian, et al.. (2024). The physical basis for solvent flow in organic solvent nanofiltration. Science Advances. 10(24). eado4332–eado4332. 39 indexed citations
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Violet, Camille, Mohammad Heiranian, Luis Francisco Villalobos, et al.. (2024). Designing membranes with specific binding sites for selective ion separations. Nature Water. 2(8). 706–718. 42 indexed citations
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Heiranian, Mohammad, Hanqing Fan, Li Wang, Xinglin Lu, & Menachem Elimelech. (2023). Mechanisms and models for water transport in reverse osmosis membranes: history, critical assessment, and recent developments. Chemical Society Reviews. 52(24). 8455–8480. 92 indexed citations
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Wang, Li, Jinlong He, Mohammad Heiranian, et al.. (2023). Water transport in reverse osmosis membranes is governed by pore flow, not a solution-diffusion mechanism. Science Advances. 9(15). eadf8488–eadf8488. 159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heiranian, Mohammad & N. R. Aluru. (2022). Modified Lucas-Washburn theory for fluid filling in nanotubes. Physical review. E. 105(5). 55105–55105. 11 indexed citations
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DuChanois, Ryan M., Mohammad Heiranian, Jason Yang, et al.. (2022). Designing polymeric membranes with coordination chemistry for high-precision ion separations. Science Advances. 8(9). eabm9436–eabm9436. 107 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xuechen, Mohammad Heiranian, Meiqi Yang, et al.. (2021). Selective Fluoride Transport in Subnanometer TiO2 Pores. ACS Nano. 15(10). 16828–16838. 25 indexed citations
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Heiranian, Mohammad, et al.. (2021). Dynamic and weak electric double layers in ultrathin nanopores. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 154(13). 134703–134703. 6 indexed citations
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Hwang, Michael Taeyoung, Insu Park, Mohammad Heiranian, et al.. (2021). Ultrasensitive Detection of Dopamine, IL‐6 and SARS‐CoV‐2 Proteins on Crumpled Graphene FET Biosensor. Advanced Materials Technologies. 6(11). 2100712–2100712. 77 indexed citations
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Heiranian, Mohammad, et al.. (2020). Current understanding and emerging applications of 3D crumpling mediated 2D material-liquid interactions. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science. 24(3). 100836–100836. 9 indexed citations
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Hwang, Michael Taeyoung, Mohammad Heiranian, Yerim Kim, et al.. (2020). Ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids using deformed graphene channel field effect biosensors. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1543–1543. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Taqieddin, Amir, Mohammad Heiranian, & N. R. Aluru. (2020). Interfacial Properties of Water on Hydrogenated and Fluorinated Graphene Surfaces: Parametrization of Nonbonded Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(39). 21467–21475. 19 indexed citations
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Heiranian, Mohammad & N. R. Aluru. (2019). Nanofluidic Transport Theory with Enhancement Factors Approaching One. ACS Nano. 14(1). 272–281. 51 indexed citations
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Kwon, Sun Sang, Jonghyun Choi, Mohammad Heiranian, et al.. (2019). Electrical Double Layer of Supported Atomically Thin Materials. Nano Letters. 19(7). 4588–4593. 26 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yingjie, Mohammad Heiranian, Blanka Janicek, et al.. (2018). Strain Modulation of Graphene by Nanoscale Substrate Curvatures: A Molecular View. Nano Letters. 18(3). 2098–2104. 67 indexed citations
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Farimani, Amir Barati, Mohammad Heiranian, Kyoungmin Min, & N. R. Aluru. (2017). Antibody Subclass Detection Using Graphene Nanopores. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(7). 1670–1676. 23 indexed citations
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Farimani, Amir Barati, Mohammad Heiranian, & N. R. Aluru. (2016). Nano-electro-mechanical pump: Giant pumping of water in carbon nanotubes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26211–26211. 19 indexed citations
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Heiranian, Mohammad, Amir Barati Farimani, & N. R. Aluru. (2015). Water desalination with a single-layer MoS2 nanopore. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8616–8616. 638 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Joonho, Amir Barati Farimani, Mohammad Heiranian, et al.. (2015). Adsorption Kinetics Dictate Monolayer Self-Assembly for Both Lipid-In and Lipid-Out Approaches to Droplet Interface Bilayer Formation. Langmuir. 31(47). 12883–12893. 59 indexed citations

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