Moon Young Yang

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Moon Young Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Moon Young Yang has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Moon Young Yang's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (16 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (9 papers). Moon Young Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (16 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (9 papers). Moon Young Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Moon Young Yang's co-authors include James Sinnett‐Smith, Sheng-Ze Wu, Enrique Rozengurt, Steven H. Young, Nora Rozengurt, Kenji Shiraishi, Katsumasa Kamiya, Yoon Sung Nam, Yoshio Nishi and Blanka Magyari-Köpe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Moon Young Yang

69 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Manipulating the diffusion energy barrier at the lithium metal electrolyte interface for dendrite-free long-life batteries

2024 113 citations Jyotshna Pokharel, Arthur v. Cresce et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moon Young Yang United States	20	637	400	328	305	262	71	1.6k
Shingo Ikeda Japan	23	456 0.7×	258 0.6×	391 1.2×	119 0.4×	243 0.9×	108	2.0k
Hidenori Ohashi Japan	26	580 0.9×	51 0.1×	235 0.7×	223 0.7×	942 3.6×	165	2.3k
Juhun Park South Korea	13	213 0.3×	105 0.3×	211 0.6×	263 0.9×	122 0.5×	19	923
Yushu Li China	26	380 0.6×	55 0.1×	547 1.7×	21 0.1×	526 2.0×	67	1.8k
Xinwei Wei China	20	268 0.4×	86 0.2×	90 0.3×	94 0.3×	249 1.0×	57	1.2k
Morad K. Nakhleh Israel	17	370 0.6×	74 0.2×	69 0.2×	73 0.2×	179 0.7×	20	991
Shaoyong Yu United States	24	99 0.2×	95 0.2×	173 0.5×	280 0.9×	245 0.9×	58	1.6k
Juan Zeng China	22	371 0.6×	57 0.1×	127 0.4×	9 0.0×	535 2.0×	85	1.7k
Zhenyu Zhou China	23	1.6k 2.5×	20 0.1×	464 1.4×	23 0.1×	476 1.8×	78	2.8k

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Wu, Huang, Yu Wang, Luka Đorđević∞, et al.. (2025). Dynamic supramolecular snub cubes. Nature. 637(8045). 347–353. 15 indexed citations

Nag, Abhijit, Moon Young Yang, Bilal Masood Pirzada, et al.. (2025). Polymorphism of [Cu₁₅(PhCH₂CH₂S)₁₃(PPh₃)₆][BF₄]₂ and Double-Helical Assembly of [Cu₁₈H(PhCH₂CH₂S)₁₄(PPh₃)₆Cl₃]: Origin of Two Chiral Nanoclusters with Triple-Helical Core from Intermediates. ACS Materials Letters. 7(2). 442–449. 3 indexed citations

Nag, Abhijit, Moon Young Yang, Bilal Masood Pirzada, et al.. (2025). An atomically precise alloy AgCu cuboid nanocluster with a cubic core: gram scale synthesis, total structure, electronic structure, and catalytic performance. Materials Horizons. 12(14). 5252–5258. 1 indexed citations

Donnelly, Daniel J, Moon Young Yang, Nicholas Dimakis, et al.. (2025). Atomistic characterization of hydration-dependent fuel cell ionomer nanostructure: validation by vibrational spectroscopy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(30). 24495–24510. 1 indexed citations

Pokharel, Jyotshna, Arthur v. Cresce, Moon Young Yang, et al.. (2024). Manipulating the diffusion energy barrier at the lithium metal electrolyte interface for dendrite-free long-life batteries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3085–3085. 113 indexed citations breakdown →

Morales, Maryann, Moon Young Yang, William A. Goddard, Harry B. Gray, & Jay R. Winkler. (2024). Copper(II) coordination to the intrinsically disordered region of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(20). e2402653121–e2402653121. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Moon Young, et al.. (2024). Agonist activation to open the Gα subunit of the GPCR–G protein precoupled complex defines functional agonist activation of TAS2R5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2409987121–e2409987121. 1 indexed citations

Li, Bo, et al.. (2024). The G Protein-First Mechanism for Activation of the Class B Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Coupled to N-Terminal Domain-Mediated Conformational Progression. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26251–26260. 2 indexed citations

D’Amore, Maddalena, Moon Young Yang, Anna Maria Ferrari, et al.. (2023). Understanding Ionic Diffusion Mechanisms in Li₂S Coatings for Solid-State Batteries: Development of a Tailored Reactive Force Field for Multiscale Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(47). 22880–22888. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Moon Young, et al.. (2023). Discovery and Binding Mechanism of Pyrazoloisoquinoline-Based Novel β-Arrestin Inverse Agonists of the Kappa-Opioid Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(7). 5154–5170. 1 indexed citations

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Morozov, Sergey I., et al.. (2023). Quantum-mechanics-based molecular dynamics simulations of the structure and performance of sulfur-enriched Li3PS4 cathodes. Cell Reports Physical Science. 4(3). 101326–101326. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Moon Young, et al.. (2022). G protein coupling and activation of the metabotropic GABAB heterodimer. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4612–4612. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Moon Young, et al.. (2019). A ruthenium-based plasmonic hybrid photocatalyst for aqueous carbon dioxide conversion with a high reaction rate and selectivity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(29). 17254–17260. 22 indexed citations

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Park, Jae Chul, Moon Young Yang, Nan Lin, et al.. (2019). Subnanomolar FRET-Based DNA Assay Using Thermally Stable Phosphorothioated DNA-Functionalized Quantum Dots. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(37). 33525–33534. 17 indexed citations

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Kim, Insu, Moon Young Yang, Gil Yong Lee, et al.. (2019). Directed Nanoscale Self-Assembly of Natural Photosystems on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes for Solar-Energy Harvesting. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 2(5). 2109–2115. 9 indexed citations

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Seah, Geok Leng, Moon Young Yang, Woo Jin Kim, et al.. (2018). Low-power and low-drug-dose photodynamic chemotherapy via the breakdown of tumor-targeted micelles by reactive oxygen species. Journal of Controlled Release. 286. 240–253. 16 indexed citations

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Koo, Kunmo, et al.. (2018). Gold Binding Peptide Identified from Microfluidic Biopanning: An Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Study. Langmuir. 35(2). 522–528. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Moon Young, Katsumasa Kamiya, Blanka Magyari‐Köpe, et al.. (2013). Physical Guiding Principles for High Quality Resistive Random Access Memory Stack with Al. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 52(4). 2 indexed citations

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Shoji, Mitsuo, et al.. (2013). Substrate-mediated proton relay mechanism for the religation reaction in topoisomerase II. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 32(11). 1759–1765. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Vin‐Cent, Moon Young Yang, James A. McRoberts, et al.. (1997). First Intracellular Loop of the Human Cholecystokinin-A Receptor Is Essential for Cyclic AMP Signaling in Transfected HEK-293 Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(14). 9037–9042. 50 indexed citations

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