Nicholas L. Abbott

23.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
423 papers, 20.1k citations indexed

About

Nicholas L. Abbott is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas L. Abbott has authored 423 papers receiving a total of 20.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 134 papers in Molecular Biology and 132 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nicholas L. Abbott's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (205 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (110 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (56 papers). Nicholas L. Abbott is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (205 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (110 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (56 papers). Nicholas L. Abbott collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Nicholas L. Abbott's co-authors include Juan Pablo, Jeffrey M. Brake, Rahul R. Shah, Vinay Gupta, Daniel S. Miller, Yan-Yeung Luk, Xiaoguang Wang, George M. Whitesides, Justin J. Skaife and Frank Caruso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas L. Abbott

418 papers receiving 19.8k citations

Hit Papers

Biomolecular Interactions at Phospholipid-Decorated Surfa... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Biomolecular Interactions at Phospholipid-Decorated Surfaces of Liquid Crystals
    2003 564 citations Nicholas L. Abbott 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
Nicholas L. Abbott United States 76 8.9k 5.0k 5.0k 4.7k 4.2k 423 20.1k
Rudolf Zentel Germany 68 6.8k 0.8× 4.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 5.4k 1.1× 4.6k 1.1× 498 18.2k
Junji Watanabe Japan 60 9.0k 1.0× 6.1k 1.2× 2.5k 0.5× 4.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 683 17.1k
Ronald G. Larson United States 80 2.2k 0.2× 4.8k 1.0× 4.6k 0.9× 8.3k 1.8× 6.5k 1.6× 465 29.8k
Helmut Ringsdorf Germany 80 6.9k 0.8× 9.8k 1.9× 6.9k 1.4× 7.2k 1.5× 3.0k 0.7× 521 25.2k
Richard M. Crooks United States 96 4.1k 0.5× 6.2k 1.2× 6.8k 1.4× 9.5k 2.0× 9.1k 2.2× 374 31.6k
Eugenia Kumacheva Canada 79 4.7k 0.5× 3.6k 0.7× 1.9k 0.4× 9.4k 2.0× 11.8k 2.8× 291 25.5k
Martin Möller Germany 75 2.9k 0.3× 8.1k 1.6× 2.7k 0.5× 7.9k 1.7× 5.8k 1.4× 636 23.3k
Benjamin J. Wiley United States 73 10.7k 1.2× 2.8k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 11.2k 2.4× 13.0k 3.1× 172 26.3k
Sanford A. Asher United States 80 2.5k 0.3× 1.9k 0.4× 4.9k 1.0× 5.4k 1.1× 4.6k 1.1× 301 20.9k
Isabel Pastoriza‐Santos Spain 80 12.8k 1.4× 2.6k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 11.4k 2.4× 9.1k 2.2× 212 22.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roh, Sangchul, et al.. (2025). Biphasic liquids with shape-shifting and bistable microdomains. Nature. 643(8074). 1281–1287.
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Liu, Qingkun, Wei Wang, Jason Z. Kim, et al.. (2024). Electronically configurable microscopic metasheet robots. Nature Materials. 24(1). 109–115. 20 indexed citations
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Abbott, Nicholas L., et al.. (2024). Single-step synthesis of shaped polymeric particles using initiated chemical vapor deposition in liquid crystals. Science Advances. 10(45). eadp5573–eadp5573. 3 indexed citations
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Tang, Xingzhou, et al.. (2024). Generation and Propagation of Flexoelectricity-Induced Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals. ACS Nano. 18(16). 10768–10775. 7 indexed citations
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Bao, Nanqi, Qingkun Liu, Michael Reynolds, et al.. (2023). Gas-phase microactuation using kinetically controlled surface states of ultrathin catalytic sheets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(19). e2221740120–e2221740120. 7 indexed citations
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Roh, Sangchul, et al.. (2022). Programming Solitons in Liquid Crystals Using Surface Chemistry. Langmuir. 38(11). 3575–3584. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, Rui Zhang, Ali Mozaffari, Juan Pablo, & Nicholas L. Abbott. (2021). Active motion of multiphase oil droplets: emergent dynamics of squirmers with evolving internal structure. Soft Matter. 17(10). 2985–2993. 26 indexed citations
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Sadati, Monirosadat, José A. Martínez‐González, Ye Zhou, et al.. (2020). Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids. Science Advances. 6(28). eaba6728–eaba6728. 37 indexed citations
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Armas-Pérez, Julio C., et al.. (2020). Cuboidal liquid crystal phases under multiaxial geometrical frustration. Soft Matter. 16(4). 870–880. 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Kunlun, Tibor Szilvási, Jake I. Gold, et al.. (2019). New room temperature nematogens by cyano tail termination of alkoxy and alkylcyanobiphenyls and their anchoring behavior on metal salt-decorated surface. Liquid Crystals. 47(4). 540–556. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, Ye Zhou, Young‐Ki Kim, et al.. (2019). Thermally reconfigurable Janus droplets with nematic liquid crystalline and isotropic perfluorocarbon oil compartments. Soft Matter. 15(12). 2580–2590. 20 indexed citations
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Ramezani‐Dakhel, Hadi, Mohammad Rahimi, Young‐Ki Kim, et al.. (2018). Amphiphile-Induced Phase Transition of Liquid Crystals at Aqueous Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(43). 37618–37624. 24 indexed citations
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Büküşoğlu, Emre, José A. Martínez‐González, Xiaoguang Wang, et al.. (2017). Strain-induced alignment and phase behavior of blue phase liquid crystals confined to thin films. Soft Matter. 13(47). 8999–9006. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Rui, Ye Zhou, José A. Martínez‐González, et al.. (2016). Controlled deformation of vesicles by flexible structured media. Science Advances. 2(8). e1600978–e1600978. 21 indexed citations
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Guzmán, Orlando, et al.. (2008). LIQUID CRYSTAL RELAXATION IN THREE DIMENSIONS: THE EFFECT OF HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Park, Joon‐Seo, Chang‐Hyun Jang, Matthew L. Tingey, Aaron Lowe, & Nicholas L. Abbott. (2006). Influence of 4-cyano-4′-biphenylcarboxylic acid on the orientational ordering of cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals at chemically functionalized surfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 304(2). 459–473. 28 indexed citations
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Abbott, Nicholas L., et al.. (2005). Engineering Interfaces to Cells using Synthetic Liquid Crystals. 10. 3 indexed citations

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