Nicolás Agraı̈t

12.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
122 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Nicolás Agraı̈t is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolás Agraı̈t has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 71 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 53 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nicolás Agraı̈t's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (68 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (38 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (36 papers). Nicolás Agraı̈t is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (68 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (38 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (36 papers). Nicolás Agraı̈t collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Nicolás Agraı̈t's co-authors include Gabino Rubio‐Bollinger, S. Vieǐra, Andrés Castellanos-Gómez, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Gary A. Steele, Menno Poot, J. G. Rodrigo, Gabriel Rubio, Carlos Untiedt and M. Teresa González and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nicolás Agraı̈t

120 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors

2003 1.2k citations Nicolás Agraı̈t profile →
Elastic Properties of Freely Suspended MoS₂ Nanosheets

2012 917 citations Andrés Castellanos-Gómez, Herre S. J. van der Zant et al. profile →
The signature of chemical valence in the electrical conduction through a single-atom contact

1998 498 citations Nicolás Agraı̈t, Juan Carlos Cuevas et al. profile →
Atomic-Sized Metallic Contacts: Mechanical Properties and Electronic Transport

1996 458 citations Nicolás Agraı̈t et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolás Agraı̈t Spain	49	6.4k	5.0k	4.7k	1.8k	596	122	10.0k
Ke‐Qiu Chen China	55	5.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.6×	8.2k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	718 1.2×	351	10.3k
S. Stafström Sweden	46	4.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	4.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	906 1.5×	204	9.2k
Adrian Bachtold Spain	45	4.4k 0.7×	6.4k 1.3×	7.2k 1.5×	2.8k 1.6×	552 0.9×	95	11.4k
Mads Brandbyge Denmark	48	10.1k 1.6×	7.4k 1.5×	7.3k 1.6×	1.9k 1.0×	607 1.0×	170	13.5k
Jisoon Ihm South Korea	52	3.8k 0.6×	4.2k 0.8×	8.8k 1.9×	1.4k 0.8×	907 1.5×	340	11.9k
Gabino Rubio‐Bollinger Spain	42	3.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	3.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	561 0.9×	73	6.0k
Thomas Seyller Germany	56	6.4k 1.0×	6.8k 1.4×	14.0k 3.0×	3.5k 2.0×	1.7k 2.9×	202	16.9k
Kurt Stokbro Denmark	34	6.7k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	5.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	514 0.9×	92	9.4k
Marc Bockrath United States	43	4.1k 0.6×	5.7k 1.1×	7.5k 1.6×	2.1k 1.2×	736 1.2×	96	11.4k
Heiko B. Weber Germany	37	5.1k 0.8×	3.7k 0.7×	4.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	666 1.1×	175	8.7k

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Segovia, P., E. G. Michel, Eduardo J. H. Lee, et al.. (2025). Heat transfer in metallic nanometre-sized gaps. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7342–7342.

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Davidson, Ross J., Pilar Ce�a, Santiago Martı́n, et al.. (2024). The Conductance and Thermopower Behavior of Pendent Trans-Coordinated Palladium(II) Complexes in Single-Molecule Junctions. ACS Omega. 9(36). 38303–38312. 1 indexed citations

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Svatek, Simon A., Laura Rodríguez‐Pérez, Beatriz M. Illescas, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Thermoelectricity in Metal–[60]Fullerene–Graphene Molecular Junctions. Nano Letters. 23(7). 2726–2732. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenjun, Edmund Leary, Sara Sangtarash, et al.. (2021). A Peierls Transition in Long Polymethine Molecular Wires: Evolution of Molecular Geometry and Single-Molecule Conductance. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(48). 20472–20481. 46 indexed citations

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Márquez, Irene R., Luı́s Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Nicolás Agraı̈t, et al.. (2021). Three-state molecular potentiometer based on a non-symmetrically positioned in-backbone linker. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(45). 16282–16289. 9 indexed citations

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González, M. Teresa, Ali Ismael, Miguel García‐Iglesias, et al.. (2021). Interference Controls Conductance in Phthalocyanine Molecular Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(27). 15035–15043. 12 indexed citations

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Leary, Edmund, Georg Kastlunger, Bart Limburg, et al.. (2020). Long-lived charged states of single porphyrin-tape junctions under ambient conditions. Nanoscale Horizons. 6(1). 49–58. 8 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐González, Sandra, Irene R. Márquez, Nicolás Agraı̈t, et al.. (2020). Single‐Molecule Conductance of 1,4‐Azaborine Derivatives as Models of BN‐doped PAHs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(12). 6609–6616. 24 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Maximilian, Daniel Wassy, Mathias Hermann, et al.. (2020). Single-molecule conductance of dibenzopentalenes: antiaromaticity and quantum interference. Chemical Communications. 57(6). 745–748. 39 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐González, Sandra, Irene R. Márquez, Nicolás Agraı̈t, et al.. (2020). Single‐Molecule Conductance of 1,4‐Azaborine Derivatives as Models of BN‐doped PAHs. Angewandte Chemie. 133(12). 6683–6690. 4 indexed citations

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Ryu, Yu Kyoung, et al.. (2020). Microheater Actuators as a Versatile Platform for Strain Engineering in 2D Materials. Nano Letters. 20(7). 5339–5345. 35 indexed citations

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Molina‐Mendoza, Aday J., Emerson Giovanelli, Wendel S. Paz, et al.. (2017). Franckeite as a naturally occurring van der Waals heterostructure. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14409–14409. 102 indexed citations

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Rincón-García, Laura, Ali Ismael, Charalambos Evangeli, et al.. (2016). Molecular design and control of fullerene-based bi-thermoelectric materials. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 95 indexed citations

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Castellanos-Gómez, Andrés, Jorge Quereda, H. P. van der Meulen, Nicolás Agraı̈t, & Gabino Rubio‐Bollinger. (2016). Spatially resolved optical absorption spectroscopy of single- and few-layer MoS₂by hyperspectral imaging. Nanotechnology. 27(11). 115705–115705. 161 indexed citations

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García, Raúl, M. Ángeles Herranz, Edmund Leary, et al.. (2015). Single-molecule conductance of a chemically modified, π-extended tetrathiafulvalene and its charge-transfer complex with F<sub>4</sub>TCNQ. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 25 indexed citations

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Rubio‐Bollinger, Gabino, et al.. (2015). Current rectification in a single molecule diode: the role of electrode coupling. Nanotechnology. 26(29). 291001–291001. 49 indexed citations

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Parker, Christian R., Edmund Leary, Riccardo Frisenda, et al.. (2014). A Comprehensive Study of Extended Tetrathiafulvalene Cruciform Molecules for Molecular Electronics: Synthesis and Electrical Transport Measurements. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(47). 16497–16507. 54 indexed citations

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Quereda, Jorge, et al.. (2014). Single-layer MoS2 roughness and sliding friction quenching by interaction with atomically flat substrates. Applied Physics Letters. 105(5). 72 indexed citations

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Castellanos-Gómez, Andrés, R. H. M. Smit, Nicolás Agraı̈t, & Gabino Rubio‐Bollinger. (2011). Spatially resolved electronic inhomogeneities of graphene due to subsurface charges. Carbon. 50(3). 932–938. 25 indexed citations

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Arroyo, Carlos R., Edmund Leary, Andrés Castellanos-Gómez, et al.. (2011). Influence of Binding Groups on Molecular Junction Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(36). 14313–14319. 74 indexed citations

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