Nikhil S. Malvankar

10.9k citations

55 papers · 8.5k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 39

Environmental Engineering top 0.02%
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation 43
Electrochemistry top 0.5%
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications 9
Building and Construction top 0.2%
Pollution top 0.5%
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 6
Environmental Chemistry top 1%
Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 13
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Electrochemical sensors and biosensors 13
Biomedical Engineering
- Metal Extraction and Bioleaching 8
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication 5
Molecular Biology
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing 4

Co-authors: Derek R. Lovley Kelly P. Nevin Mark Tuominen Ashley E. Franks Amelia‐Elena Rotaru Pravin Malla Shrestha Fanghua Liu Ching Leang
Cited by: Environmental Engineering Electrochemistry Building and Construction
Journals: Nature (1 paper)Science (1 paper)Cell (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States China Japan

In The Last Decade

Nikhil S. Malvankar

54 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

2019 Cell
2014 Scientific Reports
2012 Energy & Environmental Science
2011 Nature Nanotechnology
2011 Advances in microbial physiology
2011 mBio
2010 Science

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1	Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires Nature Communications ·Marie C. Schoelmerich,Lynn Ly,Jacob West-Roberts,Ling-Dong Shi,Cong Shen,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Najwa Taïb,Simonetta Gribaldo,Ben J. Woodcroft,Christopher W. Schadt,Basem Al-Shayeb,Xiaoguang Dai,Christopher Mozsary,Scott Hickey,Christine He,John Beaulaurier,Sissel Juul,Rohan Sachdeva,Jillian F. Banfield	2024	6
2	Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE Nature Communications ·Pilar C. Portela,Catharine Shipps,Cong Shen,Vishok Srikanth,Carlos A. Salgueiro,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2024	35
3	Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity Nature Microbiology ·Yangqi Gu,Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer,Vishok Srikanth,Cong Shen,Fabian Giska,Kallol Gupta,Yuri Y. Londer,Fadel A. Samatey,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2023	73
4	195 Aberrant Brain Biomechanics Initiates Ventricular Dilation in a Genetic Subtype of Congenital Hydrocephalus Neurosurgery ·Duy Tung Phan,Peter H. Dahl,Sunil Koundal,Maysam Pedram,Engin Deniz,Helene Benveniste,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Kristopher T. Kahle	2023	1
5	Microbial biofilms as living photoconductors due to ultrafast electron transfer in cytochrome OmcS nanowires Nature Communications ·Jens Neu,Catharine Shipps,Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer,Cong Shen,Vishok Srikanth,Jacob A. Spies,Nathan D. Kirchhofer,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Gary W. Brudvig,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2022	38
6	A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks Science Advances ·Peter Dahl,Sophia M. Yi,Yangqi Gu,Atanu Acharya,Catharine Shipps,Jens Neu,J. Patrick O’Brien,Uriel N. Morzan,Subhajyoti Chaudhuri,Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer,Dennis Vu,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2022	49
7	Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis Nature Communications ·Daniel M. Shapiro,Gunasheil Mandava,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Pol Arranz‐Gibert,Peter Dahl,Catharine Shipps,Yangqi Gu,Vishok Srikanth,Aldo I. Salazar-Morales,J. Patrick O’Brien,Koen Vanderschuren,Dennis Vu,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Farren J. Isaacs	2022	54
8	Dysregulation of TSP2-Rac1-WAVE2 axis in diabetic cells leads to cytoskeletal disorganization, increased cell stiffness, and dysfunction Scientific Reports ·Hao Xing,Yaqing Huang,Britta Kunkemoeller,Peter Dahl,Ohvia Muraleetharan,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Michael P. Murrell,Themis R. Kyriakides	2022	5
9	Intrinsic electronic conductivity of individual atomically resolved amyloid crystals reveals micrometer-long hole hopping via tyrosines Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Catharine Shipps,H. Ray Kelly,Peter Dahl,Sophia M. Yi,Dennis Vu,David R. Boyer,Calina Glynn,M.R. Sawaya,David Eisenberg,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2020	52
10	Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires Nature Chemical Biology ·Sibel Ebru Yalcin,J. Patrick O’Brien,Yangqi Gu,Krystle Reiss,Sophia M. Yi,Ruchi Jain,Vishok Srikanth,Peter Dahl,Winston Huynh,Dennis Vu,Atanu Acharya,Subhajyoti Chaudhuri,Tamás Varga,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2020	143
11	The blind men and the filament: Understanding structures and functions of microbial nanowires Current Opinion in Chemical Biology ·Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Nikhil S. Malvankar	2020	71
12	The Low Conductivity of Geobacter uraniireducens Pili Suggests a Diversity of Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms in the Genus Geobacter Frontiers in Microbiology ·Yang Tan,Ramesh Adhikari,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Joy E. Ward,Kelly P. Nevin,Trevor L. Woodard,Jessica A. Smith,Oona Snoeyenbos-West,Ashley E. Franks,Mark Tuominen,Derek R. Lovley	2016	87
13	Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin‐associated c ‐type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange Environmental Microbiology ·Fanghua Liu,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Pravin Malla Shrestha,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Kelly P. Nevin,Derek R. Lovley	2014	339
14	Correlation between microbial community and granule conductivity in anaerobic bioreactors for brewery wastewater treatment Bioresource Technology ·Pravin Malla Shrestha,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Jeffrey J. Werner,Ashley E. Franks,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Minita Shrestha,Fanghua Liu,Kelly P. Nevin,Largus T. Angenent,Derek R. Lovley	2014	128
15	Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biocharbreakdown → Scientific Reports ·Shanshan Chen,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Pravin Malla Shrestha,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Fanghua Liu,Wei Fan,Kelly P. Nevin,Derek R. Lovley	2014	604
16	Visualization of charge propagation along individual pili proteins using ambient electrostatic force microscopy Nature Nanotechnology ·Nikhil S. Malvankar,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Mark Tuominen,Derek R. Lovley	2014	176
17	Aromatic Amino Acids Required for Pili Conductivity and Long-Range Extracellular Electron Transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens mBio ·Madeline Vargas,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Pier‐Luc Tremblay,Ching Leang,Jessica A. Smith,Pranav M. Patel,Oona Snoeyenbos-West,Kelly P. Nevin,Derek R. Lovley	2013	171
18	Supercapacitors Based on c‐Type Cytochromes Using Conductive Nanostructured Networks of Living Bacteria ChemPhysChem ·Nikhil S. Malvankar,Tünde Mester,Mark Tuominen,Derek R. Lovley	2012	157
19	Geobacterbreakdown → Advances in microbial physiology ·Derek R. Lovley,Toshiyuki Ueki,Tian Zhang,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Pravin Malla Shrestha,Kelly A. Flanagan,Muktak Aklujkar,Jessica Butler,Ludovic Giloteaux,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Dawn E. Holmes,Ashley E. Franks,Roberto Orellana,Carla Risso,Kelly P. Nevin	2011	583
20	Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteriabreakdown → Science ·Zarath M. Summers,Heather E. Fogarty,Ching Leang,Ashley E. Franks,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Derek R. Lovley	2010	805

About Nikhil S. Malvankar

Nikhil S. Malvankar is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Electrochemistry and Ecology, having authored 55 papers that have together received 8.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (43 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (13 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (9 papers), Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (8 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (6 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (5 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (6.4k citations), Electrochemistry (1.0k citations) and Building and Construction (1.9k citations). Nikhil S. Malvankar has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Derek R. Lovley, Kelly P. Nevin, Mark Tuominen, Ashley E. Franks, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru, Pravin Malla Shrestha, Fanghua Liu, Ching Leang, Zarath M. Summers and Sibel Ebru Yalcin. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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