Nikhil S. Malvankar

10.9k citations

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

Environmental Engineering top 0.02%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 1%
Building and Construction top 0.2%
Biomedical Engineering top 1%
Molecular Biology top 10%

Co-authors: Derek R. Lovley Kelly P. Nevin Mark Tuominen Ashley E. Franks Amelia‐Elena Rotaru Pravin Malla Shrestha Fanghua Liu Ching Leang
Topics: Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (43 papers)Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers)Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (13 papers)
Cited by: Environmental Engineering Electrochemistry Building and Construction
Journals: Nature Science Cell
Partner nations: United States China Japan

In The Last Decade

Nikhil S. Malvankar

54 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria

2010 805 citations Zarath M. Summers, Ching Leang et al. Science profile →
Promoting direct interspecies electron transfer with activated carbon

2012 727 citations Fanghua Liu, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru et al. profile →
Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks

2011 720 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Madeline Vargas et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar

2014 604 citations Shanshan Chen, Amelia‐Elena Rotaru et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Geobacter

2011 583 citations Derek R. Lovley, Toshiyuki Ueki et al. Advances in microbial physiology profile →
Potential for Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Wastewater Digester Aggregates

2011 471 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Ashley E. Franks et al. mBio profile →
Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes that Transport Electrons over Micrometers

2019 400 citations Yangqi Gu, J. Patrick O’Brien et al. profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nikhil S. Malvankar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nikhil S. Malvankar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nikhil S. Malvankar. Nikhil S. Malvankar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Borg extrachromosomal elements of methane-oxidizing archaea have conserved and expressed genetic repertoires 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Marie C. Schoelmerich,(unknown),Jacob West-Roberts,Ling-Dong Shi,(unknown),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	6
2	Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Vishok Srikanth,Carlos A. Salgueiro,Nikhil S. Malvankar	35
3	Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Yangqi Gu,Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer,Vishok Srikanth,(unknown),(unknown),Kallol Gupta,Yuri Y. Londer,Fadel A. Samatey,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	73
4	195 Aberrant Brain Biomechanics Initiates Ventricular Dilation in a Genetic Subtype of Congenital Hydrocephalus 2023 ·Neurosurgery ·Duy Tung Phan,Peter H. Dahl,Sunil Koundal,(unknown),Engin Deniz,Helene Benveniste,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Kristopher T. Kahle	1
5	Microbial biofilms as living photoconductors due to ultrafast electron transfer in cytochrome OmcS nanowires 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Jens Neu,(unknown),Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer,(unknown),Vishok Srikanth,Jacob A. Spies,Nathan D. Kirchhofer,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Gary W. Brudvig,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	38
6	A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks 2022 ·Science Advances ·Peter Dahl,Sophia M. Yi,Yangqi Gu,Atanu Acharya,(unknown),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	49
7	Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown),(unknown),Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Pol Arranz‐Gibert,Peter Dahl,(unknown),Yangqi Gu,Vishok Srikanth,(unknown),J. Patrick O’Brien,(unknown),Dennis Vu,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Farren J. Isaacs	54
8	Dysregulation of TSP2-Rac1-WAVE2 axis in diabetic cells leads to cytoskeletal disorganization, increased cell stiffness, and dysfunction 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·Hao Xing,Yaqing Huang,Britta Kunkemoeller,Peter Dahl,(unknown),Nikhil S. Malvankar,Michael P. Murrell,Themis R. Kyriakides	5
9	Intrinsic electronic conductivity of individual atomically resolved amyloid crystals reveals micrometer-long hole hopping via tyrosines 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),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	52
10	Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires 2020 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Sibel Ebru Yalcin,J. Patrick O’Brien,Yangqi Gu,Krystle Reiss,Sophia M. Yi,Ruchi Jain,Vishok Srikanth,Peter Dahl,(unknown),Dennis Vu,Atanu Acharya,Subhajyoti Chaudhuri,Tamás Varga,Víctor S. Batista,Nikhil S. Malvankar	143
11	The blind men and the filament: Understanding structures and functions of microbial nanowires 2020 ·Current Opinion in Chemical Biology ·Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Nikhil S. Malvankar	71
12	The Low Conductivity of Geobacter uraniireducens Pili Suggests a Diversity of Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms in the Genus Geobacter 2016 ·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	87
13	Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin‐associated c ‐type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange 2014 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Fanghua Liu,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Pravin Malla Shrestha,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Kelly P. Nevin,Derek R. Lovley	339
14	Correlation between microbial community and granule conductivity in anaerobic bioreactors for brewery wastewater treatment 2014 ·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	128
15	Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biocharbreakdown → 2014 ·Scientific Reports ·Shanshan Chen,Amelia‐Elena Rotaru,Pravin Malla Shrestha,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Fanghua Liu,Wei Fan,Kelly P. Nevin,Derek R. Lovley	604
16	Visualization of charge propagation along individual pili proteins using ambient electrostatic force microscopy 2014 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Nikhil S. Malvankar,Sibel Ebru Yalcin,Mark Tuominen,Derek R. Lovley	176
17	Aromatic Amino Acids Required for Pili Conductivity and Long-Range Extracellular Electron Transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens 2013 ·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	171
18	Supercapacitors Based on c‐Type Cytochromes Using Conductive Nanostructured Networks of Living Bacteria 2012 ·ChemPhysChem ·Nikhil S. Malvankar,Tünde Mester,Mark Tuominen,Derek R. Lovley	157
19	Geobacterbreakdown → 2011 ·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	583
20	Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteriabreakdown → 2010 ·Science ·Zarath M. Summers,(unknown),Ching Leang,Ashley E. Franks,Nikhil S. Malvankar,Derek R. Lovley	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) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (13 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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