Rana Ashkar

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Rana Ashkar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rana Ashkar has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Rana Ashkar's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (26 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (12 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (11 papers). Rana Ashkar is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (26 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (12 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (11 papers). Rana Ashkar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Rana Ashkar's co-authors include Paul D. Butler, Michihiro Nagao, Michael F. Brown, John Katsaras, Robert Bradbury, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Haden L. Scott, Milka Doktorova, George Khelashvili and Ramanan Krishnamoorti and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rana Ashkar

50 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes

2020 261 citations Saptarshi Chakraborty, Milka Doktorova et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Electromechanically induced membrane restructuring enables learning and memory 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Dima Bolmatov, (unknown), Rana Ashkar, (unknown), (unknown), Virginia Sullivan, (unknown), Joseph S. Najem, C. Patrick Collier, John Katsaras	2
2	Cholesterol modulates membrane elasticity via unified biophysical laws 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Sudipta Gupta, (unknown), (unknown), Haden L. Scott, Laura Stingaciu, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, John Katsaras, George Khelashvili, Milka Doktorova, Michael F. Brown, Rana Ashkar	3
3	Cinematic reflectometry using QIKR, the quite intense kinetics reflectometer 2023 ·Review of Scientific Instruments ·John F. Ankner, Rana Ashkar, James F. Browning, Timothy Charlton, Mathieu Doucet, Candice E. Halbert, (unknown), Alamgir Karim, Eugenia Kharlampieva, S. Michael Kilbey, Jiao Lin, Minh D. Phan, Gregory S. Smith, Svetlana A. Sukhishvili, (unknown), Gabriel M. Veith, Erik B. Watkins, D.F. Wilson	5
4	Solution Structure and Scaling Laws of Cylindrical and Tapered Bottlebrush Polymers 2023 ·Macromolecules ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jan‐Michael Y. Carrillo, Changwoo Do, John B. Matson, Rana Ashkar	5
5	EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source 2022 ·Review of Scientific Instruments ·Changwoo Do, Rana Ashkar, (unknown), Wei‐Ren Chen, G. Ehlers, Péter Falus, Antonio Faraone, J. S. Gardner, Van Graves, (unknown), Reika Katsumata, (unknown), Jiao Lin, (unknown), Bradley D. Olsen, Yangyang Wang, D.F. Wilson, Yang Zhang	5
6	Molecular simulations and NMR reveal how lipid fluctuations affect membrane mechanics 2022 ·Biophysical Journal ·Milka Doktorova, George Khelashvili, Rana Ashkar, Michael F. Brown	11
7	Biomembrane Structure and Material Properties Studied With Neutron Scattering 2021 ·Frontiers in Chemistry ·Jacob J. Kinnun, Haden L. Scott, Rana Ashkar, John Katsaras	18
8	Scaling relationships for the elastic moduli and viscosity of mixed lipid membranes 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Elizabeth G. Kelley, Paul D. Butler, Rana Ashkar, Robert Bradbury, Michihiro Nagao	61
9	Profile retrieval of a buried periodic structure using spin echo grazing incidence neutron scattering 2020 ·Applied Physics Letters ·Rana Ashkar, Robert M. Dalgliesh, R. Pynn, Alan D. F. Dunbar, Richard Jones, Andrew J. Parnell	0
10	How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Saptarshi Chakraborty, Milka Doktorova, Trivikram R. Molugu, Frederick A. Heberle, Haden L. Scott, Boris Dzikovski, Michihiro Nagao, Laura Stingaciu, Robert F. Standaert, Francisco N. Barrera, John Katsaras, George Khelashvili, Michael F. Brown, Rana Ashkar	261
11	Stiffening of Phosphocholine Membranes by Cholesterol 2020 ·Biophysical Journal ·Saptarshi Chakraborty, Trivikram R. Molugu, Milka Doktorova, Frederick A. Heberle, Haden L. Scott, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Boris Dzikovski, Robert F. Standaert, Francisco N. Barrera, John Katsaras, George Khelashvili, Michael F. Brown, Rana Ashkar	1
12	The influence of curvature on domain distribution in binary mixture membranes 2019 ·Soft Matter ·Wei Li, Jan‐Michael Y. Carrillo, John Katsaras, Bobby G. Sumpter, Rana Ashkar, Rajeev Kumar	4
13	Conformational change and suppression of the Θ-temperature for solutions of polymer-grafted nanoparticles 2018 ·Soft Matter ·Katrina Irene S. Mongcopa, Ryan Poling‐Skutvik, Rana Ashkar, Paul D. Butler, Ramanan Krishnamoorti	5
14	Quantification of Carbon Nanotube Liquid Crystal Morphology via Neutron Scattering 2018 ·Macromolecules ·Francesca Mirri, Rana Ashkar, (unknown), Lucy Liberman, (unknown), Paul van der Schoot, Yeshayahu Talmon, Paul D. Butler, Matteo Pasquali	10
15	Flexible approach to vibrational sum-frequency generation using shaped near-infrared light 2018 ·Optics Letters ·Azhad U. Chowdhury, Fangjie Liu, Brianna R. Watson, Rana Ashkar, John Katsaras, C. Patrick Collier, Daniel A. Lutterman, Ying‐Zhong Ma, Tessa R. Calhoun, Benjamin Doughty	39
16	Rapid Large-Scale Assembly and Pattern Transfer of One-Dimensional Gold Nanorod Superstructures 2017 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Rana Ashkar, Michael J. A. Hore, Xingchen Ye, Bharath Natarajan, Nicholas J. Greybush, Thomas Lam, Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray	27
17	Probing Elastic and Viscous Properties of Phospholipid Bilayers Using Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy 2017 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Michihiro Nagao, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Rana Ashkar, Robert Bradbury, Paul D. Butler	98
18	A Computational Approach for Modeling Neutron Scattering Data from Lipid Bilayers 2017 ·Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation ·Jan‐Michael Y. Carrillo, John Katsaras, Bobby G. Sumpter, Rana Ashkar	17
19	Understanding Lipid Bilayer Dynamics: Relating Bending and Thickness Fluctuations to Membrane Elasticity 2016 ·Biophysical Journal ·Michihiro Nagao, Rana Ashkar, (unknown), Robert Bradbury, Paul D. Butler	1
20	Tuning Membrane Thickness Fluctuations in Model Lipid Bilayers 2015 ·Biophysical Journal ·Rana Ashkar, Michihiro Nagao, Paul D. Butler, (unknown), Mani Sen, Tadanori Koga	46

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