Sami Malola

11.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
149 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Sami Malola is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sami Malola has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Materials Chemistry, 74 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 24 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Sami Malola's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (133 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (74 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (73 papers). Sami Malola is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (133 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (74 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (73 papers). Sami Malola collaborates with scholars based in Finland, China and United States. Sami Malola's co-authors include Hannu Häkkinen, Nanfeng Zheng, Pekka Koskinen, Boon K. Teo, Lauri Lehtovaara, Huayan Yang, Shui‐Chao Lin, Tatsuya Tsukuda, Yu Wang and Hai‐Feng Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sami Malola

144 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

All-thiol-stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 nanoparticles with single-crystal structures

2013 694 citations Sami Malola, Hannu Häkkinen et al. Nature Communications profile →
Self-Passivating Edge Reconstructions of Graphene

2008 583 citations Sami Malola, Hannu Häkkinen et al. profile →
N-heterocyclic carbene-functionalized magic-number gold nanoclusters

2019 420 citations Mina R. Narouz, Shinjiro Takano et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Hydrido Au₂₄ Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂

2022 139 citations Shinjiro Takano, Sami Malola et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters

2024 95 citations Tetyana I. Levchenko, Sami Malola et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sami Malola Finland	49	8.8k	4.8k	885	723	672	149	9.6k
Christine M. Aikens United States	50	8.8k 1.0×	6.3k 1.3×	588 0.7×	459 0.6×	668 1.0×	153	10.4k
Amala Dass United States	52	8.4k 1.0×	5.3k 1.1×	468 0.5×	299 0.4×	459 0.7×	129	9.5k
Shinjiro Takano Japan	35	4.3k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	620 0.7×	608 0.8×	261 0.4×	114	5.1k
Hironori Tsunoyama Japan	37	6.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 2.5×	505 0.7×	516 0.8×	89	7.3k
Bokwon Yoon United States	34	6.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	681 0.8×	355 0.5×	572 0.9×	59	6.7k
Kristin Kirschbaum United States	32	3.5k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	659 0.9×	328 0.5×	114	4.9k
Olga Lopez‐Acevedo Finland	24	3.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.4×	287 0.3×	249 0.3×	408 0.6×	44	4.0k
T. Gregory Schaaff United States	23	5.0k 0.6×	4.1k 0.9×	531 0.6×	85 0.1×	1.2k 1.7×	31	6.8k
Marcos M. Alvarez United States	27	6.4k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 4.1×	92 0.1×	1.5k 2.2×	40	8.3k
Giovanni Barcaro Italy	39	3.7k 0.4×	978 0.2×	361 0.4×	167 0.2×	854 1.3×	156	4.8k

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Malola, Sami, Wei Huang, María Francisca Matus, et al.. (2026). A Golden Fullerene Encapsulating Schmid Gold. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148(4). 4579–4587.

Hazer, Maryam Sabooni Asre, Sami Malola, & Hannu Häkkinen. (2025). Thermal dynamics and coalescence of Au144(SR)60 clusters from a machine-learned potential. Nature Communications. 17(1). 971–971. 1 indexed citations

Malola, Sami, et al.. (2025). Ultraviolet photoactivation perturbs the metal-ligand interface of atomically precise nanoclusters. Chemical Communications. 61(35). 6482–6485. 1 indexed citations

Malola, Sami & Hannu Häkkinen. (2024). On transient absorption and dual emission of the atomically precise, DNA-stabilized silver nanocluster Ag₁₆Cl₂. Chemical Communications. 60(24). 3315–3318. 17 indexed citations

Malola, Sami, et al.. (2024). Fragmentation patterns of DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters under mass spectrometry. Nanoscale. 16(44). 20596–20607. 3 indexed citations

Malola, Sami, Osama Shekhah, Hao Jiang, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and crystallization of a carboxylate functionalized N -heterocyclic carbene-based Au ₁₃ cluster with strong photo-luminescence. Chemical Science. 15(39). 16112–16117. 3 indexed citations

Matus, María Francisca, et al.. (2024). GraphBNC: Machine Learning‐Aided Prediction of Interactions Between Metal Nanoclusters and Blood Proteins. Advanced Materials. 36(47). e2407046–e2407046. 12 indexed citations

Malola, Sami, et al.. (2024). Gold–Thiolate Nanocluster Dynamics and Intercluster Reactions Enabled by a Machine Learned Interatomic Potential. ACS Nano. 18(29). 19014–19023. 18 indexed citations

Pyo, Kyunglim, María Francisca Matus, Eero Hulkko, et al.. (2023). Atomistic View of the Energy Transfer in a Fluorophore-Functionalized Gold Nanocluster. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(27). 14697–14704. 25 indexed citations

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Malola, Sami, María Francisca Matus, & Hannu Häkkinen. (2023). Theoretical Analysis of the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of DNA-Stabilized Silver Cluster Ag ₁₆ Cl ₂ in Aqueous Solvent. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(33). 16553–16559. 21 indexed citations

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Matus, María Francisca, Sami Malola, Hannu Häkkinen, et al.. (2023). Accelerated size-focusing light activated synthesis of atomically precise fluorescent Au₂₂(Lys–Cys–Lys)₁₆ clusters. Nanoscale. 16(1). 205–211. 7 indexed citations

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Zúñiga-Gutiérrez, Bernardo, et al.. (2022). ¹H NMR global diatropicity in copper hydride complexes. Nanoscale. 14(35). 12668–12676. 3 indexed citations

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Yao, Qiaofeng, Lingmei Liu, Sami Malola, et al.. (2022). Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics. Nature Chemistry. 15(2). 230–239. 116 indexed citations

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Kalenius, Elina, et al.. (2021). Experimental Confirmation of a Topological Isomer of the Ubiquitous Au₂₅(SR)₁₈ Cluster in the Gas Phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(3). 1273–1277. 39 indexed citations

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Matus, María Francisca, Sami Malola, & Hannu Häkkinen. (2021). Ligand Ratio Plays a Critical Role in the Design of Optimal Multifunctional Gold Nanoclusters for Targeted Gastric Cancer Therapy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 47–60. 12 indexed citations

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Zúñiga-Gutiérrez, Bernardo, et al.. (2021). Cubic aromaticity in ligand-stabilized doped Au superatoms. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 154(20). 204303–204303. 11 indexed citations

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Matus, María Francisca, et al.. (2020). A topological isomer of the Au₂₅(SR)₁₈⁻nanocluster. Chemical Communications. 56(58). 8087–8090. 36 indexed citations

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Narouz, Mina R., Shinjiro Takano, Paul A. Lummis, et al.. (2019). Robust, Highly Luminescent Au₁₃ Superatoms Protected by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(38). 14997–15002. 240 indexed citations

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Bootharaju, Megalamane S., Hogeun Chang, Guocheng Deng, et al.. (2019). Cd₁₂Ag₃₂(SePh)₃₆: Non-Noble Metal Doped Silver Nanoclusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(21). 8422–8425. 78 indexed citations

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Slaughter, Liane S., Kevin M. Cheung, Sami Kaappa, et al.. (2017). Patterning of supported gold monolayers via chemical lift-off lithography. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 8. 2648–2661. 16 indexed citations

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