Sinan Keten

10.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
169 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Sinan Keten is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sinan Keten has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Materials Chemistry, 59 papers in Biomaterials and 36 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sinan Keten's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (24 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers). Sinan Keten is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (24 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers). Sinan Keten collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Sinan Keten's co-authors include Markus J. Buehler, Wenjie Xia, Zhi Ping Xu, Zhaoxu Meng, Robert Sinko, Luis Ruiz Pestana, David D. Hsu, Theodor Ackbarow, Jan Carmeliet and Dominique Derome and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sinan Keten

168 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

2010 1.1k citations Sinan Keten, Markus J. Buehler et al. profile →
Mesoscopic and multiscale modelling in materials

2021 244 citations Sinan Keten et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sinan Keten United States	48	3.5k	2.3k	1.9k	1.3k	1.2k	169	7.9k
Zhao Qin United States	44	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	813 0.6×	513 0.4×	158	7.0k
Baohua Ji China	37	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.5×	729 0.5×	372 0.3×	159	6.4k
Ali Miserez Singapore	47	3.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	345 0.3×	145	7.5k
Peter Kingshott Australia	49	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	786 0.7×	188	7.9k
Niels Holten‐Andersen United States	28	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	466 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	59	6.5k
Jing Yu Singapore	41	1.3k 0.4×	977 0.4×	2.1k 1.1×	809 0.6×	933 0.8×	125	6.4k
Yuan Cheng China	41	1.6k 0.4×	3.2k 1.4×	2.2k 1.2×	541 0.4×	696 0.6×	166	7.0k
David Kisailus United States	44	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	358 0.3×	553 0.5×	127	8.6k
Kenneth H. Sandhage United States	45	2.1k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	354 0.3×	147	7.6k
Hidemitsu Furukawa Japan	46	1.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	3.0k 1.6×	725 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	358	8.2k

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White, Heather L., Wei Chen, Nicola M. Pugno, & Sinan Keten. (2025). Rate-dependent molecular size effects govern the inverse thickness dependence of specific penetration energy in nanoscale thin films. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 81. 102419–102419.

Russell, T. P., et al.. (2025). Charting the envelope of mechanical properties of synthetic silk fibers through predictive modeling of the drawing process. Science Advances. 11(10). eadr3833–eadr3833. 3 indexed citations

Kang, Tae-Won, et al.. (2025). Entanglements and Fracture in Polymers. Chemical Reviews. 125(22). 11032–11057. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Qifeng, et al.. (2025). Real-Time Visualization of Single Polymer Conformational Change in the Bulk State during Mechanical Deformation. Physical Review Letters. 134(14). 148101–148101. 1 indexed citations

Hafner, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Network Topology and Percolation in Model Covalent Adaptable Networks. ACS Macro Letters. 13(11). 1545–1550. 5 indexed citations

Foo, Zi Hao, et al.. (2024). Positively‐Coated Nanofiltration Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Battery Leachates and Salt‐Lakes: Ion Transport Fundamentals and Module Performance. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(48). 26 indexed citations

Keten, Sinan, et al.. (2023). Emergent elasticity relations for networks of bars with sticky magnetic ends. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 65. 102093–102093. 5 indexed citations

Keten, Sinan, et al.. (2023). Effect of molecular dynamics water models on flux, diffusivity, and ion dynamics for polyamide membrane simulations. Journal of Membrane Science. 678. 121630–121630. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Jenny, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, & Sinan Keten. (2022). A new approach for extracting information from protein dynamics. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 91(2). 183–195. 3 indexed citations

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Giuntoli, Andrea, Wengang Zhang, Zhongqin Lin, et al.. (2022). The effect of nanoparticle softness on the interfacial dynamics of a model polymer nanocomposite. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(9). 94901–94901. 15 indexed citations

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Vargas–Lara, Fernando, et al.. (2021). Quantifying Chemical Composition and Cross-link Effects on EPDM Elastomer Viscoelasticity with Molecular Dynamics. Macromolecules. 54(14). 6780–6789. 20 indexed citations

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Hamed, Elham, et al.. (2021). Atomistic Modeling of Peptide Aggregation and β-Sheet Structuring in Corn Zein for Viscoelasticity. Biomacromolecules. 22(5). 1856–1866. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yao, et al.. (2019). Cohesive and adhesive properties of crosslinked semiflexible biopolymer networks. Soft Matter. 15(18). 3807–3816. 19 indexed citations

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Song, Jake, David D. Hsu, Kenneth R. Shull, et al.. (2018). Energy Renormalization Method for the Coarse-Graining of Polymer Viscoelasticity. Macromolecules. 51(10). 3818–3827. 51 indexed citations

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Huang, Tianyu, et al.. (2018). Design principles of high modulus and toughness cellulose nanocrystal assemblies. 348–361. 1 indexed citations

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Meng, Zhaoxu, et al.. (2017). Reduced ballistic limit velocity of graphene membranes due to cone wave reflection. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 15. 70–77. 54 indexed citations

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Keten, Sinan. (2012). Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Buehler, Markus J. & Sinan Keten. (2010). Colloquium: Failure of molecules, bones, and the Earth itself. APS. 3 indexed citations

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Keten, Sinan & Markus J. Buehler. (2008). Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale. Nano Letters. 8(2). 743–748. 189 indexed citations

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Keten, Sinan & Markus J. Buehler. (2008). Asymptotic Strength Limit of Hydrogen-Bond Assemblies in Proteins at Vanishing Pulling Rates. Physical Review Letters. 100(19). 198301–198301. 72 indexed citations

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