Stephen Whitelam

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen Whitelam is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Whitelam has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Materials Chemistry, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Stephen Whitelam's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (18 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (15 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (11 papers). Stephen Whitelam is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (18 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (15 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (11 papers). Stephen Whitelam collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Stephen Whitelam's co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, James J. De Yoreo, Adam F. Wallace, Haimei Zheng, Hong‐Gang Liao, Likun Cui, Lester O. Hedges, Alexandra Navrotsky, Derk Joester and Helmut Cölfen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Whitelam

80 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments

2015 1.7k citations James J. De Yoreo, Stephen Whitelam et al. Science profile →
Real-Time Imaging of Pt ₃ Fe Nanorod Growth in Solution

2012 612 citations Stephen Whitelam et al. Science profile →
Microscopic Evidence for Liquid-Liquid Separation in Supersaturated CaCO ₃ Solutions

2013 434 citations Adam F. Wallace, Lester O. Hedges et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stephen Whitelam	2.3k	1.5k	944	844	493	84	5.0k
Paolo Raiteri	2.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	986 1.2×	437 0.9×	121	7.4k
Xianren Zhang	1.3k 0.6×	690 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.8×	419 0.8×	203	5.5k
Christine A. Orme	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	372 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	276 0.6×	101	4.7k
Tiffany R. Walsh	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	226 0.5×	187	6.1k
Dirk Zahn	1.9k 0.8×	802 0.5×	334 0.4×	949 1.1×	219 0.4×	210	4.3k
Michael Sztucki	2.0k 0.8×	810 0.5×	731 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	157 0.3×	130	4.7k
Theyencheri Narayanan	3.2k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	2.2k 2.3×	1.7k 2.0×	246 0.5×	243	9.1k
Takashi Nakagawa	1.7k 0.7×	400 0.3×	527 0.6×	797 0.9×	281 0.6×	249	5.1k
Stephen T. Hyde	3.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1000 1.1×	925 1.1×	114 0.2×	152	7.8k
P. Mark Rodger	1.1k 0.5×	911 0.6×	743 0.8×	589 0.7×	148 0.3×	111	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Whitelam

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20 of 20 papers shown

Whitelam, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Competing addition processes give distinct growth regimes in the assembly of 1D filaments. Biophysical Journal. 124(5). 778–788. 1 indexed citations

Whitelam, Stephen. (2024). Free-energy estimates from nonequilibrium trajectories under varying-temperature protocols. Physical review. E. 110(1). 14142–14142.

Dehaen, Wim, et al.. (2024). On the origin of cooperativity effects in the formation of self-assembled molecular networks at the liquid/solid interface. Chemical Science. 15(16). 6076–6087. 3 indexed citations

Whitelam, Stephen. (2023). Demon in the Machine: Learning to Extract Work and Absorb Entropy from Fluctuating Nanosystems. Physical Review X. 13(2). 8 indexed citations

Whitelam, Stephen & Isaac Tamblyn. (2020). Learning to grow: Control of material self-assembly using evolutionary reinforcement learning. Physical review. E. 101(5). 52604–52604. 47 indexed citations

Rangan, Sylvie, et al.. (2019). Growth of a highly ordered inhomogeneous kinetically trapped molecular monolayer. Physical review. B.. 100(24). 2 indexed citations

Jacobson, Daniel & Stephen Whitelam. (2019). Direct evaluation of dynamical large-deviation rate functions using a variational ansatz. Physical review. E. 100(5). 52139–52139. 16 indexed citations

Kundu, Joyjit, Jürgen F. Stilck, Jung‐Hoon Lee, et al.. (2018). Cooperative Gas Adsorption without a Phase Transition in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Physical Review Letters. 121(1). 15701–15701. 21 indexed citations

Yoreo, Jim De & Stephen Whitelam. (2016). Nucleation in atomic, molecular, and colloidal systems. MRS Bulletin. 41(5). 357–360. 11 indexed citations

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Mannige, Ranjan V., Thomas K. Haxton, Caroline Proulx, et al.. (2015). Peptoid nanosheets exhibit a new secondary-structure motif. Nature. 526(7573). 415–420. 180 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen, Isaac Tamblyn, Juan P. Garrahan, & Peter H. Beton. (2015). Emergent Rhombus Tilings from Molecular Interactions with M-fold Rotational Symmetry. Physical Review Letters. 114(11). 115702–115702. 16 indexed citations

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Wallace, Adam F., Lester O. Hedges, Alejandro Fernández‐Martínez, et al.. (2013). Microscopic Evidence for Liquid-Liquid Separation in Supersaturated CaCO ₃ Solutions. Science. 341(6148). 885–889. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haxton, Thomas K., Hui Zhou, Isaac Tamblyn, et al.. (2013). Competing Thermodynamic and Dynamic Factors Select Molecular Assemblies on a Gold Surface. Physical Review Letters. 111(26). 265701–265701. 14 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen, Isaac Tamblyn, Peter H. Beton, & Juan P. Garrahan. (2012). Random and Ordered Phases of Off-Lattice Rhombus Tiles. Physical Review Letters. 108(3). 35702–35702. 28 indexed citations

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Schmit, Jeremy D., Stephen Whitelam, & Ken A. Dill. (2010). Competition between counterion entropy and local binding selects dimensionality of charged nanostructures. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Chung, Sungwook, Seong‐Ho Shin, Stephen Whitelam, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, & Jim De Yoreo. (2010). S-Layer Self-Assembly on Supported Lipid-Bilayers: The Importance of Amorphous Precursors and Folding Transitions. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 10a–10a. 2 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen. (2010). Control of Pathways and Yields of Protein Crystallization through the Interplay of Nonspecific and Specific Attractions. Physical Review Letters. 105(8). 88102–88102. 74 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen, et al.. (2008). The Impact of Conformational Fluctuations on Self-Assembly: Cooperative Aggregation of Archaeal Chaperonin Proteins. Nano Letters. 9(1). 292–297. 26 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen, Sander Pronk, & Phillip L. Geissler. (2007). There and (Slowly) Back Again: Entropy-Driven Hysteresis in a Model of DNA Overstretching. Biophysical Journal. 94(7). 2452–2469. 40 indexed citations

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Whitelam, Stephen, Ludovic Berthier, & Juan P. Garrahan. (2004). Dynamic Criticality in Glass-Forming Liquids. Physical Review Letters. 92(18). 185705–185705. 129 indexed citations

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