Tim Liedl

19.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
133 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Tim Liedl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Liedl has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 43 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Tim Liedl's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (103 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (49 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (43 papers). Tim Liedl is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (103 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (49 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (43 papers). Tim Liedl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Tim Liedl's co-authors include Robert Schreiber, Friedrich C. Simmel, William M. Shih, Alexander O. Govorov, Björn Högberg, Anton Kuzyk, Eva-Maria Roller, Hendrik Dietz, Wolfgang J. Parak and Shawn M. Douglas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Liedl

129 papers receiving 15.7k 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.

Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

2009 2.1k citations Shawn M. Douglas, Hendrik Dietz et al. Nature profile →
DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical response

2012 1.9k citations Alexander O. Govorov, Tim Liedl et al. Nature profile →
Cytotoxicity of Colloidal CdSe and CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticles

2004 1.3k citations Tim Liedl, Hermann E. Gaub et al. Nano Letters profile →
Hydrophobic Nanocrystals Coated with an Amphiphilic Polymer Shell: A General Route to Water Soluble Nanocrystals

2004 869 citations Tim Liedl et al. Nano Letters profile →
Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules

2014 602 citations Alexander O. Govorov, Tim Liedl et al. profile →
Diamond-lattice photonic crystals assembled from DNA origami

2024 57 citations Gregor Posnjak, Mihir Dass et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Liedl Germany	58	10.1k	6.2k	4.1k	4.0k	1.6k	133	15.9k
Yan Liu United States	68	15.8k 1.6×	5.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	230	18.9k
Friedrich C. Simmel Germany	58	11.9k 1.2×	5.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.3×	1.6k 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	197	15.1k
Christof M. Niemeyer Germany	67	12.6k 1.2×	5.1k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.4×	2.7k 1.7×	351	17.6k
Ronit Freeman Israel	51	8.2k 0.8×	5.5k 0.9×	5.8k 1.4×	4.2k 1.0×	3.0k 1.9×	103	15.0k
Christine D. Keating United States	58	5.7k 0.6×	3.9k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	134	11.7k
Baoquan Ding China	57	9.3k 0.9×	4.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	729 0.5×	168	12.3k
Hao Yan United States	93	27.3k 2.7×	9.4k 1.5×	4.3k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	3.5k 2.2×	292	32.0k
Oleg Gang United States	50	4.1k 0.4×	2.1k 0.3×	4.1k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	876 0.6×	172	9.4k
Ellen R. Goldman United States	45	8.2k 0.8×	3.8k 0.6×	8.6k 2.1×	1.1k 0.3×	3.2k 2.0×	173	14.8k
Jwa‐Min Nam South Korea	54	5.3k 0.5×	6.7k 1.1×	4.3k 1.1×	6.0k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	154	12.4k

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Ijäs, Heini, et al.. (2025). DNA origami signal amplification in lateral flow immunoassays. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3216–3216. 8 indexed citations

Posnjak, Gregor, Lior Shani, Eti Teblum, et al.. (2025). Scattering-based super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging. Optics Express. 33(9). 18824–18824. 1 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Amrita, Mihir Dass, Christy F. Landes, et al.. (2025). The Influence of the Supporting Substrate on Single‐Particle Circular Differential Scattering of DNA Assembled Nanorod Dimers. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(34).

Kempter, Susanne, et al.. (2025). Chiral Plasmonic Crystals Self-Assembled by DNA Origami. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(10). 5116–5121.

Trofymchuk, Kateryna, Mihir Dass, Benedikt Hauer, et al.. (2025). Bringing Attomolar Detection to the Point‐of‐Care with Nanopatterned DNA Origami Nanoantennas. Advanced Materials. 37(40). e07407–e07407. 2 indexed citations

Lak, Aidin, Yihao Wang, Marco Cassani, et al.. (2024). Cooperative dynamics of DNA-grafted magnetic nanoparticles optimize magnetic biosensing and coupling to DNA origami. Nanoscale. 16(15). 7678–7689. 4 indexed citations

Martynenko, Irina V., et al.. (2024). DNA Origami‐Directed Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanospheres for Plasmonic Metasurfaces. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(42). 11 indexed citations

Gao, Daqian, et al.. (2024). Controlling the size and adhesion of DNA droplets using surface- enriched DNA molecules. Soft Matter. 20(6). 1275–1281. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Seunghoon, Chenghao Fan, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the Chirality Transfer from Circularly Polarized Light to Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie. 136(11). 5 indexed citations

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Alarcón‐Correa, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Platinum‐DNA Origami Hybrid Structures in Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide. ChemPhysChem. 24(22). e202300294–e202300294.

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Saleh, Omar A., et al.. (2023). Vacuole dynamics and popping-based motility in liquid droplets of DNA. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3574–3574. 24 indexed citations

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Park, Haedong, Jwa‐Min Nam, Yonggang Ke, et al.. (2023). DNA origami‐designed 3D phononic crystals. Nanophotonics. 12(13). 2611–2621. 11 indexed citations

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Santiago, Eva Yazmin, et al.. (2022). Onset of Chirality in Plasmonic Meta-Molecules and Dielectric Coupling. ACS Nano. 16(10). 16143–16149. 18 indexed citations

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Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2022). Chiral Bioinspired Plasmonics: A Paradigm Shift for Optical Activity and Photochemistry. ACS Photonics. 9(7). 2219–2236. 51 indexed citations

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Roure, Olivia du, et al.. (2021). Programmable Design and Performance of Modular Magnetic Microswimmers. Advanced Materials. 33(16). e2006237–e2006237. 21 indexed citations

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Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, Lucas V. Besteiro, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2021). Chiral Photomelting of DNA-Nanocrystal Assemblies Utilizing Plasmonic Photoheating. Nano Letters. 21(17). 7298–7308. 26 indexed citations

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Ijäs, Heini, Boxuan Shen, Amelie Heuer‐Jungemann, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the interaction between doxorubicin and DNA origami nanostructures for customizable chemotherapeutic drug release. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(6). 3048–3062. 127 indexed citations

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Kauert, Dominik J., Thomas Kurth, Tim Liedl, & Ralf Seidel. (2012). Direct Mechanical Measurements Reveal the Material Properties of 3D DNA-Origami. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 421a–421a. 1 indexed citations

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Douglas, Shawn M., Hendrik Dietz, Tim Liedl, et al.. (2009). Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes. Nature. 459(7245). 414–418. 2054 indexed citations breakdown →

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Puchner, Elias M., et al.. (2008). Single-Molecule Cut-and-Paste Surface Assembly. Science. 319(5863). 594–596. 215 indexed citations

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