Valeria Molinero

14.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
160 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Valeria Molinero is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Valeria Molinero has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Atmospheric Science, 66 papers in Materials Chemistry and 42 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Valeria Molinero's work include nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (54 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (48 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (21 papers). Valeria Molinero is often cited by papers focused on nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (54 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (48 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (21 papers). Valeria Molinero collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and India. Valeria Molinero's co-authors include Emily B. Moore, Liam C. Jacobson, Arpa Hudait, Yuqing Qiu, Waldemar Hujo, Laura Lupi, William A. Goddard, Andrew H. Nguyen, Damián A. Scherlis and Tahir Çağın and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Valeria Molinero

158 papers receiving 11.2k 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.

Water Modeled As an Intermediate Element between Carbon and Silicon

2008 829 citations Valeria Molinero et al. profile →
Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice

2011 566 citations Valeria Molinero et al. profile →
Modeling Molecular Interactions in Water: From Pairwise to Many-Body Potential Energy Functions

2016 338 citations Valeria Molinero, Francesco Paesani et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valeria Molinero United States	59	4.1k	3.9k	2.1k	2.0k	2.0k	160	11.3k
Carlos Vega Spain	56	3.8k 0.9×	7.0k 1.8×	5.6k 2.7×	1.9k 1.0×	5.4k 2.7×	248	16.8k
J. L. F. Abascal Spain	33	2.2k 0.5×	3.7k 1.0×	3.8k 1.8×	1.0k 0.5×	3.0k 1.5×	85	9.8k
Hideki Tanaka Japan	49	1.0k 0.3×	3.7k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	258	8.9k
Dimo Kashchiev Bulgaria	41	2.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.8×	939 0.5×	959 0.5×	931 0.5×	117	7.1k
D. D. Klug Canada	54	630 0.2×	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	672 0.3×	235	8.8k
Eduardo Sanz Spain	39	2.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	924 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	130	5.9k
Peter G. Kusalik Canada	48	892 0.2×	1.7k 0.4×	3.1k 1.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	125	7.0k
Kenji Yasuoka Japan	44	1.1k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	883 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	244	5.9k
Pablo G. Debenedetti United States	83	3.1k 0.8×	15.7k 4.0×	6.1k 3.0×	735 0.4×	10.2k 5.1×	314	27.0k
Yujia Wang China	41	2.5k 0.6×	4.0k 1.0×	535 0.3×	454 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	320	9.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Sankaranarayanan, Subramanian K. R. S., et al.. (2025). From Nonclassical to Classical: Crystallization Seeds Reshape Nucleation Mechanisms. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(24). 20456–20465. 3 indexed citations

Meijerink, Mark J., et al.. (2025). Integrating Experiments and Simulations to Reveal Anisotropic Growth Mechanisms and Interfaces of a One-Dimensional Zeolite. Chemistry of Materials. 37(4). 1638–1647. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Kaixin, et al.. (2025). Nanoparticle Electrodes Trigger Bubble Detachment and Enhance Gas Evolution Efficiency. ACS Nano. 19(17). 16665–16674. 3 indexed citations

Dhabal, Debdas, et al.. (2024). Medium-density amorphous ice unveils shear rate as a new dimension in water’s phase diagram. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2414444121–e2414444121. 4 indexed citations

Sirkin, Yamila A. Perez, et al.. (2024). The smallest electrochemical bubbles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(41). e2406956121–e2406956121. 3 indexed citations

Clemens, Auston L., Maira R. Cerón, Thomas Ferron, et al.. (2024). Ultraviolet-Activated Solid-State Nitrene Cross-Linking: A Scalable Pathway to Prolonged Lifespan in Anion Exchange Membranes. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 6(8). 4419–4430. 8 indexed citations

Banik, Suvo, et al.. (2024). Interzeolite Transformation through Cross-Nucleation: A Molecular Mechanism for Seed-Assisted Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(48). 33204–33213. 9 indexed citations

Dhabal, Debdas, et al.. (2024). Liquid–liquid transition and ice crystallization in a machine-learned coarse-grained water model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(20). e2322853121–e2322853121. 12 indexed citations

Guo, Hao‐Bo, Janine Fröhlich‐Nowoisky, Rajiv Berry, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical assembly and environmental enhancement of bacterial ice nucleators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2409283121–e2409283121. 5 indexed citations

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Chan, Henry, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning a Simple Interpretable Short-Range Potential for Silica. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(19). 8665–8674. 3 indexed citations

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Schwidetzky, Ralph, Arthur L. DeVries, Mischa Bonn, et al.. (2023). Functional aggregation of cell-free proteins enables fungal ice nucleation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(46). e2303243120–e2303243120. 16 indexed citations

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Karnes, John J., et al.. (2023). Post-Hydration Crosslinking of Ion Exchange Membranes to Control Water Content. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(11). 5613–5621. 6 indexed citations

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Chan, Henry, Sukriti Manna, Troy D. Loeffler, et al.. (2023). Multi-reward reinforcement learning based development of inter-atomic potential models for silica. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 7 indexed citations

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Banik, Suvo, Debdas Dhabal, Henry Chan, et al.. (2023). CEGANN: Crystal Edge Graph Attention Neural Network for multiscale classification of materials environment. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 33 indexed citations

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Meister, Konrad, et al.. (2023). HUB: a method to model and extract the distribution of ice nucleation temperatures from drop-freezing experiments. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(10). 5623–5639. 11 indexed citations

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Molinero, Valeria, et al.. (2023). Nanobubble Stability and Formation on Solid–Liquid Interfaces in Open Environments. Nano Letters. 23(15). 7206–7212. 7 indexed citations

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Sirkin, Yamila A. Perez, et al.. (2020). Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles: Invariance of the Current with Respect to Electrode Size and Potential. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(16). 6573–6579. 30 indexed citations

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Moberg, Daniel R., Daniel M. Becker, U. Buck, et al.. (2019). The end of ice I. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24413–24419. 55 indexed citations

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Sirkin, Yamila A. Perez, et al.. (2019). Mechanisms of Nucleation and Stationary States of Electrochemically Generated Nanobubbles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(27). 10801–10811. 116 indexed citations

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Sirkin, Yamila A. Perez, Matías H. Factorovich, Valeria Molinero, & Damián A. Scherlis. (2017). Stability and Vapor Pressure of Aqueous Aggregates and Aerosols Containing a Monovalent Ion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(13). 2597–2602. 3 indexed citations

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