Yuval Elani

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Yuval Elani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuval Elani has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yuval Elani's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (23 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (15 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (12 papers). Yuval Elani is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (23 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (15 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (12 papers). Yuval Elani collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Yuval Elani's co-authors include Oscar Ces, Robert V. Law, Tatiana Trantidou, Mark S. Friddin, Edward S. Parsons, James W. Hindley, Ali Salehi‐Reyhani, Nicholas J. Brooks, John M. Seddon and Guido Bolognesi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yuval Elani

57 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Vesicle-based artificial cells as chemical microreactors with spatially segregated reaction pathways

2014 389 citations Yuval Elani, Robert V. Law et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuval Elani United Kingdom	26	1.5k	1.4k	410	409	348	59	2.8k
Seraphine V. Wegner Germany	29	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	390 1.0×	416 1.0×	232 0.7×	88	3.2k
Liangfei Tian China	22	639 0.4×	594 0.4×	237 0.6×	348 0.9×	213 0.6×	70	1.6k
Nan‐Nan Deng China	19	659 0.4×	894 0.6×	120 0.3×	225 0.6×	325 0.9×	40	1.6k
George D. Bachand United States	28	1.1k 0.8×	893 0.6×	214 0.5×	265 0.6×	392 1.1×	85	3.0k
Loai K. E. A. Abdelmohsen Netherlands	31	811 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	250 0.6×	886 2.2×	144 0.4×	76	3.1k
Toshihisa Osaki Japan	27	976 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	215 0.5×	133 0.3×	361 1.0×	115	2.0k
Matthew A. Holden United States	22	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	207 0.5×	164 0.4×	417 1.2×	28	2.2k
Aldo Jesorka Sweden	21	1.0k 0.7×	864 0.6×	191 0.5×	325 0.8×	241 0.7×	107	2.0k
Damien Baigl France	41	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	182 0.4×	346 0.8×	1.4k 3.9×	106	4.4k
Masahiro Takinoue Japan	25	956 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	62 0.2×	215 0.5×	380 1.1×	102	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuval Elani

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Grob, Alice, et al.. (2025). Design of an intracellular aptamer-based fluorescent biosensor to track burden in Escherichia coli. Trends in biotechnology. 43(10). 2566–2585. 1 indexed citations

Hindley, James W., et al.. (2025). Microfluidic Production of Spatially Structured Biomimetic Microgels as Compartmentalized Artificial Cells. Small Science. 5(4). 2400320–2400320. 1 indexed citations

Ces, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Magnetic Modulation of Biochemical Synthesis in Synthetic Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(19). 13176–13182. 9 indexed citations

Ceroni, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Nucleated synthetic cells with genetically driven intercompartment communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(36). e2404790121–e2404790121. 3 indexed citations

Chui, S.Y., et al.. (2024). Engineering a nanoscale liposome-in-liposome for in situ biochemical synthesis and multi-stage release. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1612–1620. 24 indexed citations

Hindley, James W., et al.. (2024). Microfluidic technologies for lipid vesicle generation. Lab on a Chip. 24(20). 4679–4716. 12 indexed citations

Michele, Lorenzo Di, et al.. (2024). Lipid vesicle-based molecular robots. Lab on a Chip. 24(5). 996–1029. 16 indexed citations

Raguseo, Federica, Yiran Wang, Jessica Li, et al.. (2023). The ALS/FTD-related C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion forms RNA condensates through multimolecular G-quadruplexes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8272–8272. 30 indexed citations

Hindley, James W., et al.. (2023). Biomimetic behaviors in hydrogel artificial cells through embedded organelles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(35). e2307772120–e2307772120. 20 indexed citations

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Adamala, Katarzyna P., Marileen Dogterom, Yuval Elani, et al.. (2023). Present and future of synthetic cell development. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 25(3). 162–167. 35 indexed citations

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Contini, Claudia, et al.. (2023). A microfluidic platform for the controlled synthesis of architecturally complex liquid crystalline nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12684–12684. 19 indexed citations

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Hindley, James W., et al.. (2022). Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 6(8). 562–578. 109 indexed citations

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Hindley, James W., et al.. (2022). Stimuli-responsive vesicles as distributed artificial organelles for bacterial activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(42). e2206563119–e2206563119. 25 indexed citations

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Wang, Yifan, Joëlle Goulding, Atsuro Oishi, et al.. (2021). Acylation of the Incretin Peptide Exendin-4 Directly Impacts Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Signaling and Trafficking. Molecular Pharmacology. 100(4). 319–334. 23 indexed citations

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Bolognesi, Guido, Mark S. Friddin, Ali Salehi‐Reyhani, et al.. (2018). Sculpting and fusing biomimetic vesicle networks using optical tweezers. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1882–1882. 137 indexed citations

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Hindley, James W., Yuval Elani, Catriona M. McGilvery, et al.. (2018). Light-triggered enzymatic reactions in nested vesicle reactors. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1093–1093. 127 indexed citations

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Elani, Yuval, Tatiana Trantidou, Douglas Wylie, et al.. (2018). Constructing vesicle-based artificial cells with embedded living cells as organelle-like modules. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 4564–4564. 96 indexed citations

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Salehi‐Reyhani, Ali, Oscar Ces, & Yuval Elani. (2017). Artificial cell mimics as simplified models for the study of cell biology. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 242(13). 1309–1317. 98 indexed citations

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Elani, Yuval, Robert V. Law, & Oscar Ces. (2014). Vesicle-based artificial cells as chemical microreactors with spatially segregated reaction pathways. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5305–5305. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Elani, Yuval, Andrew J. deMello, Xize Niu, & Oscar Ces. (2012). Novel technologies for the formation of 2-D and 3-D droplet interface bilayer networks. Lab on a Chip. 12(18). 3514–3514. 66 indexed citations

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