Most cited papers in Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
What are the most cited papers in Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications?
The most cited paper in Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications is "An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments" (W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr, 1992), with 27,030 citations. Next come "A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve" (23,507) and "Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene" (20,935).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,686 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr · Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources | Jun 1992 | 27,030 |
| 2 | A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley · The Journal of Physiology | 28 Aug 1952 | 23,507 |
| 3 | Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene Changgu Lee, Xiaoding Wei, Jeffrey W. Kysar et al. · Science | 17 Jul 2008 | 20,935 |
| 4 | Atomic Force Microscope Gerd K. Binnig, C. F. Quate, Ch. Gerber · Physical Review Letters | 3 Mar 1986 | 14,628 |
| 5 | Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2 May 2019 | 12,749 |
| 6 | Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings Haeshin Lee, Shara M. Dellatore, William M. Miller et al. · Science | 18 Oct 2007 | 10,972 |
| 7 | MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy Shawn Q. Zheng, Eugene J. Palovcak, Jean‐Paul Armache et al. · Nature Methods | 27 Feb 2017 | 9,180 |
| 8 | Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution Eric Betzig, George H. Patterson, Rachid Sougrat et al. · Science | 10 Aug 2006 | 9,061 |
| 9 | Measurement of hardness and elastic modulus by instrumented indentation: Advances in understanding and refinements to methodology W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr · Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources | 2004 | 8,017 |
| 10 | CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields Kenno Vanommeslaeghe, Elizabeth Hatcher, Chitrangada Acharya et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry | 2 Jul 2009 | 7,826 |
| 11 | WSXM : A software for scanning probe microscopy and a tool for nanotechnology Ignacio Horcas, Robert Fernandez, José María Gómez‐Rodríguez et al. · Review of Scientific Instruments | 2007 | 7,765 |
| 12 | Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate Dennis E. Discher, Paul A. Janmey, Yu-Li Wang · Science | 18 Nov 2005 | 6,452 |
| 13 | Generalized Neural-Network Representation of High-Dimensional Potential-Energy Surfaces Jörg Behler, Michele Parrinello · Physical Review Letters | 2 Apr 2007 | 5,152 |
| 14 | Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Gerd K. Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ch. Gerber et al. · Physical Review Letters | 5 Jul 1982 | 4,706 |
| 15 | Gwyddion: an open-source software for SPM data analysis David Nečas, Petr Klapetek · Open Physics | 16 Nov 2011 | 4,514 |
| 16 | Theory of the scanning tunneling microscope J. Tersoff, Donald R. Hamann · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jan 1985 | 4,385 |
| 17 | The work function of the elements and its periodicity Herbert B. Michaelson · Journal of Applied Physics | Nov 1977 | 4,289 |
| 18 | Calibration of atomic-force microscope tips Jeffrey L. Hutter, John Bechhoefer · Review of Scientific Instruments | Jul 1993 | 4,225 |
| 19 | The Physics of Rubber Elasticity Leslie R. G. Treloar, D. J. Montgomery · Physics Today | Feb 1959 | 3,802 |
| 20 | A second-generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential energy expression for hydrocarbons Donald W. Brenner, Olga A. Shenderova, Judith A. Harrison et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter | 18 Jan 2002 | 3,776 |
| 21 | Force measurements with the atomic force microscope: Technique, interpretation and applications Hans‐Jürgen Butt, Brunero Cappella, Michael Kappl · Surface Science Reports | Oct 2005 | 3,708 |
| 22 | Ballistic carbon nanotube field-effect transistors Ali Javey, Jing Hua Guo, Qian Wang et al. · Nature | Aug 2003 | 3,195 |
| 23 | Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope D. M. Eigler, E. K. Schweizer · Nature | Apr 1990 | 3,155 |
| 24 | Reversible Unfolding of Individual Titin Immunoglobulin Domains by AFM Matthias Rief, Mathias Gautel, Filipp Oesterhelt et al. · Science | 16 May 1997 | 3,101 |
| 25 | Relaxation of Crystals with the Quasi-Newton Method Bernd Pfrommer, Michel Côté, Steven G. Louie et al. · Journal of Computational Physics | Feb 1997 | 3,096 |
| 26 | Experiments and theory in strain gradient elasticity DAVID C. C. LAM, Fujun Yang, Arthur C. M. Chong et al. · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 19 May 2003 | 3,090 |
| 27 | "Dip-Pen" Nanolithography Richard D. Piner, Jin Song Zhu, Feng Xu et al. · Science | 29 Jan 1999 | 3,047 |
| 28 | A method for interpreting the data from depth-sensing indentation instruments Mary F. Doerner, William D. Nix · Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources | Aug 1986 | 2,846 |
| 29 | Overstretching B-DNA: The Elastic Response of Individual Double-Stranded and Single-Stranded DNA Molecules Steven B. Smith, Yujia Cui, Carlos Bustamante · Science | 9 Feb 1996 | 2,798 |
| 30 | Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh et al. · Nature | Jun 2000 | 2,768 |
| 31 | Quantitative measurement of displacement and strain fields from HREM micrographs Martin Hÿtch, E. Snoeck, Roar Kilaas · Ultramicroscopy | Aug 1998 | 2,751 |
| 32 | Tensile Loading of Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and their Mechanical Properties Min‐Feng Yu, Bradley S. Files, Sivaram Arepalli et al. · Physical Review Letters | 12 Jun 2000 | 2,702 |
| 33 | Nanomechanics of Carbon Tubes: Instabilities beyond Linear Response Boris I. Yakobson, C. J. Brabec, J. Bernholc · Physical Review Letters | Apr 1996 | 2,643 |
| 34 | Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity J. Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, J. R. Schrieffer · Physical Review | Apr 1957 | 2,612 |
| 35 | Synthetic Molecular Motors and Mechanical Machines Euan R. Kay, David A. Leigh, Francesco Zerbetto · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 29 Nov 2006 | 2,611 |
| 36 | Elastic-Plastic Deformation at Finite Strains E. H. Lee · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Mar 1969 | 2,610 |
| 37 | Dynamic strength of molecular adhesion bonds Erastus W. Evans, Ken P. Ritchie · Biophysical Journal | Apr 1997 | 2,582 |
| 38 | Environmental sensing through focal adhesions Benjamin Geiger, Joachim Pius Spatz, Alexander D. Bershadsky · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 19 Dec 2008 | 2,571 |
| 39 | Strengthening Materials by Engineering Coherent Internal Boundaries at the Nanoscale K. Lu, Lei Lu, S. Srinivasa Suresh · Science | 16 Apr 2009 | 2,543 |
| 40 | Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nickel Emmanuel Beaurepaire, J.‐C. Merle, A. Daunois et al. · Physical Review Letters | 27 May 1996 | 2,463 |
| 41 | Single-molecule force spectroscopy: optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers and atomic force microscopy Keir C. Neuman, Attila Nagy · Nature Methods | 29 May 2008 | 2,444 |
| 42 | Frequency modulation detection using high- Q cantilevers for enhanced force microscope sensitivity Thomas R. Albrecht, Peter Grütter, Don Horne et al. · Journal of Applied Physics | 15 Jan 1991 | 2,416 |
| 43 | Measurement of Single-Molecule Resistance by Repeated Formation of Molecular Junctions Bingqian Xu, Nongjian J. Tao · Science | 28 Aug 2003 | 2,372 |
| 44 | Local force and geometry sensing regulate cell functions Viola Vogel, Michael P. Sheetz · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 22 Feb 2006 | 2,343 |
| 45 | Electron Transport in Molecular Wire Junctions Abraham Nitzan, Mark A. Ratner · Science | 29 May 2003 | 2,329 |
| 46 | Sample Dimensions Influence Strength and Crystal Plasticity Michael D. Uchic, Dennis M. Dimiduk, J.N. Florando et al. · Science | 13 Aug 2004 | 2,328 |
| 47 | Spontaneous formation of ordered structures in thin films of metals supported on an elastomeric polymer Ned B. Bowden, Scott T. Brittain, Anthony Glyn Evans et al. · Nature | May 1998 | 2,304 |
| 48 | Advances in atomic force microscopy Franz J. Gießibl · Reviews of Modern Physics | 29 Jul 2003 | 2,260 |
| 49 | The influence of some cations on an adenosine triphosphatase from peripheral nerves Jens Chr. Skou · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta | 1957 | 2,258 |
| 50 | Theoretical and experimental studies of multiple nucleation Benjamín R. Scharifker, Graham J. Hills · Electrochimica Acta | Jul 1983 | 2,241 |
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