2026 Fernando Patolsky: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	62	6343	6132	26	26	155	22729

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Materials Science

6343

6132

155

22729

Overview

Fernando Patolsky is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Patolsky's scientific work involves a variety of topics where they have published extensively. Key topics include:

Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
Advanced battery technologies research
Advancements in Battery Materials
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Their recent publications demonstrate a cross-disciplinary approach that covers nanotechnology, energy conversion, and biomedical engineering. Notable papers include:

"Clinic-on-a-Needle Array toward Future Minimally Invasive Wearable Artificial Pancreas Applications," 2021, ACS Nano
"Why today's "water" in water splitting is not natural water? Critical up-to-date perspective and future challenges for direct seawater splitting," 2023, Nano Energy
"Pioneering practical direct sea water splitting via an intrinsically-selective chlorine-phobic nickel polysulphide nanostructured electrocatalyst for pure oxygen evolution," 2023, Nano Energy
"Routes to Avoiding Chlorine Evolution in Seawater Electrolysis: Recent Perspective and Future Directions," 2024, ACS Materials Letters
"Breathing parylene-based nanothin artificial SEI for highly-stable long life three-dimensional silicon lithium-ion batteries," 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal

These publications are distributed among frequent scientific venues such as:

ACS Nano
Nano Energy
Advanced Science
Advanced Energy Materials
Journal of Energy Chemistry

Frequent collaborators of Fernando Patolsky include Nimrod Harpak, Adam Cohen, Gaurav Bahuguna, Guy Davidi, and Vadim Krivitsky, reflecting collaborative efforts in multiple projects and interdisciplinary studies.

Best Publications

Multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers with nanowire sensor arrays.

Gengfeng Zheng;Fernando Patolsky;Yi Cui;Wayne U Wang

3138
Citations
Electrical detection of single viruses

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Oliver Hayden;Melike Lakadamyali

1706
Citations
"Plugging into Enzymes": Nanowiring of Redox Enzymes by a Gold Nanoparticle

Yi Xiao;Fernando Patolsky;Eugenii Katz;James F. Hainfeld

1500
Citations
Detection, Stimulation, and Inhibition of Neuronal Signals with High-Density Nanowire Transistor Arrays

Fernando Patolsky;Brian P. Timko;Guihua Yu;Ying Fang

1046
Citations
Nanowire-Based Biosensors

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M. Lieber

1017
Citations
Fabrication of silicon nanowire devices for ultrasensitive, label-free, real-time detection of biological and chemical species

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M Lieber

946
Citations
Long‐Range Electrical Contacting of Redox Enzymes by SWCNT Connectors

Fernando Patolsky;Yossi Weizmann;Itamar Willner

778
Citations
Nanowire sensors for medicine and the life sciences

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M Lieber

685
Citations
Nanomaterials for Neural Interfaces

Nicholas A. Kotov;Jessica O. Winter;Isaac P. Clements;Edward Jan

607
Citations
Nanowire-Based Nanoelectronic Devices in the Life Sciences

Fernando Patolsky;Brian P. Timko;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M. Lieber

454
Citations
Detection of single-base DNA mutations by enzyme-amplified electronic transduction

Fernando Patolsky;Amir Lichtenstein;Itamar Willner

447
Citations
Lighting-Up the Dynamics of Telomerization and DNA Replication by CdSe−ZnS Quantum Dots

Fernando Patolsky;Ron Gill;Yossi Weizmann;Taleb Mokari

440
Citations
Photoelectrochemistry with Controlled DNA‐Cross‐Linked CdS Nanoparticle Arrays

Itamar Willner;Fernando Patolsky;Julian Wasserman

401
Citations
Supersensitive Detection of Explosives by Silicon Nanowire Arrays

Yoni Engel;Roey Elnathan;Alexander Pevzner;Guy Davidi

337
Citations
Precipitation of an Insoluble Product on Enzyme Monolayer Electrodes for Biosensor Applications: Characterization by Faradaic Impedance Spectroscopy, Cyclic Voltammetry, and Microgravimetric Quartz Crystal Microbalance Analyses

Fernando Patolsky;Maya Zayats;and Eugenii Katz;Itamar Willner

326
Citations
Electronic Transduction of DNA Sensing Processes on Surfaces: Amplification of DNA Detection and Analysis of Single-Base Mismatches by Tagged Liposomes

Fernando Patolsky;and Amir Lichtenstein;Itamar Willner

321
Citations
Au-nanoparticle nanowires based on DNA and polylysine templates.

Fernando Patolsky;Yossi Weizmann;Oleg Lioubashevski;Itamar Willner

313
Citations
Actin-based metallic nanowires as bio-nanotransporters

Fernando Patolsky;Yossi Weizmann;Itamar Willner

299
Citations
Amplified Microgravimetric Quartz-Crystal-Microbalance Assay of DNA Using Oligonucleotide-Functionalized Liposomes or Biotinylated Liposomes

Fernando Patolsky;and Amir Lichtenstein;Itamar Willner

256
Citations
Redox-active nucleic-acid replica for the amplified bioelectrocatalytic detection of viral DNA.

Fernando Patolsky;Yossi Weizmann;Itamar Willner

254
Citations