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D-Index
111
Citations
51014
World Ranking
680
National Ranking
236

Hao Yan publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hao Yan sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 405 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Hao Yan D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hao Yan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hao Yan is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering. Their research encompasses a significant number of publications in molecular biology and biomedical engineering, with a focus on advanced biosensing, RNA interference, gene delivery, and nucleic acid chemistry.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • DNA and Biological Computing
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Hao Yan has published notably in several academic venues, highlighting a breadth of work across chemistry and nanotechnology fields. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Nano
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers by Hao Yan include:

  • "DNA origami" (2021) in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Meta-DNA structures" (2020) in Nature Chemistry
  • "Designer DNA nanostructures for therapeutics" (2020) in Chem
  • "Design and simulation of DNA, RNA and hybrid protein-nucleic acid nanostructures with oxView" (2022) in Nature Protocols
  • "Precise and Programmable Detection of Mutations Using Ultraspecific Riboregulators" (2020) in Cell

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Key co-authors of Hao Yan are:

  • Shuoxing Jiang
  • Petr Šulc
  • Hao Liu
  • Xiaodong Qi
  • Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Hao Yan's interdisciplinary approaches integrate elements from molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. Their work consistently addresses challenges in biochemistry and molecular biology through engineering applications.

Best Publications

  • DNA-Templated Self-Assembly of Protein Arrays and Highly Conductive Nanowires

    Hao Yan;Sung Ha Park;Gleb Finkelstein;John H. Reif

  • Ge/Si nanowire heterostructures as high-performance field-effect transistors

    Jie Xiang;Wei Lu;Yongjie Hu;Yue Wu

  • Challenges and opportunities for structural DNA nanotechnology

    Andre V. Pinheiro;Dongran Han;William M. Shih;Hao Yan

  • Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2

    Yi Zhang;Tay Rong Chang;Bo Zhou;Yong Tao Cui

  • A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo.

    Suping Li;Qiao Jiang;Shaoli Liu;Yinlong Zhang

  • DNA Origami with Complex Curvatures in Three-Dimensional Space

    Dongran Han;Suchetan Pal;Jeanette Nangreave;Zhengtao Deng

  • Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes

    Kyle Lund;Anthony J. Manzo;Nadine Dabby;Nicole Michelotti

  • DNA Origami: Scaffolds for Creating Higher Order Structures

    Fan Hong;Fei Zhang;Yan Liu;Hao Yan

  • Construction, analysis, ligation, and self-assembly of DNA triple crossover complexes

    Thomas H. LaBean;Hao Yan;Jens Kopatsch;Furong Liu

  • Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T'-WTe2

    Shujie Tang;Chaofan Zhang;Chaofan Zhang;Dillon Wong;Zahra Pedramrazi

  • Control of Self-Assembly of DNA Tubules Through Integration of Gold Nanoparticles

    Jaswinder Sharma;Rahul Chhabra;Anchi Cheng;Jonathan Brownell

  • Interenzyme Substrate Diffusion for an Enzyme Cascade Organized on Spatially Addressable DNA Nanostructures

    Jinglin Fu;Minghui Liu;Yan Liu;Neal W. Woodbury

  • Layer-by-layer assembly of nanowires for three-dimensional, multifunctional electronics.

    Ali Javey;Sung Woo Nam;Robin S. Friedman;Hao Yan

  • DNA origami

    Swarup Dey;Chunhai Fan;Kurt V. Gothelf;Jiang Li

  • DNA origami as a carrier for circumvention of drug resistance.

    Qiao Jiang;Chen Song;Jeanette Nangreave;Xiaowei Liu

  • Designer nanoscale DNA assemblies programmed from the top down.

    Rémi Veneziano;Sakul Ratanalert;Kaiming Zhang;Fei Zhang

  • Structural DNA Nanotechnology: State of the Art and Future Perspective

    Fei Zhang;Jeanette Nangreave;Yan Liu;Hao Yan

  • Gold nanoparticle self-similar chain structure organized by DNA origami.

    Baoquan Ding;Zhengtao Deng;Hao Yan;Stefano Cabrini

  • Programmable nanowire circuits for nanoprocessors

    Hao Yan;Hwan Sung Choe;SungWoo Nam;Yongjie Hu

  • A unidirectional DNA walker that moves autonomously along a track.

    Peng Yin;Hao Yan;Xiaoju G. Daniell;Andrew J. Turberfield

  • Self-assembled DNA nanostructures for distance-dependent multivalent ligand-protein binding.

    Sherri Rinker;Yonggang Ke;Yan Liu;Rahul Chhabra

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Liu
Yan Liu Arizona State University
Yonggang Ke
Yonggang Ke Georgia Institute of Technology
Neal W. Woodbury
Neal W. Woodbury Arizona State University
Nadrian C. Seeman
Nadrian C. Seeman New York University
Chunhai Fan
Chunhai Fan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University
Su Lin
Su Lin Arizona State University
Thomas H. LaBean
Thomas H. LaBean North Carolina State University
John H. Reif
John H. Reif Duke University
Zhengtao Deng
Zhengtao Deng Nanjing University

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