2026 Laurent Cognet: 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	60	7083	6847	191	185	159	12486

Overview

Laurent Cognet is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and focuses research in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work is particularly concentrated within the subfields of Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics include:

Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Barrier Structure and Function Studies

Laurent Cognet has authored several recent papers in peer-reviewed journals. Notable publications include:

"Synucleinopathy alters nanoscale organization and diffusion in the brain extracellular space through hyaluronan remodeling" (2020) in Nature Communications
"Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation" (2020) in Nature Nanotechnology
"Fluorescent sp3 Defect-Tailored Carbon Nanotubes Enable NIR-II Single Particle Imaging in Live Brain Slices at Ultra-Low Excitation Doses" (2020) in Scientific Reports
"Near-infrared nanoscopy with carbon-based nanoparticles for the exploration of the brain extracellular space" (2021) in Neurobiology of Disease
"On Some Current Challenges in High-Resolution Optical Bioimaging" (2022) in ACS Photonics

The frequent co-authors working alongside Laurent Cognet encompass:

Laurent Groc
Antony Lee
Somen Nandi
Benjamin Lambert
Erwan Bézard

Publication venues in which they commonly appear include:

ECS Meeting Abstracts
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nano Letters
Advanced Science

Best Publications

Stepwise quenching of exciton fluorescence in carbon nanotubes by single-molecule reactions.

Laurent Cognet;Laurent Cognet;Dmitri A. Tsyboulski;Dmitri A. Tsyboulski;John-David R. Rocha;John-David R. Rocha;Condell D. Doyle;Condell D. Doyle

639
Citations
Observation of intrinsic size effects in the optical response of individual gold nanoparticles.

Stéphane Berciaud;Laurent Cognet;Philippe Tamarat;Brahim Lounis

576
Citations
Carbon nanotube-enhanced thermal destruction of cancer cells in a noninvasive radiofrequency field

Christopher J. Gannon;Paul Cherukuri;Boris I. Yakobson;Laurent Cognet

574
Citations
Single metallic nanoparticle imaging for protein detection in cells

Laurent Cognet;Catherine Tardin;David Boyer;Daniel Choquet

471
Citations
Dynamic Superresolution Imaging of Endogenous Proteins on Living Cells at Ultra-High Density

Gregory Giannone;Eric Hosy;Eric Hosy;Florian Levet;Florian Levet;Audrey Constals;Audrey Constals

467
Citations
Integrins β1 and β3 exhibit distinct dynamic nanoscale organizations inside focal adhesions.

Olivier Rossier;Vivien Octeau;Vivien Octeau;Jean-Baptiste Sibarita;Jean-Baptiste Sibarita;Cécile Leduc;Cécile Leduc

456
Citations
Photothermal Heterodyne Imaging of Individual Nonfluorescent Nanoclusters and Nanocrystals

Stéphane Berciaud;Laurent Cognet;Gerhard A. Blab;Brahim Lounis

444
Citations
Absorption and scattering microscopy of single metal nanoparticles

M. A. van Dijk;A. L. Tchebotareva;M. Orrit;M. Lippitz

420
Citations
Photothermal heterodyne imaging of individual metallic nanoparticles: Theory versus experiment

Stéphane Berciaud;David Lasne;Gerhard A. Blab;Laurent Cognet

319
Citations
The 2015 super-resolution microscopy roadmap

Stefan W. Hell;Stefan W. Hell;Steffen J. Sahl;Mark Bates;Xiaowei Zhuang

311
Citations
The 2015 super-resolution microscopy roadmap

Stefan Hell;Steffen Sahl;Mark Bates;Xiaowei Zhuang

304
Citations
Single Nanoparticle Photothermal Tracking (SNaPT) of 5-nm Gold Beads in Live Cells

David Lasne;Gerhard A. Blab;Stéphane Berciaud;Martin Heine

299
Citations
Autofluorescent Proteins in Single-Molecule Research: Applications to Live Cell Imaging Microscopy

Gregory S. Harms;Laurent Cognet;Piet H.M. Lommerse;Gerhard A. Blab

292
Citations
Super-resolution Microscopy Approaches for Live Cell Imaging

Antoine G. Godin;Antoine G. Godin;Brahim Lounis;Brahim Lounis;Laurent Cognet;Laurent Cognet

277
Citations
Single-nanotube tracking reveals the nanoscale organization of the extracellular space in the live brain

Antoine G. Godin;Juan A. Varela;Zhenghong Gao;Noémie Danné

272
Citations
Luminescence decay and the absorption cross section of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Stéphane Berciaud;Laurent Cognet;Brahim Lounis

261
Citations
Structure-dependent fluorescence efficiencies of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dmitri A. Tsyboulski;John-David R. Rocha;Sergei M. Bachilo;Laurent Cognet

243
Citations
Surface trafficking of neurotransmitter receptor: comparison between single-molecule/quantum dot strategies.

Laurent Groc;Mathieu Lafourcade;Martin Heine;Marianne Renner

239
Citations
Single-Molecule Imaging of L-Type Ca2+ Channels in Live Cells

Gregory S. Harms;Laurent Cognet;Piet H.M. Lommerse;Gerhard A. Blab

225
Citations
Absorption spectroscopy of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes

Stéphane Berciaud;Laurent Cognet;Philippe Poulin;R. Bruce Weisman

210
Citations
Single-molecule imaging of the H-ras membrane-anchor reveals domains in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the cell membrane.

Piet H.M. Lommerse;Gerhard A. Blab;Laurent Cognet;Gregory S. Harms

190
Citations
Photothermal heterodyne imaging of individual non-fluorescent nano-objects

Stephane Berciaud;Laurent Cognet;Gerhard Blab;Brahim Lounis

1
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