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Chemistry

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146
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78003
World Ranking
158
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2016 - Davy Medal, Royal Society of London (UK) for distinguished contributions to the chemistry of bio-mineralization and for pioneering the bio-inspired synthesis and self-assembly of functional nanostructures and hybrid nanoscale objects
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1999 - Interdisciplinary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1991 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Stephen Mann is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple intersecting domains, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering. Their scholarly output includes extensive work in subfields such as molecular biology, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, biomaterials, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research topics frequently cover photoreceptor and optogenetics research, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, origins and evolution of life, lipid membrane structure and behavior, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, micro and nano robotics, and innovative microfluidic and catalytic techniques innovation.

Stephen Mann has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Enzyme-mediated nitric oxide production in vasoactive erythrocyte membrane-enclosed coacervate protocells, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells, 2022, Nature
  • Giant Coacervate Vesicles As an Integrated Approach to Cytomimetic Modeling, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Membranized Coacervate Microdroplets: from Versatile Protocell Models to Cytomimetic Materials, 2023, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Chemical communication at the synthetic cell/living cell interface, 2021, Communications Chemistry

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative network include:

  • Mei Li (27 publications)
  • Avinash J. Patil (14 publications)
  • Liangfei Tian (13 publications)
  • Hongjing Dou (11 publications)
  • Kemin Wang (9 publications)

The most common venues for their publications include a range of journals notable in chemistry and materials science:

  • Nature Communications (8 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (8 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (7 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (7 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (6 publications)

Over the course of their career, Stephen Mann has received multiple awards, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea in 2020
  • Davy Medal from the Royal Society of London in 2016 for contributions to bio-mineralization chemistry and bio-inspired synthesis of functional nanostructures
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2003
  • Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, in 1999
  • Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, in 1991

Best Publications

  • Biomineralization: Principles and Concepts in Bioinorganic Materials Chemistry

    Stephen Mann

  • Higher-order organization by mesoscale self-assembly and transformation of hybrid nanostructures

    Helmut Cölfen;Stephen Mann

  • Molecular tectonics in biomineralization and biomimetic materials chemistry

    Stephen Mann

  • Synthesis of inorganic materials with complex form

    Stephen Mann;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • Molecular recognition in biomineralization

    Stephen Mann

  • Coupled synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles to give structures with controlled organization

    Mei Li;Heimo Schnablegger;Stephen Mann

  • Growth and form of gold nanorods prepared by seed-mediated, surfactant-directed synthesis

    Christopher J. Johnson;Erik Dujardin;Sean A. Davis;Catherine J. Murphy

  • Crystallization at Inorganic-organic Interfaces: Biominerals and Biomimetic Synthesis

    Stephen Mann;Douglas D. Archibald;Jon M. Didymus;Trevor Douglas

  • Self-assembly and transformation of hybrid nano-objects and nanostructures under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions

    Stephen Mann

  • Inorganic–Organic Nanotube Composites from Template Mineralization of Tobacco Mosaic Virus

    Wayne Shenton;Trevor Douglas;Mark Young;Gerald Stubbs

  • Synthesis of hybrid inorganic–organic mesoporous silica by co-condensation of siloxane and organosiloxane precursors

    Sandra L. Burkett;Stephen D. Sims;Stephen Mann

  • The chemistry of form

    Stephen Mann

  • Biomimetic Materials Chemistry

    Stephen Mann

  • Bacterial templating of ordered macrostructures in silica and silica-surfactant mesophases

    Sean A. Davis;Sandra L. Burkett;Neil H. Mendelson;Stephen Mann

  • Organization of Metallic Nanoparticles Using Tobacco Mosaic Virus Templates

    Erik Dujardin;Charlie Peet;Gerald Stubbs;James N. Culver

  • Magnetoferritin: in vitro synthesis of a novel magnetic protein

    Fiona C. Meldrum;Brigid R. Heywood;Stephen Mann

  • Fabrication of Graphene–Polymer Nanocomposites With Higher-Order Three-Dimensional Architectures

    Jemma L. Vickery;Avinash J. Patil;Stephen Mann

  • Controlled crystallization of CaCO 3 under stearic acid monolayers

    Stephen Mann;Brigid R. Heywood;Sundara Rajam;J. Derek Birchall

  • Bio-inspired materials chemistry

    Erik Dujardin;Stephen Mann

  • Peptide–nucleotide microdroplets as a step towards a membrane-free protocell model

    Shogo Koga;David S. Williams;Adam W. Perriman;Stephen Mann

  • Biomineralization : Chemical and Biochemical Perspectives

    Stephen Mann;John Webb;R. J. P. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Avinash J. Patil
Avinash J. Patil University of Bristol
Erik Dujardin
Erik Dujardin Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales
Robert J. P. Williams
Robert J. P. Williams University of Oxford
Trevor Douglas
Trevor Douglas Indiana University
Richard O.C. Oreffo
Richard O.C. Oreffo University of Southampton
David W. Green
David W. Green University College London
Richard B. Frankel
Richard B. Frankel California Polytechnic State University
Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins University of Oslo
Dominic M. Walsh
Dominic M. Walsh Brigham and Women's Hospital
Helmut Cölfen
Helmut Cölfen University of Konstanz

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