| The origin of RNA and “my grandfather’s axe” NV Hud, BJ Cafferty, R Krishnamurthy, LD Williams Chemistry & biology 20 (4), 466-474, 2013 | 241 | 2013 |
| The synthesis of cyclic poly (ethylene imine) and exact linear analogues: an evaluation of gene delivery comparing polymer architectures MA Cortez, WT Godbey, Y Fang, ME Payne, BJ Cafferty, KA Kosakowska, ... Journal of the american chemical society 137 (20), 6541-6549, 2015 | 207 | 2015 |
| Efficient self-assembly in water of long noncovalent polymers by nucleobase analogues BJ Cafferty, I Gállego, MC Chen, KI Farley, R Eritja, NV Hud Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (7), 2447-2450, 2013 | 185 | 2013 |
| Darwin's warm little pond: a one‐pot reaction for prebiotic phosphorylation and the mobilization of phosphate from minerals in a urea‐based solvent B Burcar, M Pasek, M Gull, BJ Cafferty, F Velasco, NV Hud, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 (42), 13249-13253, 2016 | 140 | 2016 |
| Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water BJ Cafferty, DM Fialho, J Khanam, R Krishnamurthy, NV Hud Nature communications 7 (1), 11328, 2016 | 131 | 2016 |
| Spontaneous Prebiotic Formation of a β-Ribofuranoside That Self-Assembles with a Complementary Heterocycle MC Chen, BJ Cafferty, I Mamajanov, I Gállego, J Khanam, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (15), 5640–5646, 2014 | 98 | 2014 |
| Abiotic synthesis of RNA in water: a common goal of prebiotic chemistry and bottom-up synthetic biology BJ Cafferty, NV Hud Current opinion in chemical biology 22, 146-157, 2014 | 94 | 2014 |
| Storage of information using small organic molecules BJ Cafferty, AS Ten, MJ Fink, S Morey, DJ Preston, M Mrksich, ... ACS central science 5 (5), 911-916, 2019 | 89 | 2019 |
| Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the formation of supramolecular polymers: implications for the origin of biological homochirality SC Karunakaran, BJ Cafferty, A Weigert‐Muñoz, GB Schuster, NV Hud Angewandte Chemie 131 (5), 1467-1471, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
| Was a Pyrimidine‐Pyrimidine Base Pair the Ancestor of Watson‐Crick Base Pairs? Insights from a Systematic Approach to the Origin of RNA BJ Cafferty, NV Hud Israel Journal of Chemistry 55 (8), 891-905, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Autocatalytic Cycles in a Copper-Catalyzed Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition Reaction SN Semenov, L Belding, BJ Cafferty, MPS Mousavi, AM Finogenova, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (32), 10221-10232, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| Robustness, entrainment, and hybridization in dissipative molecular networks, and the origin of life BJ Cafferty, ASY Wong, SN Semenov, L Belding, S Gmur, WTS Huck, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (20), 8289-8295, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Ultra-sensitive pH control of supramolecular polymers and hydrogels: p K a matching of biomimetic monomers BJ Cafferty, RR Avirah, GB Schuster, NV Hud Chemical Science 5 (12), 4681-4686, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Fabricating 3D structures by combining 2D printing and relaxation of strain BJ Cafferty, VE Campbell, P Rothemund, DJ Preston, A Ainla, ... Advanced Materials Technologies 4 (1), 1800299, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
| Improved CRISPR genome editing using small highly active and specific engineered RNA-guided nucleases MJ Schmidt, A Gupta, C Bednarski, S Gehrig-Giannini, F Richter, C Pitzler, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 4219, 2021 | 37 | 2021 |
| Storing and reading information in mixtures of fluorescent molecules AA Nagarkar, SE Root, MJ Fink, AS Ten, BJ Cafferty, DS Richardson, ... ACS Central Science 7 (10), 1728-1735, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
| Formation of supramolecular assemblies and liquid crystals by purine nucleobases and cyanuric acid in water: Implications for the possible origins of RNA C Li, BJ Cafferty, SC Karunakaran, GB Schuster, NV Hud Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (30), 20091-20096, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Silicate-promoted phosphorylation of glycerol in non-aqueous solvents: a prebiotically plausible route to organophosphates M Gull, BJ Cafferty, NV Hud, MA Pasek Life 7 (3), 29, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Water-soluble supramolecular polymers of paired and stacked heterocycles: Assembly, structure, properties, and a possible path to pre-RNA GB Schuster, BJ Cafferty, SC Karunakaran, NV Hud Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (25), 9279-9296, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| Using a chitosan nanolayer as an efficient pH buffer to protect pH-sensitive supramolecular assemblies DV Andreeva, A Kollath, N Brezhneva, DV Sviridov, BJ Cafferty, ... Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (35), 23843-23848, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
Nicholas V. HudRegents' Professor and Julius Brown Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia TechVerified email at chemistry.gatech.edu
