Curious about which papers got the chemistry community talking last year? ACS Publications displays the Altmetric Attention Score on all articles published across our portfolio of peer-reviewed research journals. Altmetric is a web-based, alternative metrics platform that provides authors with a single view of the online activity surrounding their scholarly content.
Read the article with the highest Altmetric Attention Score from each ACS Publications journal in 2020:
Accounts of Chemical Research
Spray-Drying Synthesis of MOFs, COFs, and Related Composites
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00133
Accounts of Materials Research
Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks: A Rising Class of Porous Molecular Materials
DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.0c00019
ACS Agricultural & Food Chemistry
Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture: Use of Nanomaterials To Promote Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b06615
ACS Applied Bio Materials
Lignin in Bio-Based Liquid Crystalline Network Material with Potential for Direct Ink Writing
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00661
ACS Applied Electronic Materials
Controlling the Neuromorphic Behavior of Organic Electrochemical Transistors by Blending Mixed and Ion Conductors
DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00203
ACS Applied Energy Materials
Thermally Stable, Efficient, Vapor Deposited Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00010
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
3D Biomimetic Tongue-Emulating Surfaces for Tribological Applications
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c12925
ACS Applied Nano Materials
N-Doped Graphene Nanoplatelets for Direct Capsaicin Detection in Chili Pepper Samples
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02079
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Voxel-Scale Conversion Mapping Informs Intrinsic Resolution in Stereolithographic Additive Manufacturing
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.0c01090
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
FRESH 3D Bioprinting a Full-Size Model of the Human Heart
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c01133
ACS Catalysis
Engineering of NADPH Supply Boosts Photosynthesis-Driven Biotransformations
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02601
ACS Central Science
Research and Development on Therapeutic Agents and Vaccines for COVID-19 and Related Human Coronavirus Diseases
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00272
ACS Chemical Biology
Targeted Covalent Inhibition of Telomerase
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00945
ACS Chemical Health & Safety
Starting and Sustaining a Laboratory Safety Team (LST)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chas.0c00016
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Evidence of the COVID-19 Virus Targeting the CNS: Tissue Distribution, Host-Virus Interaction, and Proposed Neurotropic Mechanisms
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00122
ACS Combinatorial Science
Cautionary Guidelines for Machine Learning Studies with Combinatorial Datasets
DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.0c00118
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Parahydrogen-Induced Magnetization of Jovian Planets?
DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00326
ACS Energy Letters
Controlling Surface Phase Transition and Chemical Reactivity of O3-Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes for High-Performance Na-Ion Batteries
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00700
ACS ES&T Engineering
Launch of ACS ES&T Engineering and Redefining Environmental Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsestengg.0c00130
ACS ES&T Water
Microplastics and Their Degradation Products in Surface Waters: A Missing Piece of the Global Carbon Cycle Puzzle
DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.0c00205
ACS Food Science & Technology
Untargeted Chemometrics Evaluation of the Effect of Juicing Technique on Phytochemical Profiles and Antioxidant Activities in Common Vegetables
DOI: 10.1021/acsfoodscitech.0c00013
ACS Infectious Diseases
Endogenous Deficiency of Glutathione as the Most Likely Cause of Serious Manifestations and Death in COVID-19 Patients
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00288
ACS Materials Letters
Super Moisture Absorbent Gels for Sustainable Agriculture via Atmospheric Water Irrigation
DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00439
ACS Macro Letters
Threading-Induced Dynamical Transition in Tadpole-Shaped Polymers
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00197
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Advantages of the Parent Nucleoside GS-441524 over Remdesivir for Covid-19 Treatment
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00316
ACS Nano
Aerosol Filtration Efficiency of Common Fabrics Used in Respiratory Cloth Masks
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
ACS Omega
Spinach-Derived Porous Carbon Nanosheets as High-Performance Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02673
ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is Enriched in a Subpopulation of Mouse Tongue Epithelial Cells in Nongustatory Papillae but Not in Taste Buds or Embryonic Oral Epithelium
DOI: 10.1021/acsptsci.0c00062
ACS Photonics
Large-Scale Metasurfaces Made by an Exposed Resist
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01809
ACS Sensors
Rapid Gel Card Agglutination Assays for Serological Analysis Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Humans
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01050
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635
ACS Synthetic Biology
Pattern Engineering of Living Bacterial Colonies Using Meniscus-Driven Fluidic Channels
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00146
Analytical Chemistry
Fully Automated Microchip Electrophoresis Analyzer for Potential Life Detection Missions
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01628
Biochemistry
Hydrazides Are Potent Transition-State Analogues for Glutaminyl Cyclase Implicated in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00337
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Precise Installation of Diazo-Tagged Side-Chains on Proteins to Enable In Vitro and In-Cell Site-Specific Labeling
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00232
Biomacromolecules
Reactive Polymer Targeting dsRNA as Universal Virus Detection Platform with Enhanced Sensitivity
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00379
Chemical Research in Toxicology
Free Radical Production and Characterization of Heat-Not-Burn Cigarettes in Comparison to Conventional and Electronic Cigarettes
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00088
Chemical Reviews
Ethnobotany and the Role of Plant Natural Products in Antibiotic Drug Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00922
Chemistry of Materials
Long-Term Solar Energy Storage under Ambient Conditions in a MOF-Based Solid-Solid Phase-Change Material
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02708
Crystal Growth & Design
Flash Shape-Memorization Processing and Inversion of a Polar Direction in a Chiral Organosuperelastic Crystal of 1,3,5-Tricyanobenzene
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00431
Energy & Fuels
Improved Oil Viscosity Characterization by Low-Field NMR Using Feature Engineering and Supervised Learning Algorithms
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02565
Environmental Science & Technology
Microfiber Release to Water, Via Laundering, and to Air, via Everyday Use: A Comparison between Polyester Clothing with Differing Textile Parameters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b06892
Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Dry Heat as a Decontamination Method for N95 Respirator Reuse
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00534
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
OHM Sponge: A Versatile, Efficient, and Ecofriendly Environmental Remediation Platform
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c01493
Inorganic Chemistry
Lanthanide Complexes of Bis(tetrazolato)amine: A Route to Lanthanide Nitride Foams
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02480
Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry
Use of Untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Metabolome To Discriminate Italian Monovarietal Red Wines, Produced in Their Different Terroirs
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00879
Journal of Chemical Education
The Building Blocks of Battery Technology: Using Modified Tower Block Game Sets to Explain and Aid the Understanding of Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00282
Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling
Interactive Molecular Dynamics in Virtual Reality Is an Effective Tool for Flexible Substrate and Inhibitor Docking to the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01030
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Transferable MP2-Based Machine Learning for Accurate Coupled-Cluster Energies
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00927
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
α-Ketoamides as Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Coronavirus and Enterovirus Replication: Structure-Based Design, Synthesis, and Activity Assessment
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01828
Journal of Natural Products
Discovery of a Beetroot Protease Inhibitor to Identify and Classify Plant-Derived Cystine Knot Peptides
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00648
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry: A Call to Action for Diversity and Inclusion
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01607
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Quantitative Analysis of Nanorod Aggregation and Morphology from Scanning Electron Micrographs Using SEMseg
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c03190
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Developing a Fully Glycosylated Full-Length SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Model in a Viral Membrane
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04553
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Nonempirical Definition of the Mendeleev Numbers: Organizing the Chemical Space
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07857
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Photoinduced Charge Carrier Dynamics and Electron Injection Efficiencies in Au Nanoparticle-Sensitized TiO2 Determined with Picosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00825
Journal of Proteome Research
Protein Structure and Sequence Reanalysis of 2019-nCoV Genome Refutes Snakes as Its Intermediate Host and the Unique Similarity between Its Spike Protein Insertions and HIV-1
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00129
Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)
Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences Requires Actions not Just Words
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06482
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Versatile, Sensitive, and Robust Native LC-MS Platform for Intact Mass Analysis of Protein Drugs
DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00277
Langmuir
Self-Assembly of Mammalian-Cell Membranes on Bioelectronic Devices with Functional Transmembrane Proteins
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00804
Macromolecules
Significantly Sensitized Ternary Blend Polymer Solar Cells with a Very Small Content of the Narrow-Band Gap Third Component That Utilizes Optical Interference
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01787
Molecular Pharmaceutics
pH-Sensitive Nanodrug Carriers for Codelivery of ERK Inhibitor and Gemcitabine Enhance the Inhibition of Tumor Growth in Pancreatic Cancer
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00499
Nano Letters
Household Materials Selection for Homemade Cloth Face Coverings and Their Filtration Efficiency Enhancement with Triboelectric Charging
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02211
Organic Letters
Electrochemical Oxidation of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol: A Simple Strategy for Marijuana Detection
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01241
Organic Process Research & Development
Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00510
Organometallics
One-Pot Condensation of a Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentasilane through Elimination of Iodotrimethylsilane Assisted by a Lewis Base
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00514