OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pickering emulsions: Versatility of colloidal particles and recent applications	246
Sustainable food-grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by plant-based particles	210
Hydrogel design strategies for drug delivery	172
Biosurfactants: Formulations, properties, and applications	162
A technical review of face mask wearing in preventing respiratory COVID-19 transmission	149
Coacervates as models of membraneless organelles	133
Protein–polysaccharide interactions and aggregates in food formulations	111
Recent developments in food foams	92
Contact angle hysteresis	82
Generation and stability of bulk nanobubbles: A review and perspective	69
Impact of compound drops: a perspective	66
Stability of surface and bulk nanobubbles	56
Recent advances in biodegradable matrices for active ingredient release in crop protection: Towards attaining sustainability in agriculture	55
DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery	55
Bulk nanobubbles, generation methods and potential applications	54
Recent breakthroughs of antibacterial and antiviral protective polymeric materials during COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic: Coating, packaging, and textile applications	54
Thin liquid films: Where hydrodynamics, capillarity, surface stresses and intermolecular forces meet	52
Recent advances of non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles in nanomedicine	52
Can coacervation unify disparate hypotheses in the origin of cellular life?	49
Physicochemical control of foam properties	48
The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces	46
Interfacial behavior of plant proteins — novel sources and extraction methods	46
Techno-functional properties of edible insect proteins and effects of processing	46
Bursting microbubbles: How nanobubble contrast agents can enable the future of medical ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided therapy	46
Stimuli-responsive liquid foams: From design to applications	46

Water-in-salt electrolytes: An interfacial perspective	45
Trends in biosensing platforms for SARS-CoV-2 detection: A critical appraisal against standard detection tools	45
Equilibrium and kinetically trapped aggregates in polyelectrolyte–oppositely charged surfactant mixtures	45
Electrochemical interfaces for chemical and biomolecular separations	41
Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation	39
Biosurfactants: Opportunities for the development of a sustainable future	38
Recent development in food emulsion stabilized by plant-based cellulose nanoparticles	37
Role of molecular architecture in the modulation of hydrophobic interactions	36
Importance of weak interactions in the formulation of organic phases for efficient liquid/liquid extraction of metals	36
Surfactant-mediated wetting and spreading: Recent advances and applications	35
Exogenous pulmonary surfactant: A review focused on adjunctive therapy for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 including SP-A and SP-D as added clinical marker	35
Inverting structures: from micelles via emulsions to internally self-assembled water and oil continuous nanocarriers	35
Engineering oral delivery of hydrophobic bioactives in real-world scenarios	35
Recent advances in particle-based simulation of surfactants	34
Differentiating bulk nanobubbles from nanodroplets and nanoparticles	34
Zooming in on the role of surfactants in droplet coalescence at the macroscale and microscale	33
The intertwined physics of active chemical reactions and phase separation	33
Recent advances in surface-active ionic liquid-assisted self-assembly systems for drug delivery	33
Polyampholyte physics: Liquid–liquid phase separation and biological condensates	33
Nanoplastics: From model materials to colloidal fate	33
Inhaled aerosols: Their role in COVID-19 transmission, including biophysical interactions in the lungs	32
Nanoemulsions: The rising star of antiviral therapeutics and nanodelivery system—current status and prospects	30
Current knowledge on the interfacial behaviour limits our understanding of plant protein functionality in emulsions	30
Microfluidic lab-on-chip advances for liquid–liquid extraction process studies	30
Nanobubbles for therapeutic delivery: Production, stability and current prospects	30
Surfactants – Compounds for inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses	30
High internal phase Pickering emulsions	29
Nanobubbles and nanoparticles	29
Stability of aqueous foam films and foams containing polymers: Discrepancies between different length scales	28
Organic synthesis in Aqueous Multiphase Systems — Challenges and opportunities ahead of us	28
Molecular determinants of protein-based coacervates	28
Advances in lipid carriers for drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract	27
Formulating rationally via statistical thermodynamics	27
Salt effects on the dilational viscoelasticity of surfactant adsorption layers	26
Stimuli-responsive microemulsions: State-of-the-art and future prospects	26
Structural dynamics, phase behavior, and applications of polyelectrolyte complex micelles	26
Mixing bubbles and drops to make foamed emulsions	26
Bioinspired synthetic wet adhesives: from permanent bonding to reversible regulation	25
Microgels at droplet interfaces of water-in-oil emulsions—challenges and progress	25
Superhydrophobic surfaces from sustainable colloidal systems	24
Polyethylene glycol as a green chemical solvent	24
Spatiotemporal organization of coacervate microdroplets	23
Methods and models to investigate the physicochemical functionality of pulmonary surfactant	23
Solubility, similarity, and compatibility: A general-purpose theory for the formulator	23
Bending: from thin interfaces to molecular films in microemulsions	23
Reactive crystallization: From mixing to control of kinetics by additives	23
Self-propelled swimming droplets	23
Perfluorocarbon nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy	23
Vapor nanobubble-mediated photoporation constitutes a versatile intracellular delivery technology	23
Recent progress in measurements of oscillatory forces and liquid properties under confinement	22

Sequestration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adsorption: Surfactant and surface aspects	22
Pickering–Ramsden emulsions stabilized with chemically and morphologically anisotropic particles	21
Electrostatics and electrophoresis of engineered nanoparticles and particulate environmental contaminants: Beyond zeta potential-based formulation	21
Effect of the hydrophobic phase on interfacial phenomena of surfactants, proteins, and particles at fluid interfaces	21
Natural and bioinspired excipients for dry powder inhalation formulations	20
Plant proteins and their colloidal state	20