OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science is 19. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A technical review of face mask wearing in preventing respiratory COVID-19 transmission	161
Coacervates as models of membraneless organelles	158
Contact angle hysteresis	141
Recent developments in food foams	111
Generation and stability of bulk nanobubbles: A review and perspective	93
Bulk nanobubbles, generation methods and potential applications	81
Impact of compound drops: a perspective	79
Stability of surface and bulk nanobubbles	79
Physicochemical control of foam properties	78
Thin liquid films: Where hydrodynamics, capillarity, surface stresses and intermolecular forces meet	70
Recent breakthroughs of antibacterial and antiviral protective polymeric materials during COVID-19 pandemic and after pandemic: Coating, packaging, and textile applications	67
Can coacervation unify disparate hypotheses in the origin of cellular life?	64
Techno-functional properties of edible insect proteins and effects of processing	63
DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery	63
Interfacial behavior of plant proteins — novel sources and extraction methods	59
Stimuli-responsive liquid foams: From design to applications	57
Bursting microbubbles: How nanobubble contrast agents can enable the future of medical ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided therapy	56
The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces	50
The intertwined physics of active chemical reactions and phase separation	49
High internal phase Pickering emulsions	48
Current knowledge on the interfacial behaviour limits our understanding of plant protein functionality in emulsions	48
Trends in biosensing platforms for SARS-CoV-2 detection: A critical appraisal against standard detection tools	46
Recent development in food emulsion stabilized by plant-based cellulose nanoparticles	45
Biosurfactants: Opportunities for the development of a sustainable future	45
Zooming in on the role of surfactants in droplet coalescence at the macroscale and microscale	44

Polyampholyte physics: Liquid–liquid phase separation and biological condensates	43
Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation	41
Recent advances in surface-active ionic liquid-assisted self-assembly systems for drug delivery	41
Differentiating bulk nanobubbles from nanodroplets and nanoparticles	41
Nanobubbles and nanoparticles	40
Nanobubbles for therapeutic delivery: Production, stability and current prospects	40
Surfactants – Compounds for inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses	39
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	39
Inhaled aerosols: Their role in COVID-19 transmission, including biophysical interactions in the lungs	39
Nanoplastics: From model materials to colloidal fate	38
Surfactant-mediated wetting and spreading: Recent advances and applications	38
Molecular determinants of protein-based coacervates	37
Polyethylene glycol as a green chemical solvent	37
Organic synthesis in Aqueous Multiphase Systems — Challenges and opportunities ahead of us	36
Structural dynamics, phase behavior, and applications of polyelectrolyte complex micelles	35
Microgels at droplet interfaces of water-in-oil emulsions—challenges and progress	34
Nanoemulsions: The rising star of antiviral therapeutics and nanodelivery system—current status and prospects	33
Natural and bioinspired excipients for dry powder inhalation formulations	32
Advances in lipid carriers for drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract	32
Sequestration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adsorption: Surfactant and surface aspects	32
Salt effects on the dilational viscoelasticity of surfactant adsorption layers	32
Stability of aqueous foam films and foams containing polymers: Discrepancies between different length scales	31
Mixing bubbles and drops to make foamed emulsions	31
Effect of the hydrophobic phase on interfacial phenomena of surfactants, proteins, and particles at fluid interfaces	31
Perfluorocarbon nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy	30
Superhydrophobic surfaces from sustainable colloidal systems	28
Plant proteins and their colloidal state	27
Nonlinear electrophoresis of colloidal particles	27
Vapor nanobubble-mediated photoporation constitutes a versatile intracellular delivery technology	27
We the droplets: A constitutional approach to active and self-propelled emulsions	27
Methods and models to investigate the physicochemical functionality of pulmonary surfactant	26
Self-propelled swimming droplets	26
Spatiotemporal organization of coacervate microdroplets	26
Electrostatics and electrophoresis of engineered nanoparticles and particulate environmental contaminants: Beyond zeta potential-based formulation	25
Protein nanocage architectures for the delivery of therapeutic proteins	24
The boundary condition at the air–liquid interface and its effect on film drainage between colliding bubbles	24
Oil-coated bubbles in particle suspensions, capillary foams, and related opportunities in colloidal multiphase systems	24
Plant-based food hydrogels: Constitutive characteristics, formation, and modulation	24
Acoustic nanodrops for biomedical applications	23
Chirality manipulation of supramolecular self-assembly based on the host-guest chemistry of cyclodextrin	23
Electrohydrodynamic processing for the production of zein-based microstructures and nanostructures	22
Combining plant and dairy proteins in food colloid design	22
Wetting and icing of surfaces	22
AC electrohydrodynamic propulsion and rotation of active particles of engineered shape and asymmetry	21
Review of structural design guiding the development of lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery	21
Self-emulsification in chemical and pharmaceutical technologies	20
Monitoring anthropogenic particles in the environment: Recent developments and remaining challenges at the forefront of analytical methods	20
Polymer–surfactant interaction for controlling the rheological properties of aqueous surfactant solutions	20
SARS-CoV-2 virion physicochemical characteristics pertinent to abiotic substrate attachment	20
A Critical Review of the Role of Thin Liquid Films for Modified Salinity Brine Recovery Processes	19

Shaping synthetic cells through cytoskeleton-condensate-membrane interactions	19
Interfacial tension in polyelectrolyte systems exhibiting associative liquid–liquid phase separation	19
Opportunities for innovation: Building on the success of lipid nanoparticle vaccines	19
Cell-bound nanoparticles for tissue targeting and immunotherapy: Engineering of the particle–membrane interface	19
Liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation in biomolecular solutions	19
Computational approaches for understanding and predicting the self-assembled peptide hydrogels	19
Studying phase separation in confinement	19
Foaming and antifoaming in non-aqueous liquids	19