OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Applied Polymer Materials is 46. 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
Why is Recycling of Postconsumer Plastics so Challenging?	123
Importance of Polymer Rheology on Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing: Correlating Process Physics to Print Properties	118
Recent Trends in Advanced Polymer Materials in Agriculture Related Applications	98
A Liquid Phosphaphenanthrene-Derived Imidazole for Improved Flame Retardancy and Smoke Suppression of Epoxy Resin	88
Green and Facile Synthesis of Bio-Based, Flame-Retardant, Latent Imidazole Curing Agent for Single-Component Epoxy Resin	78
Biobased, Biodegradable, Self-Healing Boronic Ester Vitrimers from Epoxidized Soybean Oil Acrylate	77
Polymer Electrolytes with High Ionic Concentration for Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers	74
Gelatin/Carrageenan-Based Functional Films with Carbon Dots from Enoki Mushroom for Active Food Packaging Applications	74
Synthesis of Vanillin-Based Polyimine Vitrimers with Excellent Reprocessability, Fast Chemical Degradability, and Adhesion	73
Adhesive, Conductive, Self-Healing, and Antibacterial Hydrogel Based on Chitosan–Polyoxometalate Complexes for Wearable Strain Sensor	73
Polymer-Based Coatings with Integrated Antifouling and Bactericidal Properties for Targeted Biomedical Applications	73
Multifunctional Ionic Conductive Double-Network Hydrogel as a Long-Term Flexible Strain Sensor	73
Multimaterial Vat Polymerization Additive Manufacturing	69
Polyelectrolytes as Building Blocks for Next-Generation Membranes with Advanced Functionalities	67
Recent Advances in Polymer-Based Photothermal Materials for Biological Applications	66
Mussel-Inspired Self-Adhesive, Antidrying, and Antifreezing Poly(acrylic acid)/Bentonite/Polydopamine Hybrid Glycerol-Hydrogel and the Sensing Application	66
Conjugated-Polymer-Based Nanomaterials for Photothermal Therapy	66
Additive Manufacturing of Conducting Polymers: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities	63
Correlating the Molecular Structure of Polyimides with the Dielectric Constant and Dissipation Factor at a High Frequency of 10 GHz	62
Superstrong Adhesive of Isocyanate-Free Polyurea with a Branched Structure	61
Synthesis of Carboxymethyl Cellulose and Agar-Based Multifunctional Films Reinforced with Cellulose Nanocrystals and Shikonin	60
Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization: A Versatile Tool for the Engineering of Next Generation Materials	59
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle-Decorated Polymer Microcapsules Enclosing Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage and Photocatalysis	59
Direct Ink Writing of Hierarchically Porous Cellulose/Alginate Monolithic Hydrogel as a Highly Effective Adsorbent for Environmental Applications	57
Cellulose Nanofibril-Stabilized Pickering Emulsion and In Situ Polymerization Lead to Hybrid Aerogel for High-Efficiency Solar Steam Generation	55

Self-Healable Polyurethane Elastomer Based on Dual Dynamic Covalent Chemistry Using Diels–Alder “Click” and Disulfide Metathesis Reactions	54
Cross-Linked Polybenzimidazole Membrane for PEM Fuel Cells	53
Room-Temperature Self-Healing Ablative Composites via Dynamic Covalent Bonds for High-Performance Applications	53
Polystyrene-Based Vitrimers: Inexpensive and Recyclable Thermosets	52
Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles with Absorption beyond 1000 nm for NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging System Guided NIR-II Photothermal Therapy	51
Fabrication of Quercetin-Loaded Biopolymer Films as Functional Packaging Materials	50
Recent Progress of Zwitterionic Materials as Antifouling Membranes for Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration, and Reverse Osmosis	50
Fully Bio-Based Phytic Acid–Basic Amino Acid Salt for Flame-Retardant Polypropylene	50
Cardanol-Derived Epoxy Resins as Biobased Gel Polymer Electrolytes for Potassium-Ion Conduction	50
Recent Advances in Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for NIR-II Imaging and Therapy	49
Melanin-Inspired Conductive Hydrogel Sensors with Ultrahigh Stretchable, Self-Healing, and Photothermal Capacities	49
Highly Stretchable, Self-Healable, and Adhesive Polyurethane Elastomers Based on Boronic Ester Bonds	49
Hierarchical Molecularly Imprinted Inverse Opal-Based Platforms for Highly Selective and Sensitive Determination of Histamine	48
Carbon Dot Biopolymer-Based Flexible Functional Films for Antioxidant and Food Monitoring Applications	48
Tuning the Self-Healing Response of Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Based Elastomers	48
Vitrimer Transition Temperature Identification: Coupling Various Thermomechanical Methodologies	48
Environmentally Friendly Chitosan-Modified Polycaprolactone Nanofiber/Nanonet Membrane for Controllable Oil/Water Separation	47
Fundamentals and Applications of Polymer Brushes in Air	47
Electrochemical Sensing of Paracetamol Using Iron Oxide Encapsulated in Chitosan-Grafted-Polyaniline	47
Fabrication of Polypyrrole-Grafted Gelatin-Based Hydrogel with Conductive, Self-Healing, and Injectable Properties	46
A Physically Cross-Linked Sodium Alginate–Gelatin Hydrogel with High Mechanical Strength	46
Super Tough Polylactic Acid Plasticized with Epoxidized Soybean Oil Methyl Ester for Flexible Food Packaging	46