OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science is 18. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Diffusing wave spectroscopy for the study of emulsions on-ground and in microgravity	196
On the shape and connections of micelles: electron microscopy imaging inspiring thermodynamic modelling	186
Organic synthesis in Aqueous Multiphase Systems — Challenges and opportunities ahead of us	172
Self-assembled amphiphilic peptide hydrogels for antimicrobial application	107
Editorial Board	98
Surfactant equilibria and its impact on penetration into stratum corneum	90
Editorial Board	85
A guide to design the trajectory of active particles: From fundamentals to applications	73
Editorial Board	72
Editorial Board	71
Computer-aided design of formulated products	71
Editorial Overview: Food Colloids (2021) Moving towards designing new plant-based materials for sustainable foods	67
Editorial Overview: Coacervates and membraneless organelles	64
Editorial Board	58
The effects of reaction kinetics upon the instabilities in cathodic electrodeposition	58
Liquid crystalline behavior of concentrated aqueous solutions of biosurfactants	55
Editorial Board	54
The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces	54
Understanding the interfacial region in organic ionic plastic crystal composite electrolyte materials by solid-state NMR	53
Attachment and detachment of particles to and from fluid interfaces	53
Slippery and mobile hydrophobic electrokinetics: From single walls to nanochannels	51
Endowing molecular motions in the solid materials	50
A glance at the future. Biosurfactants at the interface between colloids and surface science, from academia to industry	49
Data-driven techniques in rheology: Developments, challenges and perspective	49
Understanding the synthesis and reactivity of ADORable zeolites using NMR spectroscopy	48

Utilization of hydrocolloids for the stabilization of pigments from natural sources	47
Self-assembly in magnetic supramolecular hydrogels	45
Advances of surfactant aggregates in constructing cross-reactive fluorescent sensors and arrays for discriminative application	44
Fundamentals in organic dyes for perovskite solar cells	44
Recent progress in experiments for sessile droplet wetting on structured surfaces	43
Can coacervation unify disparate hypotheses in the origin of cellular life?	43
Interfacial tension in polyelectrolyte systems exhibiting associative liquid–liquid phase separation	41
Effect of the hydrophobic phase on interfacial phenomena of surfactants, proteins, and particles at fluid interfaces	40
Are microbial biosurfactants actually only surfactants?	40
Will biosurfactants replace conventional surfactants?	40
Recent advances in water-mediated multiphase catalysis	39
Chiral surfactants: Design, aggregation behaviors and applications	39
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC): Principles, materials and working mechanism	37
Amphiphilic lipids for food functionality	36
Exploring the world of rhamnolipids: A critical review of their production, interfacial properties, and potential application	36
Liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation in biomolecular solutions	35
The stratum corneum barrier – From molecular scale to macroscopic properties	35
The role of carboxymethyl cellulose on the rheology of anode slurries in lithium-ion batteries	35
Active colloids on fluid interfaces	33
Synthetic electrically driven colloids: A platform for understanding collective behavior in soft matter	33
Soft microswimmers: Material capabilities and biomedical applications	32
Current knowledge on the interfacial behaviour limits our understanding of plant protein functionality in emulsions	30
Understanding CO2 adsorption mechanisms in porous adsorbents: A solid-state NMR survey	29
Sequestration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adsorption: Surfactant and surface aspects	29
Recent progress in nuclear magnetic resonance strategies for time-resolved atomic-level investigation of crystallization from solution	29
From composite molecular structures to a multiplicity of supramolecular aggregates: The role of intermolecular interactions in biosurfactant self-assembly	29
Review of structural design guiding the development of lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery	29
Plant-based food hydrogels: Constitutive characteristics, formation, and modulation	28
Universal Two-dimensional forces that Act on Particles at interfaces	27
Surfactants – Compounds for inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses	27
SARS-CoV-2 virion physicochemical characteristics pertinent to abiotic substrate attachment	27
Polymer – surfactant interactions and compatibility for ionic surfactants combined with hydrophilic polymers: Stability and miscibility vs. segregative or associative phase separation and deposition	27
Exploring the versatility of chelating surfactants: A review	27
Advance in ATP-involved active self-assembled systems	27
Combinatorial therapies of surfactant-like antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics for improved therapeutic efficacy	26
Editorial Board	25
Biosurfactants: Opportunities for the development of a sustainable future	25
Solid-state NMR studies of coatings and interfaces in batteries	25
Engineering antimicrobial surfaces by harnessing polymeric nanoassemblies	24
Editorial Board	24
Publisher's note	24
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Foam flow through porous media	22
Channel confined active nematics	22
Editorial Board	22
Editorial Board	21
The adsorption and self-assembly of biosurfactants and biosurfactant / surfactant mixtures using neutron scattering techniques	20
Cell-bound nanoparticles for tissue targeting and immunotherapy: Engineering of the particle–membrane interface	20

Effects of interface mobility on the dynamics of colliding bubbles	19
The underlying order: Isomerism as a blueprint to control the behavior of sugar-based (bio)surfactants	19
Recent experimental advances in probing the colloidal properties of viruses	19
Foams based on biosurfactants solutions. Part I. Influence of biosurfactant origin on foaming properties	19
Glycation influencing lubrication: Tribology principles derived from nature to inspire future food colloid design	18
Proteins and biosurfactants: Structures, functions, and recent applications	18
Improving the performances of direct-current triboelectric nanogenerators with surface chemistry	18
Strategies of tailored nanomaterials for electrochemiluminescence signal enhancements	18