Ademar B. Lugão

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Ademar B. Lugão is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ademar B. Lugão has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 51 papers in Biomaterials and 39 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ademar B. Lugão's work include Polymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and Irradiation (44 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (32 papers) and Polymer crystallization and properties (31 papers). Ademar B. Lugão is often cited by papers focused on Polymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and Irradiation (44 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (32 papers) and Polymer crystallization and properties (31 papers). Ademar B. Lugão collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Poland. Ademar B. Lugão's co-authors include Duclerc Fernandes Parra, Gustavo H.C. Varca, Carmen C. Tadini, Sizue Ota Rogero, Sônia Maria Malmonge, L.F.C.P. Lima, Lucas Freitas de Freitas, L. D. B. Machado, Luiz Henrique Catalani and Tamiko Ichikawa Ikeda and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ademar B. Lugão

149 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Advances in silver nanoparticles: a comprehensive review on their potential as antimicrobial agents and their mechanisms of action elucidated by proteomics

2024 89 citations Velaphi C. Thipe, Ademar B. Lugão et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ademar B. Lugão Brazil	31	1.2k	950	663	644	395	156	3.1k
Tariq Yasin Pakistan	33	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	804 1.2×	734 1.1×	377 1.0×	145	3.4k
Marcelo A. Villar Argentina	29	1.5k 1.3×	878 0.9×	660 1.0×	408 0.6×	324 0.8×	120	3.2k
Sarat K. Swain India	33	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	851 1.3×	997 1.5×	259 0.7×	204	3.4k
Trong‐Ming Don Taiwan	30	1.4k 1.2×	857 0.9×	723 1.1×	502 0.8×	403 1.0×	118	3.0k
Suwabun Chirachanchai Thailand	33	1.9k 1.6×	1.0k 1.1×	896 1.4×	601 0.9×	250 0.6×	138	3.8k
Maila Castellano Italy	31	1.3k 1.1×	868 0.9×	851 1.3×	454 0.7×	250 0.6×	84	2.8k
Rebeca Hernández Spain	32	1.0k 0.8×	656 0.7×	862 1.3×	574 0.9×	600 1.5×	81	2.7k
Vladimír Sedlařík Czechia	29	1.5k 1.3×	620 0.7×	788 1.2×	341 0.5×	257 0.7×	146	2.8k
Riham R. Mohamed Egypt	31	917 0.8×	589 0.6×	481 0.7×	518 0.8×	425 1.1×	61	2.5k
Congde Qiao China	30	1.3k 1.1×	439 0.5×	686 1.0×	406 0.6×	187 0.5×	106	3.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zaharescu, Traian & Ademar B. Lugão. (2025). Stability Improvement of Irradiated Polymer Composites by Inorganic Compounds—A Pertinent Solution with Respect to Phenolic Antioxidants. Journal of Composites Science. 9(1). 47–47.

Lugão, Ademar B., et al.. (2025). Assessment of the Osseointegration of Pure-Phase β-Tricalcium Phosphate (β-TCP) Ceramic Cylinder Implants in Critical Segmental Radial Bone Defects in Rabbits. Veterinary Sciences. 12(3). 200–200. 1 indexed citations

Sakr, Tamer M., Velaphi C. Thipe, Kavita Katti, et al.. (2025). Immunomodulatory green nanomedicine production, tumor cellular targeting, in vivo biodistributions and preclinical therapeutic efficacy investigations of resveratrol-functionalized gold and theranostic ¹⁹⁸gold nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(27). 8038–8050.

Marques, Fábio Luiz Navarro, Caroline Cristiano Real, Velaphi C. Thipe, et al.. (2024). Green Nanotechnology Through Papain Nanoparticles: Preclinical in vitro and in vivo Evaluation of Imaging Triple-Negative Breast Tumors. PubMed. Volume 17. 211–226. 4 indexed citations

Lugão, Ademar B., et al.. (2023). Study of mechanical properties of inner tubes exposed to gamma radiation. Polímeros. 33(2).

Rial-Hermida, M. Isabel, et al.. (2022). Mucoadhesive Polymers and Their Applications in Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Bladder Cancer. Gels. 8(9). 587–587. 32 indexed citations

Batista, Denise da Gama Jaén, et al.. (2022). The Impact of the CTHRSSVVC Peptide Upon Experimental Models of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 12. 882555–882555.

Freitas, Lucas Freitas de, et al.. (2021). The State of the Art of Theranostic Nanomaterials for Lung, Breast, and Prostate Cancers. Nanomaterials. 11(10). 2579–2579. 11 indexed citations

Thipe, Velaphi C., Kavita Katti, Alice Raphael Karikachery, et al.. (2020). <p>Species-Specific in vitro and in vivo Evaluation of Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles Stabilized with Gum Arabic Protein</p>. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 15. 7359–7376. 22 indexed citations

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Varca, Gustavo H.C., et al.. (2020). An Updated Review of Macro, Micro, and Nanostructured Hydrogels for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications. Pharmaceutics. 12(10). 970–970. 81 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas Freitas de, et al.. (2020). Semi-Solid Pharmaceutical Formulations for the Delivery of Papain Nanoparticles. Pharmaceutics. 12(12). 1170–1170. 10 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Lívia de Souza, Mônica Beatriz Mathor, Ademar B. Lugão, et al.. (2019). The molecular structure of β-alanine is resistant to sterilising doses of gamma radiation. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0210713–e0210713. 2 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas Freitas de, et al.. (2018). An Overview of the Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Radiation Technologies. Nanomaterials. 8(11). 939–939. 168 indexed citations

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Varca, Gustavo H.C., Sławomir Kadłubowski, Marian Wolszczak, et al.. (2016). Synthesis of papain nanoparticles by electron beam irradiation A pathway for controlled enzyme crosslinking. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 92. 654–659. 16 indexed citations

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Zaharescu, Traian, et al.. (2016). Influence of gamma radiation on EPDM compounds properties for use in nuclear plants. AIP conference proceedings. 1779. 80015–80015. 4 indexed citations

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Varca, Gustavo H.C., et al.. (2015). Radiation-synthesized protein-based drug carriers: Size-controlled BSA nanoparticles. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 85. 82–91. 28 indexed citations

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Parra, Duclerc Fernandes, et al.. (2015). Development of a nanocomposite of polypropylene with biocide action from silver nanoparticles. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 132(29). 15 indexed citations

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Parra, Duclerc Fernandes, et al.. (2013). Thermal behavior of the highly luminescent poly(3-hydroxybutyrate):Eu(tta)3(H2O)2 red-emissive complex. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 114(3). 1049–1056. 15 indexed citations

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Parra, Duclerc Fernandes, et al.. (2009). MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES WITH CURAUA FIBRE IRRADIATED WITH GAMMA RADIATION. 6 indexed citations

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Lugão, Ademar B.. (2004). Estudos da sintese por irradiacao, da estrutura e do mecanismo de formacao de polipropileno com alta resistencia do fundido. Americanae (AECID Library). 1 indexed citations

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