Almut Mecke

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

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Almut Mecke is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Polymers and Plastics and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Almut Mecke has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 5 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Almut Mecke's work include Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (7 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (5 papers). Almut Mecke is often cited by papers focused on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (7 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (5 papers). Almut Mecke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Almut Mecke's co-authors include Mark M. Banaszak Holl, Bradford G. Orr, James R. Baker, Seungpyo Hong, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Dong-Kuk Lee, Pascale R. Leroueil, James Beals, Anna U. Bielinska and B. Keszler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, Accounts of Chemical Research and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Almut Mecke

14 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Interaction of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers with Supported Lipid Bilayers and Cells: Hole Formation and the Relation to Transport

2004 512 citations Seungpyo Hong, Anna U. Bielinska et al. Bioconjugate Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Almut Mecke United States	13	1.4k	891	445	386	352	14	2.3k
Pascale R. Leroueil United States	22	1.9k 1.3×	936 1.1×	580 1.3×	786 2.0×	402 1.1×	33	3.1k
David Zanuy Spain	26	1.6k 1.1×	326 0.4×	417 0.9×	669 1.7×	441 1.3×	129	2.5k
Fang Pan United Kingdom	28	1.3k 0.9×	228 0.3×	502 1.1×	898 2.3×	587 1.7×	64	2.6k
Dali Wang China	23	779 0.5×	311 0.3×	400 0.9×	414 1.1×	377 1.1×	50	1.7k
Kyeong Sik Jin South Korea	26	1.0k 0.7×	348 0.4×	543 1.2×	337 0.9×	352 1.0×	107	2.4k
Ning Zhou China	33	866 0.6×	647 0.7×	1.8k 4.1×	669 1.7×	454 1.3×	117	3.9k
Meredith A. Mintzer United States	11	2.5k 1.8×	950 1.1×	267 0.6×	411 1.1×	568 1.6×	14	3.2k
M. H. J. Koch Germany	26	502 0.4×	652 0.7×	446 1.0×	435 1.1×	384 1.1×	56	2.1k
Laura E. Strong United States	18	1.7k 1.2×	189 0.2×	219 0.5×	490 1.3×	1.1k 3.2×	37	2.6k
D. A. Tomalia United States	4	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	521 1.2×	463 1.2×	503 1.4×	6	2.3k

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Leroueil, Pascale R., Seungpyo Hong, Almut Mecke, et al.. (2007). Nanoparticle Interaction with Biological Membranes: Does Nanotechnology Present a Janus Face?. ChemInform. 38(31). 8 indexed citations

Leroueil, Pascale R., Seungpyo Hong, Almut Mecke, et al.. (2007). Nanoparticle Interaction with Biological Membranes: Does Nanotechnology Present a Janus Face?. Accounts of Chemical Research. 40(5). 335–342. 459 indexed citations

Mecke, Almut, Christian Dittrich, & Wolfgang Meier. (2006). Biomimetic membranes designed from amphiphilic block copolymers. Soft Matter. 2(9). 751–751. 121 indexed citations

Taubert, Andreas, et al.. (2006). Photoreduction of a crystalline Au(III) complex: A solidstate approach to metallic nanostructures. Gold bulletin. 39(4). 205–211. 40 indexed citations

Hessler, Jessica A., Almut Mecke, Daniel Rieger, et al.. (2005). Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Early Morphological Changes during Apoptosis. Langmuir. 21(20). 9280–9286. 87 indexed citations

Mecke, Almut, Dong-Kuk Lee, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Bradford G. Orr, & Mark M. Banaszak Holl. (2005). Synthetic and Natural Polycationic Polymer Nanoparticles Interact Selectively with Fluid-Phase Domains of DMPC Lipid Bilayers. Langmuir. 21(19). 8588–8590. 117 indexed citations

Mecke, Almut, István Majoros, Anil K. Patri, et al.. (2005). Lipid Bilayer Disruption by Polycationic Polymers: The Roles of Size and Chemical Functional Group. Langmuir. 21(23). 10348–10354. 240 indexed citations

Mecke, Almut, Dong-Kuk Lee, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Bradford G. Orr, & Mark M. Banaszak Holl. (2005). Membrane Thinning Due to Antimicrobial Peptide Binding: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of MSI-78 in Lipid Bilayers. Biophysical Journal. 89(6). 4043–4050. 190 indexed citations

Hong, Seungpyo, Jessica A. Hessler, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, et al.. (2005). Physical interactions of nanoparticles with biological membranes: The observation of nanoscale hole formation. ACS Chemical Health & Safety. 13(3). 16–20. 28 indexed citations

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Mecke, Almut, Inhan Lee, James R. Baker, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, & Bradford G. Orr. (2004). Deformability of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers. The European Physical Journal E. 14(1). 7–16. 154 indexed citations

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Mecke, Almut, Srinivas Uppuluri, Dong-Kuk Lee, et al.. (2004). Direct observation of lipid bilayer disruption by poly(amidoamine) dendrimers. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 132(1). 3–14. 195 indexed citations

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Choi, Youngseon, Almut Mecke, Bradford G. Orr, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, & James R. Baker. (2004). DNA-Directed Synthesis of Generation 7 and 5 PAMAM Dendrimer Nanoclusters. Nano Letters. 4(3). 391–397. 74 indexed citations

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Hong, Seungpyo, Anna U. Bielinska, Almut Mecke, et al.. (2004). Interaction of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers with Supported Lipid Bilayers and Cells: Hole Formation and the Relation to Transport. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 15(4). 774–782. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Betley, Theodore A., Jessica A. Hessler, Almut Mecke, et al.. (2002). Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation of Poly(amidoamine) Core−Shell Tecto(dendrimers) Using Carbon Nanoprobes. Langmuir. 18(8). 3127–3133. 53 indexed citations

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