Álvaro Mata

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
105 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Álvaro Mata is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Álvaro Mata has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 51 papers in Biomaterials and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Álvaro Mata's work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (40 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (29 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (26 papers). Álvaro Mata is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (40 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (29 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (26 papers). Álvaro Mata collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Álvaro Mata's co-authors include Aaron J. Fleischman, Shuvo Roy, Samuel I. Stupp, Babatunde O. Okesola, Helena S. Azevedo, Ramille M. Capito, Conrado Aparicio, Yury Velichko, Esther Tejeda‐Montes and Ronit Bitton and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Álvaro Mata

99 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Characterization of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Properties for Biomedical Micro/Nanosystems

2005 1.0k citations Álvaro Mata et al. profile →
A self-assembly pathway to aligned monodomain gels

2010 563 citations Álvaro Mata et al. profile →
Self-Assembly of Large and Small Molecules into Hierarchically Ordered Sacs and Membranes

2008 521 citations Helena S. Azevedo, Álvaro Mata et al. profile →
Tissue engineering for articular cartilage repair – the state of the art

2013 287 citations Brian Johnstone, Mauro Alini et al. European Cells and Materials profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Álvaro Mata	3.0k	2.8k	1.4k	1.1k	644	105	6.1k
Xinqiao Jia	2.7k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	970 0.9×	658 1.0×	124	7.7k
Mustafa O. Güler	3.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	2.4k 1.8×	1.6k 1.5×	1.5k 2.3×	149	6.6k
John S. Forsythe	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	926 0.9×	873 1.4×	136	5.7k
Giyoong Tae	2.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	408 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	156	7.3k
José Carlos Rodríguez‐Cabello	3.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	364 0.3×	435 0.7×	240	6.7k
Michiya Matsusaki	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	510 0.5×	482 0.7×	249	6.2k
Eun Seok Gil	3.1k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	750 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	412 0.6×	54	5.9k
Sidi A. Bencherif	3.2k 1.1×	4.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.0×	879 0.8×	479 0.7×	97	9.3k
Mark W. Tibbitt	2.9k 1.0×	4.5k 1.6×	1.9k 1.4×	865 0.8×	839 1.3×	112	9.2k
Ye Zhu	1.5k 0.5×	3.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	743 0.7×	2.3k 3.5×	153	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Álvaro Mata

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Patkó, Dániel, Álvaro Mata, Xinhua He, et al.. (2025). Microcosm fabrication platform for live microscopy of plant-soil systems. Biosystems Engineering. 252. 105–114. 3 indexed citations

Johnson, John Irwin, Álvaro Mata, J.A. Hernández, et al.. (2025). Enhancing biodiesel cetane number prediction: Comparative study of neural network architectures with integer and conformable transfer functions. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 75. 104241–104241. 1 indexed citations

Hasan, Abshar, José Carlos Rodríguez‐Cabello, Christopher Parmenter, et al.. (2025). Mineralizing Elastin‐Like Protein Microgels. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 113(12). e38010–e38010.

Ligorio, Cosimo, R. Tognato, Sena Ardıçlı, et al.. (2025). Bioconvergence of sound-guided and supramolecular assembly strategies to create peptide-protein composite hydrogels with predictable shape-to-function features. Materials Today Bio. 36. 102643–102643.

Liu, Ying, Babatunde O. Okesola, Weiqi Li, et al.. (2024). A Self‐Assembled 3D Model Demonstrates How Stiffness Educates Tumor Cell Phenotypes and Therapy Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 13(17). e2301941–e2301941. 14 indexed citations

Polra, Krunal, Paul F. McKay, Robin J. Shattock, et al.. (2024). Polysarcosine functionalised cationic polyesters efficiently deliver self-amplifying mRNA. Polymer Chemistry. 15(18). 1862–1876. 8 indexed citations

Wojciechowski, Jonathan P., Vineetha Jayawarna, Abshar Hasan, et al.. (2024). Bioactive Coatings on 3D Printed Polycaprolactone Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration: A Novel Murine Femur Defect Model for Examination of the Biomaterial Capacity for Repair. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 12(1).

Okesola, Babatunde O., Cemil Can Eylem, Engin Koçak, et al.. (2023). Bioactive and chemically defined hydrogels with tunable stiffness guide cerebral organoid formation and modulate multi-omics plasticity in cerebral organoids. Acta Biomaterialia. 171. 223–238. 23 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaoning, et al.. (2023). Elastin-like recombinamer-mediated hierarchical mineralization coatings on Zr-16Nb-xTi (x = 4,16 wt%) alloy surfaces improve biocompatibility. Biomaterials Advances. 151. 213471–213471. 4 indexed citations

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Hernández, J.A., J.E. Solís-Pérez, A. Parrales, et al.. (2023). A conformable artificial neural network model to improve the void fraction prediction in helical heat exchangers. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 148. 107035–107035. 8 indexed citations

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Rivero, Pedro J., et al.. (2021). Modeling Experimental Parameters for the Fabrication of Multifunctional Surfaces Composed of Electrospun PCL/ZnO-NPs Nanofibers. Polymers. 13(24). 4312–4312. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuanhao, Gabriele Maria Fortunato, Babatunde O. Okesola, et al.. (2021). An interfacial self-assembling bioink for the manufacturing of capillary-like structures with tuneable and anisotropic permeability. Biofabrication. 13(3). 35027–35027. 20 indexed citations

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Deng, Xuliang, Abshar Hasan, Sherif Elsharkawy, et al.. (2021). Topographically guided hierarchical mineralization. Materials Today Bio. 11. 100119–100119. 18 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Moumita, et al.. (2021). Disordered Protein Stabilization by Co-Assembly of Short Peptides Enables Formation of Robust Membranes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(1). 464–473. 15 indexed citations

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Trabulo, Sara Maria David, Estelle Collin, Ying Liu, et al.. (2021). Bioengineered 3D models of human pancreatic cancer recapitulate in vivo tumour biology. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5623–5623. 97 indexed citations

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Patel, Jay, Mauro Alini, Magali Cucchiarini, et al.. (2021). Long term outcomes of biomaterial-mediated repair of focal cartilage defects in a large animal model. European Cells and Materials. 41. 40–51. 17 indexed citations

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Okesola, Babatunde O., Christopher Thrasivoulou, David L. Becker, et al.. (2020). Potential sealing and repair of human FM defects after trauma with peptide amphiphiles and Cx43 antisense. Prenatal Diagnosis. 41(1). 89–99. 7 indexed citations

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Elsharkawy, Sherif, Maisoon Al‐Jawad, Maria F. Pantano, et al.. (2018). Protein disorder–order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2145–2145. 131 indexed citations

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Shi, Yejiao, João Borges, Rogério P. Pirraco, et al.. (2017). Nanostructured interfacial self-assembled peptide–polymer membranes for enhanced mineralization and cell adhesion. Nanoscale. 9(36). 13670–13682. 31 indexed citations

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Johnstone, Brian, Mauro Alini, Magali Cucchiarini, et al.. (2013). Tissue engineering for articular cartilage repair – the state of the art. European Cells and Materials. 25. 248–267. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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