Darrin J. Pochan

22.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
183 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Darrin J. Pochan is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Darrin J. Pochan has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Biomaterials, 75 papers in Organic Chemistry and 73 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Darrin J. Pochan's work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (95 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (48 papers) and Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (36 papers). Darrin J. Pochan is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (95 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (48 papers) and Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (36 papers). Darrin J. Pochan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Darrin J. Pochan's co-authors include Joel P. Schneider, Karen L. Wooley, Bulent Ozbas, Karthikan Rajagopal, Honggang Cui, Zhiyun Chen, Timothy J. Deming, Congqi Yan, Lisa Pakstis and Juliana K. Kretsinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Darrin J. Pochan

180 papers receiving 19.0k citations

Hit Papers

Block Copolymer Assembly via Kinetic Control 2002 2026 2010 2018 2007 2002 2004 2010 2002 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Block Copolymer Assembly via Kinetic Control
    2007 952 citations Honggang Cui, Sheng Zhong et al. profile →
  2. Responsive Hydrogels from the Intramolecular Folding and Self-Assembly of a Designed Peptide
    2002 776 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Toroidal Triblock Copolymer Assemblies
    2004 712 citations Darrin J. Pochan, Honggang Cui et al. profile →
  4. Rheological properties of peptide-based hydrogels for biomedical and other applications
    2010 674 citations Congqi Yan, Darrin J. Pochan profile →
  5. Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles
    2002 668 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. profile →
  6. Stimuli-responsive polypeptide vesicles by conformation-specific assembly
    2004 646 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. profile →
  7. Controlling hydrogelation kinetics by peptide design for three-dimensional encapsulation and injectable delivery of cells
    2007 552 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Rational Design of Bisphosphonate Lipid-like Materials for mRNA Delivery to the Bone Microenvironment
    2022 124 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. One-Component Multifunctional Sequence-Defined Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimer Delivery Systems for mRNA
    2021 123 citations Darrin J. Pochan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Darrin J. Pochan United States 74 11.2k 8.4k 6.4k 4.8k 2.6k 183 19.2k
Ren‐Xi Zhuo China 75 11.7k 1.0× 6.2k 0.7× 7.2k 1.1× 3.3k 0.7× 7.2k 2.7× 549 22.5k
Sébastien Perrier Australia 67 6.1k 0.5× 13.1k 1.6× 3.6k 0.6× 4.3k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 293 18.8k
Junbai Li China 76 8.6k 0.8× 5.0k 0.6× 6.2k 1.0× 6.9k 1.5× 6.2k 2.4× 373 20.0k
Shiyong Liu China 86 7.7k 0.7× 12.0k 1.4× 4.4k 0.7× 8.4k 1.8× 5.4k 2.1× 352 23.3k
Timothy J. Deming United States 57 6.3k 0.6× 5.5k 0.7× 5.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 159 14.3k
Harm‐Anton Klok Switzerland 65 6.6k 0.6× 8.2k 1.0× 5.0k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 4.2k 1.6× 240 18.8k
Rein V. Ulijn United Kingdom 65 13.7k 1.2× 7.5k 0.9× 8.9k 1.4× 3.9k 0.8× 2.7k 1.0× 232 18.3k
Jan C. M. van Hest Netherlands 84 7.9k 0.7× 10.2k 1.2× 10.3k 1.6× 5.5k 1.2× 7.4k 2.8× 436 26.8k
Jianjun Cheng United States 82 9.4k 0.8× 5.0k 0.6× 9.4k 1.5× 3.6k 0.8× 7.2k 2.8× 295 22.6k
Honggang Cui United States 65 8.6k 0.8× 5.5k 0.7× 6.0k 0.9× 3.1k 0.7× 3.1k 1.2× 167 14.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Bin, et al.. (2025). Architectural control of rod-coil block polypeptide thermoresponsive self-assembly via de novo design of coiled-coil orientation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(21). 6164–6176. 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Rui, et al.. (2025). Electrostatic Coassembly of Coiled-Coil Peptide Bundlemers with Complementary Charges into Porous 2D Lattices. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47138–47149.
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Saven, Jeffery G., et al.. (2025). Porous lattice formation through coiled-coil peptide nanoparticle assembly driven by natural and non-natural hydrophobic side chains. Polymer. 333. 128616–128616. 1 indexed citations
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Rong, Lihan, et al.. (2025). Dual-Responsive Macromolecular Surfaces with Binary Patterns. Macromolecules. 58(6). 3289–3297. 2 indexed citations
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Langenstein, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Sequential Growth of Quantized Peptide Brushes on Colloidal Gold. Langmuir. 41(5). 3130–3139.
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Kloxin, Christopher J., et al.. (2025). Complementary Peptide Interactions Support the Ultra-Rigidity of Polymers of De Novo Designed Click-Functionalized Bundlemers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(5). 1462–1474. 2 indexed citations
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Langenstein, Matthew, Jeffery G. Saven, Shi Bai, et al.. (2024). High Molecular Weight Protein-Like Semiflexible Chains via Bioorthogonal Polymerization of Coiled-Coil Peptides. Macromolecules. 57(20). 9585–9594. 4 indexed citations
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Shi, Yi, et al.. (2024). Ordered assemblies of peptide nanoparticles with only positive charge. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10057–10057. 5 indexed citations
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Yap, Glenn P. A., et al.. (2023). Monitoring the Solution Persistence of Porous Coordination Cages with Diffusion NMR Spectroscopy and Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(5). 2379–2386. 3 indexed citations
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DeFrates, Kelsey G., Joakim Engström, Jisoo Shin, et al.. (2022). The influence of molecular design on structure–property relationships of a supramolecular polymer prodrug. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(44). e2208593119–e2208593119. 14 indexed citations
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Villegas, José A., et al.. (2022). Computational Design of Single-Peptide Nanocages with Nanoparticle Templating. Molecules. 27(4). 1237–1237. 8 indexed citations
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Pochan, Darrin J. & Oren A. Scherman. (2021). Introduction: Molecular Self-Assembly. Chemical Reviews. 121(22). 13699–13700. 98 indexed citations
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Sinha, Nairiti J., Matthew Langenstein, Darrin J. Pochan, Christopher J. Kloxin, & Jeffery G. Saven. (2021). Peptide Design and Self-assembly into Targeted Nanostructure and Functional Materials. Chemical Reviews. 121(22). 13915–13935. 202 indexed citations
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Su, Lu, Hai Wang, Rachel A. Letteri, et al.. (2019). Experiments and Simulations of Complex Sugar-Based Coil−Brush Block Polymer Nanoassemblies in Aqueous Solution. ACS Nano. 13(5). 5147–5162. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Zhiqin, et al.. (2019). Implementation of a High-Throughput Pilot Screen in Peptide Hydrogel-Based Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures. SLAS DISCOVERY. 24(7). 714–723. 20 indexed citations
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Jaffari, G. Hassnain, et al.. (2010). Orientation-dependent magnetic behavior in aligned nanoparticle arrays constructed by coaxial electrospinning. Nanotechnology. 21(8). 85707–85707. 23 indexed citations
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Nie, Ting, Congqi Yan, Sheng Zhong, et al.. (2010). Assembly Properties of an Alanine‐Rich, Lysine‐Containing Peptide and the Formation of Peptide/Polymer Hybrid Hydrogels. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 212(3). 229–239. 26 indexed citations
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Sharma, Nikhil, Ayben Top, Kristi L. Kiick, & Darrin J. Pochan. (2009). One‐Dimensional Gold Nanoparticle Arrays by Electrostatically Directed Organization Using Polypeptide Self‐Assembly. Angewandte Chemie. 121(38). 7212–7216. 13 indexed citations
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Cui, Honggang, Travis K. Hodgdon, Eric W. Kaler, et al.. (2007). Elucidating the assembled structure of amphiphiles in solution via cryogenic transmission electron microscopy. Soft Matter. 3(8). 945–945. 175 indexed citations

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