Emanuela Zaccarelli

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
169 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Emanuela Zaccarelli is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Emanuela Zaccarelli has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Materials Chemistry, 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 36 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Emanuela Zaccarelli's work include Material Dynamics and Properties (109 papers), Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (53 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (35 papers). Emanuela Zaccarelli is often cited by papers focused on Material Dynamics and Properties (109 papers), Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (53 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (35 papers). Emanuela Zaccarelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and France. Emanuela Zaccarelli's co-authors include Francesco Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, Barbara Ruzicka, Nicoletta Gnan, Peter J. Lu, David A. Weitz, Stefano Mossa, Giuseppe Foffi, Fabio Ciulla and Wilson C. K. Poon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Emanuela Zaccarelli

162 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

Gelation of particles with short-range attraction 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Gelation of particles with short-range attraction
    2008 757 citations Peter J. Lu, Emanuela Zaccarelli et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Emanuela Zaccarelli Italy 47 6.1k 2.2k 1.9k 1.2k 925 169 8.4k
Christos N. Likos Germany 50 6.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 2.5k 1.3× 1.6k 1.3× 409 0.4× 253 9.4k
Andrew B. Schofield United Kingdom 39 6.1k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 897 1.0× 94 8.1k
Stefan U. Egelhaaf Germany 48 4.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 2.5k 1.3× 731 0.6× 759 0.8× 155 8.2k
Alexei R. Khokhlov Russia 49 3.8k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 4.0k 2.1× 574 0.5× 367 0.4× 343 10.9k
Jérôme Bibette France 52 4.0k 0.7× 5.0k 2.2× 1.9k 1.0× 2.2k 1.7× 1.4k 1.5× 138 10.7k
François Lequeux France 47 4.4k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 2.4k 1.3× 680 0.5× 543 0.6× 184 8.7k
Alberto Fernández‐Nieves United States 46 2.6k 0.4× 3.3k 1.5× 1.0k 0.5× 803 0.6× 407 0.4× 135 7.5k
Mónica Olvera de la Cruz United States 62 5.4k 0.9× 3.0k 1.3× 3.5k 1.8× 877 0.7× 221 0.2× 380 14.4k
Luca Cipelletti France 36 3.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 686 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 516 0.6× 107 5.7k
Peter Lindner France 61 4.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 4.4k 2.3× 258 0.2× 458 0.5× 238 10.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zaccarelli, Emanuela, et al.. (2026). Self-Induced Buckling in Hollow Microgels. ACS Nano. 20(4). 3541–3550.
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Buratti, Elena, Fabrizio Camerin, Valentina Nigro, et al.. (2025). Fine-tuning the architecture of microgels by varying the initiator addition time. Soft Matter. 21(8). 1571–1582. 1 indexed citations
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Tavagnacco, Letizia, Elena Buratti, Jacopo Vialetto, et al.. (2025). Thermoresponsive Copolymer Microgels Synthesized via Single‐Step Precipitation Polymerization: Random or Block Structure?. Small. 21(47). e09795–e09795.
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Tavagnacco, Letizia, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the self-assembly process of gellan-chitosan complexes through a combination of atomistic simulations and experiments. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 292. 139098–139098. 1 indexed citations
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Dey, Swayandipta, et al.. (2024). Biomolecular interactions on densely coated nanoparticles: a single-molecule perspective. Nanoscale. 16(9). 4872–4879. 5 indexed citations
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Gerelli, Yuri, Fabrizio Camerin, Steffen Bochenek, et al.. (2024). Softness matters: effects of compression on the behavior of adsorbed microgels at interfaces. Soft Matter. 20(17). 3653–3665. 12 indexed citations
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Sennato, Simona, Letizia Tavagnacco, Laura Micheli, et al.. (2024). Methacrylated gellan gum microgels: A further step in the gel-based cleaning system. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 71. 97–105. 2 indexed citations
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Vialetto, Jacopo, Fabrizio Camerin, Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Emanuela Zaccarelli, & Lucio Isa. (2023). Exploring the 3D Conformation of Hard‐Core Soft‐Shell Particles Adsorbed at a Fluid Interface. Advanced Science. 10(28). e2303404–e2303404. 12 indexed citations
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Licea‐Claveríe, Angel, et al.. (2023). Concentration and temperature dependent interactions and state diagram of dispersions of copolymer microgels. Soft Matter. 19(20). 3614–3628. 12 indexed citations
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Tavagnacco, Letizia, Roberta Angelini, Monica Bertoldo, et al.. (2023). Methacrylated gellan gum hydrogel: a smart tool to face complex problems in the cleaning of paper materials. Cellulose. 30(16). 10469–10485. 7 indexed citations
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Bochenek, Steffen, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Fluid Rheology of Soft Particles. Physical Review Letters. 131(25). 258202–258202. 8 indexed citations
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Ninarello, Andrea, Andrea Scotti, Judith E. Houston, et al.. (2023). Structure of Responsive Microgels down to Ultralow Cross-Linkings. Macromolecules. 57(1). 339–355. 17 indexed citations
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Rovigatti, Lorenzo, et al.. (2021). Gel Formation in Reversibly Cross-Linking Polymers. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 14 indexed citations
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Buratti, Elena, et al.. (2021). Glass and Jamming Rheology in Soft Particles Made of PNIPAM and Polyacrylic Acid. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(8). 4032–4032. 18 indexed citations
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Truzzolillo, Domenico, Fabrizio Camerin, Andrea Ninarello, et al.. (2021). Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(37). 43 indexed citations
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Ninarello, Andrea, Jérôme J. Crassous, Fabrizio Camerin, et al.. (2019). Advanced modelling of microgel structure across the volume phase transition. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Peter J., Emanuela Zaccarelli, Fabio Ciulla, et al.. (2008). Gelation of particles with short-range attraction. Nature. 453(7194). 499–503. 757 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kumar, Pradeep, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli, & H. Eugene Stanley. (2005). Static and dynamic anomalies in a repulsive spherical ramp liquid: Theory and simulation. Physical Review E. 72(2). 21501–21501. 86 indexed citations
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Sciortino, Francesco, P. Tartaglia, & Emanuela Zaccarelli. (2003). Logarithmic relaxation in dense short-ranged attractive colloids. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Gregorio, Paolo De, Francesco Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, Emanuela Zaccarelli, & Kenneth A. Dawson. (2001). Slowed Relaxational Dynamics Beyond the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem. 5 indexed citations

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