Emilio I. Alarcón

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Emilio I. Alarcón is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Emilio I. Alarcón has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Biomaterials, 35 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 28 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Emilio I. Alarcón's work include Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (25 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (21 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (16 papers). Emilio I. Alarcón is often cited by papers focused on Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (25 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (21 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (16 papers). Emilio I. Alarcón collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Chile and United States. Emilio I. Alarcón's co-authors include Erik J. Suuronen, Christopher D. McTiernan, Thien‐Fah Mah, May Griffith, J. C. Scaiano, E. A. Lissi, A. Edwards, María González‐Béjar, Natalia L. Pacioni and Alexis Aspée and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Emilio I. Alarcón

113 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Bacterial biofilm formation on implantable devices and approaches to its treatment and prevention

2018 833 citations Christopher D. McTiernan, Erik J. Suuronen et al. Heliyon profile →
Mimicking biofilm formation and development: Recent progress in in vitro and in vivo biofilm models

2021 195 citations Christopher D. McTiernan, Alex Ross et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emilio I. Alarcón Canada	34	1.3k	1.1k	975	867	519	119	4.0k
Shree R. Singh United States	32	1.3k 1.0×	917 0.8×	969 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	324 0.6×	93	4.4k
Jin‐Wook Yoo South Korea	40	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	700 0.7×	2.1k 2.4×	282 0.5×	134	6.1k
Shengrong Guo China	40	2.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	862 0.9×	2.2k 2.5×	616 1.2×	131	5.2k
Mohammad Samiei Iran	31	2.3k 1.8×	1.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	2.2k 2.5×	334 0.6×	103	7.0k
Xinge Zhang China	46	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	2.3k 2.3×	1.3k 1.5×	304 0.6×	220	6.5k
Kazem Nejati‐Koshki Iran	32	1.6k 1.2×	2.5k 2.3×	929 1.0×	1.9k 2.2×	262 0.5×	72	6.1k
Rinti Banerjee India	40	2.6k 2.0×	1.4k 1.3×	945 1.0×	2.4k 2.8×	429 0.8×	162	6.3k
Solmaz Maleki Dizaj Iran	43	2.3k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.9×	1.7k 1.9×	329 0.6×	153	7.0k
Khosro Adibkia Iran	39	2.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.9k 2.0×	1.8k 2.1×	311 0.6×	177	6.6k
Navin Kumar Verma Singapore	35	1.0k 0.8×	844 0.8×	899 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	196 0.4×	106	4.0k

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Figueroa, Juan David, Ryan Tu, Marcelo Muñoz, et al.. (2025). Ultrashort Peptides as Stabilizing Agents for Colloidal Nanogold. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(14). 21601–21613. 1 indexed citations

Muñoz, Marcelo, Kevin Hu, Alex Ross, et al.. (2023). Low Energy Blue Pulsed Light‐Activated Injectable Materials for Restoring Thinning Corneas. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(45). 4 indexed citations

Huang, Yi-Chun, Chantal LeBlanc, Axel Poulet, et al.. (2022). The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication. Science. 375(6586). 1281–1286. 34 indexed citations

McLaughlin, Sarah, Veronika Sedláková, Qingzhou Zhang, et al.. (2022). Recombinant Human Collagen Hydrogel Rapidly Reduces Methylglyoxal Adducts within Cardiomyocytes and Improves Borderzone Contractility after Myocardial Infarction in Mice. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(32). 15 indexed citations

Clift, Cassandra L., Sarah McLaughlin, Marcelo Muñoz, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Therapeutic Collagen-Based Biomaterials in the Infarcted Mouse Heart by Extracellular Matrix Targeted MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 32(12). 2746–2754. 13 indexed citations

McTiernan, Christopher D., Marcelo Muñoz, Angélica Fierro, et al.. (2021). Biosupramolecular complexes of amphiphilic photosensitizers with human serum albumin and cucurbit[7]uril as carriers for photodynamic therapy. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 223. 112284–112284. 14 indexed citations

Çimenci, Çağla Eren, Veronika Sedláková, Marcelo Muñoz, et al.. (2021). Combined Methylglyoxal Scavenger and Collagen Hydrogel Therapy Prevents Adverse Remodeling and Improves Cardiac Function Post‐Myocardial Infarction. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(1). 15 indexed citations

Ross, Alex, Marcelo Muñoz, Benjamin H. Rotstein, Erik J. Suuronen, & Emilio I. Alarcón. (2021). A low cost and open access system for rapid synthesis of large volumes of gold and silver nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5420–5420. 21 indexed citations

Hosoyama, Katsuhiro, Çağla Eren Çimenci, Veronika Sedláková, et al.. (2020). Collagen-Based Microcapsules As Therapeutic Materials for Stem Cell Therapies in Infarcted Myocardium. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 6(8). 4614–4622. 14 indexed citations

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Sedláková, Veronika, Çağla Eren Çimenci, Sarah McLaughlin, et al.. (2020). Delivering More of an Injectable Human Recombinant Collagen III Hydrogel Does Not Improve Its Therapeutic Efficacy for Treating Myocardial Infarction. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 6(7). 4256–4265. 17 indexed citations

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McTiernan, Christopher D., Fiona C. Simpson, Li Zhang, et al.. (2020). Nanoengineering the surface of corneal implants: towards functional anti-microbial and biofilm materials. RSC Advances. 10(40). 23675–23681. 4 indexed citations

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Goël, Keshav, et al.. (2019). Nanoparticle Concentration vs Surface Area in the Interaction of Thiol-Containing Molecules: Toward a Rational Nanoarchitectural Design of Hybrid Materials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(19). 17697–17705. 10 indexed citations

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Jangamreddy, Jaganmohan R., Michel Haagdorens, Mohammad Mirazul Islam, et al.. (2018). Short peptide analogs as alternatives to collagen in pro-regenerative corneal implants. Acta Biomaterialia. 69. 120–130. 51 indexed citations

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McTiernan, Christopher D., et al.. (2018). Bacterial biofilm formation on implantable devices and approaches to its treatment and prevention. Heliyon. 4(12). e01067–e01067. 833 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maeda, Kay, Emilio I. Alarcón, Erik J. Suuronen, & Marc Ruel. (2017). Optimizing the host substrate environment for cardiac angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, and myogenesis. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy. 17(4). 435–447. 2 indexed citations

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Griffith, May, Emilio I. Alarcón, & Isabelle Brunette. (2016). Regenerative approaches for the cornea. Journal of Internal Medicine. 280(3). 276–286. 25 indexed citations

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Ahmadi, Ali, Stephanie Thorn, Emilio I. Alarcón, et al.. (2015). PET imaging of a collagen matrix reveals its effective injection and targeted retention in a mouse model of myocardial infarction. Biomaterials. 49. 18–26. 18 indexed citations

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McTiernan, Christopher D., Emilio I. Alarcón, Geniece L. Hallett-Tapley, et al.. (2013). Electron transfer from the benzophenone triplet excited state directs the photochemical synthesis of gold nanoparticles. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 13(2). 149–153. 13 indexed citations

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Alarcón, Emilio I., Klas I. Udekwu, Mårten Skog, et al.. (2012). The biocompatibility and antibacterial properties of collagen-stabilized, photochemically prepared silver nanoparticles. Biomaterials. 33(19). 4947–4956. 191 indexed citations

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Aspée, Alexis, Emilio I. Alarcón, Eduardo Pino, Serge I. Gorelsky, & J. C. Scaiano. (2011). Coumarin 314 Free Radical Cation: Formation, Properties, and Reactivity toward Phenolic Antioxidants. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 116(1). 199–206. 15 indexed citations

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