Frank Gu

14.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
145 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Frank Gu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Gu has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 31 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Frank Gu's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (24 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (13 papers). Frank Gu is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (24 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (13 papers). Frank Gu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Frank Gu's co-authors include Omid C. Farokhzad, Andrew Z. Wang, Róbert Langer, Juliana M. Chan, Liangfang Zhang, Aleksandar F. Radovic‐Moreno, Frank Alexis, Benjamin A. Teply, Stephen J. Lippard and Shanta Dhar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Frank Gu

142 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

Nanoparticles in Medicine: Therapeutic Applications and D... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2007 2006 2008 2008 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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. Nanoparticles in Medicine: Therapeutic Applications and Developments
    2007 1.9k citations Frank Gu, Andrew Z. Wang et al. profile →
  2. Formulation of functionalized PLGA–PEG nanoparticles for in vivo targeted drug delivery
    2006 1.0k citations Benjamin A. Teply, Frank Gu et al. profile →
  3. Self-Assembled Lipid−Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles: A Robust Drug Delivery Platform
    2008 851 citations Liangfang Zhang, Frank Gu et al. profile →
  4. Targeted delivery of cisplatin to prostate cancer cells by aptamer functionalized Pt(IV) prodrug-PLGA–PEG nanoparticles
    2008 808 citations Frank Gu, Róbert Langer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Microfluidic Platform for Controlled Synthesis of Polymeric Nanoparticles
    2008 708 citations Frank Gu, Róbert Langer et al. profile →
  6. Precise engineering of targeted nanoparticles by using self-assembled biointegrated block copolymers
    2008 577 citations Frank Gu, Liangfang Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frank Gu Canada 48 4.7k 4.4k 3.7k 2.3k 1.3k 145 11.7k
Soodabeh Davaran Iran 60 6.0k 1.3× 5.5k 1.2× 3.6k 1.0× 2.8k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 242 14.1k
Abolfazl Akbarzadeh Iran 61 5.9k 1.2× 6.0k 1.4× 4.9k 1.3× 4.2k 1.8× 1.5k 1.1× 260 17.6k
Volker Mailänder Germany 63 5.8k 1.2× 4.5k 1.0× 4.3k 1.2× 3.2k 1.4× 760 0.6× 250 13.7k
Seungpyo Hong United States 45 6.0k 1.3× 5.9k 1.3× 6.5k 1.7× 2.7k 1.2× 722 0.5× 159 15.0k
Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo India 49 7.3k 1.5× 5.1k 1.1× 5.0k 1.4× 2.4k 1.1× 2.7k 2.1× 117 15.2k
Sangyong Jon South Korea 62 5.6k 1.2× 6.7k 1.5× 7.2k 2.0× 3.2k 1.4× 759 0.6× 219 16.4k
Andrew Z. Wang United States 60 6.8k 1.4× 7.3k 1.6× 5.4k 1.5× 2.8k 1.2× 987 0.7× 268 16.2k
Alke Petri‐Fink Switzerland 53 3.9k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 2.3k 0.6× 4.3k 1.9× 530 0.4× 268 12.7k
Mohammad‐Ali Shahbazi Finland 55 2.9k 0.6× 4.4k 1.0× 2.4k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 213 10.0k
Jessica M. Rosenholm Finland 49 3.2k 0.7× 3.4k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 4.2k 1.8× 1.3k 1.0× 217 9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Gu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Frank Gu. Frank Gu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Lin, Qiyin, et al.. (2025). TransPhyX: A data-driven method for dynamic physical field prediction in stochastic load time-series. Knowledge-Based Systems. 330. 114492–114492.
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Lui, Gregory, et al.. (2024). Passive solar evaporation and emissions reduction of process-affected and produced water using buoyant photothermal beads. Desalination and Water Treatment. 320. 100776–100776. 1 indexed citations
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McGuigan, Alison P., et al.. (2024). Lateral Assessment of Mucomimetic Hydrogels to Evaluate Correlation between Microscopic and Macroscopic Properties. Macromolecular Bioscience. 24(12). e2400146–e2400146.
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Gu, Frank, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic nanoparticles in flow-through annular photoreactors for continuous selenate reduction in industrial wastewater. Environmental Science Nano. 11(7). 2923–2936. 3 indexed citations
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Chan, Chi Hou, et al.. (2024). In situ formed Se–TiO2 as a highly reusable photocatalyst for selenium reduction and removal from industrial wastewater. Chemosphere. 370. 143959–143959. 3 indexed citations
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Gu, Frank, et al.. (2023). An interpretable machine learning framework for modelling macromolecular interaction mechanisms with nuclear magnetic resonance. Digital Discovery. 2(6). 1697–1709. 6 indexed citations
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Gu, Frank, et al.. (2023). Sizing up feature descriptors for macromolecular machine learning with polymeric biomaterials. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 16 indexed citations
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Chan, Christopher T., et al.. (2023). Floating reactive barriers to mitigate secondary organic aerosol formation from oil sands tailings ponds. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 33. 103492–103492. 6 indexed citations
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Lilge, Lothar, et al.. (2020). Light propagation within N95 filtered face respirators: A simulation study for UVC decontamination. Journal of Biophotonics. 13(12). e202000232–e202000232. 10 indexed citations
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Varkouhi, Amir K., Mirjana Jerkić, Stéphane Gagnon, et al.. (2019). Extracellular Vesicles from Interferon-γ–primed Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Reduce Escherichia coli–induced Acute Lung Injury in Rats. Anesthesiology. 130(5). 778–790. 77 indexed citations
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Holmes, Andrew B. & Frank Gu. (2018). Real-time monitoring of nanoscale TiO 2 concentration by spectrophotometry: implications of agglomeration due to natural organic matter and multivalent ions. Environmental Technology. 40(14). 1821–1830. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Jiang, Shusheng Zhang, Sébastien Lecommandoux, et al.. (2017). Controllable Microfluidic Production of Drug-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles Using Partially Water-Miscible Mixed Solvent Microdroplets as a Precursor. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4794–4794. 106 indexed citations
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Verma, Mohit S., Jacob L. Rogowski, Lyndon Jones, & Frank Gu. (2015). Colorimetric biosensing of pathogens using gold nanoparticles. Biotechnology Advances. 33(6). 666–680. 155 indexed citations
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Boujday, Souhir, et al.. (2014). Effect of SAM chain length and binding functions on protein adsorption: β-Lactoglobulin and apo-transferrin on gold. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 116. 489–496. 29 indexed citations
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Leshuk, Tim, et al.. (2013). Mesoporous Magnetically Recyclable Photocatalysts for Water Treatment. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 13(4). 3127–3132. 10 indexed citations
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Phan, Chau‐Minh, Lakshman N. Subbaraman, Shengyan Liu, Frank Gu, & Lyndon Jones. (2013). In vitrouptake and release of natamycin Dex-b-PLA nanoparticles from model contact lens materials. Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition. 25(1). 18–31. 34 indexed citations
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Gu, Frank, Liangfang Zhang, Benjamin A. Teply, et al.. (2008). Precise engineering of targeted nanoparticles by using self-assembled biointegrated block copolymers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(7). 2586–2591. 577 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Andrew Z., Vaishali Bagalkot, Frank Gu, et al.. (2008). Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle–Aptamer Bioconjugates for Combined Prostate Cancer Imaging and Therapy. ChemMedChem. 3(9). 1311–1315. 235 indexed citations

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