Humberto Palza

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Humberto Palza is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Humberto Palza has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 38 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Humberto Palza's work include Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (27 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (22 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (16 papers). Humberto Palza is often cited by papers focused on Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (27 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (22 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (16 papers). Humberto Palza collaborates with scholars based in Chile, Germany and Spain. Humberto Palza's co-authors include Raúl Quijada, Katherine Delgado, Paula A. Zapata, Julián Bejarano, Carolina Angulo-Pineda, Felipe Olate‐Moya, Manfred Wilhelm, Patricia Palma Fluxá, Pablo Caviedes and Rodrigo Palma-Behnke and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Polymer.

In The Last Decade

Humberto Palza

93 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Antimicrobial Polymers with Metal Nanoparticles

2015 546 citations Humberto Palza International Journal of Molecular Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Humberto Palza Chile	33	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	972	460	95	3.5k
Jian Yu China	34	1.0k 0.7×	790 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	1.3k 1.4×	476 1.0×	136	3.4k
Rodrigo Lambert Oréfice Brazil	37	1.3k 0.9×	645 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	343 0.7×	168	4.3k
Tariq Yasin Pakistan	33	804 0.6×	734 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	430 0.9×	145	3.4k
Md Enamul Hoque Malaysia	37	1.5k 1.0×	680 0.6×	823 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	828 1.8×	163	4.6k
Faxue Li China	34	1.2k 0.9×	534 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	443 1.0×	114	4.3k
Roxana Truşcă Romania	34	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	438 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	216 0.5×	233	3.5k
Karin Stana Kleinschek Slovenia	41	2.0k 1.4×	677 0.6×	863 0.8×	3.1k 3.2×	505 1.1×	228	6.1k
Yusuf́ Z. Menceloǵlu Türkiye	40	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.9×	770 1.7×	166	5.3k
Won‐Ki Lee South Korea	31	785 0.5×	705 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	530 1.2×	230	3.7k
Horia Iovu Romania	34	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	984 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	396 0.9×	212	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Humberto Palza

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Ortiz, J. Andrés, Paola Murgas, María Teresa Ulloa, et al.. (2025). Electrospun Polyvinyl Alcohol/Sodium Alginate Nanocomposite Dressings Loaded with ZnO and Bioglass: Characterization, Antibacterial Activity, and Cytocompatibility. Polymers. 17(16). 2185–2185. 1 indexed citations

Olate‐Moya, Felipe, et al.. (2025). Multifunctional Electroactive 3D‐Printed Scaffolds with Polypyrrole‐Based Coatings for Biomedical Applications. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 46(23). e00246–e00246.

Olate‐Moya, Felipe, et al.. (2025). Photothermally responsive double-network hydrogels with MoS2 nanosheets: A high-toughness self-healing biomaterial. Applied Materials Today. 46. 102885–102885.

Olate‐Moya, Felipe, José Cosme, Javier García Molleja, et al.. (2025). Micro-arranged ZnO particles and conductive fillers in PCL composites for enhanced piezoelectric and dielectric properties in bone tissue engineering applications. Materials & Design. 251. 113672–113672. 6 indexed citations

Palza, Humberto, Daniel Canales, Claudio García‐Herrera, et al.. (2024). Electrospun polycaprolactone/graphene oxide scaffolds with secondary surface porosity and gelatin-coating. Materials Today Communications. 39. 109057–109057. 5 indexed citations

Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2024). Polylactic‐Acid Having MoS₂ Particles for Reversible Bilayer Actuators. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 309(5). 1 indexed citations

Palza, Humberto, Daniel Canales, Francisco Melo, et al.. (2023). Effect of Gelatin Coating and GO Incorporation on the Properties and Degradability of Electrospun PCL Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration. Polymers. 16(1). 129–129. 25 indexed citations

Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2023). Development and characterization of novel packaging films from composite mixtures of rice-starch, tara gum and pectin. Journal of Food Science and Technology. 60(3). 1153–1162. 6 indexed citations

Olate‐Moya, Felipe, Gino I. Montecinos, Jaime H. Ortega, et al.. (2022). Superhydrophobic SLA 3D printed materials modified with nanoparticles biomimicking the hierarchical structure of a rice leaf. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 23(1). 300–321. 50 indexed citations

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Olate‐Moya, Felipe & Humberto Palza. (2021). Effect of graphene oxide on the pH‐responsive drug release from supramolecular hydrogels. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 139(1). 18 indexed citations

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Olate‐Moya, Felipe, Lukas Arens, Manfred Wilhelm, et al.. (2020). Chondroinductive Alginate-Based Hydrogels Having Graphene Oxide for 3D Printed Scaffold Fabrication. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(4). 4343–4357. 127 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2017). Poly(lactic acid) composites based on graphene oxide particles with antibacterial behavior enhanced by electrical stimulus and biocompatibility. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 106(4). 1051–1060. 66 indexed citations

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Báez, Andrea, et al.. (2016). Comportamiento antibacteriano de partículas de cobre frente a microorganismos obtenidos de úlceras crónicas infectadas y su relación con la resistencia a antimicrobianos de uso común. Revista médica de Chile. 144(12). 1523–1530. 12 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto. (2015). Antimicrobial Polymers with Metal Nanoparticles. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 16(1). 2099–2116. 546 indexed citations breakdown →

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Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2014). Polypropylene in the melt state as a medium for in situ synthesis of copper nanoparticles. AIChE Journal. 60(10). 3406–3411. 10 indexed citations

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Zapata, Paula A., Humberto Palza, Ingo Lieberwirth, et al.. (2013). Polyethylene and poly(ethylene-co-1-octadecene) composites with TiO2 based nanoparticles by metallocenic “in situ” polymerization. Polymer. 54(11). 2690–2698. 37 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto, F. Gracia, V.M. Fuenzalida, et al.. (2012). Nanostructured Manganese Oxide Particles from Coordination Complex Decomposition and Their Catalytic Properties for Ethanol Oxidation. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 12(10). 8087–8093. 2 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2012). Modifying the electrical behaviour of polypropylene/carbon nanotube composites by adding a second nanoparticle and by annealing processes. eXPRESS Polymer Letters. 6(8). 639–646. 41 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2010). On-Line Detection of Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities in a Capillary Rheometer. Americanae (AECID Library). 63(10). 456–461. 4 indexed citations

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Palza, Humberto, et al.. (2009). In situ Pressure Fluctuations of Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities: Experimental Evidence about their Origin and Dynamics. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 30(21). 1799–1804. 19 indexed citations

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