Katharina Landfester

54.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
885 papers, 44.8k citations indexed

About

Katharina Landfester is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Katharina Landfester has authored 885 papers receiving a total of 44.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 312 papers in Materials Chemistry, 290 papers in Organic Chemistry and 259 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Katharina Landfester's work include Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (172 papers), Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (152 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (113 papers). Katharina Landfester is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (172 papers), Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (152 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (113 papers). Katharina Landfester collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Katharina Landfester's co-authors include Volker Mailänder, Frederik R. Wurm, Daniel Crespy, Anna Musyanovych, Markus Antonietti, Kai A. I. Zhang, Clemens K. Weiss, Franca Tiarks, Ulrich Ziener and Saman Ghasimi and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Katharina Landfester

871 papers receiving 44.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rapid formation of plasma protein corona critically affects nanoparticle pathophysiology

2013 1.8k citations Anna Musyanovych, Katharina Landfester et al. profile →
Plastics of the Future? The Impact of Biodegradable Polymers on the Environment and on Society

2018 1.2k citations Katharina Landfester, Frederik R. Wurm et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Protein adsorption is required for stealth effect of poly(ethylene glycol)- and poly(phosphoester)-coated nanocarriers

2016 1.0k citations Katharina Landfester, Volker Mailänder et al. profile →
Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cell mimicking

2018 842 citations Frederik R. Wurm, Katharina Landfester et al. profile →
Miniemulsion Polymerization and the Structure of Polymer and Hybrid Nanoparticles

2009 615 citations Katharina Landfester Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Protein Corona of Nanoparticles: Distinct Proteins Regulate the Cellular Uptake

2015 516 citations Anna Musyanovych, Katharina Landfester et al. profile →
Differential Uptake of Functionalized Polystyrene Nanoparticles by Human Macrophages and a Monocytic Cell Line

2011 510 citations Anna Musyanovych, Volker Mailänder et al. profile →
Dipeptide coacervates as artificial membraneless organelles for bioorthogonal catalysis

2024 87 citations Shoupeng Cao, Tsvetomir Ivanov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katharina Landfester Germany	102	16.6k	13.8k	11.2k	11.1k	8.1k	885	44.8k
Xi Zhang China	96	14.2k 0.9×	10.4k 0.8×	8.7k 0.8×	12.9k 1.2×	3.9k 0.5×	670	36.4k
Katsuhiko Ariga Japan	118	26.7k 1.6×	9.6k 0.7×	11.5k 1.0×	10.2k 0.9×	9.2k 1.1×	967	54.8k
Helmuth Möhwald Germany	128	23.7k 1.4×	14.1k 1.0×	13.7k 1.2×	12.2k 1.1×	11.3k 1.4×	918	63.4k
Jeffrey I. Zink United States	101	22.6k 1.4×	12.6k 0.9×	12.1k 1.1×	6.3k 0.6×	8.4k 1.0×	472	43.0k
Cyrille Boyer Australia	105	12.0k 0.7×	7.1k 0.5×	9.1k 0.8×	22.9k 2.1×	4.3k 0.5×	463	35.5k
Tao Chen China	100	13.1k 0.8×	4.5k 0.3×	14.4k 1.3×	4.6k 0.4×	3.9k 0.5×	947	37.5k
Frank Caruso Australia	131	22.5k 1.4×	18.4k 1.3×	19.5k 1.7×	10.7k 1.0×	11.8k 1.5×	718	68.7k
Patrick Couvreur France	105	12.9k 0.8×	22.5k 1.6×	16.1k 1.4×	6.8k 0.6×	16.1k 2.0×	581	56.3k
Gleb B. Sukhorukov United Kingdom	93	8.4k 0.5×	11.6k 0.8×	9.9k 0.9×	6.0k 0.5×	4.5k 0.6×	428	34.7k
Nicholas A. Kotov United States	129	27.1k 1.6×	10.1k 0.7×	21.3k 1.9×	4.8k 0.4×	8.1k 1.0×	523	58.1k

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Kaltbeitzel, Anke, et al.. (2025). Nanoparticle characterisation via 2D classification using single particle averaging. Nanoscale Horizons. 10(8). 1642–1652.

Fu, Fangqin, Yu Gao, Ting He, et al.. (2025). Physiological pH Transition‐Driven Protein Corona Dynamics Regulate Cellular Uptake and Inflammatory Responses of Silica Nanoparticles. Advanced Science. 12(43). e02788–e02788.

Ivanov, Tsvetomir, Shoupeng Cao, Marco B.E. Schaaf, Lucas Caire da Silva, & Katharina Landfester. (2025). Dynamic membranization results in core–shell coacervates that selectively localize particles and small molecules. Chemical Communications. 61(78). 15227–15230.

Shi, Yuping, Partha Pratim Roy, Naoki Higashitarumizu, et al.. (2025). Annihilation-limited long-range exciton transport in high-mobility conjugated copolymer films. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(17). e2413850122–e2413850122. 1 indexed citations

Schneider, Paul M., et al.. (2024). Co-delivery of STING and TLR7/8 agonists in antigen-based nanocapsules to dendritic cells enhances CD8+ T cell-mediated melanoma remission. Nano Today. 57. 102365–102365. 3 indexed citations

Yu, Jiyao, Ingo Lieberwirth, Paweł W. Majewski, et al.. (2024). Ion and Molecular Sieving With Ultrathin Polydopamine Nanomembranes. Advanced Materials. 36(29). e2401137–e2401137. 17 indexed citations

Huber, Niklas, Wei Huang, Katharina Landfester, et al.. (2024). Triazine Frameworks for the Photocatalytic Selective Oxidation of Toluene. Angewandte Chemie. 136(18). 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Xikai, Srinu Akula, Kaido Tammeveski, et al.. (2024). Single-Atom Catalysts through Pressure-Controlled Metal Diffusion. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(29). 19886–19895. 32 indexed citations

Niu, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2024). In Situ Measurement of Nanoparticle–Blood Protein Adsorption and Its Heterogeneity with Single-Nanoparticle Resolution via Dual Fluorescence Quantification. Nano Letters. 24(30). 9202–9211. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shuai, Mario Schelhaas, Stephan Grabbe, et al.. (2024). Albumin nanocapsules and nanocrystals for efficient intracellular drug release. Nanoscale Horizons. 9(11). 1978–1989. 3 indexed citations

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Kim, Seunghyeon, Xin Zhou, Yungui Li, et al.. (2024). Size‐Dependent Photocatalytic Reactivity of Conjugated Microporous Polymer Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2404054–e2404054. 17 indexed citations

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Ayed, Cyrine, Jie Yin, Katharina Landfester, & Kai A. I. Zhang. (2023). Visible‐Light‐Promoted Switchable Selective Oxidations of Styrene Over Covalent Triazine Frameworks in Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(15). e202216159–e202216159. 48 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shuai, et al.. (2021). Ultrasmall Nanocapsules Obtained by Controlling Ostwald Ripening. Angewandte Chemie. 133(33). 18242–18250.

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Ghazy, Omayma, et al.. (2020). Tuning the size and morphology of P3HT/PCBM composite nanoparticles: towards optimized water-processable organic solar cells. Nanoscale. 12(44). 22798–22807. 15 indexed citations

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Kokkinopoulou, Maria, et al.. (2018). Gold nanocolloid–protein interactions and their impact on β-sheet amyloid fibril formation. RSC Advances. 8(2). 980–986. 13 indexed citations

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Morsbach, Svenja, Grazia Gonella, Volker Mailänder, et al.. (2018). Engineering von Proteinen an Oberflächen: Von komplementärer Charakterisierung zu Materialoberflächen mit maßgeschneiderten Funktionen. Angewandte Chemie. 130(39). 12806–12830. 3 indexed citations

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Kokkinopoulou, Maria, Johanna Simon, Katharina Landfester, Volker Mailänder, & Ingo Lieberwirth. (2017). Visualization of the protein corona: towards a biomolecular understanding of nanoparticle-cell-interactions. Nanoscale. 9(25). 8858–8870. 223 indexed citations

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Wurm, Frederik R., et al.. (2017). Large‐Scale Preparation of Polymer Nanocarriers by High‐Pressure Microfluidization. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 303(1). 21 indexed citations

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Meyer, Wolfgang, et al.. (2011). Model Compounds Based on Cyclotriphosphazene and Hexaphenylbenzene with Tethered Li⁺-Solvents and Their Ion-Conducting Properties. Chemistry of Materials. 23(8). 2120–2129. 22 indexed citations

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Lorenz, Steffen, Ludwika Kreja, Anna Musyanovych, et al.. (2009). Effect of functionalised fluorescence-labelled nanoparticles on mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Biomaterials. 31(8). 2064–2071. 43 indexed citations

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