Kelsey G. DeFrates

922 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 688 citations indexed

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Kelsey G. DeFrates is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelsey G. DeFrates has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 688 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Biomaterials, 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kelsey G. DeFrates's work include Silk-based biomaterials and applications (4 papers), Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (2 papers). Kelsey G. DeFrates is often cited by papers focused on Silk-based biomaterials and applications (4 papers), Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (2 papers). Kelsey G. DeFrates collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Türkiye. Kelsey G. DeFrates's co-authors include Xiao Hu, Phillip B. Messersmith, Robert B. Moore, Vince Beachley, Guowei Lin, Jing Cheng, Severin J. Sigg, Peyman Delparastan, Yiran Li and Yi Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kelsey G. DeFrates

12 papers receiving 681 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.

Recyclable surgical, consumer, and industrial adhesives of poly(α-lipoic acid)

2024 79 citations Subhajit Pal, Kelsey G. DeFrates et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelsey G. DeFrates United States	11	346	183	141	114	85	12	688
Xiaoye Gao China	12	357 1.0×	241 1.3×	177 1.3×	91 0.8×	167 2.0×	16	854
Benjamin Winkeljann Germany	17	198 0.6×	161 0.9×	258 1.8×	115 1.0×	111 1.3×	31	761
Qiang Yang China	17	217 0.6×	186 1.0×	148 1.0×	72 0.6×	80 0.9×	53	701
Jianyu Xin China	11	233 0.7×	153 0.8×	120 0.9×	129 1.1×	146 1.7×	18	645
K. Elkharraz Germany	6	430 1.2×	209 1.1×	93 0.7×	58 0.5×	59 0.7×	8	874
Xiaoli Wu China	13	260 0.8×	143 0.8×	162 1.1×	42 0.4×	73 0.9×	18	667
M. Isabel Rial-Hermida Spain	15	308 0.9×	420 2.3×	108 0.8×	76 0.7×	69 0.8×	18	857
Rossella Calabrese United States	16	350 1.0×	283 1.5×	115 0.8×	148 1.3×	49 0.6×	23	723
Agata Ładniak Poland	8	211 0.6×	157 0.9×	100 0.7×	51 0.4×	47 0.6×	12	529
Yejing Wang China	14	441 1.3×	190 1.0×	174 1.2×	63 0.6×	55 0.6×	24	760

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Pal, Subhajit, et al.. (2024). Recyclable surgical, consumer, and industrial adhesives of poly(α-lipoic acid). Science. 385(6711). 877–883. 79 indexed citations breakdown →

DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2024). A Pro‐Regenerative Supramolecular Prodrug Protects Against and Repairs Colon Damage in Experimental Colitis. Advanced Science. 11(13). e2304716–e2304716. 6 indexed citations

DeFrates, Kelsey G., Joakim Engström, Jisoo Shin, et al.. (2022). The influence of molecular design on structure–property relationships of a supramolecular polymer prodrug. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(44). e2208593119–e2208593119. 14 indexed citations

DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2021). Unlocking mammalian regeneration through hypoxia inducible factor one alpha signaling. Biomaterials. 269. 120646–120646. 28 indexed citations

Li, Yiran, Jing Cheng, Peyman Delparastan, et al.. (2020). Molecular design principles of Lysine-DOPA wet adhesion. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3895–3895. 126 indexed citations

DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2020). Air-jet spinning corn zein protein nanofibers for drug delivery: Effect of biomaterial structure and shape on release properties. Materials Science and Engineering C. 118. 111419–111419. 29 indexed citations

Myerson, Jacob W., Kelsey G. DeFrates, Oscar A. Marcos‐Contreras, et al.. (2019). Cross-linker-Modulated Nanogel Flexibility Correlates with Tunable Targeting to a Sterically Impeded Endothelial Marker. ACS Nano. 13(10). 11409–11421. 26 indexed citations

DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2018). Protein-Based Fiber Materials in Medicine: A Review. Nanomaterials. 8(7). 457–457. 139 indexed citations

DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2018). Protein Polymer-Based Nanoparticles: Fabrication and Medical Applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(6). 1717–1717. 180 indexed citations

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DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2017). Structure–property relationships of Thai silk–microcrystalline cellulose biocomposite materials fabricated from ionic liquid. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 104(Pt A). 919–928. 29 indexed citations

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DeFrates, Kelsey G., et al.. (2017). An Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Study of Red Fluorescent Protein mCherry in Novel Aqueous Amino Acid Ionic Liquids. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(18). 4823–4832. 11 indexed citations

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Hanna, Sylvia L., et al.. (2016). Kinetics and mass spectrometric measurements of myoglobin unfolding in aqueous ionic liquid solutions. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 85. 200–207. 21 indexed citations

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