Roberto J. Brea

1.8k total citations
53 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Roberto J. Brea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto J. Brea has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Biomaterials and 15 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Roberto J. Brea's work include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (25 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (24 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (14 papers). Roberto J. Brea is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (25 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (24 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (14 papers). Roberto J. Brea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Roberto J. Brea's co-authors include Juan R. Granja, Neal K. Devaraj, Luís Castedo, Ahanjit Bhattacharya, Manuel Amorín, Christian M. Cole, Henrike Niederholtmeyer, S. K. Sinha, Kira A. Podolsky and Manuel Mosquera and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Roberto J. Brea

50 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto J. Brea United States 22 982 697 548 236 116 53 1.4k
Dibyendu Das India 20 758 0.8× 938 1.3× 456 0.8× 359 1.5× 177 1.5× 56 1.4k
Charalampos G. Pappas United States 22 1.3k 1.3× 1.6k 2.3× 972 1.8× 514 2.2× 157 1.4× 46 2.3k
Elio Mattia Netherlands 10 505 0.5× 620 0.9× 583 1.1× 360 1.5× 233 2.0× 10 1.3k
Jan W. Sadownik United Kingdom 11 387 0.4× 395 0.6× 384 0.7× 148 0.6× 159 1.4× 11 780
Xiaozhen Hu United States 10 902 0.9× 323 0.5× 255 0.5× 229 1.0× 30 0.3× 13 1.2k
Subhabrata Maiti India 21 642 0.7× 565 0.8× 399 0.7× 548 2.3× 182 1.6× 61 1.5k
Vladimir Kubyshkin Germany 23 924 0.9× 113 0.2× 678 1.2× 205 0.9× 97 0.8× 60 1.5k
Fabien B. L. Cougnon United Kingdom 19 526 0.5× 433 0.6× 1.2k 2.2× 468 2.0× 57 0.5× 27 1.5k
Jérôme J.‐P. Peyralans Netherlands 7 537 0.5× 294 0.4× 359 0.7× 148 0.6× 140 1.2× 7 911
Bartosz Lewandowski Switzerland 18 875 0.9× 361 0.5× 1.4k 2.5× 472 2.0× 116 1.0× 31 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moore, William M., Roberto J. Brea, Jinchao Lou, et al.. (2025). Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors. Nature Chemical Biology. 22(1). 128–139.
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Cho, Christy J., Sungkwon Kang, Conrado Pedebos, et al.. (2025). Diacylation of Peptides Enables the Construction of Functional Vesicles for Drug‐Carrying Liposomes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(20). e202421932–e202421932. 1 indexed citations
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Seoane, Andrés, et al.. (2025). Abiotic lipid metabolism enables membrane plasticity in artificial cells. Nature Chemistry. 17(6). 799–807. 1 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., et al.. (2025). Construction of Phospholipid‐Like Vesicles by Aqueous Aminolysis of Acyl Thioesters With Diamino Acids. Chemistry - A European Journal. 32(6). e02881–e02881.
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Cho, Christy J., et al.. (2024). Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters. Nature Chemistry. 17(1). 148–155. 4 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., Armand Hernández, Alejandro Criado, & Jesús Mosquera. (2024). Deciphering the Concept of Solubility by Strategically Using the Counterion Effect in Charged Molecules. Journal of Chemical Education. 101(8). 3390–3395. 3 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., et al.. (2023). Rapid Formation of Non‐canonical Phospholipid Membranes by Chemoselective Amide‐Forming Ligations with Hydroxylamines**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(1). e202311635–e202311635. 8 indexed citations
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Brea‐Fernández, Alejandro, Carmen Gómez‐Lado, Jesús Manuel Eirís Puñal, et al.. (2023). Expanding the Clinical and Molecular Spectrum of FOXG1- and ZBTB18-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 163(5-6). 301–306.
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Brea, Roberto J., et al.. (2023). Biomimetic construction of phospholipid membranes by direct aminolysis ligations. Interface Focus. 13(5). 20230019–20230019. 3 indexed citations
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Flores, Judith E., et al.. (2022). Rapid and Sequential Dual Oxime Ligation Enables De Novo Formation of Functional Synthetic Membranes from Water‐Soluble Precursors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(29). e202200549–e202200549. 9 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Ahanjit, Christy J. Cho, Roberto J. Brea, & Neal K. Devaraj. (2021). Expression of Fatty Acyl-CoA Ligase Drives One-Pot De Novo Synthesis of Membrane-Bound Vesicles in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(29). 11235–11242. 12 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Ahanjit, Henrike Niederholtmeyer, Kira A. Podolsky, et al.. (2020). Lipid sponge droplets as programmable synthetic organelles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(31). 18206–18215. 52 indexed citations
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Jin, Shuaijiang, et al.. (2020). Traceless native chemical ligation of lipid-modified peptide surfactants by mixed micelle formation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2793–2793. 16 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., et al.. (2018). Highly Stable Artificial Cells from Galactopyranose-Derived Single-Chain Amphiphiles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(50). 17356–17360. 24 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J. & Neal K. Devaraj. (2017). Continual reproduction of self-assembling oligotriazole peptide nanomaterials. Nature Communications. 8(1). 730–730. 22 indexed citations
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Cole, Christian M., et al.. (2015). Spontaneous Reconstitution of Functional Transmembrane Proteins During Bioorthogonal Phospholipid Membrane Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(43). 12738–12742. 24 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., Christian M. Cole, & Neal K. Devaraj. (2014). In Situ Vesicle Formation by Native Chemical Ligation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(51). 14102–14105. 63 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., et al.. (2010). Regioisomeric Control Induced by DABCO Coordination to Rotatable Self‐Assembled Bis‐ and Tetraporphyrin α,γ‐Cyclic Octapeptide Dimers. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(4). 1220–1229. 27 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., Luís Castedo, & Juan R. Granja. (2007). Large-diameter self-assembled dimers of α,γ-cyclic peptides, with the nanotubular solid-state structure of cyclo-[(l-Leu-d-MeN-γ-Acp)4-]·4CHCl2COOH. Chemical Communications. 3267–3267. 62 indexed citations
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Brea, Roberto J., Manuel Amorín, Luís Castedo, & Juan R. Granja. (2005). Methyl‐Blocked Dimeric α,γ‐Peptide Nanotube Segments: Formation of a Peptide Heterodimer through Backbone–Backbone Interactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(35). 5710–5713. 68 indexed citations

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