Taco Nicolaï

14.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
300 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Taco Nicolaï is a scholar working on Food Science, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Taco Nicolaï has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Food Science, 104 papers in Materials Chemistry and 88 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Taco Nicolaï's work include Proteins in Food Systems (150 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (77 papers) and Microencapsulation and Drying Processes (68 papers). Taco Nicolaï is often cited by papers focused on Proteins in Food Systems (150 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (77 papers) and Microencapsulation and Drying Processes (68 papers). Taco Nicolaï collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Taco Nicolaï's co-authors include Dominique Durand, Christophe Chassenieux, Lazhar Benyahia, Jean-Christophe Gimel, Christophe Schmitt, Olivier Colombani, Michel Britten, Bach T. Nguyen, P Aymard and Christel Le Bon and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Taco Nicolaï

295 papers receiving 11.6k citations

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β-Lactoglobulin and WPI aggregates: Formation, structure and applications

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Thermoreversible carrageenan gels formed through crosslinking with napin 2025 ·Food Hydrocolloids ·Gireeshkumar Balakrishnan, (unknown), (unknown), Christophe Chassenieux, Taco Nicolaï	1
2	Heat-induced aggregation and gelation of rapeseed proteins 2025 ·Food Hydrocolloids ·(unknown), (unknown), Gireeshkumar Balakrishnan, Taco Nicolaï, Christophe Chassenieux	2
3	Effect of charge on the stabilization of water-in-water emulsions by thermosensitive bis-hydrophilic microgels 2023 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·D. Nguyen, (unknown), Véronique Lapeyre, Stéphane Arbault, Valérie Ravaine, Taco Nicolaï, Lazhar Benyahia	8
4	Tuning the bis-hydrophilic balance of microgels: A tool to control the stability of water-in-water emulsions 2023 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·(unknown), D. Nguyen, Stéphane Arbault, Taco Nicolaï, Lazhar Benyahia, Valérie Ravaine	9
5	Poly(ethylene oxide)/Gelatin-Based Biphasic Photocrosslinkable Hydrogels of Tunable Morphology for Hepatic Progenitor Cell Encapsulation 2023 ·Biomacromolecules ·(unknown), (unknown), Tuan Huy Nguyen, Taco Nicolaï, Erwan Nicol	9
6	The effect of the contact angle on particle stabilization and bridging in water-in-water emulsions 2023 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·(unknown), Taco Nicolaï	21
7	Unimer Exchange Is not Necessary for Morphological Transitions in Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), (unknown), Jean‐Michel Guigner, Taco Nicolaï, François Stoffelbach, Olivier Colombani, Jutta Rieger	15
8	Exploiting multiple phase separation to stabilize water in water emulsions and form stable microcapsules 2022 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·(unknown), Erwan Nicol, Taco Nicolaï	16
9	Viscosity of Aqueous Polysaccharide Solutions and Selected Homogeneous Binary Mixtures 2020 ·Macromolecules ·(unknown), (unknown), Lazhar Benyahia, Taco Nicolaï, Frédéric Renou	27
10	Viscosity and Morphology of Water-in-Water Emulsions: The Effect of Different Biopolymer Stabilizers 2020 ·Macromolecules ·(unknown), Taco Nicolaï, Lazhar Benyahia, Frédéric Renou	21
11	Mixed iota and kappa carrageenan gels in the presence of both calcium and potassium ions 2019 ·Carbohydrate Polymers ·(unknown), Bach T. Nguyen, Taco Nicolaï, Frédéric Renou	61
12	Stabilization of Water-In-Water Emulsions by Linear Homo-Polyelectrolytes 2019 ·Langmuir ·(unknown), Taco Nicolaï, Frédéric Renou	38
13	Xyloglucan gelation induced by enzymatic degalactosylation; kinetics and the effect of the molar mass 2017 ·Carbohydrate Polymers ·Caroline Novak Sakakibara, Maria Rita Sierakowski, Christophe Chassenieux, Taco Nicolaï, Rilton Alves de Freitas	11
14	Core-shell particles formed by β-lactoglobulin microgel coated with xyloglucan 2016 ·International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·(unknown), Adel Aschi, Taco Nicolaï, Rilton Alves de Freitas	6
15	Formation and functionality of self-assembled whey protein microgels 2015 ·Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces ·Taco Nicolaï	73
16	One and two dimensional self-assembly of comb-like amphiphilic copolyelectrolytes in aqueous solution 2013 ·Soft Matter ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cédric Gaillard, Ilias Iliopoulos, Denis Bendejacq, Taco Nicolaï, Christophe Chassenieux	9
17	Dynamic Arm Exchange Facilitates Crystallization and Jamming of Starlike Polymers by Spontaneous Fine-Tuning of the Number of Arms 2013 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Taco Nicolaï, Erwan Nicol, Lazhar Benyahia, Guillaume Brotons	14
18	Slow dynamics and structure in jammed milk protein suspensions 2012 ·Faraday Discussions ·(unknown), Dominique Durand, Lazhar Benyahia, Taco Nicolaï	20
19	Relation between the gel structure and the mobility of tracers in globular protein gels 2012 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Gireeshkumar Balakrishnan, Taco Nicolaï, Dominique Durand	16
20	Self-diffusion of non-interacting hard spheres in particle gels 2011 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Jean-Christophe Gimel, Taco Nicolaï	5

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