2026 Diego Mantovani: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	64	5810	5622	93	88	368	17786

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ASM Fellow "For seminal contributions in the field of materials science and engineering applied to innovative biomedical materials and coatings to replace and regenerate tissue and organs that lost their functionality."
2012 - Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Overview

Diego Mantovani is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has an extensive research background in materials science and engineering, particularly focused on biomedical applications. Their work spans numerous subfields including biomaterials, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and surgery.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad array of specialized areas such as electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, magnesium alloys with emphasis on their properties and applications, bone tissue engineering materials, metal and thin film mechanics, corrosion behavior and inhibition, 3D printing in biomedical research, and advanced materials and composites.

Recent notable publications include:

The mechanical characterization of blood vessels and their substitutes in the continuous quest for physiological-relevant performances. A critical review (2021, Materials Today Bio)
Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys Promote Angio-Osteogenesis to Enhance Bone Repair (2020, Advanced Science)
Non-Viral in Vitro Gene Delivery: It is Now Time to Set the Bar! (2020, Pharmaceutics)
Immunomodulatory biomaterials against bacterial infections: Progress, challenges, and future perspectives (2023, The Innovation)
Oxidized bacterial cellulose membrane as support for enzyme immobilization: properties and morphological features (2020, Cellulose)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Pascale Chevallier, Francesco Copes, Carlo Paternoster, Sofia Gambaro, and Sandra Van Vlierberghe, indicating an active role in collaborative research projects.

Their publications are regularly featured in a number of academic venues, with the most frequent being Bioactive Materials, SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Polymers, and Materials Today Communications.

Diego Mantovani has received recognition in the form of awards such as the ASM Fellow in 2019, awarded for contributions in materials science and engineering related to biomedical materials and coatings, and was named a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2012.

Best Publications

Antibacterial Coatings: Challenges, Perspectives, and Opportunities

M. Cloutier;D. Mantovani;F. Rosei;F. Rosei

881
Citations
Biodegradable Metals for Cardiovascular Stent Application: Interests and New Opportunities

Maryam Moravej;Diego Mantovani

713
Citations
Developments in metallic biodegradable stents.

H. Hermawan;D. Dubé;D. Mantovani

706
Citations
Shape Memory Materials for Biomedical Applications

F. El Feninat;G. Laroche;M. Fiset;D. Mantovani

557
Citations
Small-diameter vascular tissue engineering

Dawit G. Seifu;Agung Purnama;Kibret Mequanint;Diego Mantovani

552
Citations
Long-term clinical study and multiscale analysis of in vivo biodegradation mechanism of Mg alloy

Jee-Wook Lee;Hyung-Seop Han;Kyeong-Jin Han;Jimin Park

486
Citations
Novel Zn-based alloys for biodegradable stent applications: Design, development and in vitro degradation.

Ehsan Mostaed;Malgorzata Urszula Sikora-Jasinska;A. Mostaed;Sergio Loffredo

480
Citations
Fe-Mn alloys for metallic biodegradable stents: Degradation and cell viability studies

Hendra Hermawan;Agung Purnama;Dominique Dube;Jacques Couet

423
Citations
Current status and outlook on the clinical translation of biodegradable metals

Hyung-Seop Han;Hyung-Seop Han;Sergio Loffredo;Sergio Loffredo;Indong Jun;James Edwards

406
Citations
Degradable metallic biomaterials: design and development of Fe-Mn alloys for stents.

Hendra Hermawan;Dominique Dubé;Diego Mantovani

388
Citations
Shape memory alloys: Properties and biomedical applications

Diego Mantovani

369
Citations
Iron–manganese: new class of metallic degradable biomaterials prepared by powder metallurgy

H. Hermawan;H. Alamdari;D. Mantovani;Dominique Dubé

358
Citations
Design of a pseudo-physiological test bench specific to the development of biodegradable metallic biomaterials

Julie Lévesque;Hendra Hermawan;Dominique Dubé;Diego Mantovani

297
Citations
Fabrication, mechanical properties and in vitro degradation behavior of newly developed ZnAg alloys for degradable implant applications.

M. Sikora-Jasinska;E. Mostaed;Ali Mostaed;R. Beanland

292
Citations
The mechanical characterization of blood vessels and their substitutes in the continuous quest for physiological-relevant performances. A critical review.

D.B. Camasão;D. Mantovani

270
Citations
Tailoring Mechanical Properties of Collagen-Based Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering: The Effects of pH, Temperature and Ionic Strength on Gelation

Matteo Achilli;Diego Mantovani

269
Citations
Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering: Focus on Mechanical Constraints. A Comparative Review

Katia Bilodeau;Diego Mantovani

267
Citations
Biological performances of collagen-based scaffolds for vascular tissue engineering.

F. Boccafoschi;J. Habermehl;S. Vesentini;D. Mantovani

249
Citations
Electroformed pure iron as a new biomaterial for degradable stents: in vitro degradation and preliminary cell viability studies.

M. Moravej;A. Purnama;M. Fiset;J. Couet

212
Citations
Electroformed iron as new biomaterial for degradable stents: development process and structure-properties relationship.

M. Moravej;F. Prima;M. Fiset;D. Mantovani

209
Citations
Compliant electrospun silk fibroin tubes for small vessel bypass grafting

Benedetto Marelli;Antonio Alessandrino;Antonio Alessandrino;Silvia Farè;Giuliano Freddi

205
Citations
Assessing the biocompatibility of degradable metallic materials: State-of-the-art and focus on the potential of genetic regulation

Agung Purnama;Hendra Hermawan;Jacques Couet;Diego Mantovani

182
Citations