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Kristian Kempe

Kristian Kempe

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
50
Citations
8622
World Ranking
10267
National Ranking
303

Chemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
8571
World Ranking
14410
National Ranking
321

Kristian Kempe publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristian Kempe sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 163 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Kristian Kempe D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristian Kempe sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kristian Kempe is affiliated with Monash University in Australia, with a research focus primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their scholarly output spans a range of interdisciplinary topics centered around polymers, biomaterials, and nanotechnology.

The main fields of study for Kristian Kempe include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Within these broader fields, their subfields of expertise incorporate:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • Molecular Biology
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Biomedical Engineering

The specific research topics that Kristian Kempe has addressed include:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Synthesis and Properties of Polymers
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques

Kristian Kempe has contributed to multiple scientific journals, with frequent publication venues being:

  • Biomacromolecules
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Nano Letters
  • Biomaterials

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kristian Kempe include:

  • Advances and Opportunities of Oil-in-Oil Emulsions, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Cobalt-Directed Assembly of Antibodies onto Metal-Phenolic Networks for Enhanced Particle Targeting, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Engineering Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters Using Xanthate-Functionalized Hydrophilic Polymers: Toward Enhanced Monodispersity and Stability, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Stealth nanorods via the aqueous living crystallisation-driven self-assembly of poly(2-oxazoline)s, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Interactions of core cross-linked poly(2-oxazoline) and poly(2-oxazine) micelles with immune cells in human blood, 2021, Biomaterials

The scientist has collaborated extensively, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Kristofer J. Thurecht
  • Thomas P. Davis
  • Meike N. Leiske
  • Joshua P. Morrow
  • Zihnil Adha Islamy Mazrad

Best Publications

  • Overcoming the Blood-Brain Barrier: The Role of Nanomaterials in Treating Neurological Diseases.

    Denzil Furtado;Mattias Björnmalm;Mattias Björnmalm;Scott Ayton;Ashley I. Bush

  • Cu(0)-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization: A Versatile Tool for Materials Synthesis

    Athina Anastasaki;Athina Anastasaki;Vasiliki Nikolaou;Gabit Nurumbetov;Paul Wilson;Paul Wilson

  • “Clicking” on/with polymers: a rapidly expanding field for the straightforward preparation of novel macromolecular architectures

    Kristian Kempe;Andreas Krieg;C. Remzi Becer;Ulrich S. Schubert

  • Coordination-Driven Multistep Assembly of Metal-Polyphenol Films and Capsules

    Md. Arifur Rahim;Hirotaka Ejima;Kwun Lun Cho;Kristian Kempe

  • Poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) as alternative for the stealth polymer poly(ethylene glycol): comparison of in vitro cytotoxicity and hemocompatibility.

    Marius Bauer;Christian Lautenschlaeger;Kristian Kempe;Lutz Tauhardt

  • Surface-Confined Amorphous Films from Metal-Coordinated Simple Phenolic Ligands

    Md. Arifur Rahim;Kristian Kempe;Markus Müllner;Hirotaka Ejima

  • Metal–Phenolic Supramolecular Gelation

    Md. Arifur Rahim;Mattias Björnmalm;Tomoya Suma;Matthew Faria

  • Emerging methods for the fabrication of polymer capsules.

    Jiwei Cui;Martin P. van Koeverden;Markus Müllner;Kristian Kempe

  • Microwave-assisted polymerizations: Recent status and future perspectives

    Kristian Kempe;C. Remzi Becer;Ulrich S. Schubert

  • Poly(2-oxazoline) functionalized surfaces: from modification to application

    Lutz Tauhardt;Lutz Tauhardt;Kristian Kempe;Kristian Kempe;Michael Gottschaldt;Michael Gottschaldt;Ulrich S. Schubert;Ulrich S. Schubert

  • Poly(2-oxazoline)-based micro- and nanoparticles: A review

    Paul Wilson;Pu Chun Ke;Thomas P. Davis;Thomas P. Davis;Kristian Kempe;Kristian Kempe

  • Monoclonal antibody-functionalized multilayered particles: targeting cancer cells in the presence of protein coronas.

    Qiong Dai;Yan Yan;Ching Seng Ang;Kristian Kempe

  • Photoinduced Synthesis of α,ω-Telechelic Sequence-Controlled Multiblock Copolymers

    Athina Anastasaki;Athina Anastasaki;Vasiliki Nikolaou;Nicholas William McCaul;Alexandre Simula

  • Poly(2-oxazoline) hydrogels for controlled fibroblast attachment

    Brooke L Farrugia;Kristian Kempe;Ulrich S Schubert;Richard Hoogenboom

  • Three-Fold Metal-Free Efficient (“Click”) Reactions onto a Multifunctional Poly(2-oxazoline) Designer Scaffold

    Kristian Kempe;Richard Hoogenboom;Michael Jaeger;Ulrich S. Schubert

  • Linear Polyethyleneimine: Optimized Synthesis and Characterization - On the Way to ''Pharmagrade'' Batches

    Lutz Tauhardt;Kristian Kempe;Katrin Knop;Esra Altuntaş

  • Poly(2-oxazoline) hydrogel monoliths via thiol-ene coupling.

    Tim R. Dargaville;Rebecca Forster;Brooke L. Farrugia;Kristian Kempe

  • Well-Defined Protein/Peptide-Polymer Conjugates by Aqueous Cu-LRP: Synthesis and Controlled Self-Assembly

    Qiang Zhang;Muxiu Li;Chongyu Zhu;Gabit Nurumbetov

  • Advances and Opportunities of Oil-in-Oil Emulsions

    Aadarash Zia;Emily B. Pentzer;Stuart C Thickett;Kristian Kempe;Kristian Kempe

  • Multifunctional Thrombin‐Activatable Polymer Capsules for Specific Targeting to Activated Platelets

    Sylvia T Gunawan;Kristian Kempe;Thomas Michel Eric Bonnard;Jiwei Cui

  • Synthesis and characterization of a series of diverse poly(2-oxazoline)s

    Kristian Kempe;Kristian Kempe;Matthias Lobert;Richard Hoogenboom;Ulrich S. Schubert;Ulrich S. Schubert

  • Covalently cross-linked poly(2-oxazoline) materials for biomedical applications – from hydrogels to self-assembled and templated structures

    Matthias Hartlieb;Kristian Kempe;Ulrich S. Schubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich S. Schubert
Ulrich S. Schubert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
David M. Haddleton
David M. Haddleton University of Warwick
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Richard Hoogenboom
Richard Hoogenboom Ghent University
Frank Caruso
Frank Caruso University of Melbourne
Michael R. Whittaker
Michael R. Whittaker Monash University
Stephanie Hoeppener
Stephanie Hoeppener Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jiwei Cui
Jiwei Cui Shandong University
Joseph J. Richardson
Joseph J. Richardson RMIT University

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