2026 Kristian Kempe: 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	50	10269	9917	303	301	163	8622
Chemistry	50	14412	12981	321	304	164	8571

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

658
Citations
Cu(0)-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization: A Versatile Tool for Materials Synthesis

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

432
Citations
“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

399
Citations
Coordination-Driven Multistep Assembly of Metal-Polyphenol Films and Capsules

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

398
Citations
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

342
Citations
Surface-Confined Amorphous Films from Metal-Coordinated Simple Phenolic Ligands

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

211
Citations
Metal–Phenolic Supramolecular Gelation

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

206
Citations
Emerging methods for the fabrication of polymer capsules.

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

200
Citations
Microwave-assisted polymerizations: Recent status and future perspectives

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

193
Citations
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

165
Citations
Poly(2-oxazoline)-based micro- and nanoparticles: A review

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

143
Citations
Monoclonal antibody-functionalized multilayered particles: targeting cancer cells in the presence of protein coronas.

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

127
Citations
Photoinduced Synthesis of α,ω-Telechelic Sequence-Controlled Multiblock Copolymers

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

116
Citations
Poly(2-oxazoline) hydrogels for controlled fibroblast attachment

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

116
Citations
Three-Fold Metal-Free Efficient (“Click”) Reactions onto a Multifunctional Poly(2-oxazoline) Designer Scaffold

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

114
Citations
Linear Polyethyleneimine: Optimized Synthesis and Characterization - On the Way to ''Pharmagrade'' Batches

Lutz Tauhardt;Kristian Kempe;Katrin Knop;Esra Altuntaş

113
Citations
Poly(2-oxazoline) hydrogel monoliths via thiol-ene coupling.

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

105
Citations
Well-Defined Protein/Peptide-Polymer Conjugates by Aqueous Cu-LRP: Synthesis and Controlled Self-Assembly

Qiang Zhang;Muxiu Li;Chongyu Zhu;Gabit Nurumbetov

104
Citations
Advances and Opportunities of Oil-in-Oil Emulsions

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

98
Citations
Multifunctional Thrombin‐Activatable Polymer Capsules for Specific Targeting to Activated Platelets

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

90
Citations
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

86
Citations
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

85
Citations