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Raffaele Mezzenga

Raffaele Mezzenga

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
99
Citations
35675
World Ranking
1107
National Ranking
14

Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
33962
World Ranking
1544
National Ranking
28

Raffaele Mezzenga 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 Raffaele Mezzenga sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 490 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raffaele Mezzenga 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 Raffaele Mezzenga sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions to the understanding and control of original selfassembly principles of complex materials with targeted functionalities
  • 2011 - John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society For exceptional contributions to the understanding of self-assembly principles and their use to design and control materials with targeted functionalities.

Overview

Raffaele Mezzenga is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has made contributions in the field of Materials Science, with a total of 130 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry, Food Science, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Mezzenga has frequently published in several key scientific venues including:

  • Advanced Materials (16 publications)
  • Nature Communications (14 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (14 publications)
  • ACS Nano (10 publications)
  • Advanced Science (8 publications)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Mezzenga are:

  • "Modification approaches of plant-based proteins to improve their techno-functionality and use in food products," 2021, Food Hydrocolloids
  • "Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future," 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Design principles of food gels," 2020, Nature Food
  • "Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Amyloid Fibrils Aerogel for Sustainable Removal of Organic Contaminants from Water," 2020, Advanced Materials

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mohammad Peydayesh (48 publications)
  • Jiangtao Zhou (40 publications)
  • Massimo Bagnani (28 publications)
  • Sreenath Bolisetty (24 publications)
  • Stephan Handschin (20 publications)

Among the awards received by Mezzenga are the Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2017 for outstanding contributions to understanding and controlling self-assembly principles in complex materials. Mezzenga also received the John H. Dillon Medal from the American Physical Society in 2011 for work related to self-assembly principles and designing materials with targeted functionalities.

Best Publications

  • Sustainable technologies for water purification from heavy metals: review and analysis

    Sreenath Bolisetty;Mohammad Peydayesh;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Self-assembling peptide and protein amyloids: from structure to tailored function in nanotechnology

    Gang Wei;Zhiqiang Su;Nicholas P. Reynolds;Paolo Arosio

  • Understanding foods as soft materials

    Raffaele Mezzenga;Raffaele Mezzenga;Peter Schurtenberger;Adam Burbidge;Martin Michel

  • Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images

    Jozef Adamcik;Jin-Mi Jung;Jérôme Flakowski;Paolo De Los Rios

  • Amyloid–carbon hybrid membranes for universal water purification

    Sreenath Bolisetty;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Food protein amyloid fibrils: Origin, structure, formation, characterization, applications and health implications

    Yiping Cao;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Amyloid Fibrils as Building Blocks for Natural and Artificial Functional Materials.

    Tuomas P. J. Knowles;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

    Pu Chun Ke;Pu Chun Ke;Ruhong Zhou;Ruhong Zhou;Louise C. Serpell;Roland Riek

  • The self-assembly, aggregation and phase transitions of food protein systems in one, two and three dimensions

    Raffaele Mezzenga;Peter Fischer

  • Understanding nanocellulose chirality and structure–properties relationship at the single fibril level

    Ivan Usov;Gustav Nyström;Jozef Adamcik;Stephan Handschin

  • Biodegradable nanocomposites of amyloid fibrils and graphene with shape-memory and enzyme-sensing properties

    Chaoxu Li;Jozef Adamcik;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Design principles of food gels

    Yiping Cao;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Shear rheology of lyotropic liquid crystals: a case study.

    Raffaele Mezzenga;Cedric Meyer;Colin Servais;Alexandre I Romoscanu

  • FiberApp: An Open-Source Software for Tracking and Analyzing Polymers, Filaments, Biomacromolecules, and Fibrous Objects

    Ivan Usov;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • pH-Responsive Lyotropic Liquid Crystals for Controlled Drug Delivery

    Renata Negrini;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • A review of dendritic hyperbranched polymer as modifiers in epoxy composites

    Raffaele Mezzenga;Louis Boogh;Jan-Anders E. Månson

  • Structure of Heat-Induced β-Lactoglobulin Aggregates and their Complexes with Sodium-Dodecyl Sulfate

    Jin-Mi Jung;Gabriela Savin;Matthieu Pouzot;Christophe Schmitt

  • Amyloid Polymorphism in the Protein Folding and Aggregation Energy Landscape

    Jozef Adamcik;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Implications of peptide assemblies in amyloid diseases

    Pu Chun Ke;Marc Antonie Sani;Feng Ding;Aleksandr Kakinen

  • Polyphenol-Binding Amyloid Fibrils Self-Assemble into Reversible Hydrogels with Antibacterial Activity

    Bing Hu;Bing Hu;Yang Shen;Jozef Adamcik;Peter Fischer

  • Single-step direct measurement of amyloid fibrils stiffness by peak force quantitative nanomechanical atomic force microscopy

    Jozef Adamcik;Alexandre Berquand;Raffaele Mezzenga

Frequent Co-Authors

Jozef Adamcik
Jozef Adamcik ETH Zurich
Janne Ruokolainen
Janne Ruokolainen Aalto University
Gustav Nyström
Gustav Nyström Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Jan-Anders E. Månson
Jan-Anders E. Månson École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
Ian W. Hamley
Ian W. Hamley University of Reading
Lucio Isa
Lucio Isa ETH Zurich

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