Corresponding-author papers of Professor Ding in the latest three years were every year selected by ESI as representing “Research Front”

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is for statistics of science performance statistics and science trends. According to ESI available from ISI-Web of Knowledge on July 11, 2011, four corresponding-author papers of Professor DING have been listed in global “Highly Cited Papers (last 10 years)” in the fields of “Materials Science” or “Chemistry”. They are

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l        In vitro degradation of three dimensional porous poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) scaffolds for tissue engineering

Linbo Wu, Jiandong Ding*, Biomaterials, 25(27), 5821-5830 (2004) (The article is for tissue engineering scaffolds. This is the first paper Professor Ding published in the field of biomedical materials.)

l        Injectable hydrogels as unique biomedical materials

        Lin Yu, Jiandong Ding*, Chem. Soc. Rev., 37, 1473-1481 (2008) (The review concerns injectable hydrogels especially for drug delivery systems. This is the first review Professor Ding wrote for an international journal.)

l        Impact of order and disorder in RGD nanopatterns on cell adhesion

Jinghuan Huang, Stefan V. Gräter, Francesca Corbellini, Sabine Rinck-Jahnke, Eva Bock, Ralf Kemkemer, Horst Kessler, Jiandong Ding*, and Joachim P. Spatz*, Nano Lett., 9(3), 1111-1116 (2009) (This letter is for cell-biomaterial interaction on the nanoscale level, achieved from a Sino-German International cooperation.)

l        The regulation of stem cell differentiation by cell-cell contact on micropatterned material surfaces

Jiang Tang, Rong Peng, Jiandong Ding*, Biomaterials, 31, 2470–2476 (2010) (This article concerns cell-biomaterial studies based upon micropatterned surfaces. Especially, unique material techniques were developed to reveal the basic science of stem cells.)

The latter three papers published in 2008, 2009 and 2010 were also selected by ESI into “research frontier”.

l        The Chem. Soc. Rev. (2008) is one of three representative papers in research front of “Functionalized Injectable Hydrogels; In-Situ Gelling Stimuli-Sensitive Block Copolymer Hydrogels; Controlled Insulin Delivery; Drug Delivery; Unique Biomedical Materials”.

l        The Nano Lett. (2009) is one of five representative papers in research front of “Cell Adhesion; Stem Cell Differentiation; Cell Spreading; Focal Adhesion Dynamics; Micropatterned Material Surfaces”.

l        The Biomaterials (2010) represents also the research front of “Cell Adhesion; Stem Cell Differentiation; Cell Spreading; Focal Adhesion Dynamics; Micropatterned Material Surfaces”.