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  1. Characterizing the pore structure of wood materials: A conjoint analysis based on mercury intrusion porosimetry, N2 adsorption and X-ray computed tomography methods

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  2. Modelling and validation of wood permeability: combining fractal theory with mercury intrusion porosimetry method

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  3. Anion Exchangers Prepared from Graft Polymerisation of Microfibrillated Cellulose Using the Reactive Ionic Liquid

    Article • Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  4. Exploring wood as a sustainable solution for water filtration: nanoparticle removal, size exclusion and molecular adsorption

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  5. Wood-Supported cationic polyelectrolyte membranes from a reactive ionic liquid for water detoxification

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  6. Determination of the water diffusivity dependence with the flow rate using a DVS equipment

    Article • European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  7. Viscoelastic properties of colloidal systems with attractive solid particles at low concentration: A review, new results and interpretations

    Article • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  8. The impact of primers for wood bonding on beech wood’s Young’s modulus

    Article • European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  9. Lignocellulosic bioplastics in sustainable packaging – Recent developments in materials design and processing: A comprehensive review

    Article • Sustainable Materials and Technologies, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  10. Characterization of hygrothermal, gas pressure and stress characteristics for poplar wood during unilateral surface densification

    Article • Construction and Building Materials, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  11. Mechanical and morphological bond line properties of silver birch wood pretreated by aqueous extraction

    Article • Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  12. Adhesion-related properties of silver birch (Betula Pendula Roth) wood as affected by hydrophilic extraction

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  13. Wood-water interactions of primers to enhance wood-polyurethane bonding performance

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  14. Interactions of hydrophilic birch wood (Betula pendula Roth) extractives with adhesives for load-bearing timber structures

    Article • International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  15. Anisotropic wood–water interactions determined by gravimetric vapor sorption experiments

    Article • Cellulose, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  16. Higher Extrusion Temperature Induces Greater Formation of Less Digestible Type V and Retrograded Starch in Iron-Fortified Rice Grains But Does Not Affect Iron Bioavailability: Stable Isotope Studies in Young Women

    Article • Journal of Nutrition, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  17. Hydroxymethylated resorcinol (HMR) primer to improve the performance of wood-adhesive bonds – A review

    Article • International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  18. Acidic wood extractives accelerate the curing process of emulsion polymer isocyanate adhesives

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  19. Polyurea Networks from Moisture-Cure, Reaction-Setting, Aliphatic Polyisocyanates with Tunable Mechanical and Thermal Properties

    Article • ACS Applied Polymer Materials, July 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  20. Understanding the Formation of Apoferritin Amyloid Fibrils

    Article • Biomacromolecules, April 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  21. Covalent β-lactoglobulin-maltodextrin amyloid fibril conjugate prepared by the Maillard reaction

    Article • Food Chemistry, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  22. Water-processable, biodegradable and coatable aquaplastic from engineered biofilms

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  23. Metal ions confinement defines the architecture of G-quartet, G-quadruplex fibrils and their assembly into nematic tactoids

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  24. Deformation behavior of crosslinked polyurea elastomers obtained via sol-gel chemistry: experimental determination and constitutive modelling

    Article • eXPRESS Polymer Letters, January 2020, Department of Polymer Engineering, Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  25. Structure–property relationships of cellulose nanofibril hydro- and aerogels and their building blocks

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  26. The hierarchical bulk molecular structure of poly(acrylamide) hydrogels: beyond the fishing net

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  27. Structural Transformation in Vesicles upon Hydrolysis of Phosphatidylethanolamine and Phosphatidylcholine with Phospholipase C

    Article • Langmuir, October 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  28. A Short Peptide Hydrogel with High Stiffness Induced by 310‐Helices to β‐Sheet Transition in Water

    Article • Advanced Science, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  29. Assembly-Induced Bright-Light Emission from Solution-Processed Platinum(II) Inorganic Polymers

    Article • ACS Omega, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sánchez, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  30. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary Structure Levels in Linear Polysaccharides: From Random Coil, to Single Helix to Supramolecular Assembly

    Article • Biomacromolecules, February 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  31. Ion-Induced Formation of Nanocrystalline Cellulose Colloidal Glasses Containing Nematic Domains

    Article • Langmuir, February 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  32. Nanostructural Properties and Twist Periodicity of Cellulose Nanofibrils with Variable Charge Density

    Article • Biomacromolecules, January 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  33. Can one determine the density of an individual synthetic macromolecule?

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  34. Apoferritin Protein Amyloid Fibrils with Tunable Chirality and Polymorphism

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  35. Cooperative Induction of Ordered Peptide and Fatty Acid Aggregates

    Article • Biophysical Journal, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  36. Structure and Nanomechanics of Dry and Hydrated Intermediate Filament Films and Fibers Produced from Hagfish Slime Fibers

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, October 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  37. Controlling Supramolecular Chiral Nanostructures by Self-Assembly of a Biomimetic β-Sheet-Rich Amyloidogenic Peptide

    Article • ACS Nano, August 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  38. In Vivo Mitigation of Amyloidogenesis through Functional–Pathogenic Double-Protein Coronae

    Article • Nano Letters, August 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Sijie Lin, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  39. Motorizing fibres with geometric zero-energy modes

    Article • Nature Materials, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  40. Interplay between structure and relaxation in polyurea networks: the point of view from a novel method of cooperativity analysis of dielectric response

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  41. Cold Extrusion but Not Coating Affects Iron Bioavailability from Fortified Rice in Young Women and Is Associated with Modifications in Starch Microstructure and Mineral Retention during Cooking

    Article • Journal of Nutrition, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  42. Squid Suckerin Biomimetic Peptides Form Amyloid-like Crystals with Robust Mechanical Properties

    Article • Biomacromolecules, November 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  43. Absolute Quantification of Amyloid Propagons by Digital Microfluidics

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, November 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  44. Heat-controlled micropillar array device for microsystems technology

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sánchez, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  45. Dynamic formation of nanostructured particles from vesicles via invertase hydrolysis for on-demand delivery

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  46. Solvent-mediated conductance increase of dodecanethiol-stabilized gold nanoparticle monolayers

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, December 2016, Beilstein Institut

    Raffaele Mezzenga, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  47. Recreating the synthesis of starch granules in yeast

    Article • eLife, November 2016, eLife

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  48. Gelatin–Graphene Nanocomposites with Ultralow Electrical Percolation Threshold

    Article • Advanced Materials, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  49. Antioxidant Activity of Individual Steryl Ferulates from Various Cereal Grain Sources

    Article • Journal of Natural Products, January 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  50. Integration of Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers in MEMS/MOEMS

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  51. Microtubule‐Binding R3 Fragment from Tau Self‐Assembles into Giant Multistranded Amyloid Ribbons

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  52. Isolation and Characterization of Monodisperse Core–Shell Nanoparticle Fractions

    Article • Langmuir, October 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  53. Thermal characterisation of thermotropic nematic liquid-crystalline elastomers

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  54. Phase Transitions in Smectic Bent-Core Main-Chain Polymer Networks Detected by Dielectric and Ultrasonic Techniques

    Article • Ferroelectrics, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  55. Ultrasonic and Dielectric Studies of Polyurea Elastomer Composites with Inorganic Nanoparticles

    Article • Ferroelectrics, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  56. Influence of the degree of polymerisation and of the architecture on the elastic properties of new polyurea elastomers

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  57. Gels, xerogels and films of polynuclear iron(ii)–aminotriazole spin-crossover polymeric complexes

    Article • RSC Advances, November 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Raffaele Mezzenga

  58. Supramolecular Architectures from Bent-Core Dendritic Molecules

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  59. Scale-up of Nanoparticle Synthesis by Flame Spray Pyrolysis: The High-Temperature Particle Residence Time

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, July 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  60. Enhanced nonlinearity by H-bonded polymer–dye complex in liquid crystal for holographic gratings

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, June 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  61. Influence of Electrostatic Interactions on the Release of Charged Molecules from Lipid Cubic Phases

    Article • Langmuir, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  62. Polynuclear Iron(II)–Aminotriazole Spincrossover Complexes (Polymers) In Solution

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  63. Light‐Controlled Actuation, Transduction, and Modulation of Magnetic Strength in Polymer Nanocomposites

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  64. Diyne-Functionalized Fullerene Self-Assembly for Thin Film Solid-State Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  65. Modulating the structural properties of β-d-glucan degradation products by alternative reaction pathways

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  66. Two glass transitions of polyurea networks: effect of the segmental molecular weight

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Mag. Marius Reinecker

  67. Spinning Angora Rabbit Wool‐Like Porous Fibers from a Non‐Equilibrated Gelatin/Water/2‐Propanol Mixture

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Dr Robert N Grass

  68. Light‐Induced Refractive Index Modulation in Photoactive Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  69. Hierarchically Structured Microfibers of “Single Stack” Perylene Bisimide and Quaterthiophene Nanowires

    Article • ACS Nano, September 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Stephan Steinmann

  70. Influence of inorganic nanoparticles on the glass transitions of polyurea elastomers

    Article • phys stat sol (a), September 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Renato Torre, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  71. Ultrasonic properties of composites of polymers and inorganic nanoparticles

    Article • phys stat sol (a), August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  72. Enhanced properties of polyurea elastomeric nanocomposites with anisotropic functionalised nanofillers

    Article • Polymer, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  73. Photodynamics of stress in clamped nematic elastomers

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  74. Colloidal Ordered Assemblies in a Polymer Shell—A Novel Type of Magnetic Nanobeads for Theranostic Applications

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, March 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  75. Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomer‐Nanoparticle Hybrids with Reversible Switch of Magnetic Memory

    Article • Advanced Materials, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  76. Core–shell nanoparticle monolayers at planar liquid–liquid interfaces: effects of polymer architecture on the interface microstructure

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  77. Liquid-crystalline elastomer micropillar array for haptic actuation

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Dr Antoni Sánchez

  78. Opto-mechanical effect in photoactive nematic main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  79. Thermo-responsive peptide-based triblock copolymer hydrogels

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  80. Strain-induced macroscopic magnetic anisotropy from smectic liquid-crystalline elastomer–maghemite nanoparticle hybrid nanocomposites

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  81. Resolving Self-Assembly of Bile Acids at the Molecular Length Scale

    Article • Langmuir, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  82. Investigation of Relaxation Processes in Nanocomposites by Transient Grating Experiments

    Article • Materials Science Forum, March 2012, Trans Tech Publications

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer, Prof. Renato Torre

  83. Thermoreversible Gel–Sol Behavior of Rod–Coil–Rod Peptide-Based Triblock Copolymers

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  84. Edible supramolecular chiral nanostructures by self-assembly of an amphiphilic phytosterol conjugate

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  85. Bent-Core Based Main-Chain Polymers Showing the Dark Conglomerate Liquid Crystal Phase

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  86. Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  87. Light-induced disorder in liquid-crystalline elastomers for actuation

    Article • September 2011, SPIE

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  88. Photoresponsive Reversible Aggregation and Dissolution of Rod–Coil Polypeptide Diblock Copolymers

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  89. Opto‐Mechanical Effect in Photoactive Nematic Side‐Chain Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  90. Orientational Behavior of Ellipsoidal Silica‐Coated Hematite Nanoparticles Integrated within an Elastomeric Matrix and its Mechanical Reinforcement

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  91. A supramolecular bottle-brush approach to disassemble amyloid fibrils

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  92. Polydomain–Monodomain Orientational Process in Smectic‐C Main‐Chain Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  93. Thermal and mechanical properties of new Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Solid State Sciences, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  94. Synthesis and Characterization of New Polyurea Elastomers by Sol/Gel Chemistry

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  95. Inorganic–organic elastomer nanocomposites from integrated ellipsoidal silica-coated hematite nanoparticles as crosslinking agents

    Article • Nanotechnology, April 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  96. Thermal study of the Isotropic to Smectic C phase transition in main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  97. Heino Finkelmann: 65 Years of Devotion to Science

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  98. Secondary Structure-Induced Micro- and Macrophase Separation in Rod-Coil Polypeptide Diblock, Triblock, and Star-Block Copolymers

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Raffaele Mezzenga, Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  99. Kinetic study of the fast thermal cis-to-trans isomerisation of para-, ortho- and polyhydroxyazobenzenes

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  100. Photo‐Crosslinked Side‐Chain Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomers for Microsystems

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  101. Mechanical Deformations in Smectic-C Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  102. Thermal and Mechanical Properties of New Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  103. Liquid crystal elastomer–nanoparticle systems for actuation

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  104. Uniaxial and Shear Deformations in Smectic-C Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  105. Order and strain in main-chain smectic liquid-crystalline polymers and elastomers

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  106. Main-chain smectic liquid-crystalline polymers as randomly disordered systems

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  107. Liquid Crystalline Dendritic Networks Derived from Poly(propylene imine) (PPI) Dendrimers

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, October 2005, Wiley

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer

  108. Evidence of Supercritical Behavior in Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Antoni Sanchez-Ferrer