Aniket Pal

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Aniket Pal is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aniket Pal has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Aniket Pal's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (6 papers). Aniket Pal is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (6 papers). Aniket Pal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Aniket Pal's co-authors include Metin Sitti, Debkalpa Goswami, Ramsés V. Martínez, Meng Li, Amirreza Aghakhani, Abdon Pena‐Francesch, Beatriz Castro, Shihuan Kuang, Mingchao Zhang and Gaurav Gardi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aniket Pal

18 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Soft actuators for real-world applications

2021 596 citations Meng Li, Aniket Pal et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aniket Pal United States	15	1.1k	803	306	161	140	18	1.6k
Lindsey Hines United States	11	1.2k 1.1×	984 1.2×	490 1.6×	188 1.2×	68 0.5×	13	1.7k
Thomas J. Wallin United States	16	1.6k 1.4×	812 1.0×	334 1.1×	312 1.9×	130 0.9×	22	2.1k
Shane K. Mitchell United States	11	1.7k 1.5×	934 1.2×	328 1.1×	144 0.9×	109 0.8×	15	1.9k
Michelle C. Yuen United States	21	1.2k 1.0×	527 0.7×	139 0.5×	155 1.0×	236 1.7×	43	1.4k
Hritwick Banerjee Singapore	18	1.2k 1.1×	469 0.6×	186 0.6×	313 1.9×	187 1.3×	38	1.5k
Eric Acome United States	11	1.6k 1.4×	753 0.9×	227 0.7×	453 2.8×	177 1.3×	18	1.9k
Bryan Schubert Switzerland	13	1.7k 1.5×	945 1.2×	212 0.7×	198 1.2×	111 0.8×	17	2.2k
Hedan Bai United States	9	888 0.8×	556 0.7×	157 0.5×	169 1.0×	202 1.4×	18	1.2k
Amirreza Aghakhani Türkiye	18	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	945 3.1×	143 0.9×	148 1.1×	42	2.2k
Z. Jiao China	16	859 0.8×	510 0.6×	241 0.8×	107 0.7×	99 0.7×	37	1.1k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2025). Mechanical Metamaterials for Bioengineering: In Vitro, Wearable, and Implantable Applications. Advanced Engineering Materials. 27(7). 10 indexed citations

Byun, Junghwan, Aniket Pal, Jongkuk Ko, & Metin Sitti. (2024). Integrated mechanical computing for autonomous soft machines. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2933–2933. 20 indexed citations

Zhang, Mingchao, et al.. (2024). Artificial-goosebump-driven microactuation. Nature Materials. 23(4). 560–569. 33 indexed citations

Li, Meng, Aniket Pal, Junghwan Byun, Gaurav Gardi, & Metin Sitti. (2023). Magnetic Putty as a Reconfigurable, Recyclable, and Accessible Soft Robotic Material. Advanced Materials. 35(48). e2304825–e2304825. 29 indexed citations

Feng, Wei, Aniket Pal, Tianlu Wang, et al.. (2023). Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymeric Coatings for Colorful Artificial Muscles and Motile Humidity Sensor Skin Integrated with Magnetic Composites. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(23). 46 indexed citations

Zhang, Mingchao, Aniket Pal, Zhiqiang Zheng, et al.. (2023). Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability. Nature Materials. 22(10). 1243–1252. 87 indexed citations

Pal, Aniket & Metin Sitti. (2023). Programmable mechanical devices through magnetically tunable bistable elements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2212489120–e2212489120. 74 indexed citations

Li, Meng, Aniket Pal, Amirreza Aghakhani, Abdon Pena‐Francesch, & Metin Sitti. (2021). Soft actuators for real-world applications. Nature Reviews Materials. 7(3). 235–249. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2021). Exploiting Mechanical Instabilities in Soft Robotics: Control, Sensing, and Actuation. Advanced Materials. 33(19). e2006939–e2006939. 166 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2020). Conformal, waterproof electronic decals for wireless monitoring of sweat and vaginal pH at the point-of-care. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 160. 112206–112206. 55 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2020). Optimal turbine blade design enabled by auxetic honeycomb. Smart Materials and Structures. 29(12). 125004–125004. 10 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, Debkalpa Goswami, & Ramsés V. Martínez. (2020). Soft Machines: Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines (Adv. Funct. Mater. 1/2020). Advanced Functional Materials. 30(1). 8 indexed citations

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Goswami, Debkalpa, et al.. (2019). 3D‐Architected Soft Machines with Topologically Encoded Motion. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(24). 66 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, Debkalpa Goswami, & Ramsés V. Martínez. (2019). Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(1). 84 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2018). Early detection and monitoring of chronic wounds using low-cost, omniphobic paper-based smart bandages. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 117. 696–705. 133 indexed citations

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Goswami, Debkalpa, et al.. (2018). Roll-to-Roll Nanoforming of Metals Using Laser-Induced Superplasticity. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3616–3622. 31 indexed citations

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Sadri, Behnam, Debkalpa Goswami, Aniket Pal, et al.. (2018). Wearable and Implantable Epidermal Paper-Based Electronics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(37). 31061–31068. 60 indexed citations

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Pal, Aniket, et al.. (2017). Self‐Powered, Paper‐Based Electrochemical Devices for Sensitive Point‐of‐Care Testing. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2(10). 53 indexed citations

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