Bolei Deng

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Bolei Deng is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bolei Deng has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bolei Deng's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (14 papers), Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (12 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (6 papers). Bolei Deng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (14 papers), Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (12 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (6 papers). Bolei Deng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Bolei Deng's co-authors include Katia Bertoldi, Vincent Tournat, Lishuai Jin, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Antonio Elia Forte, Pai Wang, Ahmad Zareei, Qi He, James C. Weaver and Chris H. Rycroft and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Bolei Deng

39 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target No... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2022 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
    2022 144 citations Bolei Deng, Ahmad Zareei et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures
    2022 134 citations Shucong Li, Michael M. Lerch et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bolei Deng United States 21 953 713 287 201 163 42 1.5k
Hiromi Yasuda United States 19 1.4k 1.5× 858 1.2× 706 2.5× 118 0.6× 79 0.5× 31 1.8k
Sicong Shan United States 10 1.5k 1.6× 1.0k 1.4× 524 1.8× 58 0.3× 240 1.5× 21 2.1k
Neel Nadkarni United States 10 384 0.4× 365 0.5× 134 0.5× 131 0.7× 80 0.5× 10 866
Lishuai Jin United States 17 847 0.9× 569 0.8× 280 1.0× 34 0.2× 89 0.5× 24 1.1k
Tobias Frenzel Germany 15 1.2k 1.3× 1.0k 1.4× 403 1.4× 44 0.2× 268 1.6× 20 2.2k
Einar Halvorsen Norway 25 1.7k 1.7× 1.2k 1.6× 378 1.3× 50 0.2× 76 0.5× 113 2.3k
Osama R. Bilal United States 18 800 0.8× 1.5k 2.0× 336 1.2× 98 0.5× 176 1.1× 43 2.6k
Hongbin Fang China 30 1.8k 1.9× 1.5k 2.1× 956 3.3× 81 0.4× 93 0.6× 116 2.7k
Xianchen Xu United States 20 404 0.4× 1.3k 1.8× 229 0.8× 74 0.4× 129 0.8× 38 1.6k
Elizabeth R. Chen United States 10 1.1k 1.2× 634 0.9× 315 1.1× 25 0.1× 150 0.9× 13 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bolei Deng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bolei Deng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Shu, et al.. (2025). Scaling Law for Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Diverse Stretchable Networks. Physical Review X. 15(1). 4 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, et al.. (2025). Topological computation by non-Abelian braiding in classical metamaterials. Physical Review Research. 7(2). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Chang, Xiaoyun Yan, Bolei Deng, et al.. (2025). A metre-scale vertical origami hydrogel panel for atmospheric water harvesting in Death Valley. Nature Water. 3(6). 714–722. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinyi, Bohan Wang, Minghao Guo, et al.. (2025). Electronic‐Free Particle Robots Communicate through Architected Tentacles. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(12). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shu, et al.. (2024). A Loop-Opening Model for the Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymer Networks. Macromolecules. 57(13). 6069–6075. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Shu, Bolei Deng, Haley K. Beech, et al.. (2024). Fracture of polymer-like networks with hybrid bond strengths. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 195. 105931–105931. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Fei, et al.. (2023). Drawing Dispersion Curves: Band Structure Customization via Nonlocal Phononic Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 131(17). 27 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, et al.. (2023). Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks. Physical Review Letters. 131(22). 228102–228102. 35 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, Hang Shu, Jian Li, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters. 123(1). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Shucong, Michael M. Lerch, James T. Waters, et al.. (2022). Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures. Nature. 605(7908). 76–83. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deng, Bolei, et al.. (2022). Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy. Advanced Materials. 34(41). e2206238–e2206238. 144 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Shucong, Bolei Deng, Alison Grinthal, et al.. (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature. 592(7854). 386–391. 121 indexed citations
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Vasios, Nikolaos, Bolei Deng, Benjamin Gorissen, & Katia Bertoldi. (2021). Universally bistable shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature for two-way transition waves. Nature Communications. 12(1). 695–695. 62 indexed citations
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Zareei, Ahmad, Bolei Deng, & Katia Bertoldi. (2020). Harnessing transition waves to realize deployable structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 4015–4020. 67 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, Jian Li, Vincent Tournat, Prashant K. Purohit, & Katia Bertoldi. (2020). Dynamics of mechanical metamaterials: A framework to connect phonons, nonlinear periodic waves and solitons. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 147. 104233–104233. 24 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, Yuning Zhang, Qi He, et al.. (2019). Propagation of elastic solitons in chains of pre-deformed beams. New Journal of Physics. 21(7). 73008–73008. 23 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, & Katia Bertoldi. (2019). Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters. 122(4). 44101–44101. 33 indexed citations
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Deng, Bolei, et al.. (2019). Focusing and Mode Separation of Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial. Physical Review Letters. 123(2). 24101–24101. 38 indexed citations
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Tzou, H. S., et al.. (2017). Flexoelectric Actuation and Vibration Control of Ring Shells. Journal of vibration and acoustics. 139(3). 12 indexed citations

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