Boxin Zhao

7.9k citations

174 papers · 6.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 41

Impact in

Surfaces, Coatings and Films top 0.2%
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
Polymers and Plastics top 1%
- Conducting polymers and applications

Papers in

Surfaces, Coatings and Films 44
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity 30
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies 19
Polymers and Plastics 33
- Conducting polymers and applications 21

Co-authors: Fut K. Yang Hamed Shahsavan Aleksander Cholewinski Jacob N. Israelachvili Hongbo Zeng Zihe Pan Yu Tian ZhengMing Sun
Journals: Langmuir (14 papers)Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics (7 papers)Soft Matter (6 papers)ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (6 papers)Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (4 papers)
Partner nations: Canada China United States

In The Last Decade

Boxin Zhao

167 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications 2020 · 745 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Chemical Society Reviews
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Conductive supramolecular acrylate hydrogels enabled by quaternized chitosan ionic crosslinking for high-fidelity 3D printing Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications ·Lukas Bauman, Boxin Zhao	2025	1
2	Solvent-Induced Triradial Pattern Formation on Solid-Supported Viscoelastic Thin Films and Gels ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Fan Zhao, Surjyasish Mitra, Surjyasish Mitra, Minmin Xu, Jianlin Yao, Sushanta K. Mitra, Boxin Zhao	2025	0
3	Liquid Printing in Nanochitin Suspensions: Interfacial Nanoparticle Assembly Toward Volumetric Elements, Organic Electronics and Core–Shell Filaments Small Methods ·Mahyar Panahi‐Sarmad, Ahmadreza Ghaffarkhah, Lukas Bauman, Amin Babaei‐Ghazvini, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Bishnu Acharya, Boxin Zhao, Mohammad Arjmand, Feng Jiang, Orlando J. Rojas	2025	1
4	Breaking dielectric dilemma via polymer functionalized perovskite piezocomposite with large current density output Nature Communications ·Asif Abdullah Khan, Avi Mathur, Lu Yin, Mahmoud N. Almadhoun, Jian Yin, Majid Haji Bagheri, Md Fahim Al Fattah, Araz Rajabi‐Abhari, Ning Yan, Boxin Zhao, Vivek Maheshwari, Dayan Ban	2024	6
5	Solvent-free urethane-based prepolymer as a versatile underwater adhesive material Chemical Engineering Journal ·Lu Yin, Aleksander Cholewinski, Boxin Zhao	2024	13
6	Profiling contact ridge of soft substrates with metallic thin films using a novel interference technique Surfaces and Interfaces ·Fan Zhao, Surjyasish Mitra, (unknown), A-Reum Kim, Minmin Xu, Jianlin Yao, Sushanta K. Mitra, Boxin Zhao	2024	2
7	Rapid Spreading of Yield-Stress Liquids Langmuir ·Surjyasish Mitra, (unknown), A‐Reum Kim, Boxin Zhao, Sushanta K. Mitra	2024	1
8	Flexible hydrogels connecting adhesion and wetting Soft Matter ·A-Reum Kim, Surjyasish Mitra, (unknown), Sudip Shyam, Boxin Zhao, Sushanta K. Mitra	2024	7
9	Covalent Carbide Interconnects Enable Robust Interfaces and Thin SEI for Graphite Anode Stability under Extreme Fast Charging Advanced Science ·Yverick Rangom, Oleksii Sherepenko, Ahad Shafiee, Alek Cholewinski, Kiran Gundegowda Kalligowdanadoddi, Bersu Baştuğ Azer, Parisa Jafarzadeh, Boxin Zhao, E. Biro, Holger Kleinke, Michael A. Pope	2024	2
10	Gain improvement of conformal circularly polarized Fabry-Perot resonator antenna based on metasurface AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications ·Peng Xie, Yao Liu, Xiaolin Zhao, Boxin Zhao	2024	2
11	Multi-thermo responsive double network composite hydrogel for 3D printing medical hydrogel mask Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Lukas Bauman, Boxin Zhao	2023	22
12	Rippling Colloidal Polyelectrolyte Complex for Customized Fingerprints with High Tactile Perception Small ·Pengxiang Si, Jihua Zou, Yun Wu, Zhu Long, Manyou Sun, Aleksander Cholewinski, Guozhi Huang, Boxin Zhao, Dan Zhang	2023	1
13	The Determination of Polymyxin B in Critically Ill Patients by the HPLC-MS/MS Method International Journal of Analytical Chemistry ·Yirong Wang, Jingchun Chen, Jinpan Du, Liming Lei, Boxin Zhao, Yunpeng Bai, Dong Chen, Xipei Wang, Chunbo Chen	2023	2
14	Determining effective refractive index and elasticity of nanoscale metal - thin, soft polymer bilayers using interference signatures of a glass probe Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects ·Fan Zhao, Surjyasish Mitra, Surjyasish Mitra, A-Reum Kim, Minmin Xu, Jianlin Yao, Sushanta K. Mitra, Boxin Zhao	2023	4
15	The volume regulated anion channel VRAC regulates NLRP3 inflammasome by modulating itaconate efflux and mitochondria function Pharmacological Research ·Xiaoyan Wu, Xin Yi, Boxin Zhao, Yuanxing Zhi, Ziwei Xu, Ying Cao, Xiong Cao, Jianxin Pang, Ken Kin Lam Yung, Shiqing Zhang, Shuwen Liu, Pingzheng Zhou	2023	21
16	The effect of miR-223-3p on endothelial cells in coronary artery disease In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal ·Boxin Zhao, Yunhui Zang, Lin Gui, Yingyu Xiang, Zhiyong Zhang, Xueyuan Sun, Jingyao Fan, Lijuan Huang	2023	0
17	Imparting conformational memory for material adhesion Materials Horizons ·Fut K. Yang, Aleksander Cholewinski, John F. Honek, Wei Wei, Luzhu Xu, Wei Zhang, Michael A. Pope, Boxin Zhao	2021	0
18	Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications Chemical Society Reviews ·Wei Zhang, Ruixing Wang, ZhengMing Sun, Xiangwei Zhu, Qiang Zhao, Tengfei Zhang, Aleksander Cholewinski, Fut K. Yang, Boxin Zhao, Rattapol Pinnaratip, Pegah Kord Forooshani, Bruce P. Lee Hit paper breakdown →	2020	745
19	A hybrid material that reversibly switches between two stable solid states Nature Materials ·Fut K. Yang, Aleksander Cholewinski, Yu Li, Geoffrey Rivers, Boxin Zhao	2019	73
20	Curing Characteristics and the Performance and Durability of Epoxy Asphalts Iswandaru Widyatmoko, Boxin Zhao, Rc Elliott, W. B. Lloyd	2006	9

About Boxin Zhao

Boxin Zhao is a scholar working on Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Polymers and Plastics, Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, having authored 174 papers that have together received 6.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (50 papers), Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (43 papers), Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (30 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers), Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (19 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (15 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers) and Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (1.5k citations), Polymers and Plastics (1.3k citations), Biomaterials (1.1k citations), Molecular Medicine (352 citations) and Mechanics of Materials (1.6k citations). Boxin Zhao has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Fut K. Yang, Hamed Shahsavan, Aleksander Cholewinski, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Hongbo Zeng, Zihe Pan, Yu Tian, ZhengMing Sun, Noshir S. Pesika and Kellar Autumn. Their work appears in journals such as Langmuir, Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics, Soft Matter, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Macromolecular Materials and Engineering.

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