Byoungkwon An

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

About

Byoungkwon An is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Byoungkwon An has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Byoungkwon An's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (13 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers). Byoungkwon An is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (13 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers). Byoungkwon An collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Byoungkwon An's co-authors include Daniela Rus, Erik D. Demaine, Robert J. Wood, Nadia M. Benbernou, Hiroto Tanaka, Elliot W. Hawkes, Cynthia Sung, Ryuma Niiyama, Sangbae Kim and Xu Andy Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Byoungkwon An

19 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Programmable matter by folding 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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. Programmable matter by folding
    2010 538 citations Elliot W. Hawkes, Byoungkwon An et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Byoungkwon An United States 14 967 843 289 194 168 20 1.6k
Douglas P. Holmes United States 20 1.0k 1.1× 790 0.9× 157 0.5× 22 0.1× 181 1.1× 53 1.6k
Jiyun Kim South Korea 23 397 0.4× 602 0.7× 139 0.5× 15 0.1× 160 1.0× 49 1.3k
Philip R. Buskohl United States 22 1.0k 1.1× 774 0.9× 63 0.2× 29 0.1× 173 1.0× 72 1.7k
ChangKyu Yoon United States 17 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.5× 188 0.7× 14 0.1× 645 3.8× 33 1.8k
Pei‐Chun Lin Taiwan 24 1.4k 1.4× 2.2k 2.6× 50 0.2× 25 0.1× 92 0.5× 137 3.0k
Kenjiro Takemura Japan 25 323 0.3× 1.2k 1.5× 140 0.5× 37 0.2× 142 0.8× 130 1.7k
Antoine Ferreira France 28 782 0.8× 1.5k 1.8× 91 0.3× 41 0.2× 1.2k 6.9× 124 2.4k
Dylan Shah United States 17 715 0.7× 1.4k 1.7× 12 0.0× 70 0.4× 231 1.4× 33 1.8k
Jiaqi Liu China 21 547 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 23 0.1× 37 0.2× 147 0.9× 68 1.7k
Andrew T. Conn United Kingdom 24 685 0.7× 1.4k 1.6× 16 0.1× 24 0.1× 413 2.5× 101 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Byoungkwon An

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Fields of papers citing papers by Byoungkwon An

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Byoungkwon An

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Byoungkwon An. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Byoungkwon An based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Byoungkwon An. Byoungkwon An is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Wen, Silian Chen, Byoungkwon An, et al.. (2019). Complex wireframe DNA nanostructures from simple building blocks. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1067–1067. 83 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Shuhei Miyashita, Aaron Ong, et al.. (2018). An End-to-End Approach to Self-Folding Origami Structures. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 34(6). 1409–1424. 28 indexed citations
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Wang, Guanyun, Tingyu Cheng, Youngwook Do, et al.. (2018). Printed Paper Actuator. 1–12. 87 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Ye Tao, Jianzhe Gu, et al.. (2018). Thermorph. 1–12. 125 indexed citations
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Tao, Ye, Jianzhe Gu, Byoungkwon An, et al.. (2018). Demonstrating Thermorph. 1–4. 12 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Shuhei Miyashita, Aaron Ong, et al.. (2018). An End-to-End Approach to Self-Folding Origami Structures by Uniform Heat. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Guanyun, Tingyu Cheng, Youngwook Do, et al.. (2018). Showcasing Printed Paper Actuator. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Guanyun, Youngwook Do, Tingyu Cheng, et al.. (2018). Demonstrating Printed Paper Actuator. 1–4. 19 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, & Jason S. Ku. (2017). Computing 3SAT on a Fold-and-Cut Machine.. Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. 208–213.
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Han, Dongran, Xiaodong Qi, Cameron Myhrvold, et al.. (2017). Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami. Science. 358(6369). 217 indexed citations
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Miyashita, Shuhei, et al.. (2015). Folding Angle Regulation by Curved Crease Design for Self-Assembling Origami Propellers. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. 7(2). 17 indexed citations
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Niiyama, Ryuma, Xu Andy Sun, Cynthia Sung, et al.. (2015). Pouch Motors: Printable Soft Actuators Integrated with Computational Design. Soft Robotics. 2(2). 59–70. 248 indexed citations
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Khosla, Aditya, Byoungkwon An, Joseph J. Lim, & Antonio Torralba. (2014). Looking Beyond the Visible Scene. 3361. 3710–3717. 46 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Shuhei Miyashita, Michael T. Tolley, et al.. (2014). An end-to-end approach to making self-folded 3D surface shapes by uniform heating. 1466–1473. 43 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon & Daniela Rus. (2013). Designing and programming self-folding sheets. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 62(7). 976–1001. 25 indexed citations
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Paik, Jamie, Byoungkwon An, Daniela Rus, & Robert J. Wood. (2012). Robotic Origamis: Self-morphing Modular Robot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 27 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon & Daniela Rus. (2012). Programming and controlling self-folding robots. 3299–3306. 13 indexed citations
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An, Byoungkwon, Nadia M. Benbernou, Erik D. Demaine, & Daniela Rus. (2011). Planning to fold multiple objects from a single self-folding sheet. Robotica. 29(1). 87–102. 32 indexed citations
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Hawkes, Elliot W., Byoungkwon An, Nadia M. Benbernou, et al.. (2010). Programmable matter by folding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(28). 12441–12445. 538 indexed citations breakdown →
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An, Byoungkwon & D. Rus. (2010). Making shapes from modules by magnification. 22. 1140–1145. 2 indexed citations

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