Daniel Ahmed

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel Ahmed is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Ahmed has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 28 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Daniel Ahmed's work include Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (40 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (28 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (19 papers). Daniel Ahmed is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (40 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (28 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (19 papers). Daniel Ahmed collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Daniel Ahmed's co-authors include Tony Jun Huang, Xiaole Mao, Jinjie Shi, Bradley J. Nelson, Nitesh Nama, Bala Krishna Juluri, Sz‐Chin Steven Lin, Salvador Pané, Adem Özçelik and Ashley A. Colletti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Ahmed

58 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Acoustic tweezers: patterning cells and microparticles using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

2009 596 citations Daniel Ahmed, Tony Jun Huang et al. Lab on a Chip profile →
Rotational manipulation of single cells and organisms using acoustic waves

2016 392 citations Daniel Ahmed, Adem Özçelik et al. Nature Communications profile →
Magnetic cilia carpets with programmable metachronal waves

2020 259 citations Hongri Gu, Quentin Boehler et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Ahmed Switzerland	33	4.3k	1.9k	1.0k	880	441	58	5.0k
Tian Qiu Germany	25	2.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	292 0.3×	338 0.8×	61	4.0k
Aaron T. Ohta United States	29	3.0k 0.7×	594 0.3×	616 0.6×	2.1k 2.3×	794 1.8×	140	4.1k
Nitesh Nama United States	30	3.8k 0.9×	732 0.4×	388 0.4×	998 1.1×	336 0.8×	47	4.2k
Liqiang Ren United States	26	2.3k 0.5×	682 0.4×	279 0.3×	743 0.8×	296 0.7×	42	2.8k
Tianlong Li China	32	2.7k 0.6×	2.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	296 0.3×	198 0.4×	117	3.9k
Randall M. Erb United States	24	2.2k 0.5×	702 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	899 1.0×	193 0.4×	50	4.3k
Longqiu Li China	33	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	506 0.6×	274 0.6×	149	3.8k
Andrew G. Mark Germany	24	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	382 0.4×	736 1.7×	62	4.2k
Adem Özçelik Türkiye	20	2.4k 0.6×	414 0.2×	210 0.2×	771 0.9×	348 0.8×	39	2.9k
Zhiguang Wu China	42	5.9k 1.4×	5.6k 3.0×	2.1k 2.0×	541 0.6×	345 0.8×	79	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Ahmed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Ahmed

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Ahmed

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All Works

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Gheinani, Ali Hashemi, et al.. (2025). Ultrasound-activated cilia for biofilm control in indwelling medical devices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(18). e2418938122–e2418938122. 3 indexed citations

Monastyrskaya, Katia, et al.. (2025). Real-time color flow mapping of ultrasound microrobots. Science Advances. 11(29). eadt8887–eadt8887. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Zhan, Zhiyuan Zhang, Stephan C. F. Neuhauss, et al.. (2025). Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles. Nature. 646(8087). 1096–1104. 1 indexed citations

Agrawal, Prajwal, et al.. (2024). SonoPrint: Acoustically Assisted Volumetric 3D Printing for Composites. Advanced Materials. 36(40). e2408374–e2408374. 18 indexed citations

Ahmed, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Soft Acoustic End-effector. 12772–12778. 1 indexed citations

Nama, Nitesh, et al.. (2023). Steerable acoustically powered starfish-inspired microrobot. Nanoscale. 16(3). 1125–1134. 18 indexed citations

Ahmed, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Ultrasound Microrobots with Reinforcement Learning. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(10). 30 indexed citations

Ahmed, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Ultrasound‐Controlled Swarmbots Under Physiological Flow Conditions. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(26). 31 indexed citations

Huwyler, Jörg, et al.. (2022). In vivo acoustic manipulation of microparticles in zebrafish embryos. Science Advances. 8(12). eabm2785–eabm2785. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhiyuan, Alexander Sukhov, Jens Harting, Paolo Malgaretti, & Daniel Ahmed. (2022). Rolling microswarms along acoustic virtual walls. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7347–7347. 27 indexed citations

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Läubli, Nino F., Hannes Vogler, Gabriella Mosca, et al.. (2021). 3D mechanical characterization of single cells and small organisms using acoustic manipulation and force microscopy. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2583–2583. 58 indexed citations

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Nama, Nitesh, et al.. (2021). Ultrasound-activated ciliary bands for microrobotic systems inspired by starfish. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6455–6455. 107 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Bioinspired acousto-magnetic microswarm robots with upstream motility. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(2). 116–124. 124 indexed citations

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Alcantara, Carlos, et al.. (2020). Mechanically interlocked 3D multi-material micromachines. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5957–5957. 53 indexed citations

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Gu, Hongri, Quentin Boehler, Haoyang Cui, et al.. (2020). Magnetic cilia carpets with programmable metachronal waves. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2637–2637. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahmed, Daniel, Mengqian Lu, Amir Nourhani, et al.. (2015). Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 9744–9744. 194 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Daniel, Hari S. Muddana, Mengqian Lu, et al.. (2014). Acoustofluidic Chemical Waveform Generator and Switch. Analytical Chemistry. 86(23). 11803–11810. 45 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Daniel, Chung Yu Chan, Hari S. Muddana, et al.. (2012). Tunable, pulsatile chemical gradient generation via acoustically driven oscillating bubbles. Lab on a Chip. 13(3). 328–331. 87 indexed citations

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Cheng, An, Payal Khanna, Chunfeng Zhang, et al.. (2011). Site-specific sonoporation of human melanoma cells at the cellular level using high lateral-resolution ultrasonic micro-transducer arrays. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 27(1). 25–33. 13 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yuebing, Bala Krishna Juluri, Daniel Ahmed, et al.. (2010). Dynamic Tuning of Plasmon–Exciton Coupling in Arrays of Nanodisk–J‐aggregate Complexes. Advanced Materials. 22(32). 3603–3607. 74 indexed citations

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