Daniel J. Preston

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Preston is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Preston has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Preston's work include Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (24 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (15 papers). Daniel J. Preston is often cited by papers focused on Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (24 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (15 papers). Daniel J. Preston collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Daniel J. Preston's co-authors include Evelyn N. Wang, Nenad Miljkovic, George M. Whitesides, Ryan Enright, Philipp Rothemund, Zhigang Suo, Zhengmao Lu, Markus P. Nemitz, Jing Kong and Youngsup Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Preston

99 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

A soft, bistable valve for autonomous control of soft actuators

2018 401 citations Philipp Rothemund, Daniel J. Preston et al. Science Robotics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel J. Preston United States	30	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	781	676	105	3.6k
Liwen Zhang China	26	1.2k 0.8×	564 0.4×	2.0k 1.7×	829 1.1×	647 1.0×	75	3.2k
Tom N. Krupenkin United States	19	1.3k 0.9×	934 0.7×	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.6×	840 1.2×	40	3.6k
Jiaqian Li China	25	851 0.5×	346 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	612 0.8×	563 0.8×	115	2.7k
Hao Wu China	21	863 0.6×	427 0.3×	636 0.5×	377 0.5×	243 0.4×	112	1.9k
Sung Hoon Kang United States	34	3.2k 2.1×	2.6k 2.1×	3.1k 2.7×	1.4k 1.8×	970 1.4×	96	8.0k
Zhichao Dong China	47	2.0k 1.3×	876 0.7×	3.6k 3.1×	1.7k 2.1×	1.6k 2.3×	137	6.8k
Pengyu Lv China	26	794 0.5×	308 0.2×	945 0.8×	632 0.8×	833 1.2×	88	2.2k
Chuan-Hua Chen United States	28	1.9k 1.2×	601 0.5×	2.8k 2.5×	2.1k 2.6×	2.2k 3.2×	54	5.1k
Konrad Rykaczewski United States	32	1.2k 0.8×	542 0.4×	2.4k 2.1×	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	103	4.0k
Elmar Bonaccurso Germany	38	1.9k 1.2×	618 0.5×	2.2k 1.9×	1.5k 1.9×	1.7k 2.6×	120	5.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Preston, Daniel J., et al.. (2024). A review and outlook on osmotically driven heat pipes for passive thermal transport. Applied Thermal Engineering. 248. 123097–123097.

Liu, Zhen, et al.. (2024). Adhesion force analysis for prevention of particle resuspension in multiplexed inertial coalescence filters. Aerosol Science and Technology. 58(3). 276–287.

Rajappan, Anoop, et al.. (2024). Embedded Fluidic Sensing and Control with Soft Open‐Cell Foams. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(41). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Mitigating Contamination with Nanostructure-Enabled Ultraclean Storage. Nano Letters. 23(14). 6315–6322. 8 indexed citations

Ye, Kai, Te Faye Yap, Anoop Rajappan, et al.. (2023). Rapid In Situ Thermal Decontamination of Wearable Composite Textile Materials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(37). 44521–44532. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Haihui Joy, Markus P. Nemitz, Samuel E. Root, et al.. (2022). Programmable soft valves for digital and analog control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(40). e2205922119–e2205922119. 59 indexed citations

Abrahamsson, Christoffer, Samuel E. Root, Won‐Kyu Lee, et al.. (2022). Tube-Balloon Logic for the Exploration of Fluidic Control Elements. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 5483–5488. 14 indexed citations

Rajappan, Anoop, Barclay Jumet, Zhen Liu, et al.. (2022). Logic-enabled textiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(35). e2202118119–e2202118119. 67 indexed citations

Rajappan, Anoop, Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu, et al.. (2022). A wearable textile-based pneumatic energy harvesting system for assistive robotics. Science Advances. 8(34). eabo2418–eabo2418. 65 indexed citations

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Yap, Te Faye, et al.. (2022). Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready‐to‐Use Actuators. Advanced Science. 9(29). e2201174–e2201174. 18 indexed citations

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Underwood, Thomas C., Mohammed E. Sayed, Haihui Joy Jiang, et al.. (2022). The Soft Compiler: A Web-Based Tool for the Design of Modular Pneumatic Circuits for Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(3). 6060–6066. 14 indexed citations

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Wilke, Kyle L., Dion S. Antao, Samuel Cruz, et al.. (2020). Polymer Infused Porous Surfaces for Robust, Thermally Conductive, Self-Healing Coatings for Dropwise Condensation. ACS Nano. 14(11). 14878–14886. 57 indexed citations

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Antao, Dion S., Kyle L. Wilke, Jean Sack, et al.. (2020). Jumping droplet condensation in internal convective vapor flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 163. 120398–120398. 13 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel J., Haihui Joy Jiang, Vanessa Sanchez, et al.. (2019). A soft ring oscillator. Science Robotics. 4(31). 172 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel J., Kyle L. Wilke, Zhengmao Lu, et al.. (2018). Gravitationally Driven Wicking for Enhanced Condensation Heat Transfer. Langmuir. 34(15). 4658–4664. 45 indexed citations

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Wilke, Kyle L., Daniel J. Preston, Zhengmao Lu, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2018). Toward Condensation-Resistant Omniphobic Surfaces. ACS Nano. 12(11). 11013–11021. 72 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel J., Zhengmao Lu, Youngsup Song, et al.. (2018). Heat Transfer Enhancement During Water and Hydrocarbon Condensation on Lubricant Infused Surfaces. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 540–540. 119 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhengmao, et al.. (2017). An Ultrathin Nanoporous Membrane Evaporator. Nano Letters. 17(10). 6217–6220. 72 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhengmao, Daniel J. Preston, Dion S. Antao, Yangying Zhu, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2017). Coexistence of Pinning and Moving on a Contact Line. Langmuir. 33(36). 8970–8975. 23 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel J., Youngsup Song, Zhengmao Lu, Dion S. Antao, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2017). Design of Lubricant Infused Surfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(48). 42383–42392. 157 indexed citations

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