Dominic Vella

5.8k total citations
132 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Dominic Vella is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Dominic Vella has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 23 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Dominic Vella's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (41 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (23 papers) and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (22 papers). Dominic Vella is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (41 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (23 papers) and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (22 papers). Dominic Vella collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Dominic Vella's co-authors include L. Mahadevan, Arezki Boudaoud, Michael Gomez, Derek E. Moulton, Alain Goriely, Ashkan Vaziri, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Benny Davidovitch, Pascale Aussillous and Pietro Cicuta and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Dominic Vella

129 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dominic Vella United Kingdom 39 1.7k 1.2k 948 845 779 132 4.5k
Enrique Cerda Chile 24 2.5k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 639 0.7× 557 0.7× 382 0.5× 47 4.1k
Robert W. Style Switzerland 31 625 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 691 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 606 0.8× 79 3.9k
Élie Raphaël France 38 577 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 2.2k 2.3× 1.3k 1.6× 1.9k 2.5× 149 5.5k
Joel L. Plawsky United States 34 1.1k 0.7× 761 0.6× 915 1.0× 520 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 211 4.0k
Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes France 22 722 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 1.5k 1.9× 57 5.1k
Joseph R. Michael United States 35 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 2.7k 2.9× 909 1.1× 462 0.6× 191 7.0k
Ralf Seemann Germany 38 941 0.6× 2.6k 2.1× 1.8k 1.9× 1.1k 1.3× 2.5k 3.2× 117 6.4k
Roger T. Bonnecaze United States 38 594 0.4× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 256 0.3× 888 1.1× 154 5.1k
Daniel J. Preston United States 30 1.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 383 0.4× 1.2k 1.4× 676 0.9× 105 3.6k
Bruno Andreotti France 46 542 0.3× 826 0.7× 865 0.9× 1.6k 1.9× 3.1k 4.0× 117 7.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dominic Vella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dominic Vella

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dominic Vella. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dominic Vella 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 Dominic Vella. Dominic Vella 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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Allain, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2025). Mechanics of pressurized cellular sheets. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 22(223). 20240653–20240653. 3 indexed citations
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Guo, Kexin, Mingchao Liu, Dominic Vella, Subra Suresh, & K. Jimmy Hsia. (2024). Dehydration-induced corrugated folding in Rhapis excelsa plant leaves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2320259121–e2320259121. 12 indexed citations
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Huang, Weicheng, Yu Tian, Dominic Vella, K. Jimmy Hsia, & Mingchao Liu. (2024). Exploiting dynamic bifurcation in elastic ribbons for mode skipping and selection. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 190. 105721–105721. 14 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2024). Mechanics of elliptical JKR-type adhesive contact. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 58(8). 85301–85301.
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Box, Finn, et al.. (2023). Delamination from an adhesive sphere: Curvature-induced dewetting versus buckling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(12). e2212290120–e2212290120. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuzhe, Mingchao Liu, Marianne Alleyne, et al.. (2023). Insect-scale jumping robots enabled by a dynamic buckling cascade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(5). e2210651120–e2210651120. 48 indexed citations
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Laaksonen, Päivi, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, et al.. (2023). Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets: Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation. Physical Review Letters. 130(21). 218202–218202. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingchao, Michael Gomez, & Dominic Vella. (2021). Delayed bifurcation in elastic snap-through instabilities. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 151. 104386–104386. 39 indexed citations
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Xu, Yufan, Yi Shen, Thomas C. T. Michaels, et al.. (2021). Deformable and Robust Core–Shell Protein Microcapsules Templated by Liquid–Liquid Phase‐Separated Microdroplets. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(19). 14 indexed citations
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Taffetani, Matteo & Dominic Vella. (2017). Regimes of wrinkling in pressurized elastic shells. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 375(2093). 20160330–20160330. 25 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2016). The magneto-elastica: From self-buckling to self-assembly. 37 indexed citations
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Saxton, Matthew, J. P. Whiteley, Dominic Vella, & José M. Oliver. (2016). On thin evaporating drops: When is the -law valid?. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 792. 134–167. 23 indexed citations
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Paulsen, Joseph D., Evan Hohlfeld, Hunter King, et al.. (2016). Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(5). 1144–1149. 85 indexed citations
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Lee, Alpha A., Dominic Vella, & Alain Goriely. (2015). Electrokinetic Transport in Ionic Liquids. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Lister, John R., et al.. (2014). A fluid-mechanical model of elastocapillary coalescence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 745. 621–646. 26 indexed citations
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Wagner, Till J. W. & Dominic Vella. (2013). Switch on, switch off: stiction in nanoelectromechanical switches. Nanotechnology. 24(27). 275501–275501. 12 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2006). 90.02 Calculating exact cycle lengths in the generalised Fibonacci sequence modulo p. The Mathematical Gazette. 90(517). 70–77. 2 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2005). 89.29 An extension of the fundamental theorem on right-angled triangles. The Mathematical Gazette. 89(515). 237–244. 2 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2004). 88.52 Some properties of finite Fibonacci sequences. The Mathematical Gazette. 88(513). 494–500. 2 indexed citations
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Vella, Dominic, et al.. (2001). 85.28 More properties of Pythagorean triples. The Mathematical Gazette. 85(503). 275–278. 1 indexed citations

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