Ehsan Hajiesmaili

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ehsan Hajiesmaili is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ehsan Hajiesmaili has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ehsan Hajiesmaili's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (8 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (6 papers). Ehsan Hajiesmaili is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (8 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (6 papers). Ehsan Hajiesmaili collaborates with scholars based in United States and Iran. Ehsan Hajiesmaili's co-authors include David R. Clarke, Jennifer A. Lewis, Robert J. Wood, Mihai Duduta, Huichan Zhao, Alex Chortos, J. Howard Mueller, Jie Mao, Natalie Larson and Eesha Khare and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ehsan Hajiesmaili

10 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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.

Realizing the potential of dielectric elastomer artificial muscles

2019 340 citations Mihai Duduta, Ehsan Hajiesmaili et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ehsan Hajiesmaili United States	10	918	485	217	118	107	11	1.1k
Rainer Kaltseis Austria	11	966 1.1×	362 0.7×	200 0.9×	173 1.5×	158 1.5×	13	1.1k
David McCoul China	19	1.1k 1.2×	285 0.6×	220 1.0×	203 1.7×	176 1.6×	31	1.2k
Todd Gisby New Zealand	15	1.3k 1.4×	355 0.7×	382 1.8×	210 1.8×	93 0.9×	25	1.4k
Dongjia Yan China	14	552 0.6×	393 0.8×	154 0.7×	101 0.9×	103 1.0×	24	902
Daniela Wirthl Austria	7	603 0.7×	325 0.7×	99 0.5×	49 0.4×	159 1.5×	9	834
Chongjing Cao China	18	1.0k 1.1×	282 0.6×	116 0.5×	181 1.5×	142 1.3×	47	1.1k
Yoan Civet Switzerland	10	755 0.8×	355 0.7×	131 0.6×	115 1.0×	36 0.3×	80	913
Hongda Lu Australia	14	525 0.6×	236 0.5×	100 0.5×	143 1.2×	172 1.6×	26	797
Desheng Yao United States	6	659 0.7×	489 1.0×	148 0.7×	113 1.0×	129 1.2×	12	1.1k

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan, et al.. (2026). Deformation Driven Suction Cups: A Mechanics‐Based Approach to Wearable Electronics. Advanced Science. e20417–e20417.

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan & David R. Clarke. (2022). Optically addressable dielectric elastomer actuator arrays using embedded percolative networks of zinc oxide nanowires. Materials Horizons. 9(12). 3110–3117. 9 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan, Natalie Larson, Jennifer A. Lewis, & David R. Clarke. (2022). Programmed shape-morphing into complex target shapes using architected dielectric elastomer actuators. Science Advances. 8(28). eabn9198–eabn9198. 62 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan & David R. Clarke. (2021). Dielectric elastomer actuators. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(15). 147 indexed citations

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Chortos, Alex, Jie Mao, J. Howard Mueller, et al.. (2021). Printing Reconfigurable Bundles of Dielectric Elastomer Fibers. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(22). 99 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan & David R. Clarke. (2019). Reconfigurable shape-morphing dielectric elastomers using spatially varying electric fields. Nature Communications. 10(1). 183–183. 152 indexed citations

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Duduta, Mihai, Ehsan Hajiesmaili, Huichan Zhao, Robert J. Wood, & David R. Clarke. (2019). Realizing the potential of dielectric elastomer artificial muscles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(7). 2476–2481. 340 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chortos, Alex, et al.. (2019). 3D Printing of Interdigitated Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(1). 164 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan, Eesha Khare, Alex Chortos, Jennifer A. Lewis, & David R. Clarke. (2019). Voltage-controlled morphing of dielectric elastomer circular sheets into conical surfaces. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 30. 100504–100504. 37 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan, et al.. (2013). Nonlinear analysis of coiled carbon nanotubes using the molecular dynamics finite element method. Materials Science and Engineering A. 582. 225–234. 24 indexed citations

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Hajiesmaili, Ehsan, et al.. (2012). Molecular structural mechanics applied to coiled carbon nanotubes. Computational Materials Science. 55. 344–349. 31 indexed citations

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