Ellen Roels

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 830 citations indexed

About

Ellen Roels is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Roels has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 830 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 6 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ellen Roels's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (10 papers). Ellen Roels is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (12 papers) and Polymer composites and self-healing (10 papers). Ellen Roels collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Ellen Roels's co-authors include Bram Vanderborght, Seppe Terryn, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Frank Clemens, Fumiya Iida, Sophie Norvez, Anton W. Bosman, Pasquale Ferrentino and Thomas George Thuruthel and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Roels

26 papers receiving 818 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.

A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

2021 241 citations Seppe Terryn, Ellen Roels et al. Materials Today profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ellen Roels Belgium	14	530	407	235	140	97	27	830
Antonia Georgopoulou Switzerland	14	622 1.2×	311 0.8×	148 0.6×	56 0.4×	54 0.6×	37	812
Matthew Tan Singapore	14	708 1.3×	407 1.0×	308 1.3×	108 0.8×	102 1.1×	28	1.0k
Sang Yup Kim United States	14	471 0.9×	196 0.5×	307 1.3×	38 0.3×	88 0.9×	23	707
Quentin-Arthur Poutrel United Kingdom	10	293 0.6×	361 0.9×	140 0.6×	140 1.0×	93 1.0×	14	643
Seppe Terryn Belgium	18	1.1k 2.0×	670 1.6×	524 2.2×	235 1.7×	145 1.5×	54	1.6k
Zhongcheng Liu China	11	239 0.5×	145 0.4×	247 1.1×	74 0.5×	51 0.5×	33	590
Huijie Song China	8	477 0.9×	596 1.5×	491 2.1×	210 1.5×	140 1.4×	14	966
Ruiqi Jiang China	6	532 1.0×	367 0.9×	540 2.3×	105 0.8×	86 0.9×	9	906
An Xin United States	12	283 0.5×	261 0.6×	165 0.7×	82 0.6×	105 1.1×	23	673
Pasquale Ferrentino Belgium	7	274 0.5×	192 0.5×	126 0.5×	55 0.4×	49 0.5×	12	409

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Roels, Ellen, et al.. (2025). A Standardized Framework for Elastomer Characterization in Soft Robotics. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 8(3).

Roels, Ellen, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght, et al.. (2025). Soft Pneumatic Gripper With Interchangeable Fingertips by Using Reversible Polymers: The GraspBerry, a Raspberry Picking Case Study. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2–10. 1 indexed citations

Roels, Ellen, Seppe Terryn, Alexander Lutz, et al.. (2024). Investigation of the rheological behaviour for improved extrusion-based additive manufacturing of polymer composites based on dissociative dynamic covalent bonds. Additive manufacturing. 91. 104342–104342. 3 indexed citations

Roels, Ellen, Seppe Terryn, Pasquale Ferrentino, et al.. (2023). An Interdisciplinary Tutorial: A Self-Healing Soft Finger with Embedded Sensor. Sensors. 23(2). 811–811. 4 indexed citations

Roels, Ellen, Gilberto Siqueira, J Legrand, et al.. (2023). Printable Polar Silicone Elastomers for Healable Supercapacitive Strain Sensors. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(24). 6 indexed citations

Roels, Ellen, et al.. (2023). Development of an Active Physical Interface for Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Investigation of Soft Pneumatic Actuator Straps for Automatic Enclosure System. Actuators. 12(6). 241–241. 1 indexed citations

Legrand, J, Seppe Terryn, Ellen Roels, & Bram Vanderborght. (2023). Reconfigurable, Multi-Material, Voxel-Based Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(3). 1255–1262. 15 indexed citations

Ferrentino, Pasquale, Ellen Roels, Joost Brancart, et al.. (2023). Finite Element Analysis-Based Soft Robotic Modeling: Simulating a Soft Actuator in SOFA. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 31(3). 97–105. 17 indexed citations

Terryn, Seppe, Ellen Roels, Dražan Jozić, et al.. (2023). Effect of Secondary Particles on Self-Healing and Electromechanical Properties of Polymer Composites Based on Carbon Black and a Diels–Alder Network. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 5(10). 7813–7830. 10 indexed citations

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Roels, Ellen, et al.. (2023). An Engineering Outreach Activity: How to Develop a Tendon-Based Soft Robotic Finger?. IEEE Transactions on Education. 67(1). 100–108. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhanwei, Seppe Terryn, J Legrand, et al.. (2022). Topology optimized multi-material self-healing actuator with reduced out of plane deformation. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 5448–5455. 5 indexed citations

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Brancart, Joost, et al.. (2022). Humins Blending in Thermoreversible Diels–Alder Networks for Stiffness Tuning and Enhanced Healing Performance for Soft Robotics. Polymers. 14(9). 1657–1657. 13 indexed citations

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Terryn, Seppe, et al.. (2022). Learning‐Based Damage Recovery for Healable Soft Electronic Skins. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(12). 17 indexed citations

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Terryn, Seppe, et al.. (2022). Structure–Property Relationships of Self-Healing Polymer Networks Based on Reversible Diels–Alder Chemistry. Macromolecules. 55(13). 5497–5513. 43 indexed citations

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Brancart, Joost, Ellen Roels, Pasquale Ferrentino, et al.. (2022). A Healable Resistive Heater as a Stimuli-Providing System in Self-Healing Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 4574–4581. 25 indexed citations

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Roels, Ellen, Seppe Terryn, Fumiya Iida, et al.. (2021). Processing of Self‐Healing Polymers for Soft Robotics. Advanced Materials. 34(1). e2104798–e2104798. 138 indexed citations

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Terryn, Seppe, Ellen Roels, Joost Brancart, et al.. (2021). A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics. Materials Today. 47. 187–205. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Terryn, Seppe, Joost Brancart, Ellen Roels, Guy Van Assche, & Bram Vanderborght. (2020). Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 27(4). 44–55. 43 indexed citations

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Roels, Ellen, et al.. (2020). Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots. Soft Robotics. 7(6). 711–723. 72 indexed citations

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Roels, Ellen, Seppe Terryn, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, & Bram Vanderborght. (2019). A Multi-Material Self-Healing Soft Gripper. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 316–321. 26 indexed citations

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