Federico Lancia

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Federico Lancia is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Lancia has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 7 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Federico Lancia's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (8 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (7 papers). Federico Lancia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (11 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (8 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (7 papers). Federico Lancia collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and China. Federico Lancia's co-authors include Nathalie Katsonis, Alexander Ryabchun, Supitchaya Iamsaard, Quan Li, Ivan Aprahamian, Stephen P. Fletcher, Tibor Kudernác, Benjamin Matt, Sarah J. Aßhoff and Etienne Brasselet and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Federico Lancia

20 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Life-like motion driven by artificial molecular machines

2019 280 citations Federico Lancia, Alexander Ryabchun et al. Nature Reviews Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federico Lancia Netherlands	16	492	441	391	294	292	20	1.2k
Alexander Ryabchun Netherlands	22	702 1.4×	440 1.0×	432 1.1×	267 0.9×	314 1.1×	54	1.6k
Sarah J. Aßhoff Netherlands	9	387 0.8×	222 0.5×	619 1.6×	259 0.9×	450 1.5×	11	1.1k
Christopher Knie Germany	7	587 1.2×	172 0.4×	324 0.8×	151 0.5×	277 0.9×	9	970
С.А. Чижик Russia	13	927 1.9×	267 0.6×	212 0.5×	226 0.8×	216 0.7×	38	1.3k
Karla G. Gutierrez‐Cuevas United States	13	445 0.9×	235 0.5×	238 0.6×	120 0.4×	185 0.6×	14	994
Chenming Xue United States	20	779 1.6×	512 1.2×	151 0.4×	304 1.0×	221 0.8×	29	1.6k
Emi Uchida Japan	16	707 1.4×	265 0.6×	222 0.6×	151 0.5×	149 0.5×	31	1.1k
Aysenur Iscen United States	11	293 0.6×	197 0.4×	168 0.4×	243 0.8×	190 0.7×	14	731
Shizuka Takami Japan	9	1.2k 2.4×	508 1.2×	157 0.4×	222 0.8×	165 0.6×	21	1.5k
Daigo Miyajima Japan	20	1.2k 2.5×	1.3k 3.0×	326 0.8×	952 3.2×	408 1.4×	42	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Lancia

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lancia, Federico, et al.. (2025). ATP‐Regulated Formation of Transient Peptide Amphiphiles Superstructures. Small. 21(13). e2410850–e2410850. 1 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, & Nathalie Katsonis. (2023). Light‐Responsive Springs from Electropatterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(12). 7 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, Jiawen Chen, et al.. (2023). Macroscopic motion from synchronized molecular power strokes. Chem. 9(12). 3544–3554. 14 indexed citations

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Katsonis, Nathalie, et al.. (2022). Motile behaviour of droplets in lipid systems. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 6(6). 377–388. 26 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Acceleration of lipid reproduction by emergence of microscopic motion. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2959–2959. 33 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, & Nathalie Katsonis. (2021). Light-Fueled Nanoscale Surface Waving in Chiral Liquid Crystal Networks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(3). 4777–4784. 16 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, Federico Lancia, Jiawen Chen, et al.. (2020). Helix Inversion Controlled by Molecular Motors in Multistate Liquid Crystals. Advanced Materials. 32(47). e2004420–e2004420. 72 indexed citations

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Katsonis, Nathalie, Federico Lancia, David A. Leigh, et al.. (2020). Knotting a molecular strand can invert macroscopic effects of chirality. Nature Chemistry. 12(10). 939–944. 56 indexed citations

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Lancia, Federico, et al.. (2020). Reactive mesogens for ultraviolet-transparent liquid crystal polymer networks. Liquid Crystals. 47(11). 1569–1581. 3 indexed citations

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Lancia, Federico, Takaki Yamamoto, Alexander Ryabchun, et al.. (2019). Reorientation behavior in the helical motility of light-responsive spiral droplets. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5238–5238. 60 indexed citations

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Lancia, Federico, et al.. (2019). Mechanical adaptability of artificial muscles from nanoscale molecular action. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4819–4819. 71 indexed citations

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Lancia, Federico, Alexander Ryabchun, & Nathalie Katsonis. (2019). Life-like motion driven by artificial molecular machines. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 3(9). 536–551. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ryabchun, Alexander, Quan Li, Federico Lancia, Ivan Aprahamian, & Nathalie Katsonis. (2019). Shape-Persistent Actuators from Hydrazone Photoswitches. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(3). 1196–1200. 167 indexed citations

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Orlova, Tetiana, Federico Lancia, Charles Loussert, et al.. (2018). Revolving supramolecular chiral structures powered by light in nanomotor-doped liquid crystals. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(4). 304–308. 106 indexed citations

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Aßhoff, Sarah J., Federico Lancia, Supitchaya Iamsaard, et al.. (2017). High‐Power Actuation from Molecular Photoswitches in Enantiomerically Paired Soft Springs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(12). 3261–3265. 115 indexed citations

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Ryabchun, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Humidity-responsive actuators from integrating liquid crystal networks in an orienting scaffold. Soft Matter. 13(44). 8070–8075. 43 indexed citations

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Kortekaas, Luuk, et al.. (2017). Reversible Charge Trapping in Bis-Carbazole-Diimide Redox Polymers with Complete Luminescence Quenching Enabling Nondestructive Read-Out by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(27). 14688–14702. 45 indexed citations

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Aßhoff, Sarah J., Federico Lancia, Supitchaya Iamsaard, et al.. (2017). High‐Power Actuation from Molecular Photoswitches in Enantiomerically Paired Soft Springs. Angewandte Chemie. 129(12). 3309–3313. 26 indexed citations

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Iamsaard, Supitchaya, et al.. (2016). Preparation of biomimetic photoresponsive polymer springs. Nature Protocols. 11(10). 1788–1797. 49 indexed citations

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Bassetti, Mauro, Samuele Ciceri, Federico Lancia, & Chiara Pasquini. (2014). Hydration of aromatic terminal alkynes catalyzed by iron(III) sulfate hydrate under chlorine-free conditions. Tetrahedron Letters. 55(9). 1608–1612. 34 indexed citations

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