Guoying Gu

11.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
170 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Guoying Gu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Guoying Gu has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 76 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 41 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Guoying Gu's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (63 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (58 papers) and Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (39 papers). Guoying Gu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (63 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (58 papers) and Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (39 papers). Guoying Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Guoying Gu's co-authors include Li Zhu, Xiangyang Zhu, Chun‐Yi Su, Jiang Zou, Han Ding, Zequn Shen, Ningbin Zhang, Dong Wang, Xuanhe Zhao and Lisen Ge and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Guoying Gu

165 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

Soft wall-climbing robots 2014 2026 2018 2022 2018 2014 2022 2019 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Soft wall-climbing robots
    2018 555 citations Guoying Gu, Jiang Zou et al. profile →
  2. Modeling and Control of Piezo-Actuated Nanopositioning Stages: A Survey
    2014 497 citations Guoying Gu et al. profile →
  3. High‐Stretchability, Ultralow‐Hysteresis ConductingPolymer Hydrogel Strain Sensors for Soft Machines
    2022 427 citations Ningbin Zhang, Jinhao Li et al. profile →
  4. Fast‐Response, Stiffness‐Tunable Soft Actuator by Hybrid Multimaterial 3D Printing
    2019 425 citations Ningbin Zhang, Ningyuan Ding et al. profile →
  5. 3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces
    2023 392 citations Guoying Gu, Baoyang Lu et al. profile →
  6. A survey on dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robots
    2017 388 citations Guoying Gu, Xiangyang Zhu et al. profile →
  7. A soft neuroprosthetic hand providing simultaneous myoelectric control and tactile feedback
    2021 312 citations Guoying Gu, Ningbin Zhang et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →
  8. Cutaneous Ionogel Mechanoreceptors for Soft Machines, Physiological Sensing, and Amputee Prostheses
    2021 239 citations Xiangyang Zhu, Guoying Gu et al. profile →
  9. 3D-printed PEDOT:PSS for soft robotics
    2023 179 citations Jinhao Li, Jie Cao et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  10. Multimaterial cryogenic printing of three-dimensional soft hydrogel machines
    2025 32 citations Jinhao Li, Jie Cao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Guoying Gu 5.9k 3.5k 2.6k 1.2k 1.1k 170 9.4k
Gürsel Alıcı 8.2k 1.4× 2.6k 0.7× 2.7k 1.0× 1.9k 1.6× 1.4k 1.2× 366 12.5k
Hyouk Ryeol Choi 6.2k 1.1× 1.7k 0.5× 2.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 899 0.8× 376 8.3k
Herbert Shea 9.2k 1.6× 923 0.3× 3.2k 1.2× 2.7k 2.4× 919 0.8× 265 13.3k
Robert F. Shepherd 15.5k 2.6× 2.5k 0.7× 7.3k 2.8× 1.6k 1.4× 1.7k 1.5× 134 18.5k
Kyu‐Jin Cho 6.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 3.9k 1.5× 526 0.5× 458 0.4× 252 9.6k
Michael T. Tolley 11.5k 2.0× 2.3k 0.7× 7.3k 2.8× 582 0.5× 886 0.8× 104 13.8k
Seung‐Bok Choi 3.5k 0.6× 3.5k 1.0× 4.9k 1.9× 1.5k 1.3× 629 0.5× 855 16.0k
Placid M. Ferreira 5.0k 0.8× 1.0k 0.3× 2.3k 0.9× 4.7k 4.0× 492 0.4× 185 9.7k
Christoph Keplinger 10.4k 1.8× 676 0.2× 3.9k 1.5× 1.3k 1.1× 3.0k 2.6× 79 12.3k
Carmel Majidi 16.0k 2.7× 1.1k 0.3× 7.1k 2.7× 3.9k 3.4× 3.3k 2.9× 275 20.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guoying Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guoying Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guoying Gu 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 Guoying Gu. Guoying Gu 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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Liang, Xudong, Yuxuan Han, Y. Zhou, et al.. (2025). Mechanics of Soft-Body Rolling Motion without External Torque. Physical Review Letters. 134(19). 198401–198401. 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Xiaotian, Jiang Zou, Rongtai Wan, et al.. (2025). Semiseparated biphasic bicontinuous dielectric elastomer for high-performance artificial muscle. Science. 390(6777). 1044–1049. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Feifei, et al.. (2025). Multimodal Locomotion of Soft Robots. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 8(2). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ningbin, et al.. (2025). Soft robotic hand with tactile palm-finger coordination. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2395–2395. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Jinhao, Chunyu Wang, Chunyu Wang, et al.. (2025). Robust Mechanically Interlocked Network Ionogels. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(15). e202423847–e202423847. 17 indexed citations
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Gu, Guoying, et al.. (2024). Precise Control of Soft Robots Amidst Uncertain Environmental Contacts and Forces. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 3565–3580. 5 indexed citations
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Gu, Guoying, et al.. (2024). Vision-Based Real-Time Shape Estimation of Self-Occluding Soft Parallel Robots Using Neural Networks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(8). 7349–7356. 3 indexed citations
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Gu, Guoying, et al.. (2024). High-Precision Dynamic Control of Soft Robots With the Physics-Learning Hybrid Modeling Approach. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 30(3). 1658–1669. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ningbin, et al.. (2024). Multidirectional Bending Soft Pneumatic Actuator With Fishbone-Like Strain-Limiting Layer for Dexterous Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(4). 3815–3822. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jinhao, Jie Cao, Baoyang Lu, & Guoying Gu. (2023). 3D-printed PEDOT:PSS for soft robotics. Nature Reviews Materials. 8(9). 604–622. 179 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Dezhi, et al.. (2023). X-crossing pneumatic artificial muscles. Science Advances. 9(38). eadi7133–eadi7133. 50 indexed citations
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Wang, Dong, Xinlei Li, Le Dong, et al.. (2023). Dexterous electrical-driven soft robots with reconfigurable chiral-lattice foot design. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5067–5067. 62 indexed citations
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Rong, Yu & Guoying Gu. (2023). Deep transfer learning-based adaptive gesture recognition of a soft e-skin patch with reduced training data and time. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 363. 114693–114693. 6 indexed citations
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Zou, Jiang, Ningyuan Ding, Haipeng Xu, et al.. (2021). Muscle-fiber array inspired, multiple-mode, pneumatic artificial muscles through planar design and one-step rolling fabrication. National Science Review. 8(10). nwab048–nwab048. 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Feifei, et al.. (2021). Soft Twisting Pneumatic Actuators Enabled by Freeform Surface Design. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(3). 5253–5260. 29 indexed citations
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Gu, Guoying, Ningbin Zhang, Haipeng Xu, et al.. (2021). A soft neuroprosthetic hand providing simultaneous myoelectric control and tactile feedback. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 7(4). 589–598. 312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Fan, Shice Wei, Weiwei Wei, et al.. (2020). Trimethyltriazine-derived olefin-linked covalent organic framework with ultralong nanofibers. Science Bulletin. 65(19). 1659–1666. 75 indexed citations
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Zou, Jiang & Guoying Gu. (2019). Dynamic modeling of dielectric elastomer actuators with a minimum energy structure. Smart Materials and Structures. 28(8). 85039–85039. 21 indexed citations
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Shim, Hyunseok, Kyoseung Sim, Faheem Ershad, et al.. (2019). Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax4961–eaax4961. 256 indexed citations

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