Jiu‐an Lv

2.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Jiu‐an Lv is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Jiu‐an Lv has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Jiu‐an Lv's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (27 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (10 papers). Jiu‐an Lv is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (27 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (10 papers). Jiu‐an Lv collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Jiu‐an Lv's co-authors include Yanlei Yu, Lang Qin, Er‐Qiang Chen, Yuyun Liu, Jia Wei, Zhiming Hu, Chongyu Zhu, Yunlong Li, Jiao Wang and Tonghui Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jiu‐an Lv

33 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

2016 923 citations Jiu‐an Lv, Yuyun Liu et al. Nature profile →
Photodeformable Azobenzene‐Containing Liquid Crystal Polymers and Soft Actuators

2019 432 citations Jiu‐an Lv, Chongyu Zhu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Phototunable self-oscillating system driven by a self-winding fiber actuator

2021 184 citations Zhiming Hu, Yunlong Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Bioinspired Liquid Crystalline Spinning Enables Scalable Fabrication of High‐Performing Fibrous Artificial Muscles

2023 134 citations Jiao Wang, Jiu‐an Lv et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jiu‐an Lv China	19	1.6k	1.3k	647	474	429	33	2.5k
Jungwook Kim South Korea	22	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	489 0.8×	369 0.8×	242 0.6×	74	2.6k
Xuemin Du China	31	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	238 0.4×	361 0.8×	450 1.0×	66	2.8k
Lidong Zhang China	28	942 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	239 0.4×	352 0.7×	338 0.8×	110	2.2k
Pan Xue China	17	999 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	391 0.6×	378 0.8×	336 0.8×	31	1.9k
Cristian Valenzuela China	25	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	626 1.0×	629 1.3×	254 0.6×	39	2.5k
Laurens T. de Haan Netherlands	23	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	514 1.1×	195 0.5×	41	2.3k
Elisabetta A. Matsumoto United States	10	1.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	317 0.5×	270 0.6×	385 0.9×	21	2.9k
Jinhye Bae United States	21	814 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	283 0.4×	286 0.6×	226 0.5×	54	2.0k
Daniele Martella Italy	25	2.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	698 1.1×	452 1.0×	1.0k 2.4×	68	3.1k
Anne Hélène Gelebart Netherlands	10	1.4k 0.8×	930 0.7×	578 0.9×	389 0.8×	408 1.0×	12	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Tonghui & Jiu‐an Lv. (2025). Phototunable Rayleigh 3D Soft Self‐Oscillator Enabling Versatile Biomimetic Tubular Peristaltic Pumping. Advanced Materials. 37(24). e2502434–e2502434. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yunlong, et al.. (2025). Photonic Fibrous Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 43(4). 597–604. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaochen, Weiqiang Zhao, Jiayao Ma, et al.. (2025). Threefold Möbius Machine. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(23). 1 indexed citations

Fan, Yangyang, Huimin Wu, Jiao Wang, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2025). Field‐Programmable Topographic‐Morphing Array for General‐Purpose Lab‐on‐a‐Chip Systems (Adv. Mater. 7/2025). Advanced Materials. 37(7). 1 indexed citations

Fan, Yangyang, Hui Geng, Huimin Wu, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2024). Refreshable Braille Display System Driven by Accordion‐Fold Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(7). 1 indexed citations

Fan, Yangyang, Huimin Wu, Jiao Wang, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2024). Field‐Programmable Topographic‐Morphing Array for General‐Purpose Lab‐on‐a‐Chip Systems. Advanced Materials. 37(7). e2410604–e2410604. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Jiao, et al.. (2023). Bioinspired Liquid Crystalline Spinning Enables Scalable Fabrication of High‐Performing Fibrous Artificial Muscles. Advanced Materials. 35(16). e2211800–e2211800. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Yong, Yunlong Li, Jiao Geng, et al.. (2023). Femtosecond‐Laser‐Direct‐Writing Micro‐Scale Soft Actuators with Controllable Shape Morphing. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(22). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanlin, et al.. (2022). Light-modulated liquid crystal elastomer actuator with multimodal shape morphing and multifunction. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(10). 3796–3803. 38 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tonghui, Yangyang Fan, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2022). Photomorphogenesis of Diverse Autonomous Traveling Waves in a Monolithic Soft Artificial Muscle. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(20). 23839–23849. 46 indexed citations

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Hu, Zhiming, Yunlong Li, Tonghui Zhao, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2022). Self-winding liquid crystal elastomer fiber actuators with high degree of freedom and tunable actuation. Applied Materials Today. 27. 101449–101449. 46 indexed citations

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Hu, Zhiming, Yunlong Li, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2021). Phototunable self-oscillating system driven by a self-winding fiber actuator. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3211–3211. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hu, Zhiming, Wei Fang, Qunyang Li, Xi‐Qiao Feng, & Jiu‐an Lv. (2020). Optocapillarity-driven assembly and reconfiguration of liquid crystal polymer actuators. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5780–5780. 37 indexed citations

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Lv, Jiu‐an, et al.. (2019). Photodeformable Azobenzene‐Containing Liquid Crystal Polymers and Soft Actuators. Advanced Materials. 31(52). e1904224–e1904224. 432 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lv, Jiu‐an, Yuyun Liu, Jia Wei, et al.. (2016). Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators. Nature. 537(7619). 179–184. 923 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lv, Jiu‐an, et al.. (2016). A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material. Smart Materials and Structures. 25(9). 95009–95009. 26 indexed citations

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Lv, Jiu‐an, et al.. (2015). Miniaturized Swimming Soft Robot with Complex Movement Actuated and Controlled by Remote Light Signals. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17414–17414. 183 indexed citations

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Lv, Jiu‐an, Hao Song, Wei‐Xiong Xia, et al.. (2015). Interferon-α-2b as an adjuvant therapy prolongs survival of patients with previously resected oral muscosal melanoma. Genetics and Molecular Research. 14(4). 11944–11954. 12 indexed citations

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Lv, Jiu‐an, Wei Wang, Wei Wu, & Yanlei Yu. (2015). A reactive azobenzene liquid-crystalline block copolymer as a promising material for practical application of light-driven soft actuators. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3(26). 6621–6626. 49 indexed citations

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Jiang, Zhen, et al.. (2013). Photoinduced Bending Behaviour of Cross-linked Liquid Crystalline Polymers with High Cross-linking Densities. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 67(4). 570–577. 2 indexed citations

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