Joost Brancart

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Joost Brancart is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Joost Brancart has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Joost Brancart's work include Polymer composites and self-healing (46 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (29 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (17 papers). Joost Brancart is often cited by papers focused on Polymer composites and self-healing (46 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (29 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (17 papers). Joost Brancart collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Switzerland and France. Joost Brancart's co-authors include Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght, Seppe Terryn, Dirk Lefeber, Ellen Roels, Bruno Van Mele, Gill Scheltjens, Frank Clemens, Anton W. Bosman and Elise Elsacker and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Joost Brancart

74 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.

Self-healing soft pneumatic robots

2017 425 citations Seppe Terryn, Joost Brancart et al. profile →
A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

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

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joost Brancart Belgium	27	1.4k	1.3k	616	611	300	77	2.6k
Quanquan Guo China	27	827 0.6×	682 0.5×	562 0.9×	191 0.3×	273 0.9×	78	2.1k
Jens Krause Germany	11	563 0.4×	756 0.6×	146 0.2×	364 0.6×	269 0.9×	24	1.6k
Yuxuan Liu China	36	1.5k 1.1×	496 0.4×	464 0.8×	255 0.4×	144 0.5×	128	3.7k
Yuanhao Chen China	27	1.6k 1.2×	409 0.3×	1.6k 2.5×	191 0.3×	199 0.7×	78	3.1k
Weizheng Li China	27	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	384 0.6×	228 0.4×	513 1.7×	55	2.9k
Sungryul Yun South Korea	31	2.4k 1.7×	835 0.7×	622 1.0×	97 0.2×	824 2.7×	94	3.2k
Seppe Terryn Belgium	18	1.1k 0.8×	670 0.5×	524 0.9×	235 0.4×	145 0.5×	54	1.6k
Mengxiao Chen China	30	1.5k 1.1×	775 0.6×	227 0.4×	112 0.2×	102 0.3×	64	3.1k
Hyun‐Hee Lee South Korea	19	1.0k 0.8×	468 0.4×	304 0.5×	62 0.1×	108 0.4×	49	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joost Brancart

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Terryn, Seppe, Iris De Graeve, Michaël Daenen, et al.. (2025). Recyclable and Self-Healing Stretchable Strain Sensor Based on Liquid Metal and Diels–Alder Polymer for Smart Wearable Applications. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(16). 30545–30560.

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

Terryn, Seppe, et al.. (2024). Designing Flexible and Self-Healing Electronics Using Hybrid Carbon Black/Nanoclay Composites Based on Diels–Alder Dynamic Covalent Networks. Macromolecules. 57(2). 539–553. 15 indexed citations

Brancart, Joost, et al.. (2024). 3D‐Printed Shape Memory Poly(alkylene terephthalate) Scaffolds as Cardiovascular Stents Revealing Enhanced Endothelialization. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 13(13). e2303498–e2303498. 5 indexed citations

Terryn, Seppe, Roos Peeters, Niko Van den Brande, et al.. (2024). Diels–Alder Network Blends as Self-Healing Encapsulants for Liquid Metal-Based Stretchable Electronics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(26). 34192–34212. 9 indexed citations

Kovács, Attila, Philippe Nimmegeers, Joost Brancart, et al.. (2023). Hybrid substitution workflows should accelerate the uptake of chemical recyclates in polymer formulations. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 41. 100801–100801. 1 indexed citations

Hardman, David, et al.. (2023). Variable sensitivity multimaterial robotic e-skin combining electronic and ionic conductivity using electrical impedance tomography. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20004–20004. 10 indexed citations

Alabiso, Walter, Seppe Terryn, Elisabeth Rossegger, et al.. (2023). Vitrimeric shape memory polymer-based fingertips for adaptive grasping. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 10. 1206579–1206579. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Zhanwei, Seppe Terryn, J Legrand, et al.. (2023). Self‐Closing and Self‐Healing Multi‐Material Suction Cups for Energy‐Efficient Vacuum Grippers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(10). 6 indexed citations

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Brancart, Joost, et al.. (2023). Digital light processing of poly(ε-caprolactone)-based resins into porous shape memory scaffolds. European Polymer Journal. 195. 112225–112225. 14 indexed citations

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Brancart, Joost, et al.. (2023). Self-healing magnetorheological elastomers based on thermoreversible Diels–Alder networks. Smart Materials and Structures. 32(4). 45004–45004. 3 indexed citations

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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

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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

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Georgopoulou, Antonia, Joost Brancart, Seppe Terryn, et al.. (2022). Soft self-healing resistive-based sensors inspired by sensory transduction in biological systems. Applied Materials Today. 29. 101638–101638. 28 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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Georgopoulou, Antonia, Anton W. Bosman, Joost Brancart, Bram Vanderborght, & Frank Clemens. (2021). Supramolecular Self-Healing Sensor Fiber Composites for Damage Detection in Piezoresistive Electronic Skin for Soft Robots. Polymers. 13(17). 2983–2983. 19 indexed citations

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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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Brancart, Joost, et al.. (2018). The influence of stereochemistry on the reactivity of the Diels–Alder cycloaddition and the implications for reversible network polymerization. Polymer Chemistry. 10(4). 473–485. 86 indexed citations

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Terryn, Seppe, Glenn Mathijssen, Joost Brancart, et al.. (2015). Investigation of self-healing compliant actuators for robotics. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 258–263. 10 indexed citations

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Scheltjens, Gill, et al.. (2013). A remendable polymer network based on reversible covalent bonding for coating applications. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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