Michael C. McAlpine

13.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
76 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Michael C. McAlpine is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. McAlpine has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael C. McAlpine's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (20 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (12 papers). Michael C. McAlpine is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (20 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (12 papers). Michael C. McAlpine collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and China. Michael C. McAlpine's co-authors include Habib Ahmad, Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Charles M. Lieber, James R. Heath, Robin S. Friedman, Dunwei Wang, Fanben Meng, Yong Lin Kong, Shuang‐Zhuang Guo and Thanh D. Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Michael C. McAlpine

73 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Highly ordered nanowire arrays on plastic substrates for ultrasensitive flexible chemical sensors

2007 810 citations Michael C. McAlpine, Habib Ahmad et al. Nature Materials profile →
Graphene-based wireless bacteria detection on tooth enamel

2012 778 citations Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Tao Hu et al. Nature Communications profile →
3D Printed Bionic Ears

2013 675 citations Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Yong Lin Kong et al. profile →
Enhanced Piezoelectricity and Stretchability in Energy Harvesting Devices Fabricated from Buckled PZT Ribbons

2011 429 citations Thanh D. Nguyen, Prashant K. Purohit et al. profile →
Nanoscale Flexoelectricity

2013 417 citations Thanh D. Nguyen, Sheng Mao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Piezoelectric Ribbons Printed onto Rubber for Flexible Energy Conversion

2010 403 citations Habib Ahmad, Michael C. McAlpine et al. profile →
3D Printed Stretchable Tactile Sensors

2017 388 citations Shuang‐Zhuang Guo, Kaiyan Qiu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
3D extrusion bioprinting

2021 246 citations Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, Michael C. McAlpine et al. profile →
3D printed microfluidics: advances in strategies, integration, and applications

2023 123 citations Ruitao Su, Fujun Wang et al. Lab on a Chip profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. McAlpine United States	45	8.0k	3.2k	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	76	11.0k
Roger J. Narayan United States	58	5.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	3.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	378	11.5k
Jang‐Ung Park South Korea	63	9.1k 1.1×	6.8k 2.1×	2.2k 0.9×	611 0.4×	442 0.3×	153	13.4k
Virgilio Mattoli Italy	56	6.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	371 0.2×	922 0.7×	228	10.3k
Xiaohua Liu China	58	5.8k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	937 0.7×	197	12.5k
David H. Gracias United States	63	8.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	955 0.6×	858 0.6×	216	13.1k
Qifa Zhou United States	59	10.2k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	412 0.3×	454	13.8k
Brian Derby United Kingdom	59	7.9k 1.0×	4.6k 1.5×	4.0k 1.7×	3.8k 2.5×	708 0.5×	297	16.0k
Xuechang Zhou China	57	5.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	679 0.4×	584 0.4×	237	9.9k
Philippe Renaud Switzerland	55	9.1k 1.1×	4.6k 1.4×	915 0.4×	591 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	262	12.6k
Aránzazu del Campo Germany	53	4.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	338 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	176	10.7k

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Lavoie, Nicolas, Hyun‐Jun Kim, Manuel Esguerra, et al.. (2025). 3D‐Printed Scaffolds Promote Enhanced Spinal Organoid Formation for Use in Spinal Cord Injury (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 24/2025). Advanced Healthcare Materials. 14(24).

Panoskaltsis‐Mortari, Angela, et al.. (2025). 3D vector field-guided toolpathing for 3D bioprinting. Communications Engineering. 4(1). 154–154.

Su, Ruitao, Fujun Wang, & Michael C. McAlpine. (2023). 3D printed microfluidics: advances in strategies, integration, and applications. Lab on a Chip. 23(5). 1279–1299. 123 indexed citations breakdown →

Su, Ruitao, Qun Su, Michael S. Wiederoder, et al.. (2020). 3D printed self-supporting elastomeric structures for multifunctional microfluidics. Science Advances. 6(41). 93 indexed citations

Qiu, Kaiyan, Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, & Michael C. McAlpine. (2018). 3D Printed Organ Models for Surgical Applications. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. 11(1). 287–306. 69 indexed citations

Joung, Daeha, Vincent Truong, Shuang‐Zhuang Guo, et al.. (2018). Spinal Cord Scaffolds: 3D Printed Stem‐Cell Derived Neural Progenitors Generate Spinal Cord Scaffolds (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2018). Advanced Functional Materials. 28(39). 3 indexed citations

Haghiashtiani, Ghazaleh & Michael C. McAlpine. (2017). Sensing gastrointestinal motility. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1(10). 775–776. 3 indexed citations

Kong, Yong Lin, Maneesh K. Gupta, Blake N. Johnson, & Michael C. McAlpine. (2016). 3D printed bionic nanodevices. Nano Today. 11(3). 330–350. 109 indexed citations

Haghiashtiani, Ghazaleh, et al.. (2016). 3D Printing a Susceptibility Assay for Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria. Chem. 1(3). 346–348. 4 indexed citations

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McAlpine, Michael C.. (2015). 3D Printed Bionic Nanomaterials. Technical programs and proceedings. 31(1). 7–7. 1 indexed citations

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Liang, Tian, Shiyou Xu, Gerald Poirier, et al.. (2014). Wireless biomechanical power harvesting via flexible magnetostrictive ribbons. Energy & Environmental Science. 7(7). 2243–2243. 9 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thanh D., Sheng Mao, Yao‐Wen Yeh, Prashant Purohit, & Michael C. McAlpine. (2013). Nanoscale Flexoelectricity. Advanced Materials. 25(7). 946–974. 417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nguyen, Thanh D., et al.. (2013). Tension-induced neurite growth in microfluidic channels. Lab on a Chip. 13(18). 3735–3735. 19 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thanh D., Nikhil Deshmukh, John M. Nagarah, et al.. (2012). Piezoelectric nanoribbons for monitoring cellular deformations. Nature Nanotechnology. 7(9). 587–593. 143 indexed citations

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Tao, Hu, Mark A. Brenckle, Miaomiao Yang, et al.. (2012). Silk‐Based Conformal, Adhesive, Edible Food Sensors. Advanced Materials. 24(8). 1067–1072. 326 indexed citations

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Mannoor, Manu Sebastian, Tao Hu, Amartya Sengupta, et al.. (2012). Graphene-based wireless bacteria detection on tooth enamel. Nature Communications. 3(1). 763–763. 778 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cui, Yue, et al.. (2011). Rapid, multiplexed microfluidic phage display. Lab on a Chip. 12(3). 562–565. 25 indexed citations

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Cui, Yue, et al.. (2010). Recognition of Patterned Molecular Ink with Phage Displayed Peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(4). 1204–1205. 25 indexed citations

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McAlpine, Michael C., Habib Ahmad, Dunwei Wang, & James R. Heath. (2007). Highly ordered nanowire arrays on plastic substrates for ultrasensitive flexible chemical sensors. Nature Materials. 6(5). 379–384. 810 indexed citations breakdown →

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Friedman, Robin S., Michael C. McAlpine, David S. Ricketts, Donhee Ham, & Charles M. Lieber. (2005). High-speed integrated nanowire circuits. Nature. 434(7037). 1085–1085. 268 indexed citations

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