Olli Ikkala

32.3k total citations · 13 hit papers
352 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

Olli Ikkala is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Olli Ikkala has authored 352 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Materials Chemistry, 117 papers in Biomaterials and 84 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Olli Ikkala's work include Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (58 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (55 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (51 papers). Olli Ikkala is often cited by papers focused on Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (58 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (55 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (51 papers). Olli Ikkala collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Netherlands and Germany. Olli Ikkala's co-authors include Gerrit ten Brinke, Janne Ruokolainen, Robin H. A. Ras, Lars A. Berglund, Ritva Serimaa, Mika Torkkeli, Andreas Walther, Harri Kosonen, Eero Kontturi and Juuso T. Korhonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Olli Ikkala

347 papers receiving 26.4k 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.

Enzymatic Hydrolysis Combined with Mechanical Shearing and High-Pressure Homogenization for Nanoscale Cellulose Fibrils and Strong Gels

2007 1.5k citations Janne Ruokolainen, Janne Laine et al. profile →
Mechanically Durable Superhydrophobic Surfaces

2010 988 citations Sami Franssila, Olli Ikkala et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Functional Materials Based on Self-Assembly of Polymeric Supramolecules

2002 917 citations Olli Ikkala et al. profile →
Making flexible magnetic aerogels and stiff magnetic nanopaper using cellulose nanofibrils as templates

2010 691 citations Olli Ikkala et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Hydrophobic Nanocellulose Aerogels as Floating, Sustainable, Reusable, and Recyclable Oil Absorbents

2011 687 citations Robin H. A. Ras, Olli Ikkala et al. profile →
Advanced Materials through Assembly of Nanocelluloses

2018 580 citations Markus B. Linder, Nonappa Nonappa et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Switching Supramolecular Polymeric Materials with Multiple Length Scales

1998 577 citations Janne Ruokolainen, Olli Ikkala et al. profile →
Long and entangled native cellulose I nanofibers allow flexible aerogels and hierarchically porous templates for functionalities

2008 521 citations Olli Ikkala et al. profile →
Switchable Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly of Magnetic Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

2013 408 citations Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Robin H. A. Ras et al. profile →
Nanocellulose: Recent Fundamental Advances and Emerging Biological and Biomimicking Applications

2020 310 citations Markus B. Linder, Nonappa Nonappa et al. Advanced Materials profile →
In vitro evaluation of biodegradable lignin-based nanoparticles for drug delivery and enhanced antiproliferation effect in cancer cells

2017 294 citations Ville Hynninen, Olli Ikkala et al. profile →
Toughening Hydrogels with Fibrillar Connected Double Networks

2024 83 citations Ville Liljeström, Olli Ikkala et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement

2025 49 citations Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Markus B. Linder et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Olli Ikkala	10.8k	8.7k	6.9k	6.0k	5.2k	352	27.0k
Martin Möller	4.8k 0.4×	7.9k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	8.1k 1.3×	5.0k 1.0×	636	23.3k
Joachim H. Wendorff	10.1k 0.9×	6.6k 0.8×	8.4k 1.2×	3.7k 0.6×	6.0k 1.2×	352	23.0k
Vladimir V. Tsukruk	6.2k 0.6×	10.1k 1.2×	10.3k 1.5×	5.1k 0.9×	5.2k 1.0×	496	30.5k
Françoise M. Winnik	5.3k 0.5×	6.7k 0.8×	4.9k 0.7×	9.5k 1.6×	3.1k 0.6×	299	24.0k
Richard Hoogenboom	10.9k 1.0×	6.4k 0.7×	6.1k 0.9×	17.5k 2.9×	7.9k 1.5×	634	31.8k
Stephen Z. D. Cheng	7.2k 0.7×	11.2k 1.3×	2.7k 0.4×	7.6k 1.3×	11.3k 2.2×	528	23.4k
Thomas P. Davis	11.5k 1.1×	10.3k 1.2×	8.0k 1.2×	25.0k 4.2×	7.6k 1.5×	612	40.6k
Gleb B. Sukhorukov	11.6k 1.1×	8.4k 1.0×	9.9k 1.4×	6.0k 1.0×	6.2k 1.2×	428	34.7k
Manfred Stamm	3.7k 0.3×	9.7k 1.1×	6.9k 1.0×	6.7k 1.1×	6.5k 1.2×	549	26.8k
Christopher K. Ober	3.3k 0.3×	9.3k 1.1×	8.1k 1.2×	8.2k 1.4×	6.0k 1.2×	581	28.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olli Ikkala

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Ikkala, Olli, et al.. (2025). Colloidal Magnetoelectric Shape Recognition Based on Machine Learning. Small Structures. 6(5).

Kostiainen, Mauri A., Arri Priimägi, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, et al.. (2024). Materials Inspired by Living Functions. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(37). 14 indexed citations

Yan, Guihua, Yongde Liu, Xianhai Zeng, et al.. (2024). Alphabet Handwriting Recognition: From Wood‐Framed Hydrogel Arrays Design to Machine Learning Decoding. Advanced Science. 11(47). e2404437–e2404437. 5 indexed citations

Chandra, Sourov, Alice Sciortino, Susobhan Das, et al.. (2023). Gold Au(I)₆ Clusters with Ligand‐Derived Atomic Steric Locking: Multifunctional Optoelectrical Properties and Quantum Coherence. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(8). 5 indexed citations

Pokki, Juho, et al.. (2023). Fibrin Stiffness Regulates Phenotypic Plasticity of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 31/2023). Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(31). 1 indexed citations

Hu, Shanming, et al.. (2023). Bright and Switchable Whiteness in Macro‐Crosslinked Hydrogels. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(11). 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Shaochen, Grégory Beaune, Sourov Chandra, et al.. (2023). pH‐Responsive Near‐Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters. Angewandte Chemie. 135(49). 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Shaochen, Grégory Beaune, Sourov Chandra, et al.. (2023). pH‐Responsive Near‐Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(49). e202312679–e202312679. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Hang, et al.. (2022). Feedback-controlled hydrogels with homeostatic oscillations and dissipative signal transduction. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(12). 1303–1310. 59 indexed citations

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Hynninen, Ville, Sourov Chandra, Susobhan Das, et al.. (2021). Luminescent Gold Nanocluster‐Methylcellulose Composite Optical Fibers with Low Attenuation Coefficient and High Photostability. Small. 17(27). e2005205–e2005205. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hang, et al.. (2020). Fast Switching of Bright Whiteness in Channeled Hydrogel Networks. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(28). 2000754–2000754. 89 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hang, Hao Zeng, Arri Priimägi, & Olli Ikkala. (2020). Viewpoint: Pavlovian Materials—Functional Biomimetics Inspired by Classical Conditioning. Advanced Materials. 32(20). e1906619–e1906619. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hang, et al.. (2019). Light-induced reversible hydrophobization of cationic gold nanoparticles via electrostatic adsorption of a photoacid. Nanoscale. 11(30). 14118–14122. 24 indexed citations

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Peng, Bo, Olli Ikkala, Quan Zhou, et al.. (2019). Tunable and Magnetic Thiol–ene Micropillar Arrays. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 41(2). e1900522–e1900522. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hang, Hao Zeng, Arri Priimägi, & Olli Ikkala. (2019). Programmable responsive hydrogels inspired by classical conditioning algorithm. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3267–3267. 89 indexed citations

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Korpi, Antti, Nonappa Nonappa, Boxuan Shen, et al.. (2019). DNA origami directed 3D nanoparticle superlattice via electrostatic assembly. Nanoscale. 11(10). 4546–4551. 42 indexed citations

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Beyeh, Ngong Kodiah, Nonappa Nonappa, Ville Liljeström, et al.. (2018). Crystalline Cyclophane–Protein Cage Frameworks. ACS Nano. 12(8). 8029–8036. 38 indexed citations

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Morits, Maria, Ville Hynninen, Nonappa Nonappa, et al.. (2017). Polymer brush guided templating on well-defined rod-like cellulose nanocrystals. Polymer Chemistry. 9(13). 1650–1657. 38 indexed citations

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Morits, Maria, Jason R. McKee, Johanna Majoinen, et al.. (2017). Polymer Brushes on Cellulose Nanofibers: Modification, SI-ATRP, and Unexpected Degradation Processes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(9). 7642–7650. 64 indexed citations

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Hiekkataipale, Panu, Tina I. Löbling, Mikko Poutanen, et al.. (2016). Controlling the shape of Janus nanostructures through supramolecular modification of ABC terpolymer bulk morphologies. Polymer. 107. 456–465. 33 indexed citations

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