Osama R. Bilal

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
43 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Osama R. Bilal is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Osama R. Bilal has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 16 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 11 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Osama R. Bilal's work include Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (25 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (14 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers). Osama R. Bilal is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (25 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (14 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers). Osama R. Bilal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Osama R. Bilal's co-authors include Chiara Daraio, Mahmoud I. Hussein, André Foehr, Sebastian D. Huber, Tian Chen, Roman Süsstrunk, Kristina Shea, Tom Larsen, Marc Serra‐Garcia and Luis Guillermo Villanueva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Osama R. Bilal

41 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.

Observation of a phononic quadrupole topological insulator

2018 694 citations Marc Serra‐Garcia, Valerio Peri et al. Nature profile →
Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

2018 341 citations Tian Chen, Osama R. Bilal et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Highly piezoelectric, biodegradable, and flexible amino acid nanofibers for medical applications

2023 97 citations Meysam T. Chorsi, Thinh T. Le et al. Science Advances profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Osama R. Bilal United States	18	1.5k	812	800	424	336	43	2.6k
Manuel Collet France	30	1.7k 1.2×	420 0.5×	670 0.8×	337 0.8×	741 2.2×	157	3.0k
Mourad Oudich France	30	2.3k 1.6×	694 0.9×	487 0.6×	683 1.6×	346 1.0×	64	2.9k
Tiemo Bückmann Germany	16	1.6k 1.1×	342 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	872 2.1×	427 1.3×	17	2.8k
Corentin Coulais Netherlands	28	1.0k 0.7×	880 1.1×	1.6k 2.1×	239 0.6×	532 1.6×	50	3.5k
Dongjuan Xi China	10	1.8k 1.2×	147 0.2×	305 0.4×	841 2.0×	160 0.5×	18	2.1k
Yifan Zhu China	30	2.4k 1.6×	436 0.5×	281 0.4×	1.5k 3.6×	145 0.4×	82	3.0k
Jordan R. Raney United States	27	2.0k 1.4×	239 0.3×	2.4k 3.0×	279 0.7×	685 2.0×	62	4.1k
Junfei Li United States	27	2.2k 1.5×	490 0.6×	249 0.3×	1.4k 3.2×	125 0.4×	74	2.9k
Tobias Frenzel Germany	15	1.0k 0.7×	192 0.2×	1.2k 1.5×	348 0.8×	403 1.2×	20	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roshdy, Mohamed A. & Osama R. Bilal. (2025). Static and dynamic analysis of auxetic three-dimensional curved metamaterials in both axial and circumferential directions. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 75. 102285–102285. 1 indexed citations

Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2025). Combinatorial asymmetric acoustic metamaterials with real-time programmability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(48). e2502036122–e2502036122.

Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2024). Bi‐Stable Metamaterials with Intrinsic Memory for Selective Wave Filtering Based on Frequency and Amplitude. Advanced Science. 12(1). e2405146–e2405146. 4 indexed citations

Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2024). Evidence of zero group velocity at the lowest dispersion branch through local interactions. APL Materials. 12(1). 6 indexed citations

Roshdy, Mohamed A. & Osama R. Bilal. (2024). Observation of Ferroelectric Programmability in 3D Printed Metamaterials. Advanced Materials Technologies. 9(13). 2 indexed citations

Roshdy, Mohamed A., Tian Chen, Serge Nakhmanson, & Osama R. Bilal. (2023). Tunable ferroelectric auxetic metamaterials for guiding elastic waves in three-dimensions. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 59. 101966–101966. 14 indexed citations

Chorsi, Meysam T., Thinh T. Le, Feng Lin, et al.. (2023). Highly piezoelectric, biodegradable, and flexible amino acid nanofibers for medical applications. Science Advances. 9(24). eadg6075–eadg6075. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2023). Harnessing asymmetry to reprogram nonlinear metamaterials on-the-fly with no moving parts. Materials & Design. 233. 112168–112168. 2 indexed citations

Mazzotti, Matteo, André Foehr, Osama R. Bilal, et al.. (2022). Bio-inspired non self-similar hierarchical elastic metamaterials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 241. 107915–107915. 48 indexed citations

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Daraio, Chiara, et al.. (2022). Tunable auxetic metamaterials for simultaneous attenuation of airborne sound and elastic vibrations in all directions. Applied Physics Letters. 121(8). 32 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2021). Exploiting Localized Transition Waves to Tune Sound Propagation in Soft Materials. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations

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Foehr, André, Osama R. Bilal, Sebastian D. Huber, & Chiara Daraio. (2018). Spiral-Based Phononic Plates: From Wave Beaming to Topological Insulators. Physical Review Letters. 120(20). 205501–205501. 91 indexed citations

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Serra‐Garcia, Marc, Valerio Peri, Roman Süsstrunk, et al.. (2018). Observation of a phononic quadrupole topological insulator. Nature. 555(7696). 342–345. 694 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bauhofer, Anton, Sebastian Krödel, Osama R. Bilal, Chiara Daraio, & Andreï Constantinescu. (2017). Direct Laser Writing of Single-Material Sheets with Programmable Self-Rolling Capability. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017.

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Foehr, André, Osama R. Bilal, & Chiara Daraio. (2017). Spiral-based metamaterials: from local resonance to inertial amplification and Bragg scattering. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R., André Foehr, & Chiara Daraio. (2017). Bistable metamaterial for switching and cascading elastic vibrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4603–4606. 156 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R., André Foehr, & Chiara Daraio. (2017). Reprogrammable Phononic Metasurfaces. Advanced Materials. 29(39). 116 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R. & Mahmoud I. Hussein. (2011). Ultrawide phononic band gap for combined in-plane and out-of-plane waves. Physical Review E. 84(6). 65701–65701. 187 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2010). The effect of symmetry on the optimal design of two-dimensional periodic materials. 1–7. 3 indexed citations

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Bilal, Osama R., et al.. (2004). Channel Modeling and Modem Design for Broadband Powerline Communications. 256–260. 2 indexed citations

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