Raja Annapooranan

688 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 540 citations indexed

About

Raja Annapooranan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Raja Annapooranan has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 540 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Raja Annapooranan's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (4 papers). Raja Annapooranan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (4 papers). Raja Annapooranan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Switzerland. Raja Annapooranan's co-authors include Shengqiang Cai, Yang Wang, Chenghai Li, Zijun Wang, Zhijian Wang, Qiguang He, Renkun Chen, Jian Zeng, Michael I. Latz and Sangeetha Dharmalingam and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Raja Annapooranan

12 papers receiving 533 citations

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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.

Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator

2021 318 citations Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang et al. Science Robotics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raja Annapooranan United States	8	389	357	82	79	70	12	540
Chen Jin China	6	271 0.7×	346 1.0×	62 0.8×	45 0.6×	110 1.6×	15	483
Yuchong Gao United States	12	535 1.4×	474 1.3×	158 1.9×	185 2.3×	105 1.5×	16	867
Wei Liao China	9	519 1.3×	449 1.3×	82 1.0×	171 2.2×	53 0.8×	21	736
Sukyoung Won South Korea	13	280 0.7×	303 0.8×	76 0.9×	46 0.6×	194 2.8×	26	499
Jisoo Jeon South Korea	18	428 1.1×	478 1.3×	143 1.7×	109 1.4×	228 3.3×	36	777
Maria C. Chiappelli United States	4	390 1.0×	353 1.0×	58 0.7×	53 0.7×	98 1.4×	5	621
Daniela Wirthl Austria	7	325 0.8×	603 1.7×	159 1.9×	54 0.7×	152 2.2×	9	834
Xiaomin Han China	11	317 0.8×	305 0.9×	66 0.8×	26 0.3×	54 0.8×	23	513
Kyle R. Schlafmann United States	6	455 1.2×	305 0.9×	149 1.8×	236 3.0×	41 0.6×	6	560
Woongbi Cho South Korea	12	191 0.5×	209 0.6×	116 1.4×	52 0.7×	70 1.0×	24	371

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raja Annapooranan

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12 of 12 papers shown

Annapooranan, Raja, Todd Henry, Martin Kröger, et al.. (2024). Modeling nematic phase main-chain liquid crystal elastomer synthesis, mechanics, and thermal actuation via coarse-grained molecular dynamics. Soft Matter. 20(46). 9219–9231. 2 indexed citations

Annapooranan, Raja, et al.. (2024). Soft elasticity enabled adhesion enhancement of liquid crystal elastomers on rough surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2412635121–e2412635121. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Zijun, et al.. (2024). PVC gel-based electro-adhesion on extremely rough surfaces. Applied Materials Today. 38. 102189–102189. 5 indexed citations

Annapooranan, Raja, Yang Wang, & Shengqiang Cai. (2023). Harnessing Soft Elasticity of Liquid Crystal Elastomers to Achieve Low Voltage Driven Actuation. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(9). 28 indexed citations

Wang, Zijun, Raja Annapooranan, Kai Qian, et al.. (2023). Push, snap, pull, and buckle: A material design framework enabled by cooperating active and geometrically nonlinear passive microstructures. Materials & Design. 236. 112432–112432. 1 indexed citations

Annapooranan, Raja, et al.. (2023). Ultra Rate‐Dependent Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Enabled by Soft Elasticity of Liquid Crystal Elastomers. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(1). 22 indexed citations

Li, Chenghai, Qiguang He, Yang Wang, et al.. (2022). Highly robust and soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence for optical signaling and illumination. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3914–3914. 71 indexed citations

Annapooranan, Raja, Yang Wang, & Shengqiang Cai. (2022). Highly Durable and Tough Liquid Crystal Elastomers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(1). 2006–2014. 37 indexed citations

Annapooranan, Raja & Shengqiang Cai. (2022). Thermally induced self-rupture of a constrained liquid crystal elastomer. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 269. 108584–108584. 15 indexed citations

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He, Qiguang, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, et al.. (2021). Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator. Science Robotics. 6(57). 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Elumalai, Vijayakumar, et al.. (2019). Phosphonated mesoporous silica based composite membranes for high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry. 23(6). 1837–1850. 8 indexed citations

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Elumalai, Vijayakumar, et al.. (2017). A synthesis study of phosphonated PSEBS for high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 135(10). 27 indexed citations

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