Rico Illing

868 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 672 citations indexed

About

Rico Illing is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Rico Illing has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 672 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Rico Illing's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (6 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (4 papers). Rico Illing is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (6 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (4 papers). Rico Illing collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Ukraine. Rico Illing's co-authors include Denys Makarov, J. Faßbender, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Ge Jin, Michael Drack, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Changan Wang, Xu Wang, Oleksii M. Volkov and Shengqiang Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rico Illing

14 papers receiving 660 citations

Hit Papers

A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time
    2019 272 citations Ge Jin, Xu Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rico Illing Germany 9 533 193 172 156 104 14 672
Ahmed Alfadhel Saudi Arabia 14 575 1.1× 183 0.9× 201 1.2× 144 0.9× 114 1.1× 27 829
Sippanat Achavananthadith Singapore 6 620 1.2× 116 0.6× 224 1.3× 196 1.3× 56 0.5× 8 729
Jiangtao Su China 13 463 0.9× 109 0.6× 255 1.5× 146 0.9× 33 0.3× 28 705
James Wissman United States 11 651 1.2× 187 1.0× 268 1.6× 264 1.7× 85 0.8× 15 774
Ju Lin China 8 435 0.8× 76 0.4× 244 1.4× 161 1.0× 30 0.3× 11 589
Mohammed G. Mohammed United States 7 448 0.8× 78 0.4× 274 1.6× 166 1.1× 37 0.4× 15 601
Prakash Karipoth United Kingdom 8 220 0.4× 101 0.5× 81 0.5× 77 0.5× 32 0.3× 13 360
Siyuan Yao China 12 469 0.9× 84 0.4× 297 1.7× 174 1.1× 25 0.2× 36 767
Sen Ding Macao 14 661 1.2× 299 1.5× 212 1.2× 78 0.5× 13 0.1× 27 808

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rico Illing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rico Illing

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rico Illing. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rico Illing based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rico Illing. Rico Illing is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Makushko, Pavlo, Ge Jin, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, et al.. (2025). Scalable magnetoreceptive e-skin for energy-efficient high-resolution interaction towards undisturbed extended reality. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1647–1647. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Rui, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros Mata, Fei Cheng, et al.. (2025). Printed Conformal and Transparent Magnetoresistive Sensors for Seamless Integration and Environment-Resilient Touchless Interaction. ACS Nano. 19(23). 21891–21903. 2 indexed citations
3.
Xu, Rui, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, et al.. (2022). Self-healable printed magnetic field sensors using alternating magnetic fields. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6587–6587. 31 indexed citations
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Makushko, Pavlo, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros Mata, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, et al.. (2021). Flexible Magnetoreceptor with Tunable Intrinsic Logic for On‐Skin Touchless Human‐Machine Interfaces. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(25). 62 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xinne, Rico Illing, Philip Ruelens, et al.. (2021). Coexistence of fluorescent Escherichia coli strains in millifluidic droplet reactors. Lab on a Chip. 21(8). 1492–1502. 8 indexed citations
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Ha, Minjeong, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Tobias Kosub, et al.. (2021). Printable and Stretchable Giant Magnetoresistive Sensors for Highly Compliant and Skin‐Conformal Electronics. Advanced Materials. 33(12). e2005521–e2005521. 69 indexed citations
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Makushko, Pavlo, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros Mata, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, et al.. (2021). Flexible Magnetoreceptors: Flexible Magnetoreceptor with Tunable Intrinsic Logic for On‐Skin Touchless Human‐Machine Interfaces (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2021). Advanced Functional Materials. 31(25). 3 indexed citations
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Illing, Rico, Oleksii M. Volkov, Tobias Kosub, et al.. (2020). Two Orders of Magnitude Boost in the Detection Limit of Droplet-Based Micro-Magnetofluidics with Planar Hall Effect Sensors. ACS Omega. 5(32). 20609–20617. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xu, Guoyong Mao, Ge Jin, et al.. (2020). Untethered and ultrafast soft-bodied robots. Communications Materials. 1(1). 115 indexed citations
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Jin, Ge, Xu Wang, Michael Drack, et al.. (2019). A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4405–4405. 272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Illing, Rico, et al.. (2016). Ecotoxicity assessment using ciliate cells in millifluidic droplets. Biomicrofluidics. 10(2). 24115–24115. 11 indexed citations
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Ibarlucea, Bergoi, Rico Illing, Sebastian Pregl, et al.. (2016). Compact Nanowire Sensors Probe Microdroplets. Nano Letters. 16(8). 4991–5000. 39 indexed citations
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Krujatz, Felix, Rico Illing, Jörg Opitz, et al.. (2015). Light‐field‐characterization in a continuous hydrogen‐producing photobioreactor by optical simulation and computational fluid dynamics. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 112(12). 2439–2449. 27 indexed citations
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Weber, Jost, Felix Krujatz, Rico Illing, et al.. (2014). Biotechnological hydrogen production by photosynthesis. Engineering in Life Sciences. 14(6). 592–606. 19 indexed citations

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