Ronald Pelrine

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ronald Pelrine is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald Pelrine has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ronald Pelrine's work include Dielectric materials and actuators (10 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers). Ronald Pelrine is often cited by papers focused on Dielectric materials and actuators (10 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers). Ronald Pelrine collaborates with scholars based in United States and Denmark. Ronald Pelrine's co-authors include Roy Kornbluh, Jose Joseph, Guggi Kofod, Danilo Emilio De Rossi, Federico Carpi, Qibing Pei, Wei Yuan, Scott Stanford, Sung Min Ha and Joseph Eckerle and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Journal of Sound and Vibration.

In The Last Decade

Ronald Pelrine

22 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Electrostriction of polymer dielectrics with compliant electrodes as a means of actuation

1998 1.1k citations Ronald Pelrine, Roy Kornbluh et al. Sensors and Actuators A Physical profile →
Dielectric Elastomers as Electromechanical Transducers

2008 537 citations Roy Kornbluh, Ronald Pelrine et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald Pelrine United States	12	2.4k	988	501	469	276	22	2.6k
Soo Jin Adrian Koh Singapore	18	1.9k 0.8×	665 0.7×	677 1.4×	570 1.2×	132 0.5×	31	2.2k
Guggi Kofod Germany	33	3.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	675 1.3×	808 1.7×	502 1.8×	70	4.0k
Paul Brochu United States	16	2.1k 0.9×	772 0.8×	530 1.1×	219 0.5×	457 1.7×	29	2.2k
Scott Stanford United States	16	1.8k 0.8×	611 0.6×	623 1.2×	294 0.6×	155 0.6×	19	2.0k
Benjamin O’Brien New Zealand	18	1.9k 0.8×	538 0.5×	694 1.4×	364 0.8×	111 0.4×	51	2.0k
Gábor Kovács Switzerland	21	1.9k 0.8×	762 0.8×	404 0.8×	435 0.9×	149 0.5×	55	2.0k
Mika Paajanen Finland	22	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	328 0.7×	124 0.3×	203 0.7×	78	2.3k
Richard Heydt United States	8	1.2k 0.5×	537 0.5×	260 0.5×	237 0.5×	141 0.5×	9	1.3k
Todd Gisby New Zealand	15	1.3k 0.5×	382 0.4×	355 0.7×	210 0.4×	93 0.3×	25	1.4k
Seiki Chiba Japan	12	1.2k 0.5×	421 0.4×	399 0.8×	225 0.5×	131 0.5×	55	1.3k

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Hsu, Allen, et al.. (2022). 2D-Compliant, Diamagnetic Levitating Micro-Robots for Operation on Non-Flat, Non-Clean Tracks. 4. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald, Allen Hsu, & A. Wong-Foy. (2019). Methods and Results for Rotation of Diamagnetic Robots Using Translational Designs. 94. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Vélez, Camilo, Ronald Pelrine, & David P. Arnold. (2018). BATCH-FABRICATION OF DIAMAGNETICALLY LEVITATED MICROROBOTS. 63–66. 1 indexed citations

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Christensen, David L., Elliot W. Hawkes, A. Wong-Foy, Ronald Pelrine, & Mark R. Cutkosky. (2013). Incremental Inspection for Microrobotic Quality Assurance. 3 indexed citations

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Chiba, Seiki, Mikio Waki, Thomas Grube, et al.. (2010). Novel Electric Generator Using Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle (EPAM). JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations

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Ha, Sung Min, Wei Yuan, Qibing Pei, Ronald Pelrine, & Scott Stanford. (2006). Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for High‐Performance Electroelastomer Artificial Muscles. Advanced Materials. 18(7). 887–891. 249 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald, et al.. (2005). Variable stiffness electroactive polymer systems. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118(4). 2106–2106. 2 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald. (2004). Diamagnetic Levitation. American Scientist. 92(5). 428–428. 20 indexed citations

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Lacour, Stéphanie P., Harsha Prahlad, Ronald Pelrine, & S. Wagner. (2004). Mechatronic system of dielectric elastomer actuators addressed by thin film photoconductors on plastic. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 111(2-3). 288–292. 30 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald. (2004). Diamagnetic Levitation. American Scientist. 92(5). 428–428. 2 indexed citations

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Lacour, Stéphanie P., S. Wagner, Harsha Prahlad, & Ronald Pelrine. (2004). High voltage photoconductive switches of amorphous silicon for electroactive polymer actuators. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 338-340. 736–739. 10 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald. (2003). Maglev microrobotics: an approach toward highly integrated small-scale manufacturing systems. 273–276. 4 indexed citations

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Kornbluh, Roy, Ronald Pelrine, Joseph Eckerle, & Jose Joseph. (2002). Electrostrictive polymer artificial muscle actuators. 3. 2147–2154. 109 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald, Roy Kornbluh, Jose Joseph, & Seiki Chiba. (2002). Electrostriction of polymer films for microactuators. 238–243. 32 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald. (2002). Room temperature, open-loop levitation of microdevices using diamagnetic materials. 34–37. 18 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald, Roy Kornbluh, & Guggi Kofod. (2000). High-Strain Actuator Materials Based on Dielectric Elastomers. Advanced Materials. 12(16). 1223–1225. 324 indexed citations

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Kornbluh, Roy, Ronald Pelrine, Jose Joseph, Qibing Pei, & Seiki Chiba. (1999). Ultra-High Strain Response of Elastomeric Polymer Dielectrics. MRS Proceedings. 600. 12 indexed citations

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Heydt, Richard, et al.. (1998). DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF AN ELECTROSTRICTIVE-POLYMER-FILM ACOUSTIC ACTUATOR. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 215(2). 297–311. 86 indexed citations

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Pelrine, Ronald, Roy Kornbluh, & Jose Joseph. (1998). Electrostriction of polymer dielectrics with compliant electrodes as a means of actuation. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 64(1). 77–85. 1108 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pelrine, Ronald. (1988). Magnetically levitated micro-robotics. PhDT. 14 indexed citations

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