Samuel E. Root

3.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Samuel E. Root is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel E. Root has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Samuel E. Root's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (22 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (12 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (11 papers). Samuel E. Root is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (22 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (12 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (11 papers). Samuel E. Root collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Samuel E. Root's co-authors include Darren J. Lipomi, Daniel Rodriquez, Suchol Savagatrup, Adam D. Printz, Zhenan Bao, Mohammad A. Alkhadra, Jaeho Park, Chuanzhen Zhao, George M. Whitesides and Andrew T. Kleinschmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel E. Root

40 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Mechanical Properties of Organic Semiconductors for Stretchable, Highly Flexible, and Mechanically Robust Electronics

2017 743 citations Samuel E. Root, Suchol Savagatrup et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Skin-inspired soft bioelectronic materials, devices and systems

2024 190 citations Chuanzhen Zhao, Jaeho Park et al. Nature Reviews Bioengineering profile →
Autonomous alignment and healing in multilayer soft electronics using immiscible dynamic polymers

2023 134 citations C. B. Cooper, Samuel E. Root et al. Science profile →
A substrate-less nanomesh receptor with meta-learning for rapid hand task recognition

2022 131 citations Kyun Kyu Kim, Min Kim et al. Nature Electronics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel E. Root United States	24	1.7k	1.5k	1.5k	422	231	40	2.8k
Minkwan Shin South Korea	11	1.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	285 0.7×	194 0.8×	13	2.7k
Daishi Inoue Japan	21	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	530 1.3×	253 1.1×	42	2.9k
Ulrike Kraft Germany	18	1.2k 0.7×	884 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	279 0.7×	131 0.6×	32	2.1k
Dipti Gupta India	31	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	788 1.9×	131 0.6×	103	2.9k
Adam D. Printz United States	25	2.7k 1.6×	2.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	885 2.1×	162 0.7×	41	3.4k
Peter Zalar United States	25	3.0k 1.8×	2.4k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	750 1.8×	183 0.8×	45	4.3k
Teppei Araki Japan	25	1.6k 0.9×	664 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	400 0.9×	188 0.8×	63	2.5k
Daisuke Kumaki Japan	41	3.6k 2.1×	1.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	616 1.5×	117 0.5×	125	4.7k
Yaokang Zhang China	26	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	707 1.7×	209 0.9×	59	2.7k
Kilho Yu South Korea	20	1.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	407 1.0×	121 0.5×	26	2.5k

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Root, Samuel E., Can Wu, Hojung Choi, et al.. (2025). A damage-perceptive, self-healing electronic skin with millimeter resolution. Device. 3(8). 100802–100802. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Eun‐Young, Jian‐Cheng Lai, Lukas Michalek, et al.. (2024). A Transparent, Patternable, and Stretchable Conducting Polymer Solid Electrode for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(1). 16 indexed citations

Hsiao, Kaiwen, Samuel E. Root, Hojung Choi, et al.. (2024). Additively manufactured micro-lattice dielectrics for multiaxial capacitive sensors. Science Advances. 10(40). eadq8866–eadq8866. 15 indexed citations

Zhao, Chuanzhen, Jaeho Park, Samuel E. Root, & Zhenan Bao. (2024). Skin-inspired soft bioelectronic materials, devices and systems. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 2(8). 671–690. 190 indexed citations breakdown →

Nikzad, Shayla, Lukas Michalek, Nathaniel Prine, et al.. (2023). Effect of Molecular Weight on the Morphology of a Polymer Semiconductor–Thermoplastic Elastomer Blend. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(9). 29 indexed citations

Cooper, C. B., Samuel E. Root, Lukas Michalek, et al.. (2023). Autonomous alignment and healing in multilayer soft electronics using immiscible dynamic polymers. Science. 380(6648). 935–941. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

Jiang, Haihui Joy, Markus P. Nemitz, Samuel E. Root, et al.. (2022). Programmable soft valves for digital and analog control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(40). e2205922119–e2205922119. 59 indexed citations

Abrahamsson, Christoffer, Samuel E. Root, Won‐Kyu Lee, et al.. (2022). Tube-Balloon Logic for the Exploration of Fluidic Control Elements. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 5483–5488. 14 indexed citations

Kim, Kyun Kyu, Min Kim, Jin Kim, et al.. (2022). A substrate-less nanomesh receptor with meta-learning for rapid hand task recognition. Nature Electronics. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kodaimati, Mohamad S., Rui Gao, Samuel E. Root, & George M. Whitesides. (2022). Magnetic fields enhance mass transport during electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. Chem Catalysis. 2(4). 797–815. 50 indexed citations

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Root, Samuel E., Vanessa Sanchez, Daniel J. Preston, et al.. (2022). An Expanding Foam‐Fabric Orthopedic Cast. Advanced Materials Technologies. 7(9). 2 indexed citations

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Nagarkar, Amit A., Samuel E. Root, M. Fink, et al.. (2021). Storing and Reading Information in Mixtures of Fluorescent Molecules. ACS Central Science. 7(10). 1728–1735. 34 indexed citations

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Root, Samuel E., Rui Gao, Christoffer Abrahamsson, et al.. (2021). Estimating the Density of Thin Polymeric Films Using Magnetic Levitation. ACS Nano. 15(10). 15676–15686. 15 indexed citations

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Root, Samuel E., Rui Gao, Shencheng Ge, & George M. Whitesides. (2020). Density Measurements of Thin Polymeric Films using Magnetic Levitation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Kleinschmidt, Andrew T., Laure V. Kayser, Mohammad A. Alkhadra, et al.. (2018). Stretchable and Degradable Semiconducting Block Copolymers. Macromolecules. 51(15). 5944–5949. 77 indexed citations

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Root, Samuel E., Cody W. Carpenter, Laure V. Kayser, et al.. (2018). Ionotactile Stimulation: Nonvolatile Ionic Gels for Human–Machine Interfaces. ACS Omega. 3(1). 662–666. 29 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy F., et al.. (2017). The Language of Glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0179766–e0179766. 68 indexed citations

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Root, Samuel E., Suchol Savagatrup, Adam D. Printz, Daniel Rodriquez, & Darren J. Lipomi. (2017). Mechanical Properties of Organic Semiconductors for Stretchable, Highly Flexible, and Mechanically Robust Electronics. Chemical Reviews. 117(9). 6467–6499. 743 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alkhadra, Mohammad A., et al.. (2017). Quantifying the Fracture Behavior of Brittle and Ductile Thin Films of Semiconducting Polymers. Chemistry of Materials. 29(23). 10139–10149. 59 indexed citations

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Zaretski, Aliaksandr V., Samuel E. Root, A. K. Savchenko, et al.. (2016). Metallic Nanoislands on Graphene as Highly Sensitive Transducers of Mechanical, Biological, and Optical Signals. Nano Letters. 16(2). 1375–1380. 64 indexed citations

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