Shucong Li

2.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
35 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Shucong Li is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Agronomy and Crop Science and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shucong Li has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 10 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shucong Li's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (13 papers), Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology (10 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (8 papers). Shucong Li is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (13 papers), Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology (10 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (8 papers). Shucong Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Shucong Li's co-authors include Ehsan Khafipour, Jan C. Plaizier, Denis O. Krause, Joanna Aizenberg, Emily Davidson, Arda Kotikian, Jennifer A. Lewis, Yuxing Yao, Pia Haubro Andersen and Xiaoguang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shucong Li

31 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Rumen Microbiome Composition Determined Using Two Nutritional Models of Subacute Ruminal Acidosis

2009 426 citations Ehsan Khafipour, Shucong Li et al. profile →
Staggered circular nanoporous graphene converts electromagnetic waves into electricity

2023 239 citations Hualiang Lv, Yuxing Yao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures

2022 134 citations Shucong Li, Michael M. Lerch et al. Nature profile →
Functional nanoporous graphene superlattice

2024 85 citations Hualiang Lv, Yuxing Yao et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shucong Li United States	17	833	613	504	428	370	35	2.1k
Konstantinos Gerasopoulos United States	29	48 0.1×	150 0.2×	460 0.9×	536 1.3×	363 1.0×	68	2.7k
Z. Wu China	20	711 0.9×	51 0.1×	97 0.2×	225 0.5×	44 0.1×	28	1.4k
Yoon‐Cheol Ha South Korea	33	59 0.1×	193 0.3×	412 0.8×	151 0.4×	90 0.2×	128	2.9k
Hironao Okada Japan	21	196 0.2×	162 0.3×	459 0.9×	29 0.1×	56 0.2×	108	1.4k
Jia Cheng China	33	159 0.2×	695 1.1×	2.4k 4.7×	469 1.1×	118 0.3×	133	3.6k
Qiangqiang Zhang China	23	84 0.1×	90 0.1×	88 0.2×	111 0.3×	292 0.8×	97	1.8k
Lin Liang China	25	46 0.1×	340 0.6×	150 0.3×	74 0.2×	448 1.2×	76	1.8k
Guiqing Wang China	36	44 0.1×	536 0.9×	557 1.1×	82 0.2×	794 2.1×	159	4.7k
Robert Patterson Australia	31	53 0.1×	106 0.2×	378 0.8×	201 0.5×	88 0.2×	136	3.9k
Jürgen Schmidt Germany	41	323 0.4×	735 1.2×	531 1.1×	106 0.2×	1.4k 3.8×	153	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shucong Li

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Kara, Ufuoma I., Boyuan Chen, Simon Čopar, et al.. (2025). Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals. Nature Physics. 21(9). 1404–1411.

Song, Won Jun, Yong‐Woo Kang, S. B. Choi, et al.. (2025). All‐3D‐Printed Multi‐Environment Modular Microrobots Powered by Large‐Displacement Dielectric Elastomer Microactuators. Advanced Materials. 37(45). e07503–e07503.

Lerch, Michael M., Ankita Shastri, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, et al.. (2025). Unusual Swelling Behavior of Hydrogels Modified with Spiropyran as Appendage or Crosslinker. Advanced Functional Materials.

Yang, Xinyi, Bohan Wang, Minghao Guo, et al.. (2025). Electronic‐Free Particle Robots Communicate through Architected Tentacles. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 7(12). 1 indexed citations

Song, Yuhang, Junyao Zhang, Zejun Sun, et al.. (2025). Artificial synapse‐based intelligent light‐controlled liquid crystal network actuators. InfoMat. 7(6). 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Meng, Xinxin Lu, Haodong Hu, et al.. (2025). Liquid crystal elastomers for solar, mechanical, thermal, and electrochemical energy applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 14(6). 3185–3209.

Yao, Yuxing, Friedrich Stricker, Shucong Li, et al.. (2024). Programming liquid crystal elastomers for multistep ambidirectional deformability. Science. 386(6726). 1161–1168. 21 indexed citations

Li, Shucong, et al.. (2024). Programming hierarchical anisotropy in microactuators for multimodal actuation. Lab on a Chip. 24(17). 4073–4084. 3 indexed citations

Li, Shucong, Michael Aizenberg, Michael M. Lerch, & Joanna Aizenberg. (2023). Programming Deformations of 3D Microstructures: Opportunities Enabled by Magnetic Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Accounts of Materials Research. 4(12). 1008–1019. 11 indexed citations

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Lv, Hualiang, Yuxing Yao, Shucong Li, et al.. (2023). Staggered circular nanoporous graphene converts electromagnetic waves into electricity. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1982–1982. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yao, Yuxing, Yang Xu, Adil Majeed Rather, et al.. (2022). Wettability-based ultrasensitive detection of amphiphiles through directed concentration at disordered regions in self-assembled monolayers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(43). e2211042119–e2211042119. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Shucong, Michael M. Lerch, James T. Waters, et al.. (2022). Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures. Nature. 605(7908). 76–83. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Shucong, et al.. (2021). Controlling Liquid Crystal Orientations for Programmable Anisotropic Transformations in Cellular Microstructures. Advanced Materials. 33(42). e2105024–e2105024. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Shucong, Bolei Deng, Alison Grinthal, et al.. (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature. 592(7854). 386–391. 121 indexed citations

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Waters, James T., Shucong Li, Yuxing Yao, et al.. (2020). Twist again: Dynamically and reversibly controllable chirality in liquid crystalline elastomer microposts. Science Advances. 6(13). eaay5349–eaay5349. 34 indexed citations

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Plaizier, Jan C., et al.. (2017). Changes in Microbiota in Rumen Digesta and Feces Due to a Grain-Based Subacute Ruminal Acidosis (SARA) Challenge. Microbial Ecology. 74(2). 485–495. 135 indexed citations

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Plaizier, Jan C., Shucong Li, Hein M. Tun, & Ehsan Khafipour. (2017). Nutritional Models of Experimentally-Induced Subacute Ruminal Acidosis (SARA) Differ in Their Impact on Rumen and Hindgut Bacterial Communities in Dairy Cows. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 2128–2128. 89 indexed citations

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Nardi, Roberta De, Giorgio Marchesini, Shucong Li, et al.. (2016). Metagenomic analysis of rumen microbial population in dairy heifers fed a high grain diet supplemented with dicarboxylic acids or polyphenols. BMC Veterinary Research. 12(1). 29–29. 63 indexed citations

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Li, Shucong, et al.. (2015). Indicators of induced subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in Danish Holstein cows. Acta veterinaria Scandinavica. 57(1). 39–39. 91 indexed citations

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Li, Shucong, et al.. (2014). The effects of grain-induced subactue ruminal acidosis on interleukin-6 and acute phase response in dairy cows. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

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