Silvia Vignolini

12.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
161 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Silvia Vignolini is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvia Vignolini has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 36 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Silvia Vignolini's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (60 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (31 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (28 papers). Silvia Vignolini is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (60 papers), Advanced Cellulose Research Studies (31 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (28 papers). Silvia Vignolini collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Italy. Silvia Vignolini's co-authors include Ullrich Steiner, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Richard Parker, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Giulia Guidetti, Beverley J. Glover, Gen Kamita, Gianni Jacucci, Tianheng Zhao and Stefan Guldin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Silvia Vignolini

155 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit

2012 494 citations Silvia Vignolini, Paula J. Rudall et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Self‐Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals: Hierarchical Design of Visual Appearance

2017 446 citations Richard Parker, Giulia Guidetti et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments

2021 235 citations Hsin‐Ling Liang, Bruno Frka‐Petesic et al. profile →
Highly‐Scattering Cellulose‐Based Films for Radiative Cooling

2022 148 citations Lukas Schertel, Silvia Vignolini et al. Advanced Science profile →
Structural Color from Cellulose Nanocrystals or Chitin Nanocrystals: Self-Assembly, Optics, and Applications

2023 121 citations Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Yu Ogawa et al. profile →
Structurally Colored Radiative Cooling Cellulosic Films

2022 120 citations Richard Parker, Michaël De Volder et al. Advanced Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Silvia Vignolini	3.3k	2.7k	2.3k	2.3k	2.1k	161	9.6k
Ullrich Steiner	1.8k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	4.3k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	9.3k 4.5×	296	21.4k
Rajesh R. Naik	7.2k 2.2×	1.7k 0.6×	7.5k 3.2×	3.0k 1.3×	6.7k 3.3×	315	22.4k
Ali Dhinojwala	1.3k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	630 0.3×	1.9k 0.9×	224	8.7k
Orlin D. Velev	1.7k 0.5×	3.6k 1.4×	9.3k 4.0×	2.1k 0.9×	9.7k 4.7×	261	22.2k
Stephan V. Roth	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	4.3k 2.1×	428	12.4k
Andreas Fery	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	5.2k 2.2×	2.8k 1.2×	4.3k 2.1×	358	13.7k
Mohan Srinivasarao	913 0.3×	907 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	109	5.0k
Athene M. Donald	2.6k 0.8×	779 0.3×	1.5k 0.7×	880 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	297	14.3k
Di Zhang	978 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	3.2k 1.4×	2.2k 0.9×	6.4k 3.1×	528	14.5k
Seong H. Kim	2.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.1×	3.5k 1.5×	462 0.2×	4.6k 2.2×	365	13.8k

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Yu, Kui, et al.. (2025). Thermochromic hydrogel with high transmittance modulation and fast response for flexible smart windows. Communications Materials. 6(1). 239–239.

Green, Dannielle S., et al.. (2024). Assessing the ecotoxicological effects of novel cellulose nanocrystalline glitter compared to conventional polyethylene terephthalate glitter: Toxicity to springtails (Folsomia candida). Chemosphere. 366. 143315–143315. 1 indexed citations

Zomer, Aldert, Colin J. Ingham, F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, et al.. (2024). Structural color in the bacterial domain: The ecogenomics of a 2-dimensional optical phenotype. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(29). e2309757121–e2309757121. 3 indexed citations

Rudall, Paula J., Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Martín López‐García, et al.. (2024). Living jewels: iterative evolution of iridescent blue leaves from helicoidal cell walls. Annals of Botany. 134(1). 131–150. 3 indexed citations

Williams, Cyan A., et al.. (2023). Inkjet Printed Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Patterns. Advanced Materials. 36(1). e2307563–e2307563. 36 indexed citations

Álvarez‐Fernández, Alberto, Anand N. P. Radhakrishnan, Alaric Taylor, et al.. (2023). Liquid Crystal-Templated Porous Microparticles via Photopolymerization of Temperature-Induced Droplets in a Binary Liquid Mixture. ACS Omega. 8(23). 20404–20411. 5 indexed citations

Ogawa, Yu, et al.. (2022). Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of Lantana strigocamara (syn. L. camara hybrid cultivar). New Phytologist. 235(3). 898–906. 6 indexed citations

Chan, Chun Lam Clement, Iek Man Lei, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, et al.. (2022). 3D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropyl Cellulose—toward Tunable and Sustainable Volumetric Photonic Structures. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(15). 72 indexed citations

Middleton, Rox, Edwige Moyroud, Paula J. Rudall, et al.. (2021). Using structural colour to track length scale of cell‐wall layers in developing Pollia japonica fruits. New Phytologist. 230(6). 2327–2336. 7 indexed citations

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Wangpraseurt, Daniel, Shangting You, Farooq Azam, et al.. (2020). Bionic 3D printed corals. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1748–1748. 106 indexed citations

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Frka‐Petesic, Bruno, Thorsten Wagner, Askhat N. Jumabekov, et al.. (2020). Cellulose Nanocrystal-Templated Tin Dioxide Thin Films for Gas Sensing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(11). 12639–12647. 23 indexed citations

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Peng, Jialong, Hyeon‐Ho Jeong, Michael Smith, et al.. (2020). FullyPrinted Flexible Plasmonic Metafilms with Directional Color Dynamics. Advanced Science. 8(2). 2002419–2002419. 25 indexed citations

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Kerkhof, Gea T. van de, et al.. (2020). Disordered wax platelets onTradescantia pallidaleaves create golden shine. Faraday Discussions. 223(0). 207–215. 9 indexed citations

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Odstrčil, Michal, Mirko Holler, Jörg Raabe, et al.. (2019). Ab initio nonrigid X-ray nanotomography. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2600–2600. 28 indexed citations

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Zhao, Tianheng, Richard Parker, Cyan A. Williams, et al.. (2018). Printing of Responsive Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Microfilm Arrays. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(21). 111 indexed citations

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Poutanen, Mikko, Giulia Guidetti, Oleg V. Borisov, et al.. (2018). Block Copolymer Micelles for Photonic Fluids and Crystals. ACS Nano. 12(4). 3149–3158. 39 indexed citations

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Wilts, Bodo D., Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, et al.. (2018). Ultrastructure and optics of the prism‐like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy). New Phytologist. 219(3). 1124–1133. 32 indexed citations

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Caixeiro, Soraya, et al.. (2017). Disordered Cellulose-Based Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Scattering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(9). 7885–7890. 46 indexed citations

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Vignolini, Silvia, et al.. (2014). A high transmission wave-guide wire network made by self-assembly. Nanoscale. 7(3). 1032–1036. 12 indexed citations

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Vignolini, Silvia, Paula J. Rudall, Alison Reed, et al.. (2012). Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(39). 15712–15715. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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