Stefano Sacanna

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Sacanna is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Sacanna has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Organic Chemistry and 21 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Stefano Sacanna's work include Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (46 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (22 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (21 papers). Stefano Sacanna is often cited by papers focused on Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (46 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (22 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (21 papers). Stefano Sacanna collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and South Korea. Stefano Sacanna's co-authors include David J. Pine, P. M. Chaikin, Jérémie Palacci, Gi‐Ra Yi, Albert P. Philipse, William T. M. Irvine, Asher Preska Steinberg, Laura Rossi, Theodore Hueckel and Zhe Gong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Sacanna

73 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

2013 1.3k citations Jérémie Palacci, Stefano Sacanna et al. profile →
Lock and key colloids

2010 620 citations Stefano Sacanna, William T. M. Irvine et al. Nature profile →
Colloidal diamond

2020 254 citations Mingxin He, Étienne Ducrot et al. Nature profile →
Modulation of Immune Responses by Particle Size and Shape

2021 204 citations Maksim V. Baranov, Manoj Kumar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Sacanna United States	39	4.2k	2.8k	2.2k	1.4k	962	74	7.1k
Erik Luijten United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	494 0.5×	122	7.5k
Emanuela Zaccarelli Italy	47	6.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	431 0.4×	169	8.4k
Jérôme Bibette France	52	4.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	5.0k 2.3×	1.9k 1.3×	922 1.0×	138	10.7k
Michael Engel Germany	40	5.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	786 0.5×	512 0.5×	104	7.3k
Sung Chul Bae United States	28	3.0k 0.7×	968 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	326 0.3×	72	5.4k
Luca Cipelletti France	36	3.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	686 0.5×	436 0.5×	107	5.7k
René van Roij Netherlands	47	4.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	306 0.3×	180	7.6k
Kenneth S. Schweizer United States	72	11.9k 2.8×	1.9k 0.7×	4.8k 2.2×	2.7k 1.9×	559 0.6×	335	16.4k
Arnout Imhof Netherlands	47	6.0k 1.4×	813 0.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	433 0.5×	120	9.0k
Kyle J. M. Bishop United States	43	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	783 0.8×	111	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Sacanna

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All Works

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Chen, Michael S., et al.. (2025). Direct observation and control of non-classical crystallization pathways in binary colloidal systems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3645–3645. 2 indexed citations

Hauser, Adam J., et al.. (2024). Enabling three-dimensional real-space analysis of ionic colloidal crystallization. Nature Materials. 23(8). 1131–1137. 10 indexed citations

Hauser, Adam J., et al.. (2024). Osmotic and phoretic competition explains chemotaxic assembly and sorting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2410840121–e2410840121. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Zhe, Theodore Hueckel, William T. M. Irvine, & Stefano Sacanna. (2023). Caged Colloids. Chemistry of Materials. 35(16). 6357–6363. 3 indexed citations

Gong, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Visualizing defect dynamics by assembling the colloidal graphene lattice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1524–1524. 25 indexed citations

Kumar, Manoj, et al.. (2022). Assembling anisotropic colloids using curvature-mediated lipid sorting. Soft Matter. 18(9). 1757–1766. 1 indexed citations

Biebricher, Andreas S., Zhe Gong, Stefano Sacanna, et al.. (2022). Extreme mechanics of colloidal polymers under compression: Buckling, creep, and break-up. Physical Review Materials. 6(3). 2 indexed citations

Edmond, Kazem V., Joon Suk Oh, Gi‐Ra Yi, et al.. (2021). Large-scale synthesis of colloidal bowl-shaped particles. Soft Matter. 17(25). 6176–6181. 15 indexed citations

Xu, Zhe, Theodore Hueckel, William T. M. Irvine, & Stefano Sacanna. (2021). Transmembrane transport in inorganic colloidal cell-mimics. Nature. 597(7875). 220–224. 44 indexed citations

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Tuinier, Remco, et al.. (2020). Selective colloidal bonds via polymer-mediated interactions. Soft Matter. 16(32). 7438–7446. 11 indexed citations

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He, Mingxin, Étienne Ducrot, Zhe Gong, et al.. (2020). Colloidal diamond. Nature. 585(7826). 524–529. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hueckel, Theodore & Stefano Sacanna. (2018). Mix-and-Melt Colloidal Engineering. ACS Nano. 12(4). 3533–3540. 33 indexed citations

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Palacci, Jérémie, et al.. (2016). Trochoidal trajectories of self-propelled Janus particles in a diverging laser beam. Soft Matter. 12(30). 6357–6364. 35 indexed citations

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Driscoll, Michelle, Blaise Delmotte, Mena Youssef, et al.. (2016). Unstable fronts and motile structures formed by microrollers. Nature Physics. 13(4). 375–379. 172 indexed citations

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Sacanna, Stefano, Mark Korpics, Kelvin Rodriguez, et al.. (2013). Shaping colloids for self-assembly. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1688–1688. 319 indexed citations

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Yi, Gi‐Ra, David J. Pine, & Stefano Sacanna. (2013). Recent progress on patchy colloids and their self-assembly. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 25(19). 193101–193101. 198 indexed citations

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Kim, Seung‐Hyun, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Stefano Sacanna, et al.. (2012). Synthesis and Assembly of Colloidal Particles with Sticky Dimples. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(39). 16115–16118. 88 indexed citations

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Sacanna, Stefano, William T. M. Irvine, P. M. Chaikin, & David J. Pine. (2010). Lock and key colloids. Nature. 464(7288). 575–578. 620 indexed citations breakdown →

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Erné, Ben H., et al.. (2006). Low-frequency complex magnetic susceptibility of magnetic composite microspheres in colloidal dispersion. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 311(1). 145–149. 12 indexed citations

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Banchio, Adolfo J., Jacek Gapiński, A. Patkowski, et al.. (2006). Many-Body Hydrodynamic Interactions in Charge-Stabilized Suspensions. Physical Review Letters. 96(13). 138303–138303. 64 indexed citations

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