William E. Uspal

2.5k total citations
42 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

William E. Uspal is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Uspal has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William E. Uspal's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (34 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (21 papers) and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (15 papers). William E. Uspal is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (34 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (21 papers) and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (15 papers). William E. Uspal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. William E. Uspal's co-authors include Mihail N. Popescu, Mykola Tasinkevych, S. Dietrich, Samuel Sánchez, Juliane Simmchen, Jaideep Katuri, Alexander Alexeev, Anna C. Balazs, Patrick S. Doyle and Peer Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William E. Uspal

41 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Uspal United States 21 1.4k 1.2k 519 389 220 42 2.0k
Timothy R. Kline United States 15 1.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.5× 421 0.8× 394 1.0× 235 1.1× 16 2.4k
Stephen J. Ebbens United Kingdom 24 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 901 1.7× 488 1.3× 156 0.7× 56 2.7k
Tyler N. Shendruk United Kingdom 21 673 0.5× 589 0.5× 370 0.7× 246 0.6× 157 0.7× 53 1.4k
Ming Han China 22 541 0.4× 434 0.4× 687 1.3× 397 1.0× 265 1.2× 60 1.9k
Tieyan Si China 23 1.5k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 408 0.8× 474 1.2× 235 1.1× 55 2.3k
Kersten Hahn Germany 16 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 609 1.2× 334 0.9× 165 0.8× 24 2.2k
Patrick T. Underhill United States 16 400 0.3× 584 0.5× 335 0.6× 111 0.3× 100 0.5× 40 1.3k
Dušan Babić Slovenia 24 480 0.3× 435 0.4× 612 1.2× 364 0.9× 242 1.1× 51 1.9k
Thorsten Auth Germany 22 383 0.3× 598 0.5× 355 0.7× 133 0.3× 762 3.5× 39 2.0k
Gilad Yossifon Israel 29 596 0.4× 2.1k 1.8× 352 0.7× 220 0.6× 99 0.5× 102 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Uspal, William E., et al.. (2025). Clustering and emergent hyperuniformity by breaking microswimmer shape and actuation symmetries. Physical Review Fluids. 10(11). 1 indexed citations
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Popescu, Mihail N., et al.. (2025). Hydrodynamic Stokes flow induced by a chemically active patch imprinted on a planar wall. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 690. 137296–137296. 2 indexed citations
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Katuri, Jaideep, et al.. (2024). Control of colloidal cohesive states in active chiral fluids. Communications Physics. 7(1).
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Popescu, Mihail N., et al.. (2024). Chemotactic behavior for a self-phoretic Janus particle near a patch source of fuel. Soft Matter. 20(44). 8742–8764. 2 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., et al.. (2023). pH-Responsive swimming behavior of light-powered rod-shaped micromotors. Nanoscale. 15(43). 17534–17543. 8 indexed citations
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Xiao, Zuyao, et al.. (2022). Upstream Rheotaxis of Catalytic Janus Spheres. ACS Nano. 16(3). 4599–4608. 37 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., et al.. (2020). Universal motion of mirror-symmetric microparticles in confined Stokes flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21865–21872. 14 indexed citations
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Zuo, Yi Y., William E. Uspal, & Tao Wei. (2020). Airborne Transmission of COVID-19: Aerosol Dispersion, Lung Deposition, and Virus-Receptor Interactions. ACS Nano. 14(12). 16502–16524. 121 indexed citations
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Das, Sayan, et al.. (2020). Floor- or Ceiling-Sliding for Chemically Active, Gyrotactic, Sedimenting Janus Particles. Langmuir. 36(25). 7133–7147. 25 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., Jaideep Katuri, Mihail N. Popescu, & Samuel Sánchez. (2019). Distribution of tracer particles around a catalytic Janus particle. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Bastos‐Arrieta, Julio, et al.. (2018). Bacterial Biohybrid Microswimmers. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5. 97–97. 61 indexed citations
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Popescu, Mihail N., William E. Uspal, & S. Dietrich. (2017). Chemically active colloids near osmotic-responsive walls with surface-chemistry gradients. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 29(13). 134001–134001. 11 indexed citations
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Popescu, Mihail N., William E. Uspal, Mykola Tasinkevych, & S. Dietrich. (2017). Perils of ad hoc approximations for the activity function of chemically powered colloids. The European Physical Journal E. 40(4). 42–42. 3 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., Mihail N. Popescu, S. Dietrich, & Mykola Tasinkevych. (2015). Rheotaxis of spherical active particles near a planar wall. Soft Matter. 11(33). 6613–6632. 76 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., Mihail N. Popescu, S. Dietrich, & Mykola Tasinkevych. (2014). Self-propulsion of a catalytically active particle near a planar wall: from reflection to sliding and hovering. Soft Matter. 11(3). 434–438. 197 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E. & Patrick S. Doyle. (2014). Self-organizing microfluidic crystals. Soft Matter. 10(28). 5177–5191. 23 indexed citations
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Uspal, William E., Hüseyin Burak Eral, & Patrick S. Doyle. (2013). Engineering particle trajectories in microfluidic flows using particle shape. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2666–2666. 68 indexed citations
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Leith, Jason S., Anahita Tafvizi, Fang Huang, et al.. (2012). Sequence-dependent sliding kinetics of p53. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Doyle, Patrick S. & William E. Uspal. (2011). Scattering and nonlinear bound states of hydrodynamically coupled particles in a narrow channel. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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