William T. M. Irvine

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

William T. M. Irvine is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, William T. M. Irvine has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 15 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in William T. M. Irvine's work include Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (13 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (8 papers). William T. M. Irvine is often cited by papers focused on Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (13 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (8 papers). William T. M. Irvine collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. William T. M. Irvine's co-authors include P. M. Chaikin, Dustin Kleckner, Vincenzo Vitelli, Stefano Sacanna, David J. Pine, Dirk Bouwmeester, Lisa M. Nash, Christoph Simon, Ari M. Turner and Laura Rossi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William T. M. Irvine

57 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Lock and key colloids 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2015 2020 200 400 600
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.

  1. Lock and key colloids
    2010 620 citations Stefano Sacanna, William T. M. Irvine et al. Nature profile →
  2. Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials
    2015 590 citations Lisa M. Nash, Dustin Kleckner et al. profile →
  3. Odd elasticity
    2020 219 citations Colin Scheibner, Anton Souslov et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William T. M. Irvine United States 30 1.9k 1.5k 937 921 554 59 4.5k
Peter Virnau Germany 34 950 0.5× 1.7k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 571 1.0× 117 3.9k
Sebastian D. Huber Switzerland 34 4.4k 2.3× 957 0.6× 1.3k 1.4× 680 0.7× 661 1.2× 76 5.4k
Mark J. Bowick United States 39 1.2k 0.6× 1.6k 1.0× 2.0k 2.1× 576 0.6× 905 1.6× 121 5.7k
Heiner Linke Sweden 39 2.4k 1.3× 2.0k 1.4× 596 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 2.4k 4.3× 198 6.2k
Manuel G. Velárde Spain 51 1.8k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 606 0.6× 1.6k 1.7× 2.3k 4.2× 355 8.9k
Yuri P. Kalmykov France 30 2.3k 1.2× 647 0.4× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 1.6k 2.9× 210 4.5k
Jian‐Hua Jiang China 37 4.1k 2.1× 1.5k 1.0× 546 0.6× 773 0.8× 834 1.5× 184 5.7k
Chuanwei Zhang United States 45 5.6k 2.9× 2.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.4× 824 0.9× 538 1.0× 236 7.8k
Joshua A. Anderson United States 21 410 0.2× 1.6k 1.0× 537 0.6× 569 0.6× 132 0.2× 38 3.4k
M. B. Weissman United States 29 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 357 0.4× 353 0.6× 157 3.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mitchell, Noah, et al.. (2023). Turbulence through sustained vortex ring collisions. Physical Review Fluids. 8(11).
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Xu, Zhe, Theodore Hueckel, William T. M. Irvine, & Stefano Sacanna. (2023). Caged Colloids. Chemistry of Materials. 35(16). 6357–6363. 3 indexed citations
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Dillavou, Sam, et al.. (2022). Spatters and spills: Spreading dynamics for partially wetting droplets. Physics of Fluids. 34(1). 8 indexed citations
4.
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
5.
Scheibner, Colin, Anton Souslov, Debarghya Banerjee, et al.. (2020). Odd elasticity. Nature Physics. 16(4). 475–480. 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perrard, Stéphane, et al.. (2019). Realization of Confined Turbulence Through Multiple Vortex Ring Collisions. APS. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Scheibner, Colin, Anton Souslov, Debarghya Banerjee, et al.. (2019). Odd Elasticity in Active Metamaterials. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Noah, Lisa M. Nash, Daniel Hexner, Ari M. Turner, & William T. M. Irvine. (2016). Amorphous Gyroscopic Topological Metamaterials. arXiv (Cornell University). 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Kedia, Hridesh, David Foster, Mark R. Dennis, & William T. M. Irvine. (2016). Weaving Knotted Vector Fields with Tunable Helicity. Physical Review Letters. 117(27). 274501–274501. 33 indexed citations
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Kleckner, Dustin, et al.. (2014). Helicity conservation in topology-changing reconnections: the flow of linking and coiling across scales. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Rupich, Sara M., Fernando C. Castro, William T. M. Irvine, & Dmitri V. Talapin. (2014). Soft epitaxy of nanocrystal superlattices. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5045–5045. 39 indexed citations
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Irvine, William T. M. & Dirk Bouwmeester. (2010). Linked and knotted beams of light. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 2 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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Kleckner, Dustin, William T. M. Irvine, S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, & Dirk Bouwmeester. (2010). Diffraction-limited high-finesse optical cavities. Physical Review A. 81(4). 36 indexed citations
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Irvine, William T. M., Vincenzo Vitelli, & P. M. Chaikin. (2010). Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces. Nature. 468(7326). 947–951. 265 indexed citations
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Thon, Susanna M., William T. M. Irvine, Dustin Kleckner, & Dirk Bouwmeester. (2010). Polychromatic Photonic Quasicrystal Cavities. Physical Review Letters. 104(24). 243901–243901. 19 indexed citations
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Hollingsworth, Andrew D., Mirjam E. Leunissen, William T. M. Irvine, P. M. Chaikin, & Alfons van Blaaderen. (2008). Charged colloids in low polar solvents. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Kleckner, Dustin, et al.. (2006). High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror. Physical Review Letters. 96(17). 173901–173901. 55 indexed citations
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Dood, M. J. A. de, William T. M. Irvine, & Dirk Bouwmeester. (2004). Nonlinear Photonic Crystals as a Source of Entangled Photons. Physical Review Letters. 93(4). 40504–40504. 37 indexed citations
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Simon, Christoph & William T. M. Irvine. (2003). Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons. Physical Review Letters. 91(11). 110405–110405. 220 indexed citations

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