Yinding Chi

1.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Yinding Chi is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yinding Chi has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 7 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Yinding Chi's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (12 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Yinding Chi is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (16 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (12 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (7 papers). Yinding Chi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and China. Yinding Chi's co-authors include Jie Yin, Yaoye Hong, Yanbin Li, Yao Zhao, Yichao Tang, Hao Su, Jianguo Zhao, Jiefeng Sun, Omid Haji Maghsoudi and Tzu-Hao Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yinding Chi

20 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

2020 373 citations Yichao Tang, Yinding Chi et al. Science Advances profile →
Bistable and Multistable Actuators for Soft Robots: Structures, Materials, and Functionalities

2022 355 citations Yinding Chi, Yanbin Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Twisting for soft intelligent autonomous robot in unstructured environments

2022 175 citations Yao Zhao, Yinding Chi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yinding Chi United States	13	1.0k	924	375	221	169	23	1.4k
Yaoye Hong United States	15	1.0k 1.0×	819 0.9×	321 0.9×	248 1.1×	122 0.7×	22	1.4k
Sophie Leanza United States	12	741 0.7×	526 0.6×	267 0.7×	208 0.9×	76 0.4×	23	918
Jize Dai United States	12	784 0.8×	597 0.6×	285 0.8×	252 1.1×	90 0.5×	16	968
Yanbin Li China	22	1.3k 1.3×	797 0.9×	240 0.6×	416 1.9×	165 1.0×	63	1.9k
Maurizio Follador Italy	15	682 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	366 1.0×	161 0.7×	460 2.7×	16	1.6k
Lishuai Jin United States	17	847 0.8×	569 0.6×	116 0.3×	280 1.3×	80 0.5×	24	1.1k
Yichuan Wu China	16	532 0.5×	828 0.9×	265 0.7×	132 0.6×	58 0.3×	58	1.3k
Daniel M. Aukes United States	18	766 0.8×	965 1.0×	175 0.5×	83 0.4×	282 1.7×	48	1.4k
Nikolaos Vasios United States	8	570 0.6×	543 0.6×	166 0.4×	163 0.7×	89 0.5×	9	801
Levi H. Dudte United States	6	891 0.9×	519 0.6×	87 0.2×	453 2.0×	120 0.7×	8	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yinding Chi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yinding Chi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yinding Chi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yinding Chi. Yinding Chi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kim, Jong Bin, et al.. (2025). Multi‐Mode Mechanochromic Responses from Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes of Uniform Sheath. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2504461–e2504461. 3 indexed citations

Hong, Yaoye, et al.. (2025). Reprogrammable snapping morphogenesis in ribbon-cluster meta-units using stored elastic energy. Nature Materials. 24(11). 1793–1801.

Chi, Yinding, Yuchong Gao, M.H. Akbari, et al.. (2025). Geometrically Templated, Ultra‐Lightweight and High Strength Soap Films from Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Graphene Oxide/Polymer Composites. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(8).

Wang, Kunyu, et al.. (2025). Highly Scalable, Raspberry‐Like Microbeads with Nano‐/Micro‐Confined Hybrid Hydrogel Desiccants for Rapid Atmospheric Water Harvesting. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46). 2 indexed citations

Yu, Kunhao, Teng Teng, Hua Chai, et al.. (2025). 3D Concrete Printing of Triply Periodic Minimum Surfaces for Enhanced Carbon Capture and Storage. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(45). 1 indexed citations

Yu, Kunhao, Yinding Chi, Hye‐Min Lee, et al.. (2024). Moisture Absorbing and Water Self‐Releasing from Hybrid Hydrogel Desiccants (Adv. Funct. Mater. 19/2024). Advanced Functional Materials. 34(19). 1 indexed citations

Chi, Yinding, et al.. (2024). Spontaneous snapping-induced jet flows for fast, maneuverable surface and underwater soft flapping swimmer. Science Advances. 10(49). eadq4222–eadq4222. 11 indexed citations

Chi, Yinding, et al.. (2024). Fully 3D‐Printed Miniature Soft Hydraulic Actuators with Shape Memory Effect for Morphing and Manipulation. Advanced Materials. 36(36). e2402517–e2402517. 26 indexed citations

Li, Yanbin, et al.. (2024). Adaptive hierarchical origami-based metastructures. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6247–6247. 20 indexed citations

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Yu, Kunhao, Yinding Chi, Hye‐Min Lee, et al.. (2023). Moisture Absorbing and Water Self‐Releasing from Hybrid Hydrogel Desiccants. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(19). 30 indexed citations

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Hong, Yaoye, Yao Zhao, Yinding Chi, et al.. (2023). Angle-programmed tendril-like trajectories enable a multifunctional gripper with ultradelicacy, ultrastrength, and ultraprecision. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4625–4625. 38 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yao, et al.. (2023). Self‐Sustained Snapping Drives Autonomous Dancing and Motion in Free‐Standing Wavy Rings (Adv. Mater. 7/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(7). 2 indexed citations

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Chi, Yinding, Yao Zhao, Yaoye Hong, Yanbin Li, & Jie Yin. (2023). A Perspective on Miniature Soft Robotics: Actuation, Fabrication, Control, and Applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 34 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yao, Yinding Chi, Yaoye Hong, et al.. (2022). Twisting for soft intelligent autonomous robot in unstructured environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(22). e2200265119–e2200265119. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chi, Yinding, Yaoye Hong, Yao Zhao, Yanbin Li, & Jie Yin. (2022). Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient butterfly stroke–like soft swimmer. Science Advances. 8(46). eadd3788–eadd3788. 84 indexed citations

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Chi, Yinding, Yanbin Li, Yao Zhao, et al.. (2022). Bistable and Multistable Actuators for Soft Robots: Structures, Materials, and Functionalities. Advanced Materials. 34(19). 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hong, Yaoye, Yinding Chi, Shuang Wu, et al.. (2022). Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets. Nature Communications. 13(1). 530–530. 93 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yao, et al.. (2022). Self‐Sustained Snapping Drives Autonomous Dancing and Motion in Free‐Standing Wavy Rings. Advanced Materials. 35(7). e2207372–e2207372. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Yanbin, Yao Zhao, Yinding Chi, Yaoye Hong, & Jie Yin. (2021). Shape-morphing materials and structures for energy-efficient building envelopes. Materials Today Energy. 22. 100874–100874. 51 indexed citations

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Chi, Yinding, Yichao Tang, Haijun Liu, & Jie Yin. (2020). Leveraging Monostable and Bistable Pre‐Curved Bilayer Actuators for High‐Performance Multitask Soft Robots. Advanced Materials Technologies. 5(9). 76 indexed citations

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