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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
42121
World Ranking
163
National Ranking
82

Materials Science

D-Index
86
Citations
43192
World Ranking
2015
National Ranking
607

Alexander L. Yarin publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander L. Yarin sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 499 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Alexander L. Yarin D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander L. Yarin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal theoretical and experimental contributions to the understanding of capillary and bending instabilities in jets, drop impact, splashing, and electrospinning processes

Overview

Alexander L. Yarin is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple domains primarily within engineering and materials science, with notable contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, and biomaterials.

Their research focuses on a range of topics including:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Dental Research and COVID-19
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies

Alexander L. Yarin's recent publications include:

  • "Review of recent progress in electrospinning-derived freestanding and binder-free electrodes for supercapacitors" (2022) - Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Multifunctional Platform Based on Electrospun Nanofibers and Plasmonic Hydrogel: A Smart Nanostructured Pillow for Near-Infrared Light-Driven Biomedical Applications" (2020) - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Supersonically Sprayed Washable, Wearable, Stretchable, Hydrophobic, and Antibacterial rGO/AgNW Fabric for Multifunctional Sensors and Supercapacitors" (2021) - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Progress and potential of electrospinning-derived substrate-free and binder-free lithium-ion battery electrodes" (2021) - Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Computer simulation of the SARS-CoV-2 contamination risk in a large dental clinic" (2021) - Physics of Fluids

Their work has been published frequently in these venues:

  • Physics of Fluids (26 publications)
  • Default Digital Object Group (19 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (10 publications)
  • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (6 publications)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (5 publications)

Alexander L. Yarin has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Sam S. Yoon (49 collaborations)
  • Seongpil An (30 collaborations)
  • Farzad Mashayek (30 collaborations)
  • Yong Il Kim (25 collaborations)
  • Jungwoo Huh (23 collaborations)

In book publications, Alexander L. Yarin has contributed to:

  • "Materials and Electro-mechanical and Biomedical Devices Based on Nanofibers" (2024) published by Springer Vienna

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 for contributions related to capillary and bending instabilities in jets, drop impact, splashing, and electrospinning processes.

Best Publications

  • Bending instability of electrically charged liquid jets of polymer solutions in electrospinning

    Darrell Hyson Reneker;Alexander L Yarin;Hao Fong;Sureeporn Koombhongse

  • Drop Impact Dynamics: Splashing, Spreading, Receding, Bouncing ...

    Alexander Yarin

  • Electrospinning jets and polymer nanofibers

    Darrell H. Reneker;Alexander L. Yarin

  • Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics

    Cameron Tropea;Alexander L. Yarin;John F. Foss

  • Compound core-shell polymer nanofibers by co-electrospinning

    Zaicheng Sun;Eyal Zussman;Alexander L. Yarin;Joachim H. Wendorff

  • Bending instability in electrospinning of nanofibers

    A. L. Yarin;S. Koombhongse;Darrell Hyson Reneker

  • Experimental investigation of the governing parameters in the electrospinning of polymer solutions

    S. A. Theron;E. Zussman;E. Zussman;Alexander Yarin;Alexander Yarin

  • Taylor Cone and Jetting from Liquid Droplets in Electrospinning of Nanofibers

    Alexander L Yarin;S Koombhongse;Darrell Hyson Reneker

  • Impact of drops on solid surfaces : self-similar capillary waves, and splashing as a new type of kinematic discontinuity

    Alexander Yarin;D. A. Weiss

  • Electrostatic field-assisted alignment of electrospun nanofibres

    A Theron;E Zussman;A L Yarin

  • Effects of parameters on nanofiber diameter determined from electrospinning model

    C. J. Thompson;George G. Chase;A. L. Yarin;Darrell Reneker

  • Electrospinning of Nanofibers from Polymer Solutions and Melts

    D. H. Reneker;Alexander Yarin;Alexander Yarin;E. Zussman;H. Xu;H. Xu

  • Renewable and metal-free carbon nanofibre catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction

    Bijandra Kumar;Mohammad Asadi;Davide Pisasale;Suman Sinha-Ray

  • MULTIPLE JETS IN ELECTROSPINNING: EXPERIMENT AND MODELING

    S. A. Theron;Alexander Yarin;E. Zussman;E. Kroll

  • Upward needleless electrospinning of multiple nanofibers

    Alexander Yarin;E. Zussman

  • Free Liquid Jets and Films: Hydrodynamics and Rheology

    Alexander L. Yarin

  • Coaxial electrospinning and emulsion electrospinning of core–shell fibers

    Alexander Yarin;Alexander Yarin

  • Co-electrospinning of core-shell fibers using a single-nozzle technique.

    Alexander V. Bazilevsky;and Alexander L. Yarin;Constantine M. Megaridis

  • Formation of nanofiber crossbars in electrospinning

    E. Zussman;A. Theron;Alexander Yarin

  • Nanofiber garlands of polycaprolactone by electrospinning

    D.H Reneker;W Kataphinan;A Theron;E Zussman

Frequent Co-Authors

Suman Sinha-Ray
Suman Sinha-Ray University of Illinois at Chicago
Seongpil An
Seongpil An Sungkyunkwan University
Sam S. Yoon
Sam S. Yoon Korea University
Behnam Pourdeyhimi
Behnam Pourdeyhimi North Carolina State University
Eyal Zussman
Eyal Zussman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Cameron Tropea
Cameron Tropea Technical University of Darmstadt
Ilia V. Roisman
Ilia V. Roisman Technical University of Darmstadt
Farzad Mashayek
Farzad Mashayek University of Illinois at Chicago
Darrell H. Reneker
Darrell H. Reneker University of Akron
Constantine M. Megaridis
Constantine M. Megaridis University of Illinois at Chicago

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