2026 Aránzazu del Campo: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	53	9144	8830	511	495	162	11760

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Materials Science

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11760

Overview

Aránzazu del Campo is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans a range of specialized subfields including biomedical engineering, cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and molecular medicine.

The scientist's research focuses on several core topics:

3D Printing in Biomedical Research
Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Aránzazu del Campo has published studies in prominent journals and venues, notably including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Advanced Science
Biomaterials Advances
SSRN Electronic Journal
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Their recent papers include the following:

"Engineered living biomaterials," 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
"Bioinspired footed soft robot with unidirectional all-terrain mobility," 2020, Materials Today
"Lighting the Path: Light Delivery Strategies to Activate Photoresponsive Biomaterials In Vivo," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
"Regulating Bacterial Behavior within Hydrogels of Tunable Viscoelasticity," 2022, Advanced Science
"Printed Degradable Optical Waveguides for Guiding Light into Tissue," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

Shrikrishnan Sankaran (16 joint publications)
Samuel Pearson (10 joint publications)
Shardul Bhusari (10 joint publications)
Bin Qu (10 joint publications)
Sara Trujillo (8 joint publications)

Best Publications

Advances in colloidal assembly: the design of structure and hierarchy in two and three dimensions.

Nicolas Vogel;Markus Retsch;Charles-Andre Fustin;Aranzazu del Campo

788
Citations
Contact shape controls adhesion of bioinspired fibrillar surfaces

A. del Campo;C. Greiner;E. Arzt;E. Arzt

564
Citations
Fabrication approaches for generating complex micro- and nanopatterns on polymeric surfaces.

and Aránzazu del Campo;Eduard Arzt

564
Citations
Gecko-inspired surfaces: a path to strong and reversible dry adhesives.

Luciano F. Boesel;Christian Greiner;Eduard Arzt;Aránzazu del Campo

535
Citations
Engineered living biomaterials

Aleixandre Rodrigo-Navarro;Shrikrishnan Sankaran;Matthew J. Dalby;Aránzazu del Campo;Aránzazu del Campo

456
Citations
Light-triggered in vivo activation of adhesive peptides regulates cell adhesion, inflammation and vascularization of biomaterials.

Ted T. Lee;José R. García;Julieta I. Paez;Ankur Singh

431
Citations
Active superelasticity in three-dimensional epithelia of controlled shape

Ernest Latorre;Sohan Kale;Laura Casares;Manuel Gómez-González

350
Citations
Multivalent H-bonds for self-healing hydrogels

Jiaxi Cui;Aránzazu del Campo

346
Citations
Functional Adhesive Surfaces with “Gecko” Effect: The Concept of Contact Splitting

Marleen Kamperman;Elmar Kroner;Aránzazu del Campo;Robert M. McMeeking

309
Citations
Multifunctional magnetite and silica–magnetite nanoparticles: Synthesis, surface activation and applications in life sciences

Aránzazu del Campo;Aránzazu del Campo;Tapas Sen;Jean-Paul Lellouche;Ian J. Bruce;Ian J. Bruce

275
Citations
Hierarchical Gecko-Like Adhesives

Christian Greiner;Eduard Arzt;Aránzazu del Campo

272
Citations
Bioinspired Underwater Bonding and Debonding on Demand

Zahid Shafiq;Jiaxi Cui;Lourdes Pastor-Pérez;Verónica San Miguel

253
Citations
Phototriggering of Cell Adhesion by Caged Cyclic RGD Peptides

Svea Petersen;José María Alonso;Alexandre Specht;Portia Duodu

232
Citations
Magnetically actuated patterns for bioinspired reversible adhesion (dry and wet).

Dirk-Michael Drotlef;Peter Blümler;Aránzazu del Campo

223
Citations
Insights into the Adhesive Mechanisms of Tree Frogs using Artificial Mimics

Dirk-Michael Drotlef;Lukas Stepien;Michael Kappl;W. J. P. Barnes

199
Citations
Wavelength-Selective Caged Surfaces: How Many Functional Levels Are Possible?

Verónica San Miguel;Christian G. Bochet;Aránzazu del Campo

197
Citations
3D bioprinting of structural proteins.

Małgorzata K. Włodarczyk-Biegun;Aránzazu del Campo;Aránzazu del Campo

182
Citations
Torrent Frog-Inspired Adhesives: Attachment to Flooded Surfaces

Jagoba Iturri;Longjian Xue;Michael Kappl;Luis Garcia-Fernandez

159
Citations
Membrane Tension Orchestrates Rear Retraction in Matrix-Directed Cell Migration

Joseph H.R. Hetmanski;Henry de Belly;Ignacio Busnelli;Ignacio Busnelli;Thomas Waring

158
Citations
Hybrid Surface Patterns Mimicking the Design of the Adhesive Toe Pad of Tree Frog

Longjian Xue;Belén Sanz;Belén Sanz;Aoyi Luo;Kevin T. Turner

157
Citations
Superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces via plasma treatment

Juan P. Fernández-Blázquez;Daniela Fell;Elmar Bonaccurso;Aránzazu del Campo

151
Citations
Colloidal assemblies on patterned silane layers.

Ulrich Jonas;Aránzazu del Campo;Christian Krüger;Gunnar Glasser

149
Citations