2026 Chiara Daraio: 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	79	2876	2780	808	760	303	18991

Chiara Daraio publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chiara Daraio sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 303 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Chiara Daraio D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chiara Daraio sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chiara Daraio is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses on engineering, with significant contributions to several subfields including biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, biomaterials, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Cellular and Composite Structures
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Nonlinear Photonic Systems
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Chiara Daraio has published extensively, including recent papers such as:

"Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
"Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties," 2021, Nature
"Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation," 2021, Science Robotics
"Growth rules for irregular architected materials with programmable properties," 2022, Science
"Programming temporal morphing of self-actuated shells," 2020, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include:

Paolo Celli
Tommaso Magrini
Brian Kim
Jagannadh Boddapati
Alexander C. Ogren

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Applied Physics Letters
SSRN Electronic Journal
Extreme Mechanics Letters
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Best Publications

Bifurcation-based acoustic switching and rectification

N. Boechler;G. Theocharis;C. Daraio

686
Citations
Growth of nano-scale hydroxyapatite using chemically treated titanium oxide nanotubes.

Seung-Han Oh;Rita R. Finõnes;Chiara Daraio;Li-Han Chen

635
Citations
Significantly accelerated osteoblast cell growth on aligned TiO2 nanotubes.

Seunghan Oh;Chiara Daraio;Li-Han Chen;Thomas R. Pisanic

631
Citations
Composite 3D-printed metastructures for low-frequency and broadband vibration absorption

Kathryn H. Matlack;Anton Bauhofer;Sebastian Krödel;Antonio Palermo

501
Citations
Microstructures to control elasticity in 3D printing

Christian Schumacher;Bernd Bickel;Jan Rys;Steve Marschner

468
Citations
Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

Hussein Nassar;Behrooz Yousefzadeh;Romain Fleury;Massimo Ruzzene

444
Citations
Tunability of solitary wave properties in one-dimensional strongly nonlinear phononic crystals.

C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

422
Citations
Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy.

Jordan R. Raney;Neel Nadkarni;Chiara Daraio;Chiara Daraio;Dennis M. Kochmann

392
Citations
Strongly nonlinear waves in a chain of Teflon beads.

C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

388
Citations
Energy trapping and shock disintegration in a composite granular medium.

C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

375
Citations
Anomalous wave reflection at the interface of two strongly nonlinear granular media.

V. F. Nesterenko;C. Daraio;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

358
Citations
Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties.

Yifan Wang;Yifan Wang;Liuchi Li;Douglas Hofmann;José E. Andrade

348
Citations
Discrete Breathers in One-Dimensional Diatomic Granular Crystals

N. Boechler;G. Theocharis;G. Theocharis;Stéphane Job;P. G. Kevrekidis

336
Citations
Engineered metabarrier as shield from seismic surface waves.

Antonio Palermo;Sebastian Krödel;Alessandro Marzani;Chiara Daraio

318
Citations
Novel electrical switching behaviour and logic in carbon nanotube Y-junctions

P. R. Bandaru;C. Daraio;S. Jin;A. M. Rao

312
Citations
Wide band-gap seismic metastructures

S. Krödel;N. Thomé;N. Thomé;C. Daraio;C. Daraio

302
Citations
Bistable metamaterial for switching and cascading elastic vibrations

Osama R. Bilal;André Foehr;Chiara Daraio

215
Citations
Designing perturbative metamaterials from discrete models.

Kathryn H. Matlack;Marc Serra-Garcia;Antonio Palermo;Sebastian D. Huber

206
Citations
Mechanical properties of parts fabricated with inkjet 3D printing through efficient experimental design

Jochen Mueller;Kristina Shea;Chiara Daraio

194
Citations
Optimal Design of Composite Granular Protectors

Fernando Fraternali;Mason A. Porter;Chiara Daraio

193
Citations