2026 Daniele Dini: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	54	954	874	64	56	369	11129

Overview

Daniele Dini is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, contributing extensively to subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their main topics of work include:

Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Lubricants and Their Additives
Tribology and Lubrication Engineering
Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis

Dini has frequently published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Tribology International
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors associated with Dini include James P. Ewen, Yuan Tian, Tom Reddyhoff, Wenbo Zhan, and D. M. Heyes.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Dini cover a range of topics and are published in diverse journals, demonstrating multidisciplinary research interests:

"High Lubricity Meets Load Capacity: Cartilage Mimicking Bilayer Structure by Brushing Up Stiff Hydrogels from Subsurface," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
"Effect of Particle Size and Surface Charge on Nanoparticles Diffusion in the Brain White Matter," 2022, Pharmaceutical Research
"Advances in Active Suspension Systems for Road Vehicles," 2023, Engineering
"The mechanics and physics of high-speed dislocations: a critical review," 2020, International Materials Reviews
"Fast laser surface texturing of spherical samples to improve the frictional performance of elasto-hydrodynamic lubricated contacts," 2021, Friction

Best Publications

Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview

A. I. Vakis;V. A. Yastrebov;J. Scheibert;L. Nicola;L. Nicola

541
Citations
Recent developments in the understanding of fretting fatigue

D. Nowell;D. Dini;D.A. Hills

365
Citations
Meeting the Contact-Mechanics Challenge

Martin H. Müser;Wolf B. Dapp;Romain Bugnicourt;Romain Bugnicourt;Philippe Sainsot

341
Citations
Comparative assessment of dissipated energy and other fatigue criteria

Alexander M. Korsunsky;Daniele Dini;Fionn P.E. Dunne;Michael J. Walsh

236
Citations
Significant and stable drag reduction with air rings confined by alternated superhydrophobic and hydrophilic strips

Haibao Hu;Jun Wen;Luyao Bao;Laibing Jia

211
Citations
High Lubricity Meets Load Capacity: Cartilage Mimicking Bilayer Structure by Brushing Up Stiff Hydrogels from Subsurface

Mingming Rong;Hui Liu;Michele Scaraggi;Michele Scaraggi;Yanyan Bai

210
Citations
Advances in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of lubricants and additives

J. P. Ewen;D. M. Heyes;D. Dini

176
Citations
A Mass-Conserving Complementarity Formulation to Study Lubricant Films in the Presence of Cavitation

Matteo Giacopini;Mark T. Fowell;Daniele Dini;Antonio Strozzi

172
Citations
Combinatorial scaffold morphologies for zonal articular cartilage engineering

J.A.M. Steele;S.D. McCullen;A. Callanan;H. Autefage

161
Citations
Cryogenic 3D Printing of Super Soft Hydrogels

Zhengchu Tan;Cristian Parisi;Lucy Di Silvio;Daniele Dini

151
Citations
A Comparison of Classical Force-Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lubricants.

James P Ewen;Chiara Gattinoni;Foram M Thakkar;Neal Morgan

148
Citations
Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Organic Friction Modifiers Adsorbed on Iron Oxide Surfaces

James P. Ewen;Chiara Gattinoni;Neal Morgan;Hugh A. Spikes

148
Citations
Microstructural pore changes and energy dissipation in Gosford sandstone during pre-failure loading using X-ray CT

Adnan Sufian;Adrian R. Russell

147
Citations
Influence of surface texturing on hydrodynamic friction in plane converging bearings - An experimental and numerical approach

Andreas Rosenkranz;Andreas Rosenkranz;Henara L. Costa;Francisco Profito;Carsten Gachot

144
Citations
On the characterization of the heterogeneous mechanical response of human brain tissue.

Antonio Elia Forte;Stephen M. Gentleman;Daniele Dini

133
Citations
Detailed finite element modelling of deep needle insertions into a soft tissue phantom using a cohesive approach.

Matthew Oldfield;Daniele Dini;Gianpaolo Giordano;Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

131
Citations
A composite hydrogel for brain tissue phantoms

AE Forte;S Galvan;F Manieri;F Rodriguez y Baena

128
Citations
Nanoporous Substrate-Infiltrated Hydrogels: a Bioinspired Regenerable Surface for High Load Bearing and Tunable Friction

Shuanhong Ma;M. Scaraggi;Daoai Wang;Xiaolong Wang

124
Citations
Transient experimental and modelling studies of laser-textured micro-grooved surfaces with a focus on piston-ring cylinder liner contacts

Francisco J. Profito;Francisco J. Profito;Sorin-Cristian Vlădescu;Tom Reddyhoff;Daniele Dini

117
Citations
Tribological properties of PVA/PVP blend hydrogels against articular cartilage.

Yusuf Kanca;Piers Milner;Daniele Dini;Andrew A. Amis

110
Citations
Fluid film lubrication in the presence of cavitation: a mass-conserving two-dimensional formulation for compressible, piezoviscous and non-Newtonian fluids

Luca Bertocchi;Daniele Dini;Matteo Giacopini;Mark T. Fowell

101
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

D.A. Hills University of Oxford

Alexander M. Korsunsky University of Oxford

Adrian P. Sutton Imperial College London

David Nowell Imperial College London

D.S. Balint Imperial College London

Hugh Spikes Imperial College London

Feng Zhou Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics

Zhike Peng Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Elena De Momi Polytechnic University of Milan

Tamer A. Zaki Johns Hopkins University

External Links

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