2026 Metin Sitti: 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	120	492	471	27	25	466	49340

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Turkey Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to micro and nano-scale robotic systems
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Physics
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Physics
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Engineering/Physics

Overview

Metin Sitti is affiliated with Koç University in Turkey and has made significant contributions in the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy. Their research predominantly focuses on biomedical engineering, condensed matter physics, and mechanical engineering, with notable work also in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Micro and Nano Robotics
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Soft Robotics and Applications
Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks

Metin Sitti has published extensively in several reputable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

Advanced Materials
Science Advances
Advanced Science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Metin Sitti over many publications are:

Ugur Bozuyuk
Wenqi Hu
Amirreza Aghakhani
Erdost Yıldız
Ziyu Ren

Some of their recent papers include:

Soft actuators for real-world applications, 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
Wearable and Stretchable Strain Sensors: Materials, Sensing Mechanisms, and Applications, 2020, Advanced Intelligent Systems
Reprogrammable shape morphing of magnetic soft machines, 2020, Science Advances
Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow, 2020, Science Robotics
Pros and Cons: Magnetic versus Optical Microrobots, 2020, Advanced Materials

The scientist has also been recognized by awards such as:

IEEE Fellow (2014) for contributions to micro and nano-scale robotic systems
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi (date unspecified), in the categories of Engineering and Physics

Best Publications

Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review

Morteza Amjadi;Ki Uk Kyung;Inkyu Park;Metin Sitti

3098
Citations
Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae

Kellar Autumn;Metin Sitti;Yiching A. Liang;Anne M. Peattie

2491
Citations
Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics.

Lindsey Hines;Kirstin Petersen;Guo Zhan Lum;Metin Sitti;Metin Sitti

1326
Citations
Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots

Metin Sitti;Metin Sitti;Hakan Ceylan;Wenqi Hu;Joshua Giltinan

913
Citations
Soft actuators for real-world applications

Meng Li;Aniket Pal;Amirreza Aghakhani;Abdon Pena-Francesch;Abdon Pena-Francesch

754
Citations
Synthetic gecko foot-hair micro/nano-structures as dry adhesives

Metin Sitti;Ronald S. Fearing

685
Citations
Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter

Guo Zhan Lum;Guo Zhan Lum;Guo Zhan Lum;Zhou Ye;Xiaoguang Dong;Xiaoguang Dong;Hamidreza Marvi

636
Citations
Wearable and Stretchable Strain Sensors: Materials, Sensing Mechanisms, and Applications

Hamid Souri;Hritwick Banerjee;Ardian Jusufi;Norbert Radacsi

606
Citations
Microstructured elastomeric surfaces with reversible adhesion and examples of their use in deterministic assembly by transfer printing

Seok Kim;Jian Wu;Andrew Carlson;Sung Hun Jin

575
Citations
Gecko-inspired directional and controllable adhesion

Michael P. Murphy;Burak Aksak;Metin Sitti

562
Citations
Biologically inspired polymer microfibers with spatulate tips as repeatable fibrillar adhesives

Seok Kim;Metin Sitti

561
Citations
Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells.

Leonardo Ricotti;Barry Trimmer;Adam W. Feinberg;Ritu Raman

507
Citations
3D-Printed Biodegradable Microswimmer for Theranostic Cargo Delivery and Release.

Hakan Ceylan;Immihan Ceren Yasa;Oncay Yasa;Ahmet Fatih Tabak;Ahmet Fatih Tabak

499
Citations
Bacterial flagella-based propulsion and on/off motion control of microscale objects

Bahareh Behkam;Metin Sitti

455
Citations
Design and Rolling Locomotion of a Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope

Sehyuk Yim;Metin Sitti

421
Citations
Enhanced Adhesion by Gecko-Inspired Hierarchical Fibrillar Adhesives

Michael P. Murphy;Seok Kim;Metin Sitti

419
Citations
Adhesion of biologically inspired vertical and angled polymer microfiber arrays.

Burak Aksak;Michael P. Murphy;Metin Sitti

406
Citations
Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery

Yunus Alapan;Oncay Yasa;Oliver Schauer;Joshua Giltinan

403
Citations
Controlled pushing of nanoparticles: modeling and experiments

M. Sitti;H. Hashimoto

403
Citations
Reprogrammable shape morphing of magnetic soft machines

Yunus Alapan;Alp C. Karacakol;Alp C. Karacakol;Seyda N. Guzelhan;Irem Isik

400
Citations
Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

Hakan Ceylan;Joshua Giltinan;Joshua Giltinan;Kristen Kozielski;Metin Sitti;Metin Sitti

353
Citations
Modeling and Experimental Characterization of an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot

Chytra Pawashe;Steven Floyd;Metin Sitti

353
Citations