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Materials Science

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51
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15846
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9731
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387

Engineering and Technology

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51
Citations
15980
World Ranking
3759
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249

Michael De Volder publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael De Volder sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 210 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Michael De Volder D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael De Volder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael De Volder is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, automotive engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Their work centers on several key topics including advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, advanced battery technologies research, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, and carbon nanotubes in composites.

Frequent publication venues for their work include ECS Meeting Abstracts, Nano Letters, ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Materials, and Small.

Michael De Volder has co-authored extensively with several researchers, notably Buddha Deka Boruah, Bo Wen, Adam Boies, Clare P. Grey, and Wesley M. Dose.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Vanadium Dioxide Cathodes for High-Rate Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Light Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries Using V2O5 Cathodes, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Photo-rechargeable Zinc-Ion Capacitors using V2O5-Activated Carbon Electrodes, 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Best Publications

  • Carbon Nanotubes: Present and Future Commercial Applications

    Michael F. L. De Volder;Michael F. L. De Volder;Michael F. L. De Volder;Sameh H. Tawfick;Sameh H. Tawfick;Ray H. Baughman;A. John Hart;A. John Hart

  • Blue-Green Color Tunable Solution Processable Organolead Chloride-Bromide Mixed Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications

    Aditya Sadhanala;Shahab Ahmad;Baodan Zhao;Nadja Giesbrecht

  • Elastic Inflatable Actuators for Soft Robotic Applications

    Benjamin Gorissen;Dominiek Reynaerts;Satoshi Konishi;Kazuhiro Yoshida

  • Pneumatic and hydraulic microactuators: a review

    Michaël De Volder;Dominiek Reynaerts

  • Engineering of Micro‐ and Nanostructured Surfaces with Anisotropic Geometries and Properties

    Sameh H Tawfick;Michael De Volder;Davor Copic;Sei Jin Park

  • Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments.

    Benjamin E Droguet;Hsin-Ling Liang;Bruno Frka-Petesic;Richard M Parker

  • Collective mechanism for the evolution and self-termination of vertically aligned carbon nanotube growth

    Mostafa Bedewy;Eric R. Meshot;Haicheng Guo;Eric A. Verploegen

  • Diverse 3D Microarchitectures Made by Capillary Forming of Carbon Nanotubes

    Michael De Volder;Michael De Volder;Sameh H. Tawfick;Sei Jin Park;Davor Copic

  • Photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Angus Mathieson;Bo Wen;Sascha Feldmann

  • Photo-Rechargeable Organo-Halide Perovskite Batteries

    Shahab Ahmad;Chandramohan George;David J. Beesley;Jeremy J. Baumberg

  • Vanadium Dioxide Cathodes for High-Rate Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Angus Mathieson;Sul Ki Park;Xiao Zhang

  • Light Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries Using V2O5 Cathodes.

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Bo Wen;Michael De Volder

  • Electrolyte Reactivity at the Charged Ni-Rich Cathode Interface and Degradation in Li-Ion Batteries

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  • Scalable electrochromic nanopixels using plasmonics

    Jialong Peng;Hyeon-Ho Jeong;Qianqi Lin;Sean Cormier

  • Scalable Triple Cation Mixed Halide Perovskite–BiVO4 Tandems for Bias-Free Water Splitting

    Virgil Andrei;Robert L. Z. Hoye;Micaela Crespo-Quesada;Mark Bajada

  • Hollow-core optical fibre sensors for operando Raman spectroscopy investigation of Li-ion battery liquid electrolytes

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  • Photo-rechargeable Zinc-Ion Capacitors using V 2 O 5 -Activated Carbon Electrodes

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Bo Wen;Satyawan Nagane;Xiao Zhang

  • Molybdenum Disulfide-Zinc Oxide Photocathodes for Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries.

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Bo Wen;Michael De Volder

  • Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Capacitor Using 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitride

    Buddha Deka Boruah;Angus Mathieson;Bo Wen;Changshin Jo

  • Engineering Hierarchical Nanostructures by Elastocapillary Self-Assembly

    Michaël De Volder;A. John Hart

  • High Aspect Ratio Nanostructures Kill Bacteria via Storage and Release of Mechanical Energy

    Denver P Linklater;Michael De Volder;Vladimir A Baulin;Marco Werner

  • Roll-to-roll fabrication of touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates.

    Hsin-Ling Liang;Mélanie M. Bay;Roberto Vadrucci;Charles H. Barty-King

  • Flexible pneumatic twisting actuators and their application to tilting micromirrors

    Benjamin Gorissen;Benjamin Gorissen;Takuya Chishiro;Shuhei Shimomura;Dominiek Reynaerts

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Puers
Robert Puers KU Leuven
Changshin Jo
Changshin Jo Pohang University of Science and Technology
Jeremy J. Baumberg
Jeremy J. Baumberg University of Cambridge
Clare P. Grey
Clare P. Grey University of Cambridge
Norman A. Fleck
Norman A. Fleck University of Cambridge
Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Caterina Ducati
Caterina Ducati University of Cambridge

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