2026 Michael J. Solomon: 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	9123	8808	2219	2058	157	12160

Michael J. Solomon 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 Michael J. Solomon sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 157 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael J. Solomon 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 Michael J. Solomon sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael J. Solomon is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with particular emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Food Science.

Their work has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with frequent appearances in the following publication venues:

Soft Matter
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Journal of Rheology
Small
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Key topics covered in their research include:

Photonic Crystals and Applications
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Material Dynamics and Properties
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
Pigment Synthesis and Properties
Micro and Nano Robotics

Michael J. Solomon has contributed to numerous papers, some of which include the following:

"Effect of Defective Microstructure and Film Thickness on the Reflective Structural Color of Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals" (2020), published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
"Repeated evolution of eye loss in Mexican cavefish: Evidence of similar developmental mechanisms in independently evolved populations" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution
"Reconfigurable Grating Diffraction Structural Color in Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals" (2023), published in Small
"Elasticity of colloidal gels: structural heterogeneity, floppy modes, and rigidity" (2021), published in Soft Matter
"Microstructure and elasticity of dilute gels of colloidal discoids" (2021), published in Soft Matter

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

Sharon C. Glotzer
Mahesh Ganesan
Tianyu Liu
Bryan VanSaders

Best Publications

Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures

Sharon C. Glotzer;Michael J. Solomon

3195
Citations
Rheology of Polypropylene/Clay Hybrid Materials

Michael J. Solomon;Abdulwahab S. Almusallam;Kurt F. Seefeldt;and Anongnat Somwangthanaroj

851
Citations
Flow-induced structure in colloidal suspensions

Jan Vermant;MJ Solomon

488
Citations
Self‐assembly: From nanoscale to microscale colloids

S. C. Glotzer;M. J. Solomon;Nicholas A. Kotov

367
Citations
Microstructural regimes of colloidal rod suspensions, gels, and glasses

Michael J. Solomon;Patrick T. Spicer

340
Citations
THE YIELD STRESS OF CONCENTRATED FLOCCULATED SUSPENSIONS OF SIZE DISTRIBUTED PARTICLES

Zhongwu Zhou;Michael J. Solomon;Peter J. Scales;David V. Boger

254
Citations
Fundamentals of magnet-actuated droplet manipulation on an open hydrophobic surface

Zhicheng Long;Abhishek M. Shetty;Michael J. Solomon;Ronald G. Larson

247
Citations
Structure and dynamics of colloidal depletion gels: Coincidence of transitions and heterogeneity

Clare J. Dibble;Michael Kogan;Michael J. Solomon

218
Citations
Direct visualization of colloidal rod assembly by confocal microscopy.

Ali Mohraz;Michael J. Solomon

192
Citations
Role of isostaticity and load-bearing microstructure in the elasticity of yielded colloidal gels

Lilian C. Hsiao;Richmond S. Newman;Sharon C. Glotzer;Michael J. Solomon

183
Citations
Extracellular DNA facilitates the formation of functional amyloids in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms.

Kelly Schwartz;Mahesh Ganesan;David E. Payne;David E. Payne;Michael J. Solomon

178
Citations
Actuation of shape-memory colloidal fibres of Janus ellipsoids

Aayush A. Shah;Benjamin Schultz;Wenjia Zhang;Sharon C. Glotzer

174
Citations
Spatially and temporally reconfigurable assembly of colloidal crystals.

Youngri Kim;Aayush A. Shah;Michael J. Solomon

159
Citations
Universal scaling for polymer chain scission in turbulence

Siva A. Vanapalli;Steven L. Ceccio;Michael J. Solomon

147
Citations
Flexible microfluidic device for mechanical property characterization of soft viscoelastic solids such as bacterial biofilms

Danial N. Hohne;John G. Younger;Michael J. Solomon

139
Citations
Shear-Induced Microstructural Evolution of a Thermoreversible Colloidal Gel

Priya Varadan and;Michael J. Solomon

138
Citations
Rheological State Diagrams for Rough Colloids in Shear Flow.

Lilian C. Hsiao;Safa Jamali;Emmanouil Glynos;Emmanouil Glynos;Peter F. Green

136
Citations
Colloidal gel elasticity arises from the packing of locally glassy clusters

Kathryn A. Whitaker;Zsigmond Varga;Lilian C. Hsiao;Michael J. Solomon

135
Citations
A constitutive model for the prediction of ellipsoidal droplet shapes and stresses in immiscible blends

Abdulwahab S. Almusallam;Ronald G. Larson;Michael J. Solomon

133
Citations
Rheology and dynamics of particles in viscoelastic media

Michael J. Solomon;Qiang Lu

126
Citations