2026 Robert W. Carpick: 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	66	485	442	221	188	273	17634
Materials Science	77	3103	2997	869	817	331	23046

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2017 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For fundamental insights into the nanometer scale mechanics of materials and atomic scale origins of friction, lubrication and wear.
2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation for his outstanding contributions to developing an atomiclevel understanding of the tribological phenomena of friction, adhesion, and wear

Overview

Robert W. Carpick is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several related fields, including Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy. The scientist's work delves into multiple subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus on various aspects of material interactions and properties, particularly at the nanoscale. Key topics include:

Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Lubricants and Their Additives
Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Tribology and Wear Analysis
Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
2D Materials and Applications

Frequent publication venues for Robert W. Carpick include:

Tribology Letters
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Small
Faraday Discussions
Langmuir

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

Acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions by mechanical distortion, 2023, Science
Origin of Friction in Superlubric Graphite Contacts, 2020, Physical Review Letters
Friction Anisotropy of MoS₂: Effect of Tip-Sample Contact Quality, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Nanoscale Friction Behavior of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides: Role of the Chalcogenide, 2020, ACS Nano
Unraveling the Friction Evolution Mechanism of Diamond-Like Carbon Film during Nanoscale Running-In Process toward Superlubricity, 2020, Small

Robert W. Carpick has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

J. Brandon McClimon
Zachary Milne
Ashlie Martini
Kathryn Hasz
J. David Schall

The scientist has been recognized with multiple fellowships. These include Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2019, Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2017 for fundamental insights into the nanometer-scale mechanics of materials and atomic scale origins of friction, lubrication and wear, and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 for contributions to the atomic-level understanding of tribological phenomena such as friction, adhesion, and wear.

Best Publications

Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets

Changgu Lee;Qunyang Li;William Kalb;Xin-Zhou Liu

2034
Citations
Scratching the Surface: Fundamental Investigations of Tribology with Atomic Force Microscopy.

Robert W. Carpick;Miquel Salmeron

1473
Citations
Calibration of frictional forces in atomic force microscopy

D. F Ogletree;Robert W Carpick;Miguel Salmeron

770
Citations
A General Equation for Fitting Contact Area and Friction vs Load Measurements.

Robert W. Carpick;D.Frank Ogletree;Miquel Salmeron

599
Citations
Mechanisms of antiwear tribofilm growth revealed in situ by single-asperity sliding contacts

N. N. Gosvami;J. A. Bares;F. Mangolini;A. R. Konicek

582
Citations
Recent advances in single-asperity nanotribology

Izabela Szlufarska;Michael Chandross;Robert W Carpick

571
Citations
Lateral stiffness: A new nanomechanical measurement for the determination of shear strengths with friction force microscopy

Robert W Carpick;D. F Ogletree;Miguel Salmeron

542
Citations
The evolving quality of frictional contact with graphene

Suzhi Li;Qunyang Li;Robert W. Carpick;Peter Gumbsch

538
Citations
Elastic and frictional properties of graphene

Changgu Lee;Xiaoding Wei;Qunyang Li;Robert Carpick

503
Citations
Measurement of interfacial shear (friction) with an ultrahigh vacuum atomic force microscope

Robert W Carpick;N. Agraït;D. F Ogletree;Miguel Salmeron

395
Citations
Nanoscale wear as a stress-assisted chemical reaction

Tevis D. B. Jacobs;Robert W. Carpick

372
Citations
Polydiacetylene films: a review of recent investigations into chromogenic transitions and nanomechanical properties

Robert W Carpick;Darryl Y Sasaki;Matthew S Marcus;M A Eriksson

369
Citations
Variation of the Interfacial Shear Strength and Adhesion of a Nanometer-Sized Contact

R. W. Carpick;N. Agraït;D. F. Ogletree;M. Salmeron

367
Citations
Frictional ageing from interfacial bonding and the origins of rate and state friction

Qunyang Li;Terry E. Tullis;David Goldsby;Robert W. Carpick

350
Citations
Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids

Ekin Dogus Cubuk;Robert Ivancic;Samuel S. Schoenholz;Samuel S. Schoenholz;Danny Strickland

313
Citations
Ultralow nanoscale wear through atom-by-atom attrition in silicon-containing diamond-like carbon

Harish Bhaskaran;Bernd Gotsmann;Abu Sebastian;Ute Drechsler

288
Citations
Accounting for the JKR-DMT transition in adhesion and friction measurements with atomic force microscopy

D. S. Grierson;E. E. Flater;R. W. Carpick

283
Citations
Origin of ultralow friction and wear in ultrananocrystalline diamond

Andrew R. Konicek;D. S. Grierson;P.U.P.A. Gilbert;W. G. Sawyer

270
Citations
Substrate effect on thickness-dependent friction on graphene

Qunyang Li;Changgu Lee;Robert W. Carpick;James Hone

268
Citations
Speed dependence of atomic stick-slip friction in optimally matched experiments and molecular dynamics simulations.

Qunyang Li;Yalin Dong;Danny Perez;Ashlie Martini

251
Citations
Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids

E. D. Cubuk;R. J. S. Ivancic;S. S. Schoenholz;D. J. Strickland

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anirudha V. Sumant Argonne National Laboratory

Orlando Auciello The University of Texas at Dallas

Ashlie Martini University of California, Merced

Kumar Sridharan University of Wisconsin–Madison

William P. King University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Andrew M. Rappe University of Pennsylvania

Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ju Li MIT

James Hone Columbia University

Daeyeon Lee University of Pennsylvania

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