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D-Index
70
Citations
17249
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4438
National Ranking
1185

Ryan C. Hayward 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 Ryan C. Hayward sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 260 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ryan C. Hayward 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 Ryan C. Hayward sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For developing innovative approaches to control the structure and properties of polymeric materials through processes of elastic buckling and selfassembly

Overview

Ryan C. Hayward is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their work engages with a range of topics centered on advanced materials and mechanics, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, conducting polymers and applications, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, modular robots and swarm intelligence, and liquid crystal research advancements.

Hayward has contributed to numerous publications, notably in venues including:

  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • Macromolecules
  • Soft Matter
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators include Arthi Jayaraman, Tae-Lim Choi, Craig J. Hawker, Conor Doss, and Herman Mark.

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Hayward include:

  • "Ionoelastomer junctions between polymer networks of fixed anions and cations," 2020, Science
  • "Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photopolymerization for High-Resolution 3D Printing," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Polymer Zwitterions for Stabilization of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoparticles and Nanocomposite Films," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Hayward's contributions have been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS), which granted the distinction of Fellow in 2018, citing their work on developing innovative approaches to control the structure and properties of polymeric materials through processes of elastic buckling and self-assembly.

Best Publications

  • Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials

    Jesse L. Silverberg;Arthur A. Evans;Lauren McLeod;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Designing responsive buckled surfaces by halftone gel lithography.

    Jungwook Kim;James A. Hanna;Myunghwan Byun;Christian D. Santangelo

  • General Predictive Syntheses of Cubic, Hexagonal, and Lamellar Silica and Titania Mesostructured Thin Films§

    Peter C. A. Alberius;Karen L. Frindell;Ryan C. Hayward;Edward J. Kramer

  • Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns

    R. C. Hayward;D. A. Saville;Ilhan A. Aksay

  • Surface wrinkles for smart adhesion

    Edwin P. Chan;Erica J. Smith;Ryan C. Hayward;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Tailored Assemblies of Block Copolymers in Solution: It Is All about the Process

    Ryan C. Hayward;Darrin J. Pochan

  • Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom

    Jesse L. Silverberg;Jun Hee Na;Arthur A. Evans;Bin Liu

  • Programming Reversibly Self‐Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo‐Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

    Jun Hee Na;Arthur A. Evans;Jinhye Bae;Maria C. Chiappelli

  • Shape-Morphing Materials from Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Hybrids

    Seog-Jin Jeon;Adam W. Hauser;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Shear rheology of lyotropic liquid crystals: a case study.

    Raffaele Mezzenga;Cedric Meyer;Colin Servais;Alexandre I Romoscanu

  • Ionoelastomer junctions between polymer networks of fixed anions and cations

    Hyeong Jun Kim;Baohong Chen;Zhigang Suo;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels

    Verónica Trujillo;Jungwook Kim;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Dynamic display of biomolecular patterns through an elastic creasing instability of stimuli-responsive hydrogels

    Jungwook Kim;Jinhwan Yoon;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Poroelastic swelling kinetics of thin hydrogel layers: comparison of theory and experiment

    Jinhwan Yoon;Shengqiang Cai;Zhigang Suo;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Hierarchical Helical Assembly of Conjugated Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-block-poly(3-triethylene glycol thiophene) Diblock Copolymers

    Eunji Lee;Brenton Hammer;Jung-Keun Kim;Zachariah Page

  • Spontaneous Generation of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Micelles with Multiple Morphologies through Interfacial Instabilities

    Jintao Zhu;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Thermally responsive rolling of thin gel strips with discrete variations in swelling

    Jungwook Kim;James A. Hanna;Ryan C. Hayward;Christian D. Santangelo

  • Dewetting instability during the formation of polymersomes from block-copolymer-stabilized double emulsions.

    Ryan C. Hayward;Andrew S. Utada;Nily Dan;David A. Weitz

  • Ordering and Melting of Block Copolymer Spherical Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions

    Rachel A. Segalman;Alexander Hexemer;Ryan C. Hayward;Edward J. Kramer

  • Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

    Alexa S. Kuenstler;Yuzhen Chen;Phuong Bui;Hyunki Kim

  • Enhancement of anhydrous proton transport by supramolecular nanochannels in comb polymers

    Yangbin Chen;Michael Thorn;Scott Christensen;Craig Versek

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd Emrick
Todd Emrick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zhigang Suo
Zhigang Suo Harvard University
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alfred J. Crosby
Alfred J. Crosby University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bradley F. Chmelka
Bradley F. Chmelka University of California, Santa Barbara
Jinhwan Yoon
Jinhwan Yoon Pusan National University
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eunji Lee
Eunji Lee Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Bumjoon J. Kim
Bumjoon J. Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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