2026 Ryan C. Hayward: 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	70	4440	4297	1187	1118	260	17249

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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

1040
Citations
Designing responsive buckled surfaces by halftone gel lithography.

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

944
Citations
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

868
Citations
Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns

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

731
Citations
Surface wrinkles for smart adhesion

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

586
Citations
Tailored Assemblies of Block Copolymers in Solution: It Is All about the Process

Ryan C. Hayward;Darrin J. Pochan

566
Citations
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

555
Citations
Programming Reversibly Self‐Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo‐Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

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

501
Citations
Shape-Morphing Materials from Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Hybrids

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

456
Citations
Shear rheology of lyotropic liquid crystals: a case study.

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

420
Citations
Ionoelastomer junctions between polymer networks of fixed anions and cations

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

352
Citations
Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels

Verónica Trujillo;Jungwook Kim;Ryan C. Hayward

334
Citations
Dynamic display of biomolecular patterns through an elastic creasing instability of stimuli-responsive hydrogels

Jungwook Kim;Jinhwan Yoon;Ryan C. Hayward

310
Citations
Poroelastic swelling kinetics of thin hydrogel layers: comparison of theory and experiment

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

271
Citations
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

247
Citations
Spontaneous Generation of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Micelles with Multiple Morphologies through Interfacial Instabilities

Jintao Zhu;Ryan C. Hayward

245
Citations
Thermally responsive rolling of thin gel strips with discrete variations in swelling

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

237
Citations
Dewetting instability during the formation of polymersomes from block-copolymer-stabilized double emulsions.

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

229
Citations
Ordering and Melting of Block Copolymer Spherical Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions

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

229
Citations
Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

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

174
Citations
Enhancement of anhydrous proton transport by supramolecular nanochannels in comb polymers

Yangbin Chen;Michael Thorn;Scott Christensen;Craig Versek

166
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