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D-Index
65
Citations
17923
World Ranking
5554
National Ranking
1447

Timothy J. White 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 Timothy J. White sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 292 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Timothy J. White 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 Timothy J. White sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Timothy J. White is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's work centers around advanced materials, with particular attention to topics such as Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Polymer composites and self-healing, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, and Hydrogels including their synthesis, properties, and applications.

Recent publications by Timothy J. White include:

  • Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers, 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Materials as Machines, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Enhanced Directional Actuation to Electric Fields, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Reconfigurable and Spatially Programmable Chameleon Skin-Like Material Utilizing Light Responsive Covalent Adaptable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers at or Below Ambient Temperature, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Timothy J. White has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Macromolecules
  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Materials
  • Soft Matter

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include Joselle M. McCracken, Christopher N. Bowman, Tayler S. Hebner, Jonathan D. Hoang, and Kristi S. Anseth.

Best Publications

  • Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

    Timothy J. White;Dirk J. Broer

  • Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

    Timothy J. White;Taylor H. Ware;Michael E. Mcconney;Jeong Jae Wie

  • 3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order.

    Arda Kotikian;Ryan L. Truby;John William Boley;Timothy J. White

  • Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers

    Katie M. Herbert;Hayden E. Fowler;Joselle M. McCracken;Kyle R. Schlafmann

  • A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

    Timothy J. White;Timothy J. White;Nelson V. Tabiryan;Svetlana V. Serak;Uladzimir A. Hrozhyk

  • Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

    Svetlana Serak;Nelson Tabiryan;Rafael Vergara;Timothy J. White

  • Dynamic color in stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals

    Timothy J. White;Michael E. McConney;Timothy J. Bunning

  • Materials as Machines

    Joselle M. McCracken;Brian R. Donovan;Timothy J. White

  • Photodriven, Flexural–Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

    Kyung Min Lee;Matthew L. Smith;Matthew L. Smith;Hilmar Koerner;Nelson Tabiryan

  • Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks

    Kyung Min Lee;Hilmar Koerner;Richard A. Vaia;Timothy J. Bunning

  • Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators.

    Tyler Guin;Michael J. Settle;Michael J. Settle;Benjamin A. Kowalski;Anesia D. Auguste

  • Topography from topology: photoinduced surface features generated in liquid crystal polymer networks.

    Michael E. McConney;Angel Martinez;Vincent P. Tondiglia;Kyung Min Lee

  • Photomotility of polymers.

    Jeong Jae Wie;Jeong Jae Wie;M. Ravi Shankar;Timothy J. White

  • Polarization-controlled, photodriven bending in monodomain liquid crystal elastomer cantilevers

    Timothy J. White;Timothy J. White;Svetlana V. Serak;Nelson V. Tabiryan;Richard A. Vaia

  • Manipulating efficient light emission in two-dimensional perovskite crystals by pressure-induced anisotropic deformation.

    Sheng Liu;Sheng Liu;Shishuai Sun;Chee Kwan Gan;Andrés Granados del Águila

  • Localized soft elasticity in liquid crystal elastomers

    Taylor H Ware;Taylor H Ware;John Simeon Biggins;Andreas F Shick;Mark Warner

  • Photoinduced Topographical Feature Development in Blueprinted Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

    Suk‐kyun Ahn;Suk‐kyun Ahn;Taylor H. Ware;Taylor H. Ware;Kyung Min Lee;Vincent P. Tondiglia

  • Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

    Manoj Mathews;Rafael S. Zola;Shawn Hurley;Deng-Ke Yang

  • Light-induced liquid crystallinity

    Tamas Kosa;Ludmila Sukhomlinova;Linli Su;Bahman Taheri

  • Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

    David H. Wang;Kyung Min Lee;Zhenning Yu;Hilmar Koerner

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent P. Tondiglia
Vincent P. Tondiglia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Timothy J. Bunning
Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Lalgudi V. Natarajan
Lalgudi V. Natarajan Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Zhili Dong
Zhili Dong Nanyang Technological University
Loon-Seng Tan
Loon-Seng Tan United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Richard A. Vaia
Richard A. Vaia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Nelson V. Tabiryan
Nelson V. Tabiryan University of Central Florida
Taylor H. Ware
Taylor H. Ware The University of Texas at Dallas
Hilmar Koerner
Hilmar Koerner United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Peter R. Slater
Peter R. Slater University of Birmingham

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