| Soft actuators for real-world applications M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch, M Sitti Nature Reviews Materials 7 (3), 235-249, 2022 | 830 | 2022 |
| Biosynthetic self-healing materials for soft machines A Pena-Francesch, H Jung, MC Demirel, M Sitti Nature materials 19 (11), 1230-1235, 2020 | 332 | 2020 |
| Accelerating the design of biomimetic materials by integrating RNA-seq with proteomics and materials science PA Guerette, S Hoon, Y Seow, M Raida, A Masic, FT Wong, VHB Ho, ... Nature biotechnology 31 (10), 908-915, 2013 | 222 | 2013 |
| Inkjet printing of self‐assembled 2D titanium carbide and protein electrodes for stimuli‐responsive electromagnetic shielding M Vural, A Pena‐Francesch, J Bars‐Pomes, H Jung, H Gudapati, ... Advanced Functional Materials 28 (32), 1801972, 2018 | 209 | 2018 |
| Zwitterionic 3D‐printed non‐immunogenic stealth microrobots P Cabanach, A Pena‐Francesch, D Sheehan, U Bozuyuk, O Yasa, ... Advanced Materials 32 (42), 2003013, 2020 | 185 | 2020 |
| Tunable thermal transport and reversible thermal conductivity switching in topologically networked bio-inspired materials JA Tomko, A Pena-Francesch, H Jung, M Tyagi, BD Allen, MC Demirel, ... Nature nanotechnology 13 (10), 959-964, 2018 | 139 | 2018 |
| High shear rate propulsion of acoustic microrobots in complex biological fluids A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch, U Bozuyuk, H Cetin, P Wrede, M Sitti Science Advances 8 (10), eabm5126, 2022 | 138 | 2022 |
| Multifunctional and biodegradable self-propelled protein motors A Pena-Francesch, J Giltinan, M Sitti Nature communications 10 (1), 3188, 2019 | 132 | 2019 |
| Liquid‐crystal‐elastomer‐actuated reconfigurable microscale Kirigami metastructures M Zhang, H Shahsavan, Y Guo, A Pena‐Francesch, Y Zhang, M Sitti Advanced Materials 33 (25), 2008605, 2021 | 113 | 2021 |
| Molecular tandem repeat strategy for elucidating mechanical properties of high-strength proteins H Jung, A Pena-Francesch, A Saadat, A Sebastian, DH Kim, RF Hamilton, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (23), 6478-6483, 2016 | 85 | 2016 |
| Self‐healing photochromic elastomer composites for wearable UV‐sensors T Yimyai, D Crespy, A Pena‐Francesch Advanced Functional Materials 33 (20), 2213717, 2023 | 82 | 2023 |
| Self-healing textile: enzyme encapsulated layer-by-layer structural proteins D Gaddes, H Jung, A Pena-Francesch, G Dion, S Tadigadapa, ... ACS applied materials & interfaces 8 (31), 20371-20378, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| Squid-Inspired Tandem Repeat Proteins: Functional Fibers and Films A Pena-Francesch, M Demirel Frontiers in chemistry 7, 69, 2019 | 66 | 2019 |
| Recent advances in nanoscale bioinspired materials MC Demirel, M Cetinkaya, A Pena‐Francesch, H Jung Macromolecular bioscience 15 (3), 300-311, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Programmable proton conduction in stretchable and self-healing proteins A Pena-Francesch, H Jung, MA Hickner, M Tyagi, BD Allen, MC Demirel Chemistry of Materials 30 (3), 898-905, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Materials fabrication from native and recombinant thermoplastic squid proteins A Pena‐Francesch, S Florez, H Jung, A Sebastian, I Albert, W Curtis, ... Advanced Functional Materials 24 (47), 7401-7409, 2014 | 55 | 2014 |
| Segmented molecular design of self-healing proteinaceous materials V Sariola, A Pena-Francesch, H Jung, M Çetinkaya, C Pacheco, M Sitti, ... Scientific reports 5, 13482, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| Pressure sensitive adhesion of an elastomeric protein complex extracted from squid ring teeth A Pena‐Francesch, B Akgun, A Miserez, W Zhu, H Gao, MC Demirel Advanced Functional Materials 24 (39), 6227-6233, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| Bioinspired self-healing polypeptides A Pena-Francesch, M Demirel, M Sitti Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2021 | 46* | 2021 |
| Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots X Ju, C Chen, CM Oral, S Sevim, R Golestanian, M Sun, N Bouzari, X Lin, ... ACS nano, 2025 | 43 | 2025 |
Melik C. DemirelHuck Chair Professor in Biomimetic Materials and Director of CRAFT centerVerified email at psu.edu
