Raja Annapooranan — University of San Diego

Area of research

Biomedical Engineering · Mechanical Engineering

Research interest

Research interests include Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, and Polymer composites and self-healing.

Recent publications

Soft elasticity enabled adhesion enhancement of liquid crystal elastomers on rough surfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024cited by 17position: firstdoi

Ultra Rate‐Dependent Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Enabled by Soft Elasticity of Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Advanced Functional Materials 2023cited by 44position: firstdoi

Harnessing Soft Elasticity of Liquid Crystal Elastomers to Achieve Low Voltage Driven Actuation

Advanced Materials Technologies 2023cited by 41position: firstdoi

Highly robust and soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence for optical signaling and illumination

Nature Communications 2022cited by 90position: middledoi

Highly Durable and Tough Liquid Crystal Elastomers

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022cited by 46position: firstdoi

Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator

Science Robotics 2021cited by 409position: middledoi

Grants

No grants ingested yet.

Frequent collaborators

Shengqiang Cai · Yangzhou University6 papers (2021–2024)Yang Wang · Tianjin University of Science and Technology4 papers (2021–2023)Chenghai Li · Beijing Chest Hospital3 papers (2021–2024)Zhijian Wang · Shenyang Pharmaceutical University2 papers (2021–2022)Qiguang He · Chinese University of Hong Kong2 papers (2021–2022)Zijun Wang · China Institute of Atomic Energy2 papers (2021–2022)Robert Chambers · University of San Diego2 papers (2023–2024)Ram Hemanth Yeerella · University of California San Diego1 papers (2024–2024)S. Jeyakumar · National Dairy Research Institute1 papers (2023–2023)Michael I. Latz · Scripps Institution of Oceanography1 papers (2022–2022)Jian Zeng · Stomatology Hospital1 papers (2021–2021)Rong Long · University of Colorado Boulder1 papers (2023–2023)Renkun Chen · University of California San Diego1 papers (2021–2021)

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