Christian Greiner

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
84 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Greiner is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Greiner has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 39 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 27 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christian Greiner's work include Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (35 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (26 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Christian Greiner is often cited by papers focused on Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (35 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (26 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Christian Greiner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Christian Greiner's co-authors include Aránzazu del Campo, Eduard Arzt, Peter Gumbsch, Johannes Schneider, Luciano F. Boesel, David C. Dunand, Scott Oppenheimer, Michael Schäfer, Ignacio Álvarez and Kimberly L. Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christian Greiner

81 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

SU-8: a photoresist for high-aspect-ratio and 3D submicron lithography

2007 613 citations Christian Greiner et al. profile →
Gecko‐Inspired Surfaces: A Path to Strong and Reversible Dry Adhesives

2010 401 citations Christian Greiner et al. profile →
Adhesion of Bioinspired Micropatterned Surfaces: Effects of Pillar Radius, Aspect Ratio, and Preload

2007 371 citations Christian Greiner et al. profile →
Wear-resistant CrCoNi nanocrystalline film via friction-driven surface segregation

2024 67 citations Qing Zhou, Zhichao Jiao et al. Acta Materialia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Greiner Germany	34	2.8k	2.2k	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	84	5.1k
Yonggang Meng China	36	2.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	468 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	329	5.5k
Zhendong Dai China	34	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	504 0.4×	786 0.8×	268	5.1k
Haimin Yao Hong Kong	35	1.4k 0.5×	898 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	713 0.6×	860 0.8×	112	4.6k
Andrés Fabián Lasagni Germany	38	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	874 0.8×	332	5.4k
Kevin T. Turner United States	34	1.6k 0.6×	951 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	477 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	177	4.4k
Andreas A. Polycarpou United States	42	4.7k 1.6×	3.8k 1.8×	739 0.5×	219 0.2×	1.7k 1.7×	312	7.0k
C. Gauthier France	38	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	311 0.3×	1.6k 1.6×	153	5.2k
Kahp Y. Suh South Korea	45	1.9k 0.7×	774 0.4×	4.1k 2.8×	2.2k 1.9×	560 0.5×	122	6.5k
Myoung‐Woon Moon South Korea	38	913 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	160	4.7k
Shizhu Wen China	35	2.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.2×	770 0.5×	214 0.2×	890 0.9×	211	4.6k

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Tesari, I., et al.. (2026). Biomechanical optimization of printing paths in Fused Filament Fabrication. Materials Today Communications. 50. 114621–114621.

Rodrigues, Alisson Mendes, Carlos Ospina, Qing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Corrosion and tribological behavior of Cr–Y–N multilayers grown by HIPIMS as a function of progressive changes in the coating architecture. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 335. 130496–130496.

Zambrano, Darío, Bo Wang, William Gacitúa, et al.. (2025). Interplay between mechanical properties and tribological performance for multilayer Ti3C2T coatings. Surfaces and Interfaces. 72. 107375–107375. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Qicheng, Fei Liang, Yusheng Li, et al.. (2024). Friction anisotropy and associated surface deformation mechanisms in heterogeneous copper/bronze laminates. Materials Characterization. 208. 113644–113644. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Qing, Zhichao Jiao, Zhuobin Huang, et al.. (2024). Wear-resistant CrCoNi nanocrystalline film via friction-driven surface segregation. Acta Materialia. 279. 120299–120299. 67 indexed citations breakdown →

Kübel, Christian, et al.. (2024). Deformation twins as a probe for tribologically induced stress states. Communications Materials. 5(1). 3 indexed citations

Kauffmann, Alexander, Martin Heilmaier, Aditya Srinivasan Tirunilai, et al.. (2022). Dislocation-mediated and twinning-induced plasticity of CoCrFeMnNi in varying tribological loading scenarios. Journal of Materials Science. 57(36). 17448–17461. 10 indexed citations

Brandt, Nico, et al.. (2022). Managing FAIR Tribological Data Using Kadi4Mat. Data. 7(2). 15–15. 4 indexed citations

Mader, Markus, Karl G. Schell, Gabriela Schmidt, et al.. (2022). Injection Molding of Magnesium Aluminate Spinel Nanocomposites for High‐Throughput Manufacturing of Transparent Ceramics. Advanced Science. 9(31). e2204385–e2204385. 6 indexed citations

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Cai, Tao, Xianzhe Wei, Yandong Wang, et al.. (2022). Outstanding Bio-Tribological Performance Induced by the Synergistic Effect of 2D Diamond Nanosheet Coating and Silk Fibroin. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(42). 48091–48105. 16 indexed citations

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Brandt, Nico, Christian Haug, Daniel Kümmel, et al.. (2022). Generating FAIR research data in experimental tribology. Scientific Data. 9(1). 16 indexed citations

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Luitz, Manuel, et al.. (2022). Replicative manufacturing of metal moulds for low surface roughness polymer replication. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5048–5048. 16 indexed citations

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Laube, Stephan, Alexander Kauffmann, Steven Schellert, et al.. (2022). Formation and thermal stability of two-phase microstructures in Al-containing refractory compositionally complex alloys. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 23(1). 692–706. 21 indexed citations

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Xu, Yilun, et al.. (2021). Normal Load and Counter Body Size Influence the Initiation of Microstructural Discontinuities in Copper during Sliding. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(3). 4750–4760. 23 indexed citations

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Greiner, Christian, et al.. (2021). Subsurface Microstructural Evolution during Scratch Testing on Bcc Iron. Metals. 11(8). 1258–1258. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Yilun, et al.. (2021). On the origin of microstructural discontinuities in sliding contacts: A discrete dislocation plasticity analysis. International Journal of Plasticity. 138. 102942–102942. 31 indexed citations

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Balachandran, Shanoob, et al.. (2021). High diffusivity pathways govern massively enhanced oxidation during tribological sliding. Acta Materialia. 221. 117353–117353. 29 indexed citations

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Haug, Christian, et al.. (2020). Early deformation mechanisms in the shear affected region underneath a copper sliding contact. Nature Communications. 11(1). 839–839. 53 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Julia, Ruth Schwaiger, Monika Rinke, & Christian Greiner. (2020). How Tribo‐Oxidation Alters the Tribological Properties of Copper and Its Oxides. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(1). 32 indexed citations

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Laube, Stephan, et al.. (2019). Solid solution strengthening and deformation behavior of single-phase Cu-base alloys under tribological load. Acta Materialia. 185. 300–308. 33 indexed citations

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