Clemens Bechinger

18.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
178 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Clemens Bechinger is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Clemens Bechinger has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 63 papers in Materials Chemistry and 57 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Clemens Bechinger's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (48 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (44 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (34 papers). Clemens Bechinger is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (48 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (44 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (34 papers). Clemens Bechinger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Clemens Bechinger's co-authors include Hartmut Löwen, P. Leǐderer, Giovanni Volpe, Giorgio Volpe, Laurent Helden, C. Reichhardt, Roberto Di Leonardo, Ivo Buttinoni, Valentin Blickle and Felix Kümmel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Clemens Bechinger

177 papers receiving 12.9k citations

Hit Papers

Active Particles in Complex... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2016 2013 1996 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments
    2016 2.0k citations Clemens Bechinger et al. profile →
  2. Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions of Self-Propelled Colloidal Particles
    2013 833 citations Clemens Bechinger, Thomas Speck et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Photoelectrochromic windows and displays
    1996 566 citations Clemens Bechinger et al. profile →
  4. Microswimmers in patterned environments
    2011 400 citations Clemens Bechinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clemens Bechinger Germany 56 6.0k 4.5k 4.3k 3.9k 2.9k 178 13.2k
Michael E. Cates United Kingdom 75 7.6k 1.3× 9.8k 2.2× 4.1k 0.9× 4.1k 1.1× 2.1k 0.7× 287 21.7k
Gerhard Gompper Germany 71 5.0k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 5.4k 1.3× 1.3k 0.3× 2.2k 0.7× 358 16.4k
T. C. Lubensky United States 78 7.4k 1.2× 7.9k 1.8× 3.6k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 7.2k 2.5× 278 24.0k
Wilson C. K. Poon United Kingdom 66 3.0k 0.5× 9.6k 2.1× 4.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.3× 1.9k 0.7× 232 15.7k
Hartmut Löwen Germany 75 11.8k 2.0× 12.4k 2.8× 8.5k 2.0× 5.3k 1.4× 3.7k 1.3× 514 24.4k
Andrea J. Liu United States 60 3.2k 0.5× 8.0k 1.8× 2.8k 0.7× 976 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 193 13.7k
P. M. Chaikin United States 77 7.4k 1.2× 13.6k 3.1× 5.1k 1.2× 1.6k 0.4× 5.9k 2.0× 310 26.7k
David J. Pine United States 78 3.6k 0.6× 13.1k 2.9× 5.4k 1.3× 843 0.2× 3.0k 1.0× 186 22.0k
Julia M. Yeomans United Kingdom 67 6.7k 1.1× 3.5k 0.8× 4.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 307 19.7k
Jean‐François Joanny France 58 2.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 3.8k 0.9× 938 0.2× 1.6k 0.6× 194 12.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Clemens Bechinger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clemens Bechinger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clemens Bechinger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krüger, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Observation and control of nonmonotonic recoils in a viscoelastic fluid. Physical Review Research. 7(3). 1 indexed citations
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Ginot, Félix & Clemens Bechinger. (2025). Energy recuperation of driven colloids in non-Markovian baths. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10114–10114.
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Gompper, Gerhard, et al.. (2025). Tunable colloidal swarmalators with hydrodynamic coupling. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10984–10984. 2 indexed citations
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Speck, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Motility-Induced Clustering of Active Particles under Soft Confinement. Physical Review Letters. 133(4). 48301–48301. 3 indexed citations
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Gu, Hongri, Min‐Soo Kim, Matthias Wieland, et al.. (2023). Self-folding soft-robotic chains with reconfigurable shapes and functionalities. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1263–1263. 80 indexed citations
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Cao, Xin, et al.. (2023). Memory-induced Magnus effect. Nature Physics. 19(12). 1904–1909. 16 indexed citations
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Panizon, Emanuele, et al.. (2023). Dynamics and risk sharing in groups of selfish individuals. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 562. 111433–111433. 4 indexed citations
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Ginot, Félix, et al.. (2022). How are mobility and friction related in viscoelastic fluids?. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(2). 24901–24901. 13 indexed citations
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Ginot, Félix, et al.. (2022). Recoil experiments determine the eigenmodes of viscoelastic fluids. New Journal of Physics. 24(12). 123013–123013. 11 indexed citations
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Cao, Xin, Andrea Silva, Emanuele Panizon, et al.. (2022). Moiré-Pattern Evolution Couples Rotational and Translational Friction at Crystalline Interfaces. Physical Review X. 12(2). 9 indexed citations
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Panizon, Emanuele, Andrea Silva, Xin Cao, et al.. (2022). Frictionless nanohighways on crystalline surfaces. Nanoscale. 15(3). 1299–1316. 7 indexed citations
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Cao, Xin, Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Vanossi, et al.. (2021). Pervasive orientational and directional locking at geometrically heterogeneous sliding interfaces. Physical review. E. 103(1). 12606–12606. 6 indexed citations
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Jain, Rohit, et al.. (2021). Two step micro-rheological behavior in a viscoelastic fluid. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 154(18). 184904–184904. 14 indexed citations
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Bechinger, Clemens, et al.. (2021). Active colloids under geometrical constraints in viscoelastic media. The European Physical Journal E. 44(3). 28–28. 6 indexed citations
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Cao, Xin, Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Vanossi, et al.. (2020). Pile-up transmission and reflection of topological defects at grain boundaries in colloidal crystals. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3079–3079. 9 indexed citations
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Cao, Xin, Emanuele Panizon, Andrea Vanossi, Nicola Manini, & Clemens Bechinger. (2019). Orientational and directional locking of colloidal clusters driven across periodic surfaces. Nature Physics. 15(8). 776–780. 28 indexed citations
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Bechinger, Clemens & Hans‐Hennig von Grünberg. (2004). Wenn drei Körper mehr sind als drei Paare. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 3(11). 33–38. 1 indexed citations
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Burmeister, Frank, et al.. (1998). From Mesoscopic to Nanoscopic Surface Structures: Lithography with Colloid Monolayers. Advanced Materials. 10(6). 495–497. 140 indexed citations
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Bechinger, Clemens, Eva K. Wirth, & P. Leǐderer. (1996). Photochromic coloration of WO3 with visible light. Applied Physics Letters. 68(20). 2834–2836. 81 indexed citations

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