Rudolf Zentel

21.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
498 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Rudolf Zentel is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rudolf Zentel has authored 498 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 216 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 134 papers in Materials Chemistry and 125 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rudolf Zentel's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (197 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (93 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (73 papers). Rudolf Zentel is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (197 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (93 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (73 papers). Rudolf Zentel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and South Korea. Rudolf Zentel's co-authors include Martin Brehmer, C. C. Ohm, Patrick Théato, Matthias Barz, Helmut Ringsdorf, Eva‐Kristina Fleischmann, Friedrich Kremer, Heinrich Kapitza, Ralf Mruk and Sabine Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rudolf Zentel

492 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

2010 959 citations C. C. Ohm, Martin Brehmer et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rudolf Zentel Germany	68	6.8k	5.4k	4.9k	4.6k	4.5k	498	18.2k
Yue Zhao Canada	73	3.0k 0.4×	7.5k 1.4×	6.9k 1.4×	6.2k 1.3×	4.5k 1.0×	404	19.3k
Christopher J. Barrett Canada	52	4.1k 0.6×	5.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.5×	5.6k 1.2×	3.4k 0.8×	130	13.5k
Eugenia Kumacheva Canada	79	4.7k 0.7×	9.4k 1.8×	3.6k 0.7×	11.8k 2.6×	2.3k 0.5×	291	25.5k
Martin Möller Germany	75	2.9k 0.4×	7.9k 1.5×	8.1k 1.7×	5.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.2×	636	23.3k
Manfred Stamm Germany	78	1.8k 0.3×	9.7k 1.8×	6.7k 1.4×	6.9k 1.5×	2.4k 0.5×	549	26.8k
Olli Ikkala Finland	86	3.0k 0.4×	8.7k 1.6×	6.0k 1.2×	6.9k 1.5×	1.9k 0.4×	352	27.0k
Hari Krishna Bisoyi United States	57	5.3k 0.8×	4.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	137	11.2k
Joachim H. Wendorff Germany	66	6.5k 1.0×	6.6k 1.2×	3.7k 0.8×	8.4k 1.8×	1.3k 0.3×	352	23.0k
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning Netherlands	90	6.4k 0.9×	16.2k 3.0×	11.8k 2.4×	6.8k 1.5×	5.7k 1.3×	478	34.1k
Andreas Fery Germany	61	2.8k 0.4×	4.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.3×	5.2k 1.1×	1.6k 0.3×	358	13.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zentel, Rudolf. (2023). A tribute to Helmut Ringsdorf. Liquid Crystals. 50(3). 359–362.

Bauer, Tobias, Pol Besenius, Kaloian Koynov, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Cross-Linking Density and Cross-Linker in Core Cross-Linked Polymeric Micelles and Its Effects on the Particle Stability in Human Blood Plasma and Mice. Biomacromolecules. 24(8). 3545–3556. 9 indexed citations

Hahm, Donghyo, Jaehoon Kim, Taesoo Lee, et al.. (2021). Origin of enhanced efficiency and stability in diblock copolymer-grafted Cd-free quantum dot-based light-emitting diodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(32). 10398–10405. 15 indexed citations

Brehmer, Martin, et al.. (2017). Liquid crystalline phases from polymer functionalized ferri-magnetic Fe₃O₄nanorods. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(27). 6688–6696. 19 indexed citations

Schieferstein, Hanno, Kaloian Koynov, Matthias Barz, et al.. (2014). ¹⁸F‐Radiolabeling, Preliminary Evaluation of Folate‐pHPMA Conjugates via PET. Macromolecular Bioscience. 14(10). 1396–1405. 10 indexed citations

Cui, Jiaxi, Dirk‐Michael Drotlef, Ińigo Larraza, et al.. (2012). Bioinspired Actuated Adhesive Patterns of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Advanced Materials. 24(34). 4601–4604. 120 indexed citations

Ohm, C. C., Eva‐Kristina Fleischmann, Isabelle Kraus, Christophe A. Serra, & Rudolf Zentel. (2010). Control of the Properties of Micrometer‐Sized Actuators from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Prepared in a Microfluidic Setup. Advanced Functional Materials. 20(24). 4314–4322. 54 indexed citations

Scheibe, Patrick, et al.. (2010). Langmuir−Blodgett Films of Fluorinated Glycolipids and Polymerizable Lipids and Their Phase Separating Behavior. Langmuir. 26(23). 18246–18255. 10 indexed citations

Kwak, Jeonghun, Wan Ki Bae, Matthias Zorn, et al.. (2009). Characterization of Quantum Dot/Conducting Polymer Hybrid Films and Their Application to Light‐Emitting Diodes. Advanced Materials. 21(48). 5022–5026. 89 indexed citations

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Lyu, Yi‐Yeol, et al.. (2009). Tunable Phosphorescent Emission through Energy Transfer within Multilayer Thin Films Based on a Carbazole‐Based Host and Ir(III)‐Complex Guest System. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 30(14). 1232–1237. 2 indexed citations

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Khunsin, Worawut, Sanna Arpiainen, Javier Romero-Vivas, et al.. (2007). Towards Si-based photonic circuits: Integrating photonic crystals in silicon-on-insulator platforms. Solid-State Electronics. 51(2). 333–336. 2 indexed citations

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Braun, Lydia, et al.. (2007). (Photo)crosslinkable Smectic LC Main‐Chain Polymers. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 208(22). 2439–2448. 30 indexed citations

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Eremin, Alexey, et al.. (2006). Gelation of smectic liquid crystal phases with photosensitive gel forming agents. Soft Matter. 2(8). 693–698. 21 indexed citations

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Mather, Patrick T., Dirk J. Broer, Timothy J. Bunning, David M. Walba, & Rudolf Zentel. (2002). Advances in liquid crystalline materials and technologies : symposium held november 26-29, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. 1 indexed citations

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Zentel, Rudolf, et al.. (1997). NLO‐polymers containing tert‐butyloxycarbonyl protecting groups: Modification after processing leading to thermally stable nonlinear optical materials. Advanced Materials. 9(3). 225–230. 10 indexed citations

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Schönfeld, A., Friedrich Kremer, H. Poths, & Rudolf Zentel. (1994). Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Polymers. Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals. 254(1). 49–60. 5 indexed citations

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Schönfeld, A., Friedrich Kremer, & Rudolf Zentel. (1993). Collective and molecular dynamics in low molar mass and polymeric ferroelectric liquid crystals. Liquid Crystals. 13(3). 403–412. 30 indexed citations

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Zentel, Rudolf. (1989). Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 28(10). 1407–1415. 64 indexed citations

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Zentel, Rudolf. (1989). Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Angewandte Chemie. 101(10). 1437–1445. 132 indexed citations

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Krüger, J. K., et al.. (1986). Evidence for a liquid-liquid transition in a liquid crystalline side group polymer obtained by Brillouin spectroscopy and dsc. Physics Letters A. 114(1). 51–53. 3 indexed citations

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