Simon Muench

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Simon Muench is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Muench has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 8 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simon Muench's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (13 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (10 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Simon Muench is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (13 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (10 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Simon Muench collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Belgium and South Africa. Simon Muench's co-authors include Ulrich S. Schubert, Tobias Janoschka, Christian Friebe, Bernhard Häupler, Andreas Wild, Martin D. Hager, Jan Winsberg, Christian Stolze, Tino Hagemann and Jean‐François Gohy and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Simon Muench

20 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Polymer-Based Organic Batteries 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 250 500 750
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. Polymer-Based Organic Batteries
    2016 994 citations Simon Muench, Andreas Wild et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Muench Germany 10 1.7k 551 406 378 337 23 1.9k
Giyun Kwon South Korea 17 1.7k 1.0× 367 0.7× 339 0.8× 351 0.9× 219 0.6× 24 1.9k
Masaru Yao Japan 24 1.7k 1.0× 447 0.8× 336 0.8× 612 1.6× 146 0.4× 75 2.1k
Ediga Umeshbabu India 21 1.5k 0.9× 268 0.5× 287 0.7× 704 1.9× 449 1.3× 32 1.7k
Zhihui Niu China 19 1.1k 0.7× 236 0.4× 269 0.7× 194 0.5× 233 0.7× 38 1.4k
Norbert Martin Germany 7 1.3k 0.8× 198 0.4× 392 1.0× 319 0.8× 530 1.6× 9 1.4k
Jiaxiong Zhu Hong Kong 26 2.2k 1.3× 170 0.3× 428 1.1× 571 1.5× 382 1.1× 51 2.3k
Youngmin Ko South Korea 25 2.5k 1.5× 200 0.4× 717 1.8× 387 1.0× 290 0.9× 37 2.7k
Guangmeng Qu China 31 2.1k 1.3× 247 0.4× 282 0.7× 1.0k 2.8× 503 1.5× 69 2.4k
Kyojin Ku South Korea 19 2.5k 1.5× 343 0.6× 553 1.4× 952 2.5× 191 0.6× 31 2.7k
Jessica J. Hong United States 16 2.1k 1.2× 226 0.4× 445 1.1× 672 1.8× 219 0.6× 17 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Muench

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Muench

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Muench. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Muench based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Muench. Simon Muench is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Achazi, Andreas J., Christian Stolze, Simon Muench, et al.. (2025). Pyridinium-Benzoxazole-Based Anode Material for Sustainable All-Organic Polymer-Based Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(7). 4220–4230.
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Innocenti, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Novel dopamine-containing gel polymer electrolytes for Li-organic batteries. Digital Access to Libraries. 35. 100186–100186.
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Muench, Simon, et al.. (2025). Photopolymerized gel polymer electrolytes with cyclic carbonate side chains for Li-organic batteries at room temperature. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 33. 100176–100176.
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Friebe, Christian, Christian Stolze, Simon Muench, et al.. (2024). Hyperbranched TEMPO-based polymers as catholytes for redox flow battery applications. RSC Advances. 14(45). 32893–32910. 3 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, et al.. (2024). Glyoxylic‐Acetal‐Based Gel‐Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Batteries & Supercaps. 8(3). 2 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Lars Frankenstein, Ulrich S. Schubert, et al.. (2024). Radical Polymer‐based Positive Electrodes for Dual‐Ion Batteries: Enhancing Performance with γ‐Butyrolactone‐based Electrolytes. ChemSusChem. 17(17). e202400626–e202400626. 1 indexed citations
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Schuster, P., Simon Muench, Attila Farkas, et al.. (2023). All‐Organic Battery Based on Deep Eutectic Solvent and Redox‐Active Polymers**. ChemSusChem. 17(1). e202301057–e202301057. 9 indexed citations
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Achazi, Andreas J., Simon Muench, Katharina Pohl, et al.. (2023). Development of Novel Redox‐Active Organic Materials Based on Benzimidazole, Benzoxazole, and Benzothiazole: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Screening Approach. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(6). e202302979–e202302979. 5 indexed citations
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Ehrlich, Lisa, Doris Pospiech, Albena Lederer, et al.. (2023). Chloride Ion‐Containing Polymeric Ionic Liquids for Application as Electrolytes in Solid‐State Batteries. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 224(4). 1 indexed citations
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Babu, Binson, Christof Neumann, Simon Muench, et al.. (2023). Diglyme-based gel polymer electrolytes for K-ion capacitors. Energy storage materials. 56. 342–350. 14 indexed citations
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Neumann, Matthias, Markus Osenberg, André Hilger, et al.. (2022). 3D microstructure characterization of polymer battery electrodes by statistical image analysis based on synchrotron X-ray tomography. Journal of Power Sources. 542. 231783–231783. 6 indexed citations
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Ehrlich, Lisa, Doris Pospiech, Albena Lederer, et al.. (2022). Chloride Ion‐Containing Polymeric Ionic Liquids for Application as Electrolytes in Solid‐State Batteries. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 224(1). 5 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Alexandra Lex, Johannes C. Brendel, et al.. (2021). Adaptation of electrodes and printable gel polymer electrolytes for optimized fully organic batteries. Journal of Polymer Science. 59(6). 494–501. 9 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Maria Strumpf, Stephanie Hoeppener, et al.. (2020). Emulsion Polymerizations for a Sustainable Preparation of Efficient TEMPO‐based Electrodes. ChemSusChem. 14(1). 449–455. 26 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Alexandra Lex, Johannes C. Brendel, et al.. (2019). Printable ionic liquid-based gel polymer electrolytes for solid state all-organic batteries. Energy storage materials. 25. 750–755. 41 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Jan Winsberg, Christian Friebe, et al.. (2018). pNTQS: Easily Accessible High-Capacity Redox-Active Polymer for Organic Battery Electrodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(8). 3554–3559. 12 indexed citations
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Winsberg, Jan, Simon Muench, Tino Hagemann, et al.. (2016). Polymer/zinc hybrid-flow battery using block copolymer micelles featuring a TEMPO corona as catholyte. Polymer Chemistry. 7(9). 1711–1718. 80 indexed citations
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Winsberg, Jan, Tino Hagemann, Simon Muench, et al.. (2016). Poly(boron-dipyrromethene)—A Redox-Active Polymer Class for Polymer Redox-Flow Batteries. Chemistry of Materials. 28(10). 3401–3405. 99 indexed citations
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Winsberg, Jan, et al.. (2016). TEMPO/Phenazine Combi-Molecule: A Redox-Active Material for Symmetric Aqueous Redox-Flow Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 1(5). 976–980. 170 indexed citations
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Muench, Simon, Andreas Wild, Christian Friebe, et al.. (2016). Polymer-Based Organic Batteries. Chemical Reviews. 116(16). 9438–9484. 994 indexed citations breakdown →

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