Steffen Hardt

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Steffen Hardt is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Steffen Hardt has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 55 papers in Computational Mechanics and 54 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Steffen Hardt's work include Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (42 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (41 papers) and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (34 papers). Steffen Hardt is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (42 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (41 papers) and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (34 papers). Steffen Hardt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, India and China. Steffen Hardt's co-authors include Volker Hessel, F. Schönfeld, Friedhelm Schönfeld, Tobias Baier, Holger Löwe, Klaus Stefan Drese, Thomas Hahn, H. Löwe, Fengjian Jiang and M. Küpper and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Steffen Hardt

162 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Chemical Micro Process Engineering 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 100 200 300 400
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. Chemical Micro Process Engineering
    2004 435 citations Volker Hessel, Steffen Hardt 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
Steffen Hardt Germany 34 3.0k 1.4k 1.3k 815 797 167 5.0k
Sandra M. Troian United States 33 2.1k 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 2.8k 2.1× 799 1.0× 1.4k 1.7× 84 5.5k
Ali Beşkök United States 40 3.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 941 1.2× 138 0.2× 141 5.5k
Pengtao Yue United States 30 906 0.3× 685 0.5× 2.3k 1.8× 355 0.4× 639 0.8× 74 3.9k
W. Ehrfeld Germany 33 3.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.7× 409 0.3× 835 1.0× 253 0.3× 146 5.3k
A. M. Cazabat France 40 971 0.3× 1.3k 0.9× 2.2k 1.7× 286 0.4× 1.6k 2.0× 128 4.8k
L. Léger France 35 1.1k 0.4× 708 0.5× 923 0.7× 451 0.6× 1.3k 1.6× 73 4.6k
Dirk van den Ende Netherlands 45 1.5k 0.5× 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 724 0.9× 963 1.2× 125 5.4k
Jerzy Bławzdziewicz United States 33 1.0k 0.3× 430 0.3× 998 0.8× 255 0.3× 280 0.4× 107 2.8k
M. Elwenspoek Netherlands 44 4.5k 1.5× 4.7k 3.4× 434 0.3× 772 0.9× 493 0.6× 239 7.9k
Niels R. Tas Netherlands 30 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.1× 303 0.2× 362 0.4× 364 0.5× 142 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Steffen Hardt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steffen Hardt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steffen Hardt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steffen Hardt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steffen Hardt 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 Steffen Hardt. Steffen Hardt 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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Butt, Hans‐Jürgen, et al.. (2025). Liquid slide electrification: advances and open questions. Soft Matter. 21(7). 1251–1262. 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Stefan A. L., et al.. (2024). How Charges Separate when Surfaces Are Dewetted. Physical Review Letters. 132(22). 224002–224002. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaomei, et al.. (2023). Surface Charge Deposition by Moving Drops Reduces Contact Angles. Physical Review Letters. 131(22). 18 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaomei, Amy Z. Stetten, Steffen Hardt, et al.. (2022). Spontaneous charging affects the motion of sliding drops. Nature Physics. 18(6). 713–719. 125 indexed citations
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Scheiger, Johannes M., Yanchen Wu, Fei Wang, et al.. (2021). Liquid Wells as Self‐Healing, Functional Analogues to Solid Vessels. Advanced Materials. 33(23). e2100117–e2100117. 11 indexed citations
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Hardt, Steffen, et al.. (2019). Droplet Sorting and Manipulation on Patterned Two-Phase Slippery Lubricant-Infused Surface. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(17). 16130–16138. 48 indexed citations
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Roy, Tamal, et al.. (2019). Conformation and Dynamics of Long-Chain End-Tethered Polymers in Microchannels. Polymers. 11(3). 488–488. 9 indexed citations
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Hardt, Steffen, et al.. (2018). No contact-manipulation of drops on a liquid-infused surface using electric fields. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 1 indexed citations
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Hartmann, Johannes, et al.. (2018). Relaxation of surface-tethered polymers under moderate confinement. Soft Matter. 14(38). 7926–7933. 1 indexed citations
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Roy, Tamal, et al.. (2017). Stretching of surface-tethered polymers in pressure-driven flow under confinement. Soft Matter. 13(36). 6189–6196. 13 indexed citations
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Roy, Tamal, et al.. (2017). The stretching force on a tethered polymer in pressure-driven flow. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(3). 34902–34902. 7 indexed citations
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Hardt, Steffen, et al.. (2014). Particle orientation during thermophoretic transport in a gas phase. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Varanakkottu, Subramanyan Namboodiri, Sajan D. George, Tobias Baier, et al.. (2013). Particle Manipulation Based on Optically Controlled Free Surface Hydrodynamics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(28). 7291–7295. 60 indexed citations
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Hardt, Steffen, et al.. (2005). Automated chip-based device for simple and fast nucleic acid amplification. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 5(4). 613–620. 27 indexed citations
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Schönfeld, F., Klaus Stefan Drese, Steffen Hardt, Volker Hessel, & Christian A. Hofmann. (2004). Optimized distributive µ-mixing by ‚chaotic' multilamination. TechConnect Briefs. 1(2004). 378–381. 3 indexed citations
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Stephan, Peter & Steffen Hardt. (2004). Wärme‐ und Stofftransport in mikrofluidischen Mehrphasensystemen: Forschungsaktivitäten an der TU Darmstadt. Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 76(5). 527–528. 1 indexed citations
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Hessel, Volker, Steffen Hardt, & Holger Löwe. (2004). Chemical Micro Process Engineering. 435 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hardt, Steffen, et al.. (2001). Mixing And Emulsification Processes InMicromixers. WIT transactions on engineering sciences. 30. 3 indexed citations
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Ehrfeld, W., Steffen Hardt, Christian A. Hofmann, F. Schönfeld, & Frank Weise. (2001). Simulation of Droplet Formation in Micromixers. TechConnect Briefs. 1(2001). 223–226. 5 indexed citations
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Ehrfeld, W., et al.. (2000). Simulation of Heat-Transfer Enhancement Effects in Microreactors. TechConnect Briefs. 644–647. 2 indexed citations

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