U. Kühn

12.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
236 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

U. Kühn is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Ceramics and Composites. According to data from OpenAlex, U. Kühn has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 214 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 140 papers in Materials Chemistry and 34 papers in Ceramics and Composites. Recurrent topics in U. Kühn's work include Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (136 papers), High Entropy Alloys Studies (39 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (37 papers). U. Kühn is often cited by papers focused on Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (136 papers), High Entropy Alloys Studies (39 papers) and Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (37 papers). U. Kühn collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and South Korea. U. Kühn's co-authors include J. Eckert, S. Pauly, N. Mattern, S. Scudino, Lukas Löber, L. Schultz, Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth, A. Gebert, H. Schwab and Kumar Babu Surreddi and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

U. Kühn

234 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Microstructure and mechanical properties of Al–12Si produced by selective laser melting: Effect of heat treatment

2013 672 citations S. Scudino, H. Klauß et al. Materials Science and Engineering A profile →
Processing metallic glasses by selective laser melting

2013 370 citations S. Pauly, Lukas Löber et al. profile →
Towards Ultrastrong Glasses

2011 324 citations J. Eckert, U. Kühn et al. profile →
Fabrication of Fe-based bulk metallic glass by selective laser melting: A parameter study

2015 297 citations S. Scudino, U. Kühn et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
U. Kühn	8.7k	4.5k	1.9k	1.7k	698	236	9.9k
Zhijian Shen	6.9k 0.8×	3.8k 0.9×	2.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.5×	552 0.8×	151	9.7k
Douglas C. Hofmann	5.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	769 0.5×	374 0.5×	117	6.3k
John J. Lewandowski	12.7k 1.5×	5.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.7×	1.9k 1.1×	2.2k 3.2×	266	14.0k
Ryan Ott	4.9k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	629 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	804 1.2×	91	5.8k
A. Gebert	5.7k 0.7×	5.0k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	400 0.2×	541 0.8×	304	9.2k
S. Pauly	5.5k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	532 0.3×	241 0.3×	131	5.9k
Manling Sui	4.6k 0.5×	7.2k 1.6×	488 0.3×	736 0.4×	719 1.0×	210	12.6k
N. Eustathopoulos	4.2k 0.5×	2.8k 0.6×	2.8k 1.5×	426 0.3×	1.5k 2.1×	185	7.4k
Jianfei Sun	5.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	271 0.2×	1.3k 1.9×	321	7.2k
Shen J. Dillon	2.0k 0.2×	3.0k 0.7×	707 0.4×	889 0.5×	510 0.7×	137	5.9k

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Denkena, Berend, et al.. (2025). Impact of microstructure and heat treatment on chip formation of Ti-5553 processed by laser powder bed fusion. Production Engineering. 19(6). 1163–1175. 1 indexed citations

Kunz, Clemens, et al.. (2025). Low-alloyed steel with superior dry abrasive wear resistance and mechanical properties processed via steel mold casting. Wear. 566-567. 205756–205756.

Denkena, Berend, et al.. (2024). Influence of the process parameters on the microstructure and the machinability of additively manufactured Ti-5553 titanium alloy. CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology. 55. 42–53. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Kang, H. P. WEBER, Yue Wu, et al.. (2023). Structural heterogeneity in levitated glassy alloys with different undercoolings. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 947. 169532–169532. 3 indexed citations

Kosiba, Konrad, Daniel Wolf, Matthias Bönisch, et al.. (2023). Achieving exceptional wear resistance in a crack-free high-carbon tool steel fabricated by laser powder bed fusion without pre-heating. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 156. 1–19. 8 indexed citations

Kühn, U., J. Sander, Lars Giebeler, et al.. (2022). Approach to Estimate the Phase Formation and the Mechanical Properties of Alloys Processed by Laser Powder Bed Fusion via Casting. Materials. 15(20). 7266–7266. 3 indexed citations

Kühn, U., Lars Giebeler, Thomas Gemming, et al.. (2021). Novel Fe-0.3Cr-0.4Mo-1.5Mn–3Ni-0.6C tool steel with superior properties under quasi-static and dynamic loading. Materials Science and Engineering A. 829. 142156–142156. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Kang, Lingfeng Xu, H. P. WEBER, et al.. (2021). A refined local structure in a metallic glass tailored via flash-annealing. Materials Characterization. 178. 111214–111214. 8 indexed citations

Kosiba, Konrad, S. Scudino, Jozef Bednarčík, et al.. (2020). Guiding shear bands in bulk metallic glasses using stress fields: A perspective from the activation of flow units. Physical review. B.. 102(13). 12 indexed citations

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Orava, J., Konrad Kosiba, Xiaoliang Han, et al.. (2020). Fast-current-heating devices to study in situ phase formation in metallic glasses by using high-energy synchrotron radiation. Review of Scientific Instruments. 91(7). 73901–73901. 10 indexed citations

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Pauly, S., U. Kühn, Konrad Kosiba, et al.. (2019). Oligocrystalline microstructure in an additively manufactured biocompatible Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta alloy. Materials Letters. 262. 127149–127149. 13 indexed citations

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Romberg, Jan, J. Freudenberger, Hiroyuki Watanabe, et al.. (2016). Ti/Al Multi-Layered Sheets: Differential Speed Rolling (Part B). Metals. 6(2). 31–31. 8 indexed citations

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Hufenbach, Julia Kristin, et al.. (2016). A study of the micro- and nanoscale deformation behavior of individual austenitic dendrites in a FeCrMoVC cast alloy using micro- and nanoindentation experiments. Applied Physics Letters. 108(14). 6 indexed citations

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Romberg, Jan, J. Freudenberger, Juliane Scharnweber, et al.. (2016). Ti/Al Multi-Layered Sheets: Accumulative Roll Bonding (Part A). Metals. 6(2). 30–30. 23 indexed citations

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Löber, Lukas, F.P. Schimansky, U. Kühn, Florian Pyczak, & J. Eckert. (2014). Selective laser melting of a beta-solidifying TNM-B1 titanium aluminide alloy. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 214(9). 1852–1860. 141 indexed citations

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Freudenberger, J., Alexander Kauffmann, Jan Romberg, et al.. (2013). Processing of Intermetallic Titanium Aluminide Wires. Metals. 3(2). 188–201. 16 indexed citations

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Romberg, Jan, J. Freudenberger, Juliane Scharnweber, et al.. (2013). Metallographic Preparation of Aluminium-Titanium Composites. Practical Metallography. 50(11). 739–753. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Baoan, S. Pauly, Jun Tan, et al.. (2012). Serrated flow and stick–slip deformation dynamics in the presence of shear-band interactions for a Zr-based metallic glass. Acta Materialia. 60(10). 4160–4171. 192 indexed citations

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Freudenberger, J., Dirk Seifert, H. Klauß, et al.. (2011). Ti-Al Composite Wires with High Specific Strength. Metals. 1(1). 79–97. 18 indexed citations

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Kühn, U., et al.. (2011). Thermal Conductivity of Superconducting Bulk Metallic Glasses at Very Low Temperatures. Chinese Journal of Physics. 49(1). 384–393. 2 indexed citations

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