Wilhelm T. S. Huck

39.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
367 papers, 33.1k citations indexed

About

Wilhelm T. S. Huck is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilhelm T. S. Huck has authored 367 papers receiving a total of 33.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 121 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 109 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Wilhelm T. S. Huck's work include Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (97 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (58 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (48 papers). Wilhelm T. S. Huck is often cited by papers focused on Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (97 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (58 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (48 papers). Wilhelm T. S. Huck collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and China. Wilhelm T. S. Huck's co-authors include Fiona M. Watt, Chris Abell, Steve Edmondson, Vicky L. Osborne, Feng Zhou, Omar Azzaroni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Andrew A. Brown, Stefan Zauscher and Jan Genzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wilhelm T. S. Huck

363 papers receiving 32.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials
    2010 4.8k citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  2. Extracellular-matrix tethering regulates stem-cell fate
    2012 1.3k citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  3. Polymer brushes via surface-initiated polymerizations
    2003 1.1k citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  4. Microdroplets in Microfluidics: An Evolving Platform for Discoveries in Chemistry and Biology
    2010 886 citations Ashleigh B. Theberge, Martin Fischlechner et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Role of the extracellular matrix in regulating stem cell fate
    2013 674 citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  6. The controlled formation of ordered, sinusoidal structures by plasma oxidation of an elastomeric polymer
    1999 564 citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck, George M. Whitesides et al. profile →
  7. Dewetting of conducting polymer inkjet droplets on patterned surfaces
    2004 479 citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  8. The nanotechnology of life-inspired systems
    2016 369 citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck et al. profile →
  9. How Droplets Can Accelerate Reactions─Coacervate Protocells as Catalytic Microcompartments
    2024 56 citations Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Evan Spruijt 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
Wilhelm T. S. Huck Netherlands 91 14.4k 8.6k 7.9k 6.0k 5.7k 367 33.1k
Vladimir V. Tsukruk United States 83 10.3k 0.7× 7.9k 0.9× 6.3k 0.8× 5.1k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 496 30.5k
Christopher K. Ober United States 80 8.1k 0.6× 7.9k 0.9× 6.5k 0.8× 8.2k 1.4× 1.5k 0.3× 581 28.7k
Nicholas D. Spencer Switzerland 89 7.5k 0.5× 6.5k 0.7× 4.6k 0.6× 8.2k 1.4× 3.9k 0.7× 524 31.3k
Gero Decher France 65 8.0k 0.6× 15.9k 1.8× 7.9k 1.0× 3.4k 0.6× 3.2k 0.6× 155 28.4k
Gleb B. Sukhorukov United Kingdom 93 9.9k 0.7× 17.5k 2.0× 4.3k 0.5× 6.0k 1.0× 4.5k 0.8× 428 34.7k
Michael F. Rubner United States 84 7.4k 0.5× 13.1k 1.5× 9.0k 1.1× 3.5k 0.6× 1.7k 0.3× 246 26.5k
Manfred Stamm Germany 78 6.9k 0.5× 8.5k 1.0× 5.2k 0.7× 6.7k 1.1× 1.4k 0.2× 549 26.8k
Sergiy Minko United States 64 5.9k 0.4× 7.9k 0.9× 3.2k 0.4× 5.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.4× 246 18.6k
Shutao Wang China 83 13.7k 1.0× 12.5k 1.4× 5.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.3× 3.5k 0.6× 489 30.3k
Nicholas A. Kotov United States 129 21.3k 1.5× 6.2k 0.7× 13.5k 1.7× 4.8k 0.8× 8.1k 1.4× 523 58.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huck, Wilhelm T. S., et al.. (2025). SurfPro – a curated database and predictive model of experimental properties of surfactants. Digital Discovery. 4(5). 1176–1187. 1 indexed citations
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Maguire, Oliver R., et al.. (2024). A Prebiotic Precursor to Life’s Phosphate Transfer System with an ATP Analog and Histidyl Peptide Organocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7839–7849. 9 indexed citations
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Huck, Wilhelm T. S., et al.. (2024). A Urease‐Based pH Photoswitch: A General Route to Light‐to‐pH Transduction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 4 indexed citations
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Huck, Wilhelm T. S., et al.. (2023). Direct Analysis of Complex Reaction Mixtures: Formose Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 136(6). 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Tiemei, Xinyu Hu, Merlijn H. I. van Haren, Evan Spruijt, & Wilhelm T. S. Huck. (2023). Structure‐Property Relationships Governing Membrane‐Penetrating Behaviour of Complex Coacervates. Small. 19(38). e2303138–e2303138. 19 indexed citations
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Linden, Ardjan J. van der, Pascal A. Pieters, Peng Yin, et al.. (2022). DNA Input Classification by a Riboregulator-Based Cell-Free Perceptron. ACS Synthetic Biology. 11(4). 1510–1520. 13 indexed citations
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Kowalski, Adam, Paweł J. Żuk, Volodymyr Sashuk, et al.. (2022). Effective screening of Coulomb repulsions in water accelerates reactions of like-charged compounds by orders of magnitude. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6451–6451. 4 indexed citations
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Maas, Roel, et al.. (2022). A microfluidic optimal experimental design platform for forward design of cell-free genetic networks. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3626–3626. 20 indexed citations
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Abbas, Manzar, Wojciech P. Lipiński, Karina K. Nakashima, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, & Evan Spruijt. (2021). A short peptide synthon for liquid–liquid phase separation. Nature Chemistry. 13(11). 1046–1054. 221 indexed citations
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Pieters, Pascal A., Ardjan J. van der Linden, Peng Yin, et al.. (2021). Cell-Free Characterization of Coherent Feed-Forward Loop-Based Synthetic Genetic Circuits. ACS Synthetic Biology. 10(6). 1406–1416. 21 indexed citations
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Brisotto, Giulia, Elisabetta Rossi, Michela Bulfoni, et al.. (2020). Dysmetabolic Circulating Tumor Cells Are Prognostic in Metastatic Breast Cancer. Cancers. 12(4). 1005–1005. 9 indexed citations
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Ma, Shuanhong, Mingming Rong, Lin Peng, et al.. (2018). Fabrication of 3D Tubular Hydrogel Materials through On-Site Surface Free Radical Polymerization. Chemistry of Materials. 30(19). 6756–6768. 42 indexed citations
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Wong, Albert S. Y., et al.. (2017). Photochemical Control over Oscillations in Chemical Reaction Networks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(43). 15296–15299. 35 indexed citations
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Wong, Albert S. Y., et al.. (2017). Molecular Engineering of Robustness and Resilience in Enzymatic Reaction Networks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(24). 8146–8151. 19 indexed citations
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Sokolova, Ekaterina, Evan Spruijt, Maike M. K. Hansen, et al.. (2013). Enhanced transcription rates in membrane-free protocells formed by coacervation of cell lysate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(29). 11692–11697. 294 indexed citations
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Theberge, Ashleigh B., et al.. (2012). Investigation of “On Water” Conditions Using a Biphasic Fluidic Platform. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(32). 7981–7984. 62 indexed citations
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Fischlechner, Martin, et al.. (2010). Hydrophilic PDMS microchannels for high-throughput formation of oil-in-water microdroplets and water-in-oil-in-water double emulsions. Lab on a Chip. 10(14). 1814–1814. 191 indexed citations
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Nedelcu, Mihaela, Mohammad S. M. Saifullah, D. G. Hasko, et al.. (2010). Fabrication of Sub‐10 nm Metallic Lines of Low Line‐Width Roughness by Hydrogen Reduction of Patterned Metal–Organic Materials. Advanced Functional Materials. 20(14). 2317–2323. 21 indexed citations
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Huck, Wilhelm T. S.. (2005). Nanoscale assembly : chemical techniques. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 23 indexed citations
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Stroock, Abraham D., Marcus Weck, Daniel T. Chiu, et al.. (2000). Patterning Electro-osmotic Flow with Patterned Surface Charge. Physical Review Letters. 84(15). 3314–3317. 266 indexed citations

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