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48
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13309
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10706
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Alfred Ludwig publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Ludwig sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 410 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Alfred Ludwig D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Ludwig sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfred Ludwig is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research spans a broad range of topics with a particular focus on high entropy alloys, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and materials chemistry.

Their recent publications demonstrate active engagement in high-impact journals. Notable papers include "What Makes High-Entropy Alloys Exceptional Electrocatalysts?" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition), "Multifunctional high-entropy materials" (2024, Nature Reviews Materials), "Unravelling Composition-Activity-Stability Trends in High Entropy Alloy Electrocatalysts by Using a Data-Guided Combinatorial Synthesis Strategy and Computational Modeling" (2022, Advanced Energy Materials), "Comparing the Activity of Complex Solid Solution Electrocatalysts Using Inflection Points of Voltammetric Activity Curves as Activity Descriptors" (2021, ACS Catalysis), and "Prediction of ambient pressure conventional superconductivity above 80 K in hydride compounds" (2024, npj Computational Materials).

The scientist's collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Lars Banko, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Alan Savan, Olga A. Krysiak, and Aleksander Kostka.

Alfred Ludwig's publications are also frequently found in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, arXiv (Cornell University), Advanced Engineering Materials, ACS Combinatorial Science, and Angewandte Chemie.

The research encompasses key topics, including:

  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
  • Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques

Main fields of study for Alfred Ludwig include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Subfields of study cover:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Best Publications

  • Oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions on Ru, RuO2, Ir, and IrO2 thin film electrodes in acidic and alkaline electrolytes: A comparative study on activity and stability

    Serhiy Cherevko;Simon Geiger;Olga Kasian;Nadiia Kulyk

  • The stability number as a metric for electrocatalyst stability benchmarking

    Simon Geiger;Olga Kasian;Marc Ledendecker;Enrico Pizzutilo

  • Combinatorial search of thermoelastic shape-memory alloys with extremely small hysteresis width

    Jun Cui;Jun Cui;Yong S. Chu;Olugbenga O. Famodu;Yasubumi Furuya

  • Identification of Quaternary Shape Memory Alloys with Near‐Zero Thermal Hysteresis and Unprecedented Functional Stability

    Robert Zarnetta;Ryota Takahashi;Ryota Takahashi;Marcus L. Young;Alan Savan

  • What makes high-entropy alloys exceptional electrocatalysts?

    Tobias Löffler;Alfred Ludwig;Jan Rossmeisl;Wolfgang Schuhmann

  • Discovery of new materials using combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization of thin-film materials libraries combined with computational methods

    Alfred Ludwig

  • The 2019 materials by design roadmap

    Kirstin Alberi;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Andriy Zakutayev;Lubos Mitas

  • Discovery of a Multinary Noble Metal–Free Oxygen Reduction Catalyst

    Tobias Löffler;Hajo Meyer;Alan Savan;Patrick Wilde

  • Toward a Paradigm Shift in Electrocatalysis Using Complex Solid Solution Nanoparticles

    Tobias Löffler;Alan Savan;Alba Garzón-Manjón;Michael Meischein

  • Self-Directed Localization of ZIF-8 Thin Film Formation by Conversion of ZnO Nanolayers

    Kira Khaletskaya;Stuart Turner;Min Tu;Suttipong Wannapaiboon

  • Development of multifunctional thin films using high-throughput experimentation methods

    Alfred Ludwig;Robert Zarnetta;Sven Hamann;Alan Savan

  • Structure-related antibacterial activity of a titanium nanostructured surface fabricated by glancing angle sputter deposition.

    Christina Sengstock;Michael Lopian;Yahya Motemani;Anna Borgmann

  • Combinatorial metallurgical synthesis and processing of high-entropy alloys

    Zhiming Li;Alfred Ludwig;Alan Savan;Hauke Springer

  • On the Origin of the Improved Ruthenium Stability in RuO2–IrO2 Mixed Oxides

    Olga Kasian;Simon Geiger;Philipp Stock;George Polymeros

  • Complex‐Solid‐Solution Electrocatalyst Discovery by Computational Prediction and High‐Throughput Experimentation**

    Thomas A. A. Batchelor;Tobias Löffler;Bin Xiao;Olga A. Krysiak

  • Giant magnetostrictive thin films for applications in microelectromechanical systems (invited)

    Alfred Ludwig;Eckhard Quandt

  • Design of Complex Solid-Solution Electrocatalysts by Correlating Configuration, Adsorption Energy Distribution Patterns, and Activity Curves.

    Tobias Löffler;Alan Savan;Hajo Meyer;Michael Meischein

  • Magnetostrictive actuation in microsystems

    Eckhard Quandt;Alfred Ludwig

  • Enhanced photoelectrochemical properties of WO3 thin films fabricated by reactive magnetron sputtering

    Vinay Shankar Vidyarthi;Martin Hofmann;Alan Savan;Kirill Sliozberg

  • Optimization of the /spl Delta/E-effect in thin films and multilayers by magnetic field annealing

    A. Ludwig;E. Quandt

  • Giant magnetostrictive multilayers (invited)

    Eckhard Quandt;Alfred Ludwig

  • Bayesian Optimization of High-Entropy Alloy Compositions for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction**

    Jack K. Pedersen;Christian M. Clausen;Olga A. Krysiak;Bin Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Schuhmann
Wolfgang Schuhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Eckhard Quandt
Eckhard Quandt Kiel University
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society
Karl Johann Jakob Mayrhofer
Karl Johann Jakob Mayrhofer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Gerhard Dehm
Gerhard Dehm Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Jan Frenzel
Jan Frenzel Ruhr University Bochum
Aleksander Kostka
Aleksander Kostka Ruhr University Bochum
Serhiy Cherevko
Serhiy Cherevko Forschungszentrum Jülich
Gunther Eggeler
Gunther Eggeler Ruhr University Bochum
Ichiro Takeuchi
Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland, College Park

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