2026 Carsten Sönnichsen: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	48	10693	10329	597	578	95	17221

Carsten Sönnichsen 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 Carsten Sönnichsen sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 95 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carsten Sönnichsen 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 Carsten Sönnichsen sits on this spectrum.

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

Carsten Sönnichsen is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Materials Science, and Engineering.

Their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Key research topics include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, Biosensors and Analytical Detection, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Copper-based Nanomaterials and Applications, and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides.

Sönnichsen has published in various scientific journals, with frequent publication venues as follows:

Nano Letters
Chemistry of Materials
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
ACS Sensors

Notable recent papers authored by Sönnichsen include:

Interfacial States Cause Equal Decay of Plasmons and Hot Electrons at Gold-Metal Oxide Interfaces, 2020, Nano Letters
Implantable Sensors Based on Gold Nanoparticles for Continuous Long-Term Concentration Monitoring in the Body, 2021, Nano Letters
Intensity-Based Single Particle Plasmon Sensing, 2021, Nano Letters
CTAB Stabilizes Silver on Gold Nanorods, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
Plasmonic Nanosensors for the Label-Free Imaging of Dynamic Protein Patterns, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Sönnichsen collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

Sirin Celiksoy
Weixiang Ye
Katharina Kaefer
Bastian Flietel
Rubén Ahijado-Guzmán

Best Publications

Drastic reduction of plasmon damping in gold nanorods.

C. Sönnichsen;T. Franzl;T. Wilk;G. von Plessen

2181
Citations
A molecular ruler based on plasmon coupling of single gold and silver nanoparticles

Carsten Sonnichsen;Bjorn M. Reinhard;Jan Liphardt;A. Paul Alivisatos

1833
Citations
Planar metamaterial analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency for plasmonic sensing.

Na Liu;Thomas Weiss;Martin Mesch;Lutz Langguth

1410
Citations
Biomolecular Recognition Based on Single Gold Nanoparticle Light Scattering

G. Raschke;S. Kowarik;T. Franzl;C. Sönnichsen

968
Citations
Mycosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using the Fungus Fusarium acuminatum and its Activity Against Some Human Pathogenic Bacteria

Avinash Ingle;Aniket Gade;Sebastien Pierrat;Carsten Sonnichsen

741
Citations
Integration of Colloidal Nanocrystals into Lithographically Patterned Devices

Yi Cui;Mikael T. Björk;J. Alexander Liddle;Carsten Sönnichsen

696
Citations
Gold nanorods as novel nonbleaching plasmon-based orientation sensors for polarized single-particle microscopy.

Carsten Sönnichsen;A Paul Alivisatos

599
Citations
Plasmon resonances in large noble-metal clusters

C Sönnichsen;T Franzl;T Wilk;G von Plessen

541
Citations
The Optimal Aspect Ratio of Gold Nanorods for Plasmonic Bio-sensing

Jan Becker;Andreas Trügler;Arpad Jakab;Ulrich Hohenester

539
Citations
Spectroscopy of single metallic nanoparticles using total internal reflection microscopy

C. Sonnichsen;S. Geier;N. E. Hecker;G. von Plessen

511
Citations
Separation of nanoparticles by gel electrophoresis according to size and shape.

Matthias Hanauer;Sebastien Pierrat;Inga Zins;and Alexander Lotz

489
Citations
Synthesis of rod-shaped gold nanorattles with improved plasmon sensitivity and catalytic activity.

Yuriy Khalavka;Jan Becker;Carsten Sönnichsen

387
Citations
Single unlabeled protein detection on individual plasmonic nanoparticles.

Irene Ament;Janak Prasad;Andreas Henkel;Sebastian Schmachtel

379
Citations
Chemical Interface Damping Depends on Electrons Reaching the Surface.

Benjamin Foerster;Anneli Joplin;Katharina Kaefer;Sirin Celiksoy

346
Citations
Plasmons in metal nanostructures

Carsten Sönnichsen

266
Citations
Controlled synthesis of hyperbranched inorganic nanocrystals with rich three-dimensional structures.

Antonios G. Kanaras;Carsten Sonnichsen;Haitao Liu;A. Paul Alivisatos

261
Citations
LbL multilayer capsules: recent progress and future outlook for their use in life sciences

Loretta L. del Mercato;Pilar Rivera-Gil;Azhar Z. Abbasi;Markus Ochs

256
Citations
Nanoassembled Plasmonic-Photonic Hybrid Cavity for Tailored Light-Matter Coupling

Michael Barth;Stefan Schietinger;Sabine Fischer;Jan Becker

241
Citations
Absorption properties of metal-semiconductor hybrid nanoparticles.

Ehud Shaviv;Olaf Schubert;Marcelo Alves-Santos;Guido Goldoni

236
Citations
Quantitative optical trapping of single gold nanorods.

Christine Selhuber-Unkel;Inga Zins;Olaf Schubert;Carsten Sönnichsen

229
Citations
Electrically controlled light scattering with single metal nanoparticles

J. Müller;C. Sönnichsen;H. von Poschinger;G. von Plessen

228
Citations