2026 Christopher K. Ober: 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	99	1086	1038	358	331	713	42897
Chemistry	99	1314	1166	505	413	655	42305

Christopher K. Ober 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 Christopher K. Ober sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 713 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher K. Ober 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 Christopher K. Ober sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christopher K. Ober is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research career focuses primarily on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, surfaces, coatings and films, biomedical engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics in Ober's body of work include:

Advancements in photolithography techniques
Copper interconnects and reliability
Electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques
Nanofabrication and lithography techniques
Metal and thin film mechanics
Polymer surface interaction studies
Muon and positron interactions and applications

Frequent publication venues where Ober's research appears cover a range of specialized scientific journals and platforms. These include:

IUPAC Standards Online
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
ACS Macro Letters
Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology
Langmuir

Ober has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors in the field. Frequent collaborators are:

Christine K. Luscombe
Natalie Stingelin
Teruaki Hayakawa
Richard G. Jones

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate ongoing work on photoresists and lithographic materials, including the following publications:

Terminology of polymers in advanced lithography (IUPAC Recommendations 2020), 2020, Pure and Applied Chemistry
Recent developments in photoresists for extreme-ultraviolet lithography, 2023, Polymer
Modular Synthesis of Phthalaldehyde Derivatives Enabling Access to Photoacid Generator-bound Self-Immolative Polymer Resists with Next-Generation Photolithographic Properties, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
High-Performance Chain Scissionable Resists for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography: Discovery of the Photoacid Generator Structure and Mechanism, 2022, Chemistry of Materials
Review of essential use of fluorochemicals in lithographic patterning and semiconductor processing, 2022, Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning Materials and Metrology

Honors awarded to Ober include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

Martien A Cohen Stuart;Wilhelm T S Huck;Jan Genzer;Marcus Müller

6033
Citations
Principles of Polymer Systems

Ferdinand Rodriguez;Claude Cohen;Christopher K. Ober;Lynden Archer

1513
Citations
Nanocomposite Materials for Optical Applications

Laura L. Beecroft;Christopher K. Ober

1368
Citations
Advances in polymers for anti-biofouling surfaces

Sitaraman Krishnan;Craig J. Weinman;Christopher K. Ober

961
Citations
Competing Interactions and Levels of Ordering in Self-Organizing Polymeric Materials

M. Muthukumar;C. K. Ober;E. L. Thomas

950
Citations
An efficient two-photon-generated photoacid applied to positive-tone 3D microfabrication

Wenhui Zhou;Stephen M. Kuebler;Kevin L. Braun;Tianyue Yu

911
Citations
Self-Assembled Monolayers and Polymer Brushes in Biotechnology: Current Applications and Future Perspectives

Wageesha Senaratne;Luisa Andruzzi;Christopher K Ober

850
Citations
Attogram detection using nanoelectromechanical oscillators

B. Ilic;Harold G. Craighead;S. Krylov;W. Senaratne

836
Citations
Self-Assembled Smectic Phases in Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

J. T. Chen;E. L. Thomas;C. K. Ober;G.-p. Mao

554
Citations
50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Brushes: Novel Surfaces for Future Materials

Wei-Liang Chen;Roselynn Cordero;Hai Tran;Christopher K. Ober

521
Citations
Particle size control in dispersion polymerization of polystyrene

Kar P. Lok;Christopher K. Ober

502
Citations
Liquid Crystalline, Semifluorinated Side Group Block Copolymers with Stable Low Energy Surfaces: Synthesis, Liquid Crystalline Structure, and Critical Surface Tension

Jianguo Wang;Guoping Mao;Christopher K. Ober;Edward J. Kramer

448
Citations
Anti-biofouling properties of comblike block copolymers with amphiphilic side chains.

Sitaraman Krishnan;Ramakrishnan Ayothi;Alexander Hexemer;John A. Finlay

418
Citations
Comparison of the fouling release properties of hydrophobic fluorinated and hydrophilic PEGylated block copolymer surfaces: attachment strength of the diatom Navicula and the green alga Ulva.

Sitaraman Krishnan;Nick Wang;Christopher K. Ober;John A. Finlay

393
Citations
Liquid crystal polymers with flexible spacers in the main chain

Christopher K. Ober;Jung-Il Jin;Qifeng Zhou;Robert W. Lenz

365
Citations
Recent progress in high resolution lithography

Daniel Bratton;Da Yang;Junyan Dai;Christopher K. Ober

351
Citations
Extreme ultraviolet resist materials for sub-7 nm patterning

Li Li;Xuan Liu;Shyam Pal;Shulan Wang

340
Citations
Polyelectrolyte–Surfactant Complexes in the Solid State: Facile building blocks for self‐organizing materials

Christopher K. Ober;Gerhard Wegner

338
Citations
Block copolymer patterns and templates

Mingqi Li;Christopher K. Ober

325
Citations
Surface Segregation Studies of Fluorine-Containing Diblock Copolymers

Dhamodharan R. Iyengar;Susanne M. Perutz;Chi-An Dai;Christopher K. Ober

324
Citations
Monodispersed, micron-sized polystyrene particles by dispersion polymerization

Christopher K. Ober;Kar P. Lok;Michael L. Hair

315
Citations