2026 Dirk Bosbach: 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	41	12730	12314	691	670	289	6204
Chemistry	50	14446	13014	1059	935	263	8343

Overview

Dirk Bosbach is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research spans across the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant expertise in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

Radioactive element chemistry and processing
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Nuclear materials and radiation effects
Groundwater flow and contamination studies
Soil and Unsaturated Flow
CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
Nuclear reactor physics and engineering

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

Guido Deissmann
Martina Klinkenberg
Jenna Poonoosamy
Felix Brandt
Yuankai Yang

Dirk Bosbach has published extensively in several scientific venues, with a notable number of publications in the following outlets:

Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal
MRS Advances
Applied Geochemistry
Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
Minerals

Selected recent publications illustrate the range and focus of their research:

Microfluidic flow-through reactor and 3D Raman imaging for in situ assessment of mineral reactivity in porous and fractured porous media, 2020, Lab on a Chip
Combination of MRI and SEM to Assess Changes in the Chemical Properties and Permeability of Porous Media due to Barite Precipitation, 2020, Minerals
Chromium Doped UO2-Based Ceramics: Synthesis and Characterization of Model Materials for Modern Nuclear Fuels, 2021, Materials
Insights into the fabrication and structure of plutonium pyrochlores, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Adsorption of barium and radium on montmorillonite: A comparative experimental and modelling study, 2021, Applied Geochemistry

Best Publications

Arsenic(III) oxidation by birnessite and precipitation of manganese(II) arsenate.

Christophe Tournassat;Laurent Charlet;Dirk Bosbach;Alain Manceau

429
Citations
Structure and reactivity of the calcite–water interface

Frank Heberling;Thomas P. Trainor;Johannes Lützenkirchen;Peter Eng

336
Citations
The dissolution of apatite in the presence of aqueous metal cations at pH 2–7

E. Valsami-Jones;E. Valsami-Jones;K.V. Ragnarsdottir;A. Putnis;D. Bosbach

333
Citations
Chlorite dissolution in the acid ph-range: a combined microscopic and macroscopic approach

Felix Brandt;Dirk Bosbach;Evelyn Krawczyk-Bärsch;Thuro Arnold

272
Citations
Molecular-scale mechanisms of crystal growth in barite

Carlos M. Pina;Udo Becker;Peter Risthaus;Dirk Bosbach

270
Citations
Probing disorder in isometric pyrochlore and related complex oxides

Jacob Shamblin;Mikhail Feygenson;Joerg Neuefeind;Cameron L. Tracy

217
Citations
Nanomorphology of montmorillonite particles: Estimation of the clay edge sorption site density by low-pressure gas adsorption and AFM observations

Christophe Tournassat;Christophe Tournassat;Alexander Neaman;Frédéric Villiéras;Dirk Bosbach

204
Citations
In situ atomic force microscopy study of hectorite and nontronite dissolution: Implications for phyllosilicate edge surface structures and dissolution mechanisms

Barry R. Bickmore;Dirk Bosbach;Michael F. Hochella;Laurent Charlet

194
Citations
Natural attenuation of TCE, As, Hg linked to the heterogeneous oxidation of Fe(II): an AFM study

Laurent Charlet;Dirk Bosbach;Tanya Peretyashko

150
Citations
Mineral precipitation and dissolution in aqueous solution: in-situ microscopic observations on barite (001) with atomic force microscopy

Dirk Bosbach;Christopher Hall;Andrew Putnis

145
Citations
The dissolution of hectorite: In-situ, real-time observations using atomic force microscopy

Dirk Bosbach;Laurent Charlet;Barry Bickmore;Michael F. Hochella

132
Citations
Barite scale formation and dissolution at high ionic strength studied with atomic force microscopy

Peter Risthaus;Dirk Bosbach;Udo Becker;Andrew Putnis

130
Citations
Do clay mineral dissolution rates reach steady state

Stephan Jürgen Köhler;Dirk Bosbach;Eric Oelkers

128
Citations
Laboratory-Scale Counter-Current Centrifugal Contactor Demonstration of an Innovative-SANEX Process Using a Water Soluble BTP

Andreas Wilden;Giuseppe Modolo;Peter Kaufholz;Fabian Sadowski

121
Citations
In situ investigation of growth and dissolution on the (010) surface of gypsum by Scanning Force Microscopy

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113
Citations
Gypsum growth in the presence of growth inhibitors: a scanning force microscopy study

Dirk Bosbach;Michael F. Hochella

108
Citations
Defect formation energies in A2B2O7 pyrochlores

Yan Li;Piotr M. Kowalski;George Beridze;April R. Birnie;April R. Birnie

104
Citations
Structure of Barite (001)− and (210)−Water Interfaces

P. Fenter;M. T. McBride;G. Srajer;N. C. Sturchio

97
Citations
Development and demonstration of innovative partitioning processes (i-SANEX and 1-cycle SANEX) for actinide partitioning

G. Modolo;A. Wilden;P. Kaufholz;D. Bosbach

95
Citations
Raman and infrared spectroscopy of monazite-type ceramics used for nuclear waste conditioning

J. Heuser;A.A. Bukaemskiy;S. Neumeier;A. Neumann

94
Citations
Methods for Performing Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Clay Minerals in Aqueous Solutions

Barry R. Bickmore;Michael F. Hochella;Dirk Bosbach;Laurent Charlet

86
Citations
Gypsum growth in the presence of background electrolytes studied by Scanning Force Microscopy

Dirk Bosbach;Jodi L. Junta-Rosso;Udo Becker;Michael F. Hochella

86
Citations