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D-Index
93
Citations
33238
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1451
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Eduard Arzt 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 Eduard Arzt sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 471 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eduard Arzt 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 Eduard Arzt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For research on mechanical properties and development of bio-inspired functional surfaces for medical adhesives and novel gripping systems.
  • 2017 - Heyn Commemorative Medal

Overview

Eduard Arzt is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany, where the research focuses primarily on the fields of engineering and materials science. Their work spans several subfields including mechanics of materials, surfaces, coatings and films, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and mechanical engineering.

The researcher's work centers on topics such as adhesion, friction, and surface interactions; advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials; surface modification and superhydrophobicity; force microscopy techniques and applications; tactile and sensory interactions; polymer surface interaction studies; and diamond and carbon-based materials research.

Eduard Arzt has frequently published in notable venues including Progress in Materials Science, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Science Advances, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research spanning materials science and mechanical engineering.

Frequent collaborators include René Hensel, Robert M. McMeeking, Manar Samri, Gabriela Moreira Lana, and Xuan Zhang, indicating a broad network of co-authors contributing to their research outputs.

Selected recent publications document the scope and focus of their research:

  • Functional surface microstructures inspired by nature - From adhesion and wetting principles to sustainable new devices, 2021, Progress in Materials Science
  • A bioinspired snap-through metastructure for manipulating micro-objects, 2022, Science Advances
  • Orbital debris removal using micropatterned dry adhesives: Review and recent advances, 2022, Progress in Aerospace Sciences
  • A Design Strategy for Mushroom-Shaped Microfibrils With Optimized Dry Adhesion: Experiments and Finite Element Analyses, 2020, Journal of Applied Mechanics
  • Water as a "glue": Elasticity-enhanced wet attachment of biomimetic microcup structures, 2022, Science Advances

Eduard Arzt's contributions have been recognized through awards including membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, awarded for research on mechanical properties and development of bio-inspired functional surfaces for medical adhesives and novel gripping systems, as well as the Heyn Commemorative Medal received in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: lessons from nature.

    Huajian Gao;Baohua Ji;Ingomar L. Jäger;Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt

  • Size effects in materials due to microstructural and dimensional constraints: a comparative review

    E. Arzt

  • From micro to nano contacts in biological attachment devices.

    Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt;Stanislav Gorb;Ralph Spolenak

  • Evidence for capillarity contributions to gecko adhesion from single spatula nanomechanical measurements.

    Gerrit Huber;Hubert Mantz;Ralph Spolenak;Klaus Mecke

  • Mechanics of hierarchical adhesion structures of geckos

    Huajian Gao;Xiang Wang;Haimin Yao;Stanislav Gorb

  • Contact shape controls adhesion of bioinspired fibrillar surfaces

    A. del Campo;C. Greiner;E. Arzt;E. Arzt

  • Fabrication approaches for generating complex micro- and nanopatterns on polymeric surfaces.

    and Aránzazu del Campo;Eduard Arzt

  • A new model-based creep equation for dispersion strengthened materials

    Joachim Rösler;Eduard Arzt

  • Observation of Giant Diffusivity Along Dislocation Cores

    Marc Legros;Gerhard Dehm;Eduard Arzt;T. John Balk

  • Practical applications of hotisostatic Pressing diagrams: Four case studies

    E. Arzt;M. F. Ashby;K. E. Easterling

  • Gecko-inspired surfaces: a path to strong and reversible dry adhesives.

    Luciano F. Boesel;Christian Greiner;Eduard Arzt;Aránzazu del Campo

  • Adhesion of Bioinspired Micropatterned Surfaces: Effects of Pillar Radius, Aspect Ratio, and Preload

    Christian Greiner;and Aránzazu del Campo;Eduard Arzt

  • The influence of an increasing particle coordination on the densification of spherical powders

    Eduard Arzt

  • Threshold stresses for dislocation climb over hard particles: The effect of an attractive interaction

    Eduard Arzt;D. S. Wilkinson

  • Size effect on strength and strain hardening of small-scale [111] nickel compression pillars

    C. P. Frick;B. G. Clark;S. Orso;A. S. Schneider

  • Interface controlled diffusional creep

    Eduard Arzt;Michael F. Ashby;R. A. Verrall

  • Practical applications of hot-isostatic pressing diagrams: Four case studies

    Eduard Arzt;Michael F. Ashby;K. E. Easterling

  • Bioinspired Surfaces with Switchable Adhesion

    S. Reddy;E. Arzt;E. Arzt;A. del Campo

  • Effects of contact shape on the scaling of biological attachments

    Ralph Spolenak;Stanislav Gorb;Huajian Gao;Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt

  • The kinetics of dislocation climb over hard particles—II. Effects of an attractive particle-dislocation interaction

    Eduard Arzt;Joachim Rösler

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Kraft
Oliver Kraft Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gerhard Dehm
Gerhard Dehm Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Ralph Spolenak
Ralph Spolenak ETH Zurich
Robert M. McMeeking
Robert M. McMeeking University of California, Santa Barbara
Stanislav N. Gorb
Stanislav N. Gorb Kiel University
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
William D. Nix
William D. Nix Stanford University
Aránzazu del Campo
Aránzazu del Campo Leibniz Association
Cynthia A. Volkert
Cynthia A. Volkert University of Göttingen
Peter Gumbsch
Peter Gumbsch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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