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Elie Raphaël

Elie Raphaël

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
40
Citations
7427
World Ranking
12794
National Ranking
412

Elie Raphaël 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 Elie Raphaël sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 193 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elie Raphaël 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 Elie Raphaël sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 1st percentile

1% 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

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions to the theory of complex fluids, including polymers at interfaces, polyelectrolytes, wetting of thin films, and capillarygravity waves

Overview

Elie Raphaël is affiliated with PSL University in France and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and physics. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational mechanics, materials chemistry, mechanics of materials, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Elie Raphaël's research focus on surface modification and superhydrophobicity, adhesion, friction, and surface interactions, material dynamics and properties, force microscopy techniques and applications, electrostatics and colloid interactions, mechanical and optical resonators, and rheology and fluid dynamics studies.

Raphaël's publication record includes papers in notable journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, Physical Review Applied, and Physical Review E. The frequent venues of their work also include arXiv (Cornell University) and The European Physical Journal E.

  • Direct Measurement of the Elastohydrodynamic Lift Force at the Nanoscale, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Soft-lubrication interactions between a rigid sphere and an elastic wall, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Enhanced dip coating on a soft substrate, 2022, Physical Review Fluids
  • Contactless Rheology of Soft Gels Over a Broad Frequency Range, 2022, Physical Review Applied
  • Cooperative strings and glassy dynamics in various confined geometries, 2020, Physical Review E

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Raphaël include Thomas Salez, V. Bertin, Haggai Bonneau, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, and Joshua D. McGraw.

Among the recognitions received, Elie Raphaël was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, cited for contributions to the theory of complex fluids involving polymers at interfaces, polyelectrolytes, wetting of thin films, and capillary-gravity waves.

Best Publications

  • «Janus beads»: realization and behaviour at water/oil interfaces

    C. Casagrande;P. Fabre;E. Raphaël;M. Veyssié

  • Residual stresses in thin polymer films cause rupture and dominate early stages of dewetting.

    Günter Reiter;Moustafa Hamieh;Pascal Damman;Séverine Sclavons

  • Conformation of adsorbed comb copolymer dispersants.

    Robert J. Flatt;Irene Schober;Elie Raphael;Cédric Plassard

  • Rubber-rubber adhesion with connector molecules

    E. Raphael;P. G. De Gennes

  • Surface-Anchored Polymer Chains: Their Role in Adhesion and Friction

    Liliane Léger;Elie Raphaël;Hubert Hervet

  • A Direct Quantitative Measure of Surface Mobility in a Glassy Polymer

    Y. Chai;Thomas Salez;J. D. Mcgraw;M. Benzaquen

  • Annealed and Quenched Polyelectrolytes

    E. Raphael;J.-F. Joanny

  • Polymer Chains in Confined Spaces and Flow-Injection Problems: Some Remarks

    Takahiro Sakaue;Elie Raphaël

  • Comb-like polymers inside nanoscale pores

    E. Raphaël

  • Relaxation of residual stress and reentanglement of polymers in spin-coated films.

    Pascal Damman;Sylvain Gabriele;Séverine Coppee;Sylvain Desprez

  • Dynamics of wetting with nonideal surfaces. The single defect problem

    E. Raphaël;P. G. de Gennes

  • Scaling Description of Polymer Interfaces: Flat Layers

    M. Aubouy;O. Guiselin;E. Raphaël

  • Surface flows of granular materials: A modified picture for thick avalanches

    Thomas Boutreux;Elie Raphaël;Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

  • Adhesion between a Viscoelastic Material and a Solid Surface

    F. Saulnier;T. Ondarcuhu;A. Aradian;E. Raphaël

  • Influence of slip on the Plateau–Rayleigh instability on a fibre

    Sabrina Haefner;Sabrina Haefner;Michael Benzaquen;Oliver Bäumchen;Thomas Salez

  • Specific properties of amphiphilic particles at fluid interfaces

    Thierry Ondarçuhu;P. Fabre;E. Raphaël;M. Veyssié

  • Cooperative strings and glassy interfaces

    Thomas Salez;Thomas Salez;Justin Salez;Kari Dalnoki-Veress;Elie Raphaël

  • Adhesion of Nanoparticles

    Jan-Michael Carrillo;Elie Raphael;Andrey Dobrynin

  • Adhesion of nanoparticles.

    Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo;Elie Raphael;Andrey V. Dobrynin

  • Dewetting of thin polymer films

    T. Vilmin;E. Raphaël

  • Conformation of star polymers in high-molecular-weight solvents

    E. Raphael;P. Pincus;G. H. Fredrickson

Frequent Co-Authors

P. G. de Gennes
P. G. de Gennes Institute Curie
James A. Forrest
James A. Forrest University of Waterloo
Liliane Léger
Liliane Léger University of Paris-Saclay
Chung-Yuen Hui
Chung-Yuen Hui Cornell University
Günter Reiter
Günter Reiter University of Freiburg
Hugh R. Brown
Hugh R. Brown University of Wollongong
Philip Pincus
Philip Pincus University of California, Santa Barbara
Anand Jagota
Anand Jagota Lehigh University
Christophe Clanet
Christophe Clanet École Polytechnique

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