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D-Index
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8834
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15190
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274

F.A.M. Leermakers publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where F.A.M. Leermakers sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 314 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

F.A.M. Leermakers D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where F.A.M. Leermakers sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

F.A.M. Leermakers is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemistry, with a substantial focus on several interconnected subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's published work covers a broad range of topics, notably Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Polymer Surface Interaction Studies, Material Dynamics and Properties, Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics.

Recent papers by F.A.M. Leermakers include:

  • Bioflocculants from wastewater: Insights into adsorption affinity, flocculation mechanisms and mixed particle flocculation based on biopolymer size-fractionation (2020) in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Improving the performance of polymer-flooding produced water electrodialysis through the application of pulsed electric field (2020) in Desalination
  • Effects of feed composition on the fouling on cation-exchange membranes desalinating polymer-flooding produced water (2020) in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Electroresponsive Polyelectrolyte Brushes Studied by Self-Consistent Field Theory (2020) in Polymers
  • Self-limiting aggregation of phospholipid vesicles (2020) in Soft Matter

Frequent co-authors collaborating with F.A.M. Leermakers include Oleg V. Borisov, J. Mieke Kleijn, Ekaterina B. Zhulina, N. de Lange, and H. Brüning.

The scientist has published regularly in several journals, with a notable concentration in the following venues:

  • Soft Matter
  • Macromolecules
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Polymers

Best Publications

  • Charged polymeric brushes: structure and scaling relations.

    R. Israëls;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer;E.B. Zhulina

  • Configuration of terminally attached chains at the solid/solvent interface: self-consistent field theory and a Monte Carlo model

    T. Cosgrove;T. Heath;B. Van Lent;F. Leermakers

  • On the Theory of Grafted Weak Polyacids

    R. Israels;F. A. M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer

  • Analytical Self-Consistent-Field Model of Weak Polyacid Brushes

    Yu. V. Lyatskaya;F. A. M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer;E. B. Zhulina

  • Double-Faced Micelles from Water-Soluble Polymers

    Ilja K. Voets;Arie de Keizer;Pieter de Waard;Peter M. Frederik

  • Bending rigidity and induced persistence length of molecular bottle brushes : a self-consistent-field theory

    Laurent Feuz;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Marcus Textor;Oleg Borisov

  • Self-Consistent-Field Modeling of Adsorbed β-Casein: Effects of pH and Ionic Strength on Surface Coverage and Density Profile

    Frans A.M. Leermakers;Peter J. Atkinson;Eric Dickinson;David S. Horne

  • Structure and Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates Studied by Scattering of Neutrons, X-rays, and Light

    Evan Spruijt;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Remco Fokkink;Ralf Schweins

  • Modeling the structure of a polydisperse polymer brush

    Wiebe M. de Vos;Frans A.M. Leermakers

  • Screening in Solutions of Star-Branched Polyelectrolytes

    J. Klein Wolterink;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer;L.K. Koopal

  • Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Excluded Volume and Ion Polarizability Effects in the Electrical Double-Layer Structure and Capacitance

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  • Self-consistent-field modelling of adsorbed casein. Interaction between two protein-coated surfaces.

    Eric Dickinson;Valerie J. Pinfield;David S. Horne;Frans A. M. Leermakers

  • Wetting of a polymer brush by a chemically identical polymer melt : phase diagram and film stability

    J.H. Maas;G.J. Fleer;F.A.M. Leermakers;M.A. Cohen Stuart

  • Substrate-induced structural changes in electrode-adsorbed lipid layers

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  • Theory of the collapse of the polyelectrolyte brush.

    Victor A Pryamitsyn;F. A.M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer;E. B. Zhulina

  • Electrical Double-Layer Capacitance in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Ion-Size and Specific Adsorption Effects

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  • On the statistical thermodynamics of membrane formation.

    F.A.M. Leermakers;J.M.H.M. Scheutjens;J. Lyklema

  • Dendritic versus Linear Polymer Brushes: Self-Consistent Field Modeling, Scaling Theory, and Experiments

    Alexey A. Polotsky;Torben Gillich;Oleg V. Borisov;Oleg V. Borisov;Frans A. M. Leermakers

  • On the Two-Population Structure of Brushes Made of Arm-Grafted Polymer Stars

    Alexey A. Polotsky;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Ekaterina B. Zhulina;Tatiana M. Birshtein;Tatiana M. Birshtein

  • Self-consistent field theory of protein adsorption in a non-Gaussian polyelectrolyte brush.

    P Maarten Biesheuvel;Frans A M Leermakers;Martien A Cohen Stuart

  • Electrostatic interactions between double layers: influence of surface roughness, regulation, and chemical heterogeneities.

    J F L Duval;F A M Leermakers;H P van Leeuwen

  • Statistical thermodynamics of association colloids. III. The gel to liquid phase transition of lipid bilayer membranes

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  • Adsorption of weak polyelectrolytes on surfaces with a variable charge. Self-consistent-field calculations

    Arnoldus W. P. Vermeer;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Luuk K. Koopal

  • Surface forces in a confined polymer melt: self-consistent field analysis of full and restricted equilibrium cases.

    F. A. M. Leermakers;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Stationary dynamics approach to analytical approximations for polymer coexistence curves.

    S.M. Scheinhardt-Engels;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer

Frequent Co-Authors

G.J. Fleer
G.J. Fleer Wageningen University & Research
Ekaterina B. Zhulina
Ekaterina B. Zhulina ITMO University
Johannes Lyklema
Johannes Lyklema Wageningen University & Research
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Willem Norde
Willem Norde Wageningen University & Research

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