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Florian Müller-Plathe 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 Florian Müller-Plathe sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 296 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Florian Müller-Plathe 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 Florian Müller-Plathe sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Florian Müller-Plathe is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with extensive work in materials chemistry, mechanics of materials, and computational mechanics. The subfields of study that Müller-Plathe contributes to include organic chemistry as well as surfaces, coatings, and films.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass a range of areas related to material behavior and interactions. These topics include:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • Pickering Emulsions and Particle Stabilization
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Polymer Crystallization and Properties

Müller-Plathe has a significant publication record in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Macromolecules
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Small

Some recent papers authored by or coauthored with Müller-Plathe are:

  • Loss of Molecular Roughness upon Coarse-Graining Predicts the Artificially Accelerated Mobility of Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulation Models (2020), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Predicting the Mobility Increase of Coarse-Grained Polymer Models from Excess Entropy Differences (2020), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Boron-modified perhydropolysilazane towards facile synthesis of amorphous SiBN ceramic with excellent thermal stability (2022), Journal of Advanced Ceramics
  • Mechanisms of Nucleation and Solid-Solid-Phase Transitions in Triblock Janus Assemblies (2021), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Sequence-Engineering Polyethylene-Polypropylene Copolymers with High Thermal Conductivity Using a Molecular-Dynamics-Based Genetic Algorithm (2021), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Their collaborative work has involved several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Hossein Eslami
  • Zhenghao Wu
  • Tobias Materzok
  • Melissa K. Meinel
  • Tianhang Zhou

Best Publications

  • A simple nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for calculating the thermal conductivity

    Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Deriving effective mesoscale potentials from atomistic simulations.

    Dirk Reith;Mathias Pütz;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Coarse-graining in polymer simulation: from the atomistic to the mesoscopic scale and back.

    Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Reversing the perturbation in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: an easy way to calculate the shear viscosity of fluids.

    Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Bridging the Gap Between Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Models of Polymers: Status and Perspectives

    Jörg Baschnagel;Jörg Baschnagel;Kurt Binder;Pemra Doruker;Andrei A. Gusev

  • Permeation of polymers — a computational approach

    Florian Müller‐Plathe

  • Computer simulation of a polymer electrolyte: Lithium iodide in amorphous poly(ethylene oxide)

    Florian Müller‐Plathe;Wilfred F. van Gunsteren

  • Are there stable ion-pairs in room-temperature ionic liquids? Molecular dynamics simulations of 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate.

    Wei Zhao;Frédéric Leroy;Berit Heggen;Stefan Zahn

  • Interface of Grafted and Ungrafted Silica Nanoparticles with a Polystyrene Matrix: Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Tinashe V. M. Ndoro;Evangelos Voyiatzis;Azadeh Ghanbari;Doros N. Theodorou

  • Dynamics of small molecules in bulk polymers

    A. A. Gusev;F. Müller-Plathe;W. F. van Gunsteren;U. W. Suter

  • Mapping Atomistic to Coarse-Grained Polymer Models Using Automatic Simplex Optimization to Fit Structural Properties

    Dirk Reith;Hendrik Meyer;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Formation of Chain-Folded Structures in Supercooled Polymer Melts Examined by MD Simulations

    Hendrik Meyer;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Temperature-Transferable Coarse-Grained potentials for ethylbenzene, polystyrene, and their mixtures

    Hu-Jun Qian;Paola Carbone;Xiaoyu Chen;Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh

  • YASP: A molecular simulation package

    Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Force field parametrization by weak coupling. Re-engineering SPC water

    Christian D. Berweger;Wilfred F. van Gunsteren;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Transferability of coarse-grained force fields: The polymer case

    Paola Carbone;Hossein Ali Karimi Varzaneh;Xiaoyu Chen;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Coarse-Grained and Reverse-Mapped United-Atom Simulations of Long-Chain Atactic Polystyrene Melts: Structure, Thermodynamic Properties, Chain Conformation, and Entanglements

    Theodora Spyriouni;Christos Tzoumanekas;Doros Theodorou;Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Local Structure and Dynamics in Solvent-Swollen Polymers

    Florian Müller-Plathe

  • Diffusion of penetrants in amorphous polymers: A molecular dynamics study

    Florian Müller‐Plathe

  • On the nature of thermal diffusion in binary Lennard-Jones liquids

    Dirk Reith;Florian Müller-Plathe

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Faller
Roland Faller University of California, Davis
Geerd H. F. Diercksen
Geerd H. F. Diercksen Max Planck Society
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Paul Steinmann
Paul Steinmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Doros N. Theodorou
Doros N. Theodorou National Technical University of Athens
Zhong-Yuan Lu
Zhong-Yuan Lu Jilin University
Sundaram Balasubramanian
Sundaram Balasubramanian Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Vedene H. Smith
Vedene H. Smith Queen's University

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