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D-Index
65
Citations
15867
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1529
National Ranking
33

Frieder Mugele publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frieder Mugele sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 405 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Frieder Mugele D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frieder Mugele sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Frieder Mugele is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with significant focus on mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, and biomedical engineering.

Their recent publications include works in various high-impact journals. Notable papers are: "Charge Trapping-Based Electricity Generator (CTEG): An Ultrarobust and High Efficiency Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting from Water Droplets" published in 2020 in Advanced Materials; "Energy Harvesting from Drops Impacting onto Charged Surfaces" in Physical Review Letters in 2020; "Wetting ridge assisted programmed magnetic actuation of droplets on ferrofluid-infused surface" in Nature Communications in 2021; "Facet-Dependent Surface Charge and Hydration of Semiconducting Nanoparticles at Variable pH" in Advanced Materials in 2021; and a 2022 paper published in arXiv (Cornell University).

Their main research topics include enhanced oil recovery techniques, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, modular robots and swarm intelligence, as well as carbon dioxide capture technologies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Frieder Mugele are:

  • Igor Sîreţanu
  • Subhash Ayirala
  • Michael H.G. Duits
  • Mohammed B. Alotaibi
  • Ashit Rao

They have published extensively in a number of scientific venues including:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Energy & Fuels
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Faraday Discussions

The variety of venues reflects the interdisciplinary nature of their work, especially at the intersection of energy-related materials, microfluidics, and surface science. Their contributions to understanding energy harvesting mechanisms and surface interactions are evident in the topics covered across their publications.

Best Publications

  • Electrowetting: from basics to applications

    Friedrich Gunther Mugele;Jean-Christophe Baret;Jean-Christophe Baret

  • Droplets Formation and Merging in Two-Phase Flow Microfluidics

    H. Gu;Michael H.G. Duits;Friedrich Gunther Mugele

  • Direct Observation of a Nonequilibrium Electro-Osmotic Instability

    S.M. Rubinstein;G. Manukyan;A.D. Staicu;I. Rubinstein

  • Capillary forces in tapping mode atomic force microscopy

    L. Zitzler;S. Herminghaus;Friedrich Gunther Mugele

  • Suppressing the coffee stain effect: how to control colloidal self-assembly in evaporating drops using electrowetting

    H. B. Eral;D. Mampallil Augustine;M. H. G. Duits;F. Mugele

  • Wettability-independent bouncing on flat surfaces mediated by thin air films

    Jolet de Ruiter;Rudy Lagraauw;Dirk van den Ende;Frieder Mugele

  • Fundamental challenges in electrowetting: from equilibrium shapes to contact angle saturation and drop dynamics

    Friedrich Gunther Mugele

  • How to make sticky surfaces slippery: Contact angle hysteresis in electrowetting with alternating voltage

    F. Li;Frieder Mugele

  • Hard and soft colloids at fluid interfaces: Adsorption, interactions, assembly & rheology

    Omkar S. Deshmukh;Dirk van den Ende;Martien Cohen Stuart;Frieder Mugele

  • Direct observation of ionic structure at solid-liquid interfaces: a deep look into the Stern Layer

    Igor Siretanu;Daniel Ebeling;Martin P. Andersson;S.L. Svane Svane Stipp

  • Microfluidic mixing through electrowetting-induced droplet oscillations

    Friedrich Gunther Mugele;J.-C. Baret;D. Steinhauser

  • Charge Trapping‐Based Electricity Generator (CTEG): An Ultrarobust and High Efficiency Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting from Water Droplets

    Hao Wu;Hao Wu;Niels Mendel;Stijn van der Ham;Lingling Shui

  • Interface Profiles near Three-Phase Contact Lines in Electric Fields

    Juergen Buehrle;Stephan Herminghaus;Friedrich Gunther Mugele

  • Equilibrium drop surface profiles in electric fields

    Friedrich Gunther Mugele;J. Buehrle

  • On the shape of surface nanobubbles

    Bram M. Borkent;Sissi de Beer;Frieder Mugele;Detlef Lohse

  • Electrical switching of wetting states on superhydrophobic surfaces: a route towards reversible Cassie-to-Wenzel transitions.

    G. Manukyan;J. M. Oh;D. van den Ende;R. G. H. Lammertink

  • Hydrodynamic resistance of single confined moving drops in rectangular microchannels

    Siva A. Vanapalli;Arun G. Banpurkar;Dirk van den Ende;Michel H. G. Duits

  • Dynamics of collapse of air films in drop impact

    Jolet de Ruiter;Jung Min Oh;Dirk van den Ende;Frieder Mugele

  • Ion adsorption-induced wetting transition in oil-water-mineral systems

    Frieder Mugele;Bijoyendra Bera;Andrea Cavalli;Igor Siretanu

  • Mechanical properties of wet granular materials

    Z Fournier;D Geromichalos;S Herminghaus;M M Kohonen

  • Dissipation and oscillatory solvation forces in confined liquids studied by small-amplitude atomic force spectroscopy

    Sissi de Beer;Dirk van den Ende;Frieder Mugele

Frequent Co-Authors

Guofu Zhou
Guofu Zhou South China Normal University
Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Miquel Salmeron
Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul Leiderer
Paul Leiderer University of Konstanz
Bo N. J. Persson
Bo N. J. Persson Forschungszentrum Jülich
Albert van den Berg
Albert van den Berg University of Twente
Alexei A. Kornyshev
Alexei A. Kornyshev Imperial College London
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
David J. Schiffrin
David J. Schiffrin University of Liverpool
Robert A. W. Dryfe
Robert A. W. Dryfe University of Manchester

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