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D-Index
40
Citations
7786
World Ranking
7227
National Ranking
112

Georg E. Fantner 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 Georg E. Fantner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 161 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Georg E. Fantner 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 Georg E. Fantner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Georg E. Fantner is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields featuring prominently in their work include Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Fantner has published multiple papers across a variety of venues. Frequent publication sites include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, arXiv (Cornell University), and ACS Nano.

Among recent papers, notable examples are:

  • Cancer-cell stiffening via cholesterol depletion enhances adoptive T-cell immunotherapy, 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Engineering Optically Active Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Using Focused Ion Beam and Water, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy for Three-Dimensional Tracking of Nanoscale Cell Surface Dynamics, 2021, ACS Nano
  • A biphasic growth model for cell pole elongation in mycobacteria, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mechanical Properties of Soft Biological Membranes for Organ-on-a-Chip Assessed by Bulge Test and AFM, 2021, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fantner include Santiago H. Andany, Aleksandra Rađenović, Marcos Penedo, Samuel M. Leitão, and B. Drake.

Best Publications

  • Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture.

    Georg E. Fantner;Tue Hassenkam;Johannes H. Kindt;James C. Weaver

  • Kinetics of antimicrobial peptide activity measured on individual bacterial cells using high-speed atomic force microscopy.

    Georg E. Fantner;Roberto J. Barbero;David S. Gray;Angela M. Belcher

  • Sacrificial bonds and hidden length: unraveling molecular mesostructures in tough materials.

    Georg E. Fantner;Emin Oroudjev;Georg Schitter;Laura S. Golde

  • High-resolution AFM imaging of intact and fractured trabecular bone.

    Tue Hassenkam;Georg E Fantner;Jacqueline A Cutroni;James C Weaver

  • Focused electron beam induced deposition: A perspective

    Michael Huth;Fabrizio Porrati;Christian Schwalb;Marcel Winhold

  • Components for high speed atomic force microscopy

    Georg E. Fantner;Georg Schitter;Johannes H. Kindt;Tzvetan Ivanov

  • Protective coatings on extensible biofibres.

    Niels Holten-Andersen;Georg E Fantner;Sophia Hohlbauch;J Herbert Waite

  • Hierarchical assembly of the siliceous skeletal lattice of the hexactinellid sponge Euplectella aspergillum.

    James C. Weaver;Joanna Aizenberg;Georg E. Fantner;David Kisailus

  • High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy

    Paul K. Hansma;Georg Schitter;Georg E. Fantner;Craig Prater

  • Virus-templated assembly of porphyrins into light-harvesting nanoantennae.

    Yoon Sung Nam;Taeho Shin;Heechul Park;Andrew P. Magyar

  • Force Spectroscopy of Collagen Fibers to Investigate Their Mechanical Properties and Structural Organization

    Thomas Gutsmann;Georg E. Fantner;Johannes H. Kindt;Manuela Venturoni

  • Rigid design of fast scanning probe microscopes using finite element analysis.

    Johannes H Kindt;Georg E Fantner;Jackie A Cutroni;Paul K Hansma

  • Chronic inflammation imposes aberrant cell fate in regenerating epithelia through mechanotransduction

    Craig S. Nowell;Pascal D. Odermatt;Luca Azzolin;Sylke Hohnel

  • High-speed photography of compressed human trabecular bone correlates whitening to microscopic damage

    Philipp J. Thurner;Blake Erickson;Ralf Jungmann;Zachary Schriock

  • Influence of the degradation of the organic matrix on the microscopic fracture behavior of trabecular bone

    Georg E. Fantner;Henrik Birkedal;Johannes H. Kindt;Tue Hassenkam

  • Nanoscale ion mediated networks in bone: osteopontin can repeatedly dissipate large amounts of energy.

    Georg E. Fantner;Jonathan Adams;Patricia Turner;Philipp J. Thurner

  • Sacrificial bonds in the interfibrillar matrix of bone.

    Paul K. Hansma;Georg E. Fantner;Johannes H. Kindt;Philipp J. Thurner

  • High-speed photothermal off-resonance atomic force microscopy reveals assembly routes of centriolar scaffold protein SAS-6.

    Adrian P. Nievergelt;Niccolò Banterle;Santiago H. Andany;Pierre Gönczy

  • High-Resolution Correlative Microscopy: Bridging the Gap between Single Molecule Localization Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy

    Pascal D. Odermatt;Arun Shivanandan;Hendrik Deschout;Radek Jankele

  • The bone diagnostic instrument II: Indentation distance increase

    Paul Hansma;Patricia Turner;Barney Drake;Eugene Yurtsev

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul K. Hansma
Paul K. Hansma University of California, Santa Barbara
Maurits Ortmanns
Maurits Ortmanns University of Ulm
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
James C. Weaver
James C. Weaver Cornell University
Aleksandra Radenovic
Aleksandra Radenovic École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thomas R. Ioerger
Thomas R. Ioerger Texas A&M University
Ralf Jungmann
Ralf Jungmann Max Planck Society

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