2026 Gert Heinrich: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	82	2456	2372	144	137	638	25775

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Gert Heinrich is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and specializes primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research covers a wide range of topics within polymer science, including:

Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Polymer composites and self-healing
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Polymer crystallization and properties
Conducting polymers and applications
Dielectric materials and actuators
Elasticity and Material Modeling

Heinrich has contributed extensively in publication venues such as Polymer, Polymers, Advanced Engineering Materials, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, and the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Amit Das, Sven Wießner, Subhradeep Mandal, Sakrit Hait, and Konrad Schneider.

Some of their recent papers include:

"Controlled Release of Metal Ion Cross-Linkers and Development of Self-Healable Epoxidized Natural Rubber," 2021, ACS Applied Polymer Materials
"Super-elastic ultrasoft natural rubber-based piezoresistive sensors for active sensing interface embedded on soft robotic actuator," 2021, Applied Materials Today
"Treasuring waste lignin as superior reinforcing filler in high cis-polybutadiene rubber: A direct comparative study with standard reinforcing silica and carbon black," 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
"3D-printed stretchable hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric nanogenerator for smart tire: Onboard real-time tread wear monitoring system," 2023, Nano Energy
"Elastomeric microwell-based triboelectric nanogenerators by in situ simultaneous transfer-printing," 2022, Materials Horizons

Heinrich has also authored books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including "Degradation of Elastomers in Practice, Experiments and Modeling" (2022) and "Fatigue Crack Growth in Rubber Materials" (2021).

Best Publications

Reinforcement of Elastomers

Gert Heinrich;Manfred Klüppel;Thomas A. Vilgis

644
Citations
Recent Advances in the Theory of Filler Networking in Elastomers

Gert Heinrich;Manfred Klüppel

597
Citations
Intercalation of Mg–Al layered double hydroxide by anionic surfactants: Preparation and characterization

Francis Reny Costa;Andreas Leuteritz;Udo Wagenknecht;Dieter Jehnichen

410
Citations
Impact of Filler Surface Modification on Large Scale Mechanics of Styrene Butadiene/Silica Rubber Composites

K. W. Stöckelhuber;A. S. Svistkov;A. G. Pelevin;G. Heinrich;G. Heinrich

405
Citations
Rubber Friction on Self-Affine Road Tracks

Manfred Klüppel;Gert Heinrich

369
Citations
Rubber elasticity of polymer networks: Theories

G. Heinrich;E. Straube;G. Helmis

358
Citations
Modified and unmodified multiwalled carbon nanotubes in high performance solution-styrene-butadiene and butadiene rubber blends

A. Das;K.W. Stöckelhuber;R. Jurk;M. Saphiannikova

344
Citations
Crack propagation in rubber-like materials

B N J Persson;O Albohr;G Heinrich;H Ueba

330
Citations
Preparation and properties of natural nanocomposites based on natural rubber and naturally occurring halloysite nanotubes

Sandip Rooj;Amit Das;Varun Thakur;R.N. Mahaling

321
Citations
Shape-Dependent Localization of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Black in an Immiscible Polymer Blend during Melt Mixing

Andreas Göldel;Abraham Marmur;Gaurav R. Kasaliwal;Petra Pötschke

316
Citations
An extended tube-model for rubber elasticity : Statistical-mechanical theory and finite element implementation

M. Kaliske;G. Heinrich

313
Citations
Reinforcement of Polymer Nano-Composites: Theory, Experiments and Applications

T. A. Vilgis;G. Heinrich;M. Klüppel

310
Citations
Ionic Modification Turns Commercial Rubber into a Self-Healing Material.

Amit Das;Amit Das;Aladdin Sallat;Aladdin Sallat;Frank Böhme;Marcus Suckow;Marcus Suckow

303
Citations
Aging of alkali-resistant glass and basalt fibers in alkaline solutions: Evaluation of the failure stress by Weibull distribution function

C. Scheffler;T. Förster;E. Mäder;G. Heinrich

271
Citations
Analysis of agglomerate dispersion mechanisms of multiwalled carbon nanotubes during melt mixing in polycarbonate

Gaurav R. Kasaliwal;Sven Pegel;Andreas Göldel;Petra Pötschke

269
Citations
Advances in layered double hydroxide (LDH)-based elastomer composites

Debdipta Basu;Debdipta Basu;Amit Das;Amit Das;Klaus Werner Stöckelhuber;Udo Wagenknecht

268
Citations
Rubber friction, tread deformation and tire traction

Gert Heinrich;Manfred Klüppel

260
Citations
LDPE/Mg–Al layered double hydroxide nanocomposite: Thermal and flammability properties

Francis Reny Costa;Udo Wagenknecht;Gert Heinrich

239
Citations
Structure and properties of reinforcing fractal filler networks in elastomers

Manfred Klüppel;Robert H. Schuster;Gert Heinrich

231
Citations
Rubber composites based on graphene nanoplatelets, expanded graphite, carbon nanotubes and their combination: A comparative study

Amit Das;Gaurav R. Kasaliwal;René Jurk;Regine Boldt

223
Citations
Preparation and burning behaviors of flame retarding biodegradable poly(lactic acid) nanocomposite based on zinc aluminum layered double hydroxide

De-Yi Wang;Andreas Leuteritz;Yu-Zhong Wang;Udo Wagenknecht

217
Citations