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Gotthard Seifert

Gotthard Seifert

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Chemistry
Germany
2026
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Materials Science
Germany
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
98
Citations
38639
World Ranking
1153
National Ranking
66

Chemistry

D-Index
100
Citations
40322
World Ranking
1261
National Ranking
97

Gotthard Seifert 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 Gotthard Seifert sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 478 publications — 85th percentile

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

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

Gotthard Seifert 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 Gotthard Seifert sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Gotthard Seifert is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has a research profile spanning materials science and physics. Their work focuses significantly on materials chemistry, with contributions to atomic and molecular physics, optics, electrical and electronic engineering, condensed matter physics, and theoretical chemistry.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to 2D materials and applications, graphene research, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Other key research areas include crystallization and solubility studies, nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, and force microscopy techniques and applications.

Recent publications by Gotthard Seifert include:

  • Exciton g factors of van der Waals heterostructures from first-principles calculations, 2020, Physical Review B
  • Exploring the effects of quantum decoherence on the excited-state dynamics of molecular systems, 2021, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
  • TETT-functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles for DOX loading: a quantum mechanical study at the atomic scale, 2020, Nanoscale Advances
  • Giant Flexoelectricity in Bent Semiconductor Thinfilm, 2023, Nano Letters
  • Liquid Flow through Defective Layered Membranes: A Phenomenological Description, 2020, Physical Review Applied

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Seifert include Dong-Bo Zhang, Jiangao Li, Jan-Ole Joswig, Michael Ruck, and D. Hoppe.

Publishing venues where Seifert's research appears repeatedly include The Cambridge Structural Database, arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Nano Letters, and Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.

Gotthard Seifert's interdisciplinary approach brings together experimental and theoretical methods across multiple domains in materials science and physics, contributing to an improved understanding of advanced materials at atomic and molecular levels.

Best Publications

  • Self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method for simulations of complex materials properties

    M. Elstner;M. Elstner;D. Porezag;G. Jungnickel;J. Elsner

  • Construction of tight-binding-like potentials on the basis of density-functional theory: Application to carbon.

    D. Porezag;Th. Frauenheim;Th. Köhler;G. Seifert

  • Calculations of molecules, clusters, and solids with a simplified LCAO-DFT-LDA scheme

    G. Seifert;D. Porezag;Th. Frauenheim

  • Designing electrical contacts to MoS2 monolayers: a computational study.

    Igor Popov;Gotthard Seifert;David Tománek

  • Graphene nanostructures as tunable storage media for molecular hydrogen

    Serguei Patchkovskii;John S. Tse;Sergei N. Yurchenko;Lyuben Zhechkov

  • A Self‐Consistent Charge Density‐Functional Based Tight‐Binding Method for Predictive Materials Simulations in Physics, Chemistry and Biology

    Th. Frauenheim;G. Seifert;M. Elsterner;Z. Hajnal

  • Structure and electronic properties of MoS2 nanotubes

    Gotthard Seifert;Humberto Terrones;Humberto Terrones;Mauricio Terrones;Gerd Jungnickel

  • Atomistic simulations of complex materials: ground-state and excited-state properties

    Thomas Frauenheim;Gotthard Seifert;Marcus Elstner;Thomas Niehaus

  • New Route for Stabilization of 1T-WS2 and MoS2 Phases

    Andrey N. Enyashin;Lena Yadgarov;Lothar Houben;Igor Popov

  • Induced magnetic fields in aromatic [n]-annulenes—interpretation of NICS tensor components

    Clemence Corminboeuf;Thomas Heine;Gotthard Seifert;Paul von Ragué Schleyer

  • Density functional tight binding.

    Marcus Elstner;Gotthard Seifert

  • Tight-binding approach to time-dependent density-functional response theory

    Thomas A. Niehaus;S. Suhai;F. Della Sala;P. Lugli

  • Momentum-space indirect interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide van der Waals heterostructures

    Jens Kunstmann;Fabian Mooshammer;Philipp Nagler;Andrey Chaves;Andrey Chaves

  • Molybdenum Carbide-Embedded Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Nanosheets as Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting in Alkaline Media.

    Chenbao Lu;Diana Tranca;Jian Zhang;Fermı N Rodrı Guez Hernández;Fermı N Rodrı Guez Hernández

  • Boron-nitrogen analogues of the fullerenes: electronic and structural properties

    G. Seifert;P.W. Fowler;D. Mitchell;D. Porezag

  • Wafer-sized multifunctional polyimine-based two-dimensional conjugated polymers with high mechanical stiffness

    Hafeesudeen Sahabudeen;Haoyuan Qi;Bernhard Alexander Glatz;Diana Tranca

  • An Efficient a Posteriori Treatment for Dispersion Interaction in Density-Functional-Based Tight Binding.

    Lyuben Zhechkov;Thomas Heine;Serguei Patchkovskii;Gotthard Seifert

  • Electron knock-on cross section of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes

    A. Zobelli;A. Zobelli;A. Gloter;Christopher Ewels;G. Seifert

  • The diffusion mechanism of an excess proton in imidazole molecule chains: first results of an ab initio molecular dynamics study

    W Münch;K.-D Kreuer;W Silvestri;J Maier

  • The Induced Magnetic Field in Cyclic Molecules

    Gabriel Merino;Thomas Heine;Gotthard Seifert

  • On the mechanical behavior of WS2 nanotubes under axial tension and compression.

    Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri;Sidney R. Cohen;Konstantin Gartsman;Viktoria Ivanovskaya

  • Tight-binding density functional theory: an approximate Kohn-Sham DFT scheme

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Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Heine
Thomas Heine TU Dresden
Reshef Tenne
Reshef Tenne Weizmann Institute of Science
Thomas Frauenheim
Thomas Frauenheim University of Bremen
Ronit Popovitz-Biro
Ronit Popovitz-Biro Weizmann Institute of Science
Patrick W. Fowler
Patrick W. Fowler University of Sheffield
Lothar Houben
Lothar Houben Weizmann Institute of Science
David Tománek
David Tománek Michigan State University
Agnieszka Kuc
Agnieszka Kuc Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto University of Bologna

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