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Hans-Jürgen Butt

Hans-Jürgen Butt

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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
114
Citations
56559
World Ranking
594
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Hans-Jürgen Butt is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work spans major fields such as Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on the study and development of surfaces, coatings, and films.

Butt's research has contributed to several subfields of study, including:

  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials

The main topics of their work cover a variety of areas related to surface properties and dynamics, specifically:

  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies

Hans-Jürgen Butt has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Michael Kappl
  • Rüdiger Berger
  • Xiaomei Li
  • Kaloian Koynov
  • Doris Vollmer

Their work has appeared in numerous publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Langmuir
  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Soft Matter
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hans-Jürgen Butt include:

  • "When and how self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces works," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Contact angle hysteresis," 2022, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
  • "Elastic Superhydrophobic and Photocatalytic Active Films Used as Blood Repellent Dressing," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "One-Step Synthesis of a Durable and Liquid-Repellent Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Coating," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Spontaneous charging affects the motion of sliding drops," 2022, Nature Physics

Best Publications

  • Force measurements with the atomic force microscope: Technique, interpretation and applications

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Brunero Cappella;Michael Kappl

  • Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Karlheinz Graf;Michael Kappl

  • Candle Soot as a Template for a Transparent Robust Superamphiphobic Coating

    Xu Deng;Lena Mammen;Hans-Juergen Butt;Doris Vollmer

  • Calculation of thermal noise in atomic force microscopy

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Manfred Jaschke

  • Atomic force microscopy

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  • Boundary slip in Newtonian liquids: a review of experimental studies

    Chiara Neto;Drew R Evans;Elmar Bonaccurso;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Measuring electrostatic, van der Waals, and hydration forces in electrolyte solutions with an atomic force microscope.

    Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Micromechanical cantilever-based biosensors

    Roberto Raiteri;Massimo Grattarola;Hans-Jürgen Butt;Petr Skládal

  • Normal capillary forces.

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Michael Kappl

  • Using force modulation to image surface elasticities with the atomic force microscope

    P Maivald;H J Butt;S A C Gould;C B Prater

  • Measuring adhesion, attraction, and repulsion between surfaces in liquids with an atomic-force microscope.

    A.L. Weisenhorn;P. Maivald;Hans-Jürgen Butt;P.K. Hansma

  • Photoswitching of glass transition temperatures of azobenzene-containing polymers induces reversible solid-to-liquid transitions

    Hongwei Zhou;Changguo Xue;Philipp Weis;Yasuhito Suzuki

  • How superhydrophobicity breaks down

    Periklis Papadopoulos;Lena Mammen;Xu Deng;Doris Vollmer

  • Surface and Interfacial Forces

    Hans-Jurgen Butt;Michael Kappl

  • Deformation and height anomaly of soft surfaces studied with an AFM

    Albrecht L. Weisenhorn;Mitro Khorsandi;Sandor Kasas;Vassilis Gotzos

  • Surface charge printing for programmed droplet transport

    Qiangqiang Sun;Dehui Wang;Yanan Li;Yanan Li;Jiahui Zhang

  • Transparent, Thermally Stable and Mechanically Robust Superhydrophobic Surfaces Made from Porous Silica Capsules

    Xu Deng;Lena Mammen;Yanfei Zhao;Philipp Lellig

  • Adhesion and Friction Forces between Spherical Micrometer-Sized Particles

    Lars-Oliver Heim;Jürgen Blum;Markus Preuss;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Near‐Infrared‐Sensitive Materials Based on Upconverting Nanoparticles

    Si Wu;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Hydrodynamic force measurements: boundary slip of water on hydrophilic surfaces and electrokinetic effects.

    Elmar Bonaccurso;Michael Kappl;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Surface roughness and hydrodynamic boundary slip of a newtonian fluid in a completely wetting system.

    Elmar Bonaccurso;Hans-Jürgen Butt;Vincent S. J. Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Kappl
Michael Kappl Max Planck Society
Doris Vollmer
Doris Vollmer Max Planck Society
Kaloian Koynov
Kaloian Koynov Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
George Floudas
George Floudas University of Ioannina
Rüdiger Berger
Rüdiger Berger Max Planck Society
Si Wu
Si Wu University of Science and Technology of China
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Wolfgang Tremel
Wolfgang Tremel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Volker Mailänder
Volker Mailänder Max Planck Society
George Fytas
George Fytas Max Planck Society

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