2026 Hans-Jürgen Butt: 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	114	594	568	32	30	617	56559

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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

4654
Citations
Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces

Hans-Jürgen Butt;Karlheinz Graf;Michael Kappl

2562
Citations
Candle Soot as a Template for a Transparent Robust Superamphiphobic Coating

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

2148
Citations
Calculation of thermal noise in atomic force microscopy

Hans-Jürgen Butt;Manfred Jaschke

2003
Citations
Atomic force microscopy

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1585
Citations
Boundary slip in Newtonian liquids: a review of experimental studies

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

1327
Citations
Measuring electrostatic, van der Waals, and hydration forces in electrolyte solutions with an atomic force microscope.

Hans-Jürgen Butt

1073
Citations
Micromechanical cantilever-based biosensors

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

1003
Citations
Normal capillary forces.

Hans-Jürgen Butt;Michael Kappl

715
Citations
Using force modulation to image surface elasticities with the atomic force microscope

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

666
Citations
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

636
Citations
Photoswitching of glass transition temperatures of azobenzene-containing polymers induces reversible solid-to-liquid transitions

Hongwei Zhou;Changguo Xue;Philipp Weis;Yasuhito Suzuki

611
Citations
How superhydrophobicity breaks down

Periklis Papadopoulos;Lena Mammen;Xu Deng;Doris Vollmer

569
Citations
Surface and Interfacial Forces

Hans-Jurgen Butt;Michael Kappl

564
Citations
Deformation and height anomaly of soft surfaces studied with an AFM

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

563
Citations
Surface charge printing for programmed droplet transport

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

552
Citations
Transparent, Thermally Stable and Mechanically Robust Superhydrophobic Surfaces Made from Porous Silica Capsules

Xu Deng;Lena Mammen;Yanfei Zhao;Philipp Lellig

533
Citations
Adhesion and Friction Forces between Spherical Micrometer-Sized Particles

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

521
Citations
Near‐Infrared‐Sensitive Materials Based on Upconverting Nanoparticles

Si Wu;Hans-Jürgen Butt

427
Citations
Hydrodynamic force measurements: boundary slip of water on hydrophilic surfaces and electrokinetic effects.

Elmar Bonaccurso;Michael Kappl;Hans-Jürgen Butt

417
Citations
Surface roughness and hydrodynamic boundary slip of a newtonian fluid in a completely wetting system.

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

416
Citations