2026 Horst Hahn: 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	99	1111	1064	61	56	717	35139

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the science and engineering of nanostructured materials with tailored and tunable properties.
2012 - Heyn Commemorative Medal
2010 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
1993 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Horst Hahn is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics explored in their work include:

High Entropy Alloys Studies
High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys
Microstructure and mechanical properties
Advanced materials and composites
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advancements in Battery Materials

Horst Hahn has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

Advanced Materials
Acta Materialia
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Scripta Materialia

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Horst Hahn are:

High-entropy energy materials: challenges and new opportunities, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
High-Entropy Metal-Organic Frameworks for Highly Reversible Sodium Storage, 2021, Advanced Materials
High entropy oxides: The role of entropy, enthalpy and synergy, 2020, Scripta Materialia
High-entropy materials for energy and electronic applications, 2024, Nature Reviews Materials
High-Entropy Sulfides as Electrode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials

Frequent co-authors contributing to Horst Hahn's research include:

Ben Breitung
Robert Kruk
Leonardo Velasco
Abhishek Sarkar
Simon Schweidler

Throughout their career, Horst Hahn has received several awards, including:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2019
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2017, for contributions to the science and engineering of nanostructured materials with tailored and tunable properties
Heyn Commemorative Medal, 2012
Fellow of the Materials Research Society, 2010
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993

Best Publications

High entropy oxides for reversible energy storage

Abhishek Sarkar;Leonardo Velasco;Di Wang;Qingsong Wang

1211
Citations
High-Entropy Oxides: Fundamental Aspects and Electrochemical Properties.

Abhishek Sarkar;Qingsong Wang;Alexander Schiele;Mohammed Reda Chellali

1124
Citations
High-entropy energy materials: challenges and new opportunities

Yanjiao Ma;Yuan Ma;Qingsong Wang;Simon Schweidler

794
Citations
Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals

Z. H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;K. Albe;E. Ma

595
Citations
Rare earth and transition metal based entropy stabilised perovskite type oxides

Abhishek Sarkar;Ruzica Djenadic;Di Wang;Christina Hein

521
Citations
The interaction mechanism of screw dislocations with coherent twin boundaries in different face-centred cubic metals

Z.-H. Jin;Z.-H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;E. Ma;K. Albe

513
Citations
Synthesis, characterization, and properties of nanophase TiO 2

R. W. Siegel;S. Ramasamy;H. Hahn;Li Zongquan

510
Citations
Thick Electrodes for High Energy Lithium Ion Batteries

Madhav Singh;Jörg Kaiser;Horst Hahn

483
Citations
Sintering characteristics of nanocrystalline TiO2

H. Hahn;J. Logas;R. S. Averback

442
Citations
Ultra-large-scale directed assembly of single-walled carbon nanotube devices

Aravind Vijayaraghavan;Sabine Blatt;Daniel Weissenberger;Matti Oron-Carl

437
Citations
Multi-anionic and -cationic compounds: New high entropy materials for advanced Li-ion batteries

Qingsong Wang;Abhishek Sarkar;Di Wang;Leonardo Velasco

413
Citations
Luminescence properties of nanocrystalline Y2O3:Eu3+ in different host materials

R. Schmechel;M. Kennedy;H. von Seggern;H. Winkler

379
Citations
The production of nanocrystalline powders by magnetron sputtering

H. Hahn;Robert S Averback

365
Citations
Nanocrystalline multicomponent entropy stabilised transition metal oxides

Abhishek Sarkar;Abhishek Sarkar;Ruzica Djenadic;Nandhini J. Usharani;Kevin P. Sanghvi

353
Citations
Multicomponent equiatomic rare earth oxides

Ruzica Djenadic;Abhishek Sarkar;Oliver Clemens;Christoph Loho

346
Citations
Gold Mesostructures with Tailored Surface Topography and Their Self-Assembly Arrays for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Jixiang Fang;Shuya Du;Sergei Lebedkin;Zhiyuan Li

345
Citations
High-Entropy Metal-Organic Frameworks for Highly Reversible Sodium Storage.

Yanjiao Ma;Yuan Ma;Sören Lukas Dreyer;Qingsong Wang

329
Citations
Plastic deformation of nanocrystalline materials

H. Hahn;P. Mondal;K.A. Padmanabhan

313
Citations
High entropy oxides: The role of entropy, enthalpy and synergy

Abhishek Sarkar;Ben Breitung;Horst Hahn

310
Citations
Surface plasmon polariton absorption modulator

A. Melikyan;N. Lindenmann;S. Walheim;P. M. Leufke

308
Citations
Instability of irradiation induced defects in nanostructured materials

M. Rose;A.G. Balogh;H. Hahn

290
Citations
A model for the deformation of nanocrystalline materials

H. Hahn;K. A. Padmanabhan

287
Citations