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2025

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Materials Science

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86
Citations
26867
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2066
National Ranking
11

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Jacob Klein is a researcher affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their work spans multiple scientific fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Engineering, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad domains, Klein has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Rheumatology, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Klein's research covers key topics including Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Lubricants and Their Additives, Polymer Surface Interaction Studies, Classical Philosophy and Thought, and Ancient Near East History.

The scientist's publication record includes papers featured in a variety of journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, ACS Nano, Soft Matter, and Nature Microbiology.

Recent papers by Klein include:

  • Recent Progress in Cartilage Lubrication, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Cartilage-inspired, lipid-based boundary-lubricated hydrogels, 2020, Science
  • Hydration Lubrication in Biomedical Applications: From Cartilage to Hydrogels, 2022, Accounts of Materials Research
  • The Role of Hyaluronic Acid in Cartilage Boundary Lubrication, 2020, Cells
  • Effects of Hyaluronan Molecular Weight on the Lubrication of Cartilage-Emulating Boundary Layers, 2020, Biomacromolecules

Klein frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Weifeng Lin, Nir Kampf, Monika Kluzek, Ronit Goldberg, and Yifeng Cao, with multiple joint publications alongside each.

In addition to articles, Klein has contributed to book publications, notably with Penn State University Press. These include works such as From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Lubrication by charged polymers

    Uri Raviv;Suzanne Giasson;Nir Kampf;Jean-François Gohy

  • Lubrication at physiological pressures by polyzwitterionic brushes

    Meng Chen;Wuge H. Briscoe;Steven P. Armes;Steven P. Armes;Steven P. Armes;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein

  • Fluidity of water confined to subnanometre films

    Uri Raviv;Pierre Laurat;Jacob Klein

  • Confinement-induced phase transitions in simple liquids.

    Jacob Klein;Eugenia Kumacheva

  • Reduction of frictional forces between solid surfaces bearing polymer brushes

    Jacob Klein;Eugenia Kumacheva;Diana Mahalu;Dvora Perahia

  • Fluidity of bound hydration layers.

    Uri Raviv;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein

  • Simple liquids confined to molecularly thin layers. I. Confinement-induced liquid-to-solid phase transitions

    Jacob Klein;Eugenia Kumacheva

  • Shear, Friction, and Lubrication Forces Between Polymer-Bearing Surfaces

    J Klein

  • Hydration lubrication

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  • Forces between polymer-bearing surfaces undergoing shear

    Jacob Klein;Dvora Perahia;Sharon Warburg

  • Origins of hydration lubrication.

    Liran Ma;Liran Ma;Anastasia Gaisinskaya-Kipnis;Nir Kampf;Jacob Klein

  • Lubrication of Articular Cartilage

    Sabrina Jahn;Jasmine Seror;Jacob Klein

  • 41Ca: past, present and future

    D. Fink;J. Klein;R. Middleton

  • Interactions between surfaces bearing end-adsorbed chains in a good solvent

    Hillary J. Taunton;Chris Toprakcioglu;Lewis J. Fetters;Jacob Klein

  • Boundary lubrication under water

    Wuge H. Briscoe;Simon Titmuss;Fredrik Tiberg;Fredrik Tiberg;Robert K. Thomas

  • Recent Progress in Cartilage Lubrication.

    Weifeng Lin;Jacob Klein

  • Cartilage-inspired, lipid-based boundary-lubricated hydrogels

    Weifeng Lin;Monika Kluzek;Noa Iuster;Eyal Shimoni

  • Probing the interactions of proteins and nanoparticles

    Jacob Klein

  • Supramolecular synergy in the boundary lubrication of synovial joints

    Jasmine Seror;Linyi Zhu;Ronit Goldberg;Anthony J. Day

  • Forces between surfaces bearing terminally anchored polymer chains in good solvents

    Hillary J. Taunton;Chris Toprakcioglu;Lewis J. Fetters;Jacob Klein

  • Molecular mechanisms of synovial joint lubrication

    J Klein;J Klein

  • Layering and shear properties of an ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate, confined to nano-films between mica surfaces

    Susan Perkin;Tim Albrecht;Jacob Klein;Jacob Klein

  • Dynamics of entangled linear, branched, and cyclic polymers

    Jacob Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Devlin
Mark J. Devlin University of Pennsylvania
Peter A. R. Ade
Peter A. R. Ade Cardiff University
Mark Halpern
Mark Halpern University of British Columbia
Calvin B. Netterfield
Calvin B. Netterfield University of Toronto
Roy Middleton
Roy Middleton University of Pennsylvania
Carole Tucker
Carole Tucker Cardiff University
Gregory S. Tucker
Gregory S. Tucker Brown University
Enzo Pascale
Enzo Pascale Cardiff University
Douglas Scott
Douglas Scott University of British Columbia
Kent D. Irwin
Kent D. Irwin Stanford University

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