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Joachim Maier

Joachim Maier

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Chemistry
Germany
2026
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Materials Science
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
166
Citations
101800
World Ranking
95
National Ranking
5

Chemistry

D-Index
165
Citations
101223
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
5

Joachim Maier publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joachim Maier sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,248 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Joachim Maier D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joachim Maier sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 165 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2019 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2005 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Joachim Maier is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive research record primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work focuses on various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Polymers and Plastics, and Automotive Engineering.

Their research touches on several specialized topics, notably:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Joachim Maier has contributed to various scientific publications with several notable recent papers, including:

  • Guidelines and trends for next-generation rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries (2020), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries (2021), published in Nature Reviews Materials
  • Roadmap on organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite semiconductors and devices (2021), published in APL Materials
  • Ion Transport, Defect Chemistry, and the Device Physics of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells (2021), published in ACS Energy Letters
  • Oxides with Mixed Protonic and Electronic Conductivity (2021), published in Annual Review of Materials Research

Their frequent coauthors include Rotraut Merkle, Davide Moia, Thomas Schleid, Jovana V. Milić, and Markus Joos.

Joachim Maier regularly publishes in key venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Solid State Ionics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The scientist has been recognized by awards including membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2019 in the field of Chemistry and has been a Member of Academia Europaea since 2005.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines and trends for next-generation rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries.

    Feixiang Wu;Joachim Maier;Yan Yu;Yan Yu

  • Nanoionics: ion transport and electrochemical storage in confined systems.

    J. Maier

  • Mixed‐Organic‐Cation Perovskite Photovoltaics for Enhanced Solar‐Light Harvesting

    Norman Pellet;Peng Gao;Giuliano Gregori;Tae-Youl Yang

  • Bevformer: learning bird's-eye-view representation from lidar-camera via spatiotemporal transformers

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  • Ionic conduction in space charge regions

    Joachim Maier

  • Efficient Synthesis of Heteroatom (N or S)‐Doped Graphene Based on Ultrathin Graphene Oxide‐Porous Silica Sheets for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Shubin Yang;Linjie Zhi;Kun Tang;Xinliang Feng

  • Lithium Storage in Carbon Nanostructures

    Nitin A. Kaskhedikar;Joachim Maier

  • New horizons for inorganic solid state ion conductors

    Zhizhen Zhang;Zhizhen Zhang;Yuanjun Shao;Bettina V. Lotsch;Yong-Sheng Hu

  • Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries

    R Usiskin;Y Lu;J Popovic;M Law

  • Hollow Carbon Nanospheres with Superior Rate Capability for Sodium‐Based Batteries

    Kun Tang;Lijun Fu;Lijun Fu;Robin J. White;Linghui Yu

  • Superior storage performance of a Si@SiOx/C nanocomposite as anode material for lithium-ion batteries

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Rezan Demir-Cakan;Maria-Magdalena Titirici;Jens-Oliver Müller

  • High lithium electroactivity of nanometer-sized rutile TiO2

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Lorenz Kienle;Yu-Guo Guo;Joachim Maier

  • Mesoscopic fast ion conduction in nanometre-scale planar heterostructures

    N. Sata;K. Eberman;K. Eberl;J. Maier

  • Single-layered ultrasmall nanoplates of MoS2 embedded in carbon nanofibers with excellent electrochemical performance for lithium and sodium storage.

    Changbao Zhu;Xiaoke Mu;Peter A. van Aken;Yan Yu

  • Nanocrystallinity effects in lithium battery materials Aspects of nano-ionics. Part IV

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  • Proton conducting alkaline earth zirconates and titanates for high drain electrochemical applications

    K.D. Kreuer;St. Adams;W. Münch;A. Fuchs

  • Synthesis of hierarchically porous carbon monoliths with highly ordered microstructure and their application in rechargeable lithium batteries with high-rate capability

    Yong-Sheng Hu;Philipp Adelhelm;Bernd M. Smarsly;Sarmimala Hore

  • Imidazole and pyrazole-based proton conducting polymers and liquids

    K.D. Kreuer;A. Fuchs;M. Ise;M. Spaeth

  • Li-Storage via Heterogeneous Reaction in Selected Binary Metal Fluorides and Oxides

    Hong Li;Palani Balaya;Joachim Maier

  • Physical Chemistry of Ionic Materials: Ions and Electrons in Solids

    Joachim Maier

  • Planning-oriented autonomous driving

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  • Fully reversible homogeneous and heterogeneous Li storage in RuO2 with high capacity

    P. Balaya;H. Li;L. Kienle;J. Maier

  • Challenges and Perspectives for NASICON-Type Electrode Materials for Advanced Sodium-Ion Batteries

    Shuangqiang Chen;Chao Wu;Laifa Shen;Changbao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Yu
Yan Yu University of Science and Technology of China
Eugene A. Kotomin
Eugene A. Kotomin University of Latvia
Rotraut Merkle
Rotraut Merkle Max Planck Society
Klaus-Dieter Kreuer
Klaus-Dieter Kreuer Max Planck Society
Peter A. van Aken
Peter A. van Aken Max Planck Society
Yong-Sheng Hu
Yong-Sheng Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wilfried Sigle
Wilfried Sigle Max Planck Society
Palani Balaya
Palani Balaya National University of Singapore
Yu-Guo Guo
Yu-Guo Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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