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Jürgen Janek publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jürgen Janek sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 563 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Jürgen Janek D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Jürgen Janek is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany, where their research focuses primarily on engineering and its specialized subfields. The scientist's work encompasses Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research topics include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Semiconductor materials and devices

Recent publications by Jürgen Janek illustrate a focus on battery technology and materials science. Notable papers include:

  • Challenges in speeding up solid-state battery development, 2023, Nature Energy
  • Benchmarking the performance of all-solid-state lithium batteries, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Fast Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Review of Materials Aspects, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Physicochemical Concepts of the Lithium Metal Anode in Solid-State Batteries, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • High areal capacity, long cycle life 4 V ceramic all-solid-state Li-ion batteries enabled by chloride solid electrolytes, 2022, Nature Energy

Jürgen Janek has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, reflecting a networked research environment. These co-authors include Torsten Brezesinski, Felix H. Richter, Till Fuchs, Aleksandr Kondrakov, and Matteo Bianchini.

The scientist publishes commonly in a range of prominent scientific venues, including:

  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Best Publications

  • A solid future for battery development

    Jürgen Janek;Jürgen Janek;Wolfgang G. Zeier

  • New horizons for inorganic solid state ion conductors

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

  • Benchmarking the performance of all-solid-state lithium batteries

    Simon Randau;Dominik A. Weber;Dominik A. Weber;Olaf Kötz;Raimund Koerver;Raimund Koerver

  • Capacity Fade in Solid-State Batteries: Interphase Formation and Chemomechanical Processes in Nickel-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes and Lithium Thiophosphate Solid Electrolytes

    Raimund Koerver;Isabel Aygün;Thomas Leichtweiß;Christian Dietrich

  • Fast Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Review of Materials Aspects

    Manuel Weiss;Raffael Ruess;Johannes Kasnatscheew;Yehonatan Levartovsky

  • A rechargeable room-temperature sodium superoxide (NaO2) battery.

    Pascal Hartmann;Conrad L. Bender;Miloš Vračar;Miloš Vračar;Anna Katharina Dürr

  • Direct Observation of the Interfacial Instability of the Fast Ionic Conductor Li10GeP2S12 at the Lithium Metal Anode

    Sebastian Wenzel;Simon Randau;Thomas Leichtweiß;Dominik A. Weber

  • Physicochemical Concepts of the Lithium Metal Anode in Solid-State Batteries.

    Thorben Krauskopf;Felix H. Richter;Wolfgang G. Zeier;Jürgen Janek

  • Chemo-mechanical expansion of lithium electrode materials – on the route to mechanically optimized all-solid-state batteries

    Raimund Koerver;Wenbo Zhang;Lea de Biasi;Simon Schweidler

  • Tuning Transition Metal Oxide–Sulfur Interactions for Long Life Lithium Sulfur Batteries: The “Goldilocks” Principle

    Xiao Liang;Chun Yuen Kwok;Fernanda Lodi‐Marzano;Quanquan Pang

  • Structure and dynamics of the fast lithium ion conductor “Li7La3Zr2O12”

    Henrik Buschmann;Janis Dölle;Stefan Berendts;Alexander Kuhn

  • Toward a Fundamental Understanding of the Lithium Metal Anode in Solid-State Batteries-An Electrochemo-Mechanical Study on the Garnet-Type Solid Electrolyte Li6.25Al0.25La3Zr2O12.

    Thorben Krauskopf;Hannah Hartmann;Wolfgang G. Zeier;Jürgen Janek

  • Influence of Lattice Polarizability on the Ionic Conductivity in the Lithium Superionic Argyrodites Li6PS5X (X = Cl, Br, I)

    Marvin A. Kraft;Sean P. Culver;Mario Calderon;Felix Böcher

  • Anisotropic Lattice Strain and Mechanical Degradation of High- and Low-Nickel NCM Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries

    Aleksandr O. Kondrakov;Alexander Schmidt;Jin Xu;Holger Geßwein

  • Room-temperature sodium-ion batteries: Improving the rate capability of carbon anode materials by templating strategies

    Sebastian Wenzel;Takeshi Hara;Jürgen Janek;Philipp Adelhelm

  • There and Back Again-The Journey of LiNiO2 as a Cathode Active Material.

    Matteo Bianchini;Maria Roca-Ayats;Pascal Hartmann;Torsten Brezesinski

  • Interphase formation on lithium solid electrolytes—An in situ approach to study interfacial reactions by photoelectron spectroscopy

    Sebastian Wenzel;Thomas Leichtweiss;Dominik Krüger;Joachim Sann

  • TEMPO: a mobile catalyst for rechargeable Li-O₂ batteries

    Benjamin J. Bergner;Adrian Schürmann;Klaus Peppler;Arnd Garsuch

  • Interfacial reactivity and interphase growth of argyrodite solid electrolytes at lithium metal electrodes

    Sebastian Wenzel;Sebastian Wenzel;Stefan J. Sedlmaier;Christian Dietrich;Wolfgang G. Zeier

  • Degradation of NASICON-Type Materials in Contact with Lithium Metal: Formation of Mixed Conducting Interphases (MCI) on Solid Electrolytes

    Pascal Hartmann;Pascal Hartmann;Thomas Leichtweiss;Martin R. Busche;Meike Schneider

  • From lithium to sodium: cell chemistry of room temperature sodium–air and sodium–sulfur batteries

    Philipp Adelhelm;Pascal Hartmann;Conrad L Bender;Martin Busche

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Brezesinski
Torsten Brezesinski Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang G. Zeier
Wolfgang G. Zeier University of Münster
Philipp Adelhelm
Philipp Adelhelm Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Manfred Martin
Manfred Martin RWTH Aachen University
Lorenz Kienle
Lorenz Kienle Kiel University
Ilia Valov
Ilia Valov RWTH Aachen University
Ronald Imbihl
Ronald Imbihl University of Hannover
Bernd M. Smarsly
Bernd M. Smarsly University of Giessen
Bruno K. Meyer
Bruno K. Meyer University of Giessen
Ralf Moos
Ralf Moos University of Bayreuth

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