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Konrad Samwer 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 Konrad Samwer sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 375 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Konrad Samwer 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 Konrad Samwer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% 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

  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics

Overview

Konrad Samwer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy, with a substantial contribution to the subfields of materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, mechanical engineering, ceramics and composites, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys
  • Glass properties and applications
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

Konrad Samwer has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • npj Microgravity
  • Acta Materialia
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Nature Physics

Some of their recent papers cover topics related to glass transition, phase transitions, and correlations in glass-forming liquids:

  • Thermal expansion and the glass transition, 2023, Nature Physics
  • Formation of two glass phases in binary Cu-Ag liquid, 2020, Acta Materialia
  • First-Order Phase Transition in Liquid Ag to the Heterogeneous G-Phase, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Universal correlations between the fragility and interparticle repulsion of glass-forming liquids, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Universal origin of glassy relaxation as recognized by configuration pattern matching, 2024, National Science Review

Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • P. Lunkenheimer
  • A. Loidl
  • Qi An
  • William L. Johnson
  • William A. Goddard

In 2008, Konrad Samwer was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, specializing in physics.

Best Publications

  • Giant negative magnetoresistance in perovskitelike La2/3Ba1/3MnOx ferromagnetic films.

    R. von Helmolt;R. von Helmolt;J. Wecker;J. Wecker;B. Holzapfel;B. Holzapfel;L. Schultz;L. Schultz

  • A universal criterion for plastic yielding of metallic glasses with a (T/Tg) 2/3 temperature dependence.

    W. L. Johnson;K. Samwer

  • Local elastic properties of a metallic glass

    Hannes Wagner;Dennis Bedorf;Stefan Küchemann;Moritz Schwabe

  • The β relaxation in metallic glasses: an overview

    Hai-Bin Yu;Wei-Hua Wang;Konrad Samwer

  • Strain Rate Induced Amorphization in Metallic Nanowires

    Hideyuki Ikeda;Yue Qi;Tahir Çağin;Konrad Samwer

  • Glass transition on long time scales

    R. Brüning;K. Samwer

  • Anelastic to Plastic Transition in Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids

    John S. Harmon;Marios D. Demetriou;William L. Johnson;Konrad Samwer

  • Spin polarization in half-metals probed by femtosecond spin excitation.

    Georg M. Müller;Jakob Walowski;Marija Djordjevic;Gou-Xing Miao

  • The β-relaxation in metallic glasses

    Hai Bin Yu;Wei Hua Wang;Hai Yang Bai;Konrad Samwer

  • Micromechanism for metallic-glass formation by solid-state reactions.

    H. Schröder;K. Samwer;U. Köster

  • Correlation between β relaxation and self-diffusion of the smallest constituting atoms in metallic glasses.

    H. B. Yu;K. Samwer;Yue Wu;W. H. Wang

  • Giant magnetoresistance in melt spun Cu‐Co alloys

    J. Wecker;R. von Helmolt;L. Schultz;K. Samwer

  • Ultrastable Metallic Glass

    Hai-Bin Yu;Yuansu Luo;Konrad Samwer

  • Beating crystallization in glass-forming metals by millisecond heating and processing.

    William L. Johnson;Georg Kaltenboeck;Marios D. Demetriou;Joseph P. Schramm

  • Structural phase transition at the percolation threshold in epitaxial (La0.7Ca0.3MnO3)1-x:(MgO)x nanocomposite films.

    V. Moshnyaga;B. Damaschke;O. Shapoval;A. Belenchuk

  • CHEMICAL VAPOR SYNTHESIS AND LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF NANOCRYSTALLINE CUBIC Y2O3:EU

    A. Konrad;T. Fries;A. Gahn;F. Kummer

  • Rheology and Ultrasonic Properties of Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids: A Potential Energy Landscape Perspective

    William L. Johnson;Marios D. Demetriou;John S. Harmon;Mary L. Lind

  • Intrinsic inhomogeneities in manganite thin films investigated with scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

    T. Becker;C. Streng;Y. Luo;V. Moshnyaga

  • Plastic deformation of metallic glasses: Size of shear transformation zones from molecular dynamics simulations

    Mareike Zink;K. Samwer;W. L. Johnson;S. G. Mayr

  • Chemical influence on β-relaxations and the formation of molecule-like metallic glasses

    Hai Bin Yu;Konrad Samwer;Wei Hua Wang;Hai Yang Bai

  • Rheology and ultrasonic properties of metallic glass-forming liquids

    Marios D. Demetriou;William L. Johnson;Konrad Samwer

Frequent Co-Authors

William L. Johnson
William L. Johnson California Institute of Technology
Ranko Richert
Ranko Richert Arizona State University
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
G. Van Tendeloo
G. Van Tendeloo University of Antwerp
Jo Verbeeck
Jo Verbeeck University of Antwerp
Cynthia A. Volkert
Cynthia A. Volkert University of Göttingen
Robert S Averback
Robert S Averback University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rudolf Gross
Rudolf Gross Technical University of Munich
Ralf Busch
Ralf Busch Saarland University
Oleg I. Lebedev
Oleg I. Lebedev Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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