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2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
98
Citations
42150
World Ranking
1144
National Ranking
65

Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
41025
World Ranking
1512
National Ranking
114

Physics

D-Index
102
Citations
44761
World Ranking
1533
National Ranking
134

Kurt Kremer 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 Kurt Kremer sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 432 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kurt Kremer 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 Kurt Kremer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2016 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his outstanding contributions to the development of computational physics methods and their application to statistical mechanics of soft materials including polymer melts and networks, polyelectrolytes and colloids

Overview

Kurt Kremer is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on materials science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these domains, Kremer's work delves into materials chemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, condensed matter physics, and polymers and plastics.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics including material dynamics and properties, protein structure and dynamics, theoretical and computational physics, block copolymer self-assembly, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, enzyme structure and function, and rheology and fluid dynamics studies.

Some of Kremer's recent papers include:

  • FAIR data enabling new horizons for materials research, 2022, Nature
  • Active topological glass, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Defects and defect engineering in Soft Matter, 2020, Soft Matter
  • Nonlinear Shear Rheology of Entangled Polymer Rings, 2021, Macromolecules
  • Glass Transition of Disentangled and Entangled Polymer Melts: Single-Chain-Nanoparticles Approach, 2020, Macromolecules

Kremer frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Robinson Cortes-Huerto, Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Yani Zhao, Tristan Bereau, and Aysenur Iscen.

Their work is published in journals including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Macromolecules
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Advanced Theory and Simulations

Kremer has been recognized by several academic bodies. They were named a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2018 and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2005, Kremer was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for their contributions to computational physics methods and their applications to statistical mechanics of soft materials, including polymer melts and networks, polyelectrolytes, and colloids.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts: A molecular‐dynamics simulation

    Kurt Kremer;Gary S. Grest

  • Molecular dynamics simulation for polymers in the presence of a heat bath.

    Gary S. Grest;Kurt Kremer

  • The bond fluctuation method: a new effective algorithm for the dynamics of polymers in all spatial dimensions

    I. Carmesin;Kurt Kremer

  • Aggregation and vesiculation of membrane proteins by curvature-mediated interactions

    Benedict J. Reynwar;Gregoria Illya;Vagelis A. Harmandaris;Martin M. Müller

  • Rheology and microscopic topology of entangled polymeric liquids.

    Ralf Everaers;Sathish K. Sukumaran;Gary S. Grest;Carsten Svaneborg

  • Adsorption of polymer chains at surfaces: Scaling and Monte Carlo analyses

    E. Eisenriegler;K. Kremer;K. Binder

  • Phase diagram and dynamics of Yukawa systems

    Mark. O. Robbins;Kurt Kremer;Gary S. Grest

  • Equilibration of long chain polymer melts in computer simulations

    Rolf Auhl;Ralf Everaers;Gary S. Grest;Kurt Kremer

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of a polymer chain in solution

    Burkhard Dünweg;Kurt Kremer

  • Simulation of polymer melts. I. Coarse‐graining procedure for polycarbonates

    W. Tschöp;Kurt Kremer;J. Batoulis;T. Bürger

  • Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics

    Xinliang Feng;Valentina Marcon;Wojciech Pisula;Michael Ryan Hansen

  • The nature of flexible linear polyelectrolytes in salt free solution: A molecular dynamics study

    Mark J. Stevens;Kurt Kremer

  • 散逸粒子動力学:平衡および非平衡分子動力学シミュレーションのための有用なサーモスタット(原標題は英語)

    Soddemann T;Duenweg B;Kremer K

  • Versatile Object-Oriented Toolkit for Coarse-Graining Applications

    Victor Rühle;Christoph Junghans;Alexander Lukyanov;Kurt Kremer

  • Multiscale simulation of soft matter: from scale bridging to adaptive resolution.

    Matej Praprotnik;Luigi Delle Site;Kurt Kremer

  • Dissipative particle dynamics: A useful thermostat for equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

    Thomas Soddemann;Burkhard Dünweg;Kurt Kremer

  • Multiscale simulation of soft matter systems – from the atomistic to the coarse-grained level and back

    Christine Peter;Kurt Kremer

  • Monte Carlo simulation of lattice models for macromolecules

    Kurt Kremer;Kurt Binder

  • Bridging the Gap Between Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Models of Polymers: Status and Perspectives

    Jörg Baschnagel;Jörg Baschnagel;Kurt Binder;Pemra Doruker;Andrei A. Gusev

  • Tunable generic model for fluid bilayer membranes.

    Ira R. Cooke;Kurt Kremer;Markus Deserno

  • Adaptive resolution molecular-dynamics simulation: changing the degrees of freedom on the fly.

    Matej Praprotnik;Luigi Delle Site;Kurt Kremer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary S. Grest
Gary S. Grest Sandia National Laboratories
Christian Holm
Christian Holm University of Stuttgart
Denis Andrienko
Denis Andrienko Max Planck Society
Nico F. A. van der Vegt
Nico F. A. van der Vegt Technical University of Darmstadt
Kurt Binder
Kurt Binder Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Davide Donadio
Davide Donadio University of California, Davis
Alexander Y. Grosberg
Alexander Y. Grosberg New York University
Florian Müller-Plathe
Florian Müller-Plathe Technical University of Darmstadt
Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson Imperial College London
Cecilia Clementi
Cecilia Clementi Freie Universität Berlin

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