2026 Manfred Wilhelm: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	57	7865	7604	456	443	294	15855
Chemistry	55	11975	10790	880	787	261	14240

Overview

Manfred Wilhelm is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research contributions span key areas within materials science and engineering, particularly focusing on polymers, plastics, and fluid flow processes.

Their main fields of study include:

Materials Science
Engineering

More specific subfields explored in their work encompass:

Polymers and Plastics
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Materials Chemistry

Wilhelm has concentrated research efforts on several key topics, notably:

Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Polymer crystallization and properties
Polymer Foaming and Composites
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Advancements in Battery Materials
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications

Some of the more recent papers authored or coauthored by Wilhelm include:

"Chondroinductive Alginate-Based Hydrogels Having Graphene Oxide for 3D Printed Scaffold Fabrication," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
"Interlaboratory study on rheological properties of cement pastes and reference substances: comparability of measurements performed with different rheometers and measurement geometries," 2020, Materials and Structures
"Styrene-Based Poly(ethylene oxide) Side-Chain Block Copolymers as Solid Polymer Electrolytes for High-Voltage Lithium-Metal Batteries," 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
"Tough PEGgels by In Situ Phase Separation for 4D Printing," 2023, Advanced Functional Materials
"Effect of mechanical recycling on molecular structure and rheological properties of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)," 2024, Polymer

Frequent collaborators in Wilhelm's research include:

Valerian Hirschberg
Maxi Hoffmann
Patrick Théato
Andreas J. Butzelaar
Max G. Schußmann

Wilhelm's publications commonly appear in the following journals and venues:

Macromolecules
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Rheologica Acta
Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Best Publications

A review of nonlinear oscillatory shear tests: Analysis and application of large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS)

Kyu Hyun;Manfred Wilhelm;Christopher O. Klein;Kwang Soo Cho

1701
Citations
Poly(styrene-ethylene oxide) block copolymer micelle formation in water: a fluorescence probe study

Manfred Wilhelm;Cheng Le Zhao;Yongcai Wang;Renliang Xu

1544
Citations
Length Scale of Dynamic Heterogeneities at the Glass Transition Determined by Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

U. Tracht;Manfred Wilhelm;Andreas Heuer;H. Feng

694
Citations
Fourier-Transform rheology

Manfred Wilhelm

632
Citations
Experiments on elastic cloaking in thin plates.

Nicolas Stenger;Manfred Wilhelm;Martin Wegener

489
Citations
Fourier-transform rheology

Manfred Wilhelm;D. Maring;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

386
Citations
High Sensitivity Fourier-Transform Rheology

Manfred Wilhelm;Pierre Reinheimer;Martin Ortseifer

340
Citations
Establishing a New Mechanical Nonlinear Coefficient Q from FT-Rheology: First Investigation of Entangled Linear and Comb Polymer Model Systems

Kyu Hyun;Manfred Wilhelm

335
Citations
Rate memory of structural relaxation in glasses and its detection by multidimensional NMR.

Andreas Heuer;Manfred Wilhelm;H. Zimmermann;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

310
Citations
Adaptable Hetero Diels-Alder Networks for Fast Self-Healing under Mild Conditions

Kim K. Oehlenschlaeger;Jan O. Mueller;Josef Brandt;Stefan Hilf

308
Citations
Nature of the Non-exponential Primary Relaxation in Structural Glass-formers Probed by Dynamically Selective Experiments

R. Böhmer;R. V. Chamberlin;G. Diezemann;B. Geil

294
Citations
Length scale of dynamic heterogeneity in super-cooled glycerol near Tg

S. A. Reinsberg;X. H. Qiu;Manfred Wilhelm;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

267
Citations
Separation of the nonlinear oscillatory response into a superposition of linear, strain hardening, strain softening, and wall slip response

Christopher O. Klein;Hans W. Spiess;Andreea Calin;Corneliu Balan

204
Citations
Calibration of ^1H NMR Spin diffusion coefficients for mobile polymers through transverse relaxation measurements

F. Mellinger;Manfred Wilhelm;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

204
Citations
Comb and Bottlebrush Polymers with Superior Rheological and Mechanical Properties.

Mahdi Abbasi;Lorenz Faust;Manfred Wilhelm

186
Citations
Influence of Type and Content of Various Comonomers on Long-Chain Branching of Ethene/α-Olefin Copolymers

Florian J. Stadler;Christian Piel;Katja Klimke;Joachim Kaschta

159
Citations
Nonlinear response of dense colloidal suspensions under oscillatory shear: mode-coupling theory and Fourier transform rheology experiments.

Joseph M. Brader;Miriam Siebenbürger;Matthias Ballauff;Kathrin Reinheimer

158
Citations
Optimisation and application of polyolefin branch quantification by melt-state C-13 NMR spectroscopy

Katja Klimke;Matthew Parkinson;Christian Piel;Walter Kaminsky

156
Citations
Chondroinductive alginate-based hydrogels having graphene oxide for 3D printed scaffold fabrication

Felipe Olate-Moya;Lukas Arens;Manfred Wilhelm;Miguel Angel Mateos-Timoneda

148
Citations
Detection and quantification of branching in polyacrylates by size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) and melt-state 13C NMR spectroscopy

Patrice Castignolles;Robert Graf;Matthew Parkinson;Manfred Wilhelm

146
Citations
The crossover between linear and non-linear mechanical behaviour in polymer solutions as detected by Fourier-transform rheology

Manfred Wilhelm;Pierre Reinheimer;Martin Ortseifer;Thorsfen Neidhöfer

146
Citations