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Manfred Wilhelm 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 Manfred Wilhelm sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 294 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Manfred Wilhelm 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 Manfred Wilhelm sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Fourier-Transform rheology

    Manfred Wilhelm

  • Experiments on elastic cloaking in thin plates.

    Nicolas Stenger;Manfred Wilhelm;Martin Wegener

  • Fourier-transform rheology

    Manfred Wilhelm;D. Maring;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • High Sensitivity Fourier-Transform Rheology

    Manfred Wilhelm;Pierre Reinheimer;Martin Ortseifer

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

    Kyu Hyun;Manfred Wilhelm

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

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

    F. Mellinger;Manfred Wilhelm;Hans Wolfgang Spiess

  • Comb and Bottlebrush Polymers with Superior Rheological and Mechanical Properties.

    Mahdi Abbasi;Lorenz Faust;Manfred Wilhelm

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Katja Klimke;Matthew Parkinson;Christian Piel;Walter Kaminsky

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Hans Wolfgang Spiess Max Planck Society
Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Christopher Barner-Kowollik Queensland University of Technology
Denis Rodrigue
Denis Rodrigue Université Laval
Burkhard Luy
Burkhard Luy Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Werner Kaminsky
Werner Kaminsky Universität Hamburg
Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Gunther Brunklaus
Gunther Brunklaus Forschungszentrum Jülich
Patrick Theato
Patrick Theato Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Martin Winter
Martin Winter University of Münster

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