2026 Michael Wark: 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	56	8359	8081	480	467	279	9814
Chemistry	56	11765	10602	864	773	284	9941

Overview

Michael Wark is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on several interrelated fields within materials science, engineering, and energy.

The main fields of study covered by Wark's work include:

Materials Science
Engineering
Energy

Within these broader disciplines, their research concentrates on specific subfields such as:

Materials Chemistry
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Inorganic Chemistry
Catalysis

The research topics explored by Wark encompass:

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Fuel Cells and Related Materials
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
Advanced battery technologies research

Wark has authored multiple papers, including the following recent publications:

"Photocatalytic activity of CoFe2O4/g-C3N4 nanocomposite toward degradation of different organic pollutants and their inactivity toward hydrogen production: The role of the conduction band position" (2022) published in FlatChem
"Toward developing accelerated stress tests for proton exchange membrane electrolyzers" (2020) published in Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
"Semiconductive microporous hydrogen-bonded organophosphonic acid frameworks" (2020) published in Nature Communications
"Machine learning-based optimization for hydrogen purification performance of layered bed pressure swing adsorption" (2020) published in International Journal of Energy Research
"Minireview: Ni-Fe and Ni-Co Metal-Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Water-Splitting Reactions" (2022) published in Small Structures

Frequent co-authors working collaboratively with Michael Wark include:

Dereje H. Taffa
Saurav Bhattacharya
Ulrich Kortz
Peter Wagner
Corinna Harms

The scientist's work is regularly published in venues such as:

The Cambridge Structural Database
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Inorganic Chemistry
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
ACS Applied Energy Materials

Best Publications

Controlling the crystallization and grain size of sequentially deposited planar perovskite films via the permittivity of the conversion solution

M. Becker;M. Wark

382
Citations
Palladium Doped Porous Titania Photocatalysts: Impact of Mesoporous Order and Crystallinity

Adel A. Ismail;Detlef W. Bahnemann;Lars Robben;Viktor Yarovyi

247
Citations
Gold Nanoparticles on Mesoporous Interparticle Networks of Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals for Enhanced Photonic Efficiencies

Adel A. Ismail;Detlef W. Bahnemann;Inga Bannat;Michael Wark

234
Citations
Nonaqueous synthesis of uniform indium tin oxide nanocrystals and their electrical conductivity in dependence of the tin oxide concentration

Jianhua Ba;Dina Fattakhova Rohlfing;Armin Feldhoff;Torsten Brezesinski

206
Citations
Highly organized mesoporous TiO2 films with controlled crystallinity : A Li-insertion study

D. Fattakhova-Rohlfing;M. Wark;T. Brezesinski;B. M. Smarsly

201
Citations
Improving the Photocatalytic Performance of Mesoporous Titania Films by Modification with Gold Nanostructures

Inga Bannat;Katrin Wessels;Torsten Oekermann;Jiri Rathousky

200
Citations
Perovskite-type LaFeO3: Photoelectrochemical Properties and Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants Under Visible Light Irradiation

Mohammed Ismael;Michael Wark

197
Citations
Formation of hybrid ABX3 perovskite compounds for solar cell application: first-principles calculations of effective ionic radii and determination of tolerance factors

Markus Becker;Thorsten Klüner;Michael Wark

187
Citations
Graphitic carbon nitride synthesized by simple pyrolysis: role of precursor in photocatalytic hydrogen production

Mohammed Ismael;Ying Wu;Dereje H. Taffa;Patrick Bottke

185
Citations
Photoelectrochemical and theoretical investigations of spinel type ferrites (MxFe3-xO4) for water splitting: A mini-review

Dereje H. Taffa;Ralf Dillert;Anna C. Ulpe;Katharina C. L. Bauerfeind

162
Citations
pH-Control of the Photocatalytic Degradation Mechanism of Rhodamine B over Pb3Nb4O13

Oliver Merka;Viktor Yarovyi;Detlef W. Bahnemann;Michael Wark

150
Citations
Photocatalytic activity of ZrO2 composites with graphitic carbon nitride for hydrogen production under visible light

Mohammed Ismael;Ying Wu;Michael Wark

142
Citations
Anchoring of Functional Dye Molecules in MCM-41 by Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal Cocondensation.

Matthias Ganschow;Michael Wark;Dieter Wöhrle;Günter Schulz-Ekloff

137
Citations
Functionalized mesoporous silica films as a matrix for anchoring electrochemically active guests.

Dina Fattakhova Rohlfing;Jiří Rathouský;Yven Rohlfing;and Oliver Bartels

131
Citations
Research Update: Photoelectrochemical water splitting and photocatalytic hydrogen production using ferrites (MFe2O4) under visible light irradiation

Ralf Dillert;Dereje H. Taffa;Michael Wark;Thomas Bredow

128
Citations
Low-temperature route to metal titanate perovskite nanoparticles for photocatalytic applications

Tarek Alammar;Ines Hamm;Michael Wark;Michael Wark;Anja-Verena Mudring;Anja-Verena Mudring

119
Citations
Ordered Functionalized Silica Materials with High Proton Conductivity

Roland Marschall;Jiří Rathouský;Michael Wark

116
Citations
Proton conductivity of sulfonic acid functionalised mesoporous materials

Roland Marschall;Inga Bannat;Jürgen Caro;Michael Wark

115
Citations
Transparent conducting films of indium tin oxide with 3D mesopore architecture

Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing;Torsten Brezesinski;Jiri Rathousky;Armin Feldhoff

112
Citations
Photocatalytic activity of hydrophobized mesoporous thin films of TiO2

Michael Wark;Jessica Tschirch;Oliver Bartels;Detlef Bahnemann

112
Citations
Host-Guest-Systems Based on Nanoporous Crystals: LAERI: NANOPOROUS CRYSTALS O-BK

Franco Laeri;Ferdi Schüth;Ulrich Simon;Michael Wark

74
Citations