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Materials Science

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56
Citations
9814
World Ranking
8357
National Ranking
479

Chemistry

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56
Citations
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World Ranking
11763
National Ranking
865

Michael Wark 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 Michael Wark sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 279 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Wark 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 Michael Wark sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Inga Bannat;Katrin Wessels;Torsten Oekermann;Jiri Rathousky

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

    Mohammed Ismael;Michael Wark

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Mohammed Ismael;Ying Wu;Michael Wark

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ordered Functionalized Silica Materials with High Proton Conductivity

    Roland Marschall;Jiří Rathouský;Michael Wark

  • Proton conductivity of sulfonic acid functionalised mesoporous materials

    Roland Marschall;Inga Bannat;Jürgen Caro;Michael Wark

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

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

  • Photocatalytic activity of hydrophobized mesoporous thin films of TiO2

    Michael Wark;Jessica Tschirch;Oliver Bartels;Detlef Bahnemann

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

    Franco Laeri;Ferdi Schüth;Ulrich Simon;Michael Wark

Frequent Co-Authors

Günter Schulz-Ekloff
Günter Schulz-Ekloff University of Bremen
Jiri Rathousky
Jiri Rathousky Czech Academy of Sciences
Detlef W. Bahnemann
Detlef W. Bahnemann Saint Petersburg State University
Dieter Wöhrle
Dieter Wöhrle University of Bremen
Armin Feldhoff
Armin Feldhoff University of Hannover
Jürgen Caro
Jürgen Caro University of Hannover
Bernd M. Smarsly
Bernd M. Smarsly University of Giessen
Arnošt Zukal
Arnošt Zukal Czech Academy of Sciences
Thomas Frauenheim
Thomas Frauenheim University of Bremen
Norbert Stock
Norbert Stock Kiel University

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