2026 Peter Fratzl: 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	127	384	367	20	19	675	60216

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Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
2008 - Max Planck Research Award Biomaterials

Overview

Peter Fratzl is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on materials science, engineering, and medicine with significant contributions in biomaterials and biomedical engineering, particularly related to bone tissue engineering and cellular mechanics.

Their main research topics include:

Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
Bone health and osteoporosis research
Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Bone Metabolism and Diseases
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Silk-based biomaterials and applications

Peter Fratzl has published extensively, often contributing to fields like biomaterials and orthopedics, as well as molecular and cell biology. The subfields of study frequently engaged in include biomaterials, biomedical engineering, orthopedics and sports medicine, molecular biology, and cell biology.

Their frequent co-authors are:

Wolfgang Wagermaier
Luca Bertinetti
Richard Weinkamer
Stéphane Blouin
Ernesto Scoppola

Peter Fratzl's work has been published in a variety of venues, with a significant presence in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Advanced Materials
Nature Communications
Advanced Science
SSRN Electronic Journal

Important recent papers by Peter Fratzl include:

"Mineralization generates megapascal contractile stresses in collagen fibrils" (2022) in Science
"Curvature in Biological Systems: Its Quantification, Emergence, and Implications across the Scales" (2022) in Advanced Materials
"The mechanoresponse of bone is closely related to the osteocyte lacunocanalicular network architecture" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Hierarchically-structured metalloprotein composite coatings biofabricated from co-existing condensed liquid phases" (2020) in Nature Communications
"Natural load-bearing protein materials" (2020) in Progress in Materials Science

In recognition of their contributions, Peter Fratzl has received several awards including being named Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2012, and the Max Planck Research Award in 2008 for work related to biomaterials.

Best Publications

Nature’s hierarchical materials

Peter Fratzl;Richard Weinkamer

3151
Citations
Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: lessons from nature.

Huajian Gao;Baohua Ji;Ingomar L. Jäger;Eduard Arzt;Eduard Arzt

2217
Citations
Structure and mechanical quality of the collagen–mineral nano-composite in bone

P. Fratzl;H. S. Gupta;E. P. Paschalis;P. Roschger

1485
Citations
Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural Hierarchy from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale

Joanna Aizenberg;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar

1294
Citations
Collagen: Structure and Mechanics, an Introduction

P. Fratzl

1222
Citations
Iron-Clad Fibers: A Metal-Based Biological Strategy for Hard Flexible Coatings

Matthew J. Harrington;Admir Masic;Niels Holten-Andersen;Niels Holten-Andersen;J. Herbert Waite

1048
Citations
Mineralized Collagen Fibrils: A Mechanical Model with a Staggered Arrangement of Mineral Particles

Ingomar Jäger;Peter Fratzl

961
Citations
Fibrillar structure and mechanical properties of collagen

Peter Fratzl;Klaus Misof;Ivo Zizak;Gert Rapp

825
Citations
Nucleation and growth of magnetite from solution.

Jens Baumgartner;Archan Dey;Paul H. H. Bomans;Cécile Le Coadou

770
Citations
Collagen : structure and mechanics

Peter Fratzl

767
Citations
Biomimetic materials research: what can we really learn from nature's structural materials?

Peter Fratzl

745
Citations
Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation

Peter Fratzl;Friedrich G. Barth

744
Citations
Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale

Himadri S. Gupta;Jong Seto;Wolfgang Wagermaier;Paul Zaslansky

743
Citations
Reversible Switching of Hydrogel-Actuated Nanostructures into Complex Micropatterns

Alexander Sidorenko;Tom Krupenkin;Ashley Taylor;Peter Fratzl

634
Citations
Cell-wall recovery after irreversible deformation of wood

Jozef Keckes;Ingo Burgert;Klaus Frühmann;Martin Müller

585
Citations
Viscoelastic properties of collagen: synchrotron radiation investigations and structural model

R. Puxkandl;I. Zizak;O. Paris;J. Keckes

584
Citations
The effect of geometry on three-dimensional tissue growth

Monika Rumpler;Alexander Woesz;John W.C Dunlop;Joost T van Dongen

562
Citations
From brittle to ductile fracture of bone

Herwig Peterlik;Paul Roschger;Klaus Klaushofer;Peter Fratzl

555
Citations
Size-controlled hydroxyapatite nanoparticles as self-organized organic-inorganic composite materials

Viorel Marin Rusu;Chuen-How Ng;Max Wilke;Brigitte Tiersch

484
Citations
Mapping amorphous calcium phosphate transformation into crystalline mineral from the cell to the bone in zebrafish fin rays.

Julia Mahamid;Barbara Aichmayer;Eyal Shimoni;Roy Ziblat

478
Citations