2026 René Hübner: 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	49	10554	10196	589	571	284	8670

Overview

René Hübner is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields within materials science and engineering.

The primary fields of study include:

Materials Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their work focuses on several subfields such as:

Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

The main topics covered in their research are:

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Magnetic properties of thin films
Radioactive element chemistry and processing
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Semiconductor materials and devices
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

René Hübner has frequently published in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Functional Materials
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie
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The list of recent papers includes:

High-Performance Bismuth-Doped Nickel Aerogel Electrocatalyst for the Methanol Oxidation Reaction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Tunable metal hydroxide-organic frameworks for catalysing oxygen evolution, 2022, Nature Materials
Unveiling reductant chemistry in fabricating noble metal aerogels for superior oxygen evolution and ethanol oxidation, 2020, Nature Communications
A Robust PtNi Nanoframe/N-Doped Graphene Aerogel Electrocatalyst with Both High Activity and Stability, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Engineering Multimetallic Aerogels for pH-Universal HER and ORR Electrocatalysis, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with René Hübner include:

Shengqiang Zhou
Alexander Eychmüller
M. Helm
Sławomir Prucnal
Ran Du

Best Publications

Purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory

Tobias Kosub;Martin Kopte;Ruben Hühne;Patrick Appel

327
Citations
High-Performance Bismuth-Doped Nickel Aerogel Electrocatalyst for the Methanol Oxidation Reaction.

Amare Aregahegn Dubale;Yuanyuan Zheng;Honglei Wang;René Hübner

270
Citations
Extracellular polymeric substances govern the surface charge of biogenic elemental selenium nanoparticles.

Rohan Jain;Norbert Jordan;Stephan Weiss;Harald Foerstendorf

200
Citations
In-chip microstructures and photonic devices fabricated by nonlinear laser lithography deep inside silicon

Onur Tokel;Ahmet Turnalı;Ghaith Makey;Parviz Elahi

177
Citations
Core-Shell Structuring of Pure Metallic Aerogels towards Highly Efficient Platinum Utilization for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Bin Cai;Bin Cai;René Hübner;Kotaro Sasaki;Yuanzhe Zhang

173
Citations
Unveiling reductant chemistry in fabricating noble metal aerogels for superior oxygen evolution and ethanol oxidation.

Ran Du;Jinying Wang;Ying Wang;René Hübner

167
Citations
Adsorption of zinc by biogenic elemental selenium nanoparticles

Rohan Jain;Rohan Jain;Norbert Jordan;Dieter Schild;Eric D. van Hullebusch

155
Citations
Exploiting Memristive BiFeO3 Bilayer Structures for Compact Sequential Logics

Tiangui You;Yao Shuai;Wenbo Luo;Nan Du

151
Citations
A Robust PtNi Nanoframe/N-Doped Graphene Aerogel Electrocatalyst with Both High Activity and Stability.

Jing Yang;René Hübner;Jiangwei Zhang;Hao Wan

146
Citations
Reconfigurable Spin-Wave Nonreciprocity Induced by Dipolar Interaction in a Coupled Ferromagnetic Bilayer

R.A. Gallardo;T. Schneider;A.K. Chaurasiya;A. Oelschlägel;A. Oelschlägel

132
Citations
Up to 40 % reduction of the GaAs band gap energy via strain engineering in core/shell nanowires

L. Balaghi;G. Bussone;R. Grifone;R. Hübner

130
Citations
Multimetallic Hierarchical Aerogels: Shape Engineering of the Building Blocks for Efficient Electrocatalysis.

Bin Cai;Arezoo Dianat;René Hübner;Wei Liu

128
Citations
Engineering Self-Supported Noble Metal Foams Toward Electrocatalysis and Beyond

Ran Du;Xinyi Jin;Xinyi Jin;René Hübner;Xuelin Fan

126
Citations
Engineering Multimetallic Aerogels for pH‐Universal HER and ORR Electrocatalysis

Ran Du;Wei Jin;Wei Jin;René Hübner;Lin Zhou

124
Citations
Emerging Noble Metal Aerogels: State of the Art and a Look Forward

Ran Du;Xuelin Fan;Xinyi Jin;Xinyi Jin;René Hübner

121
Citations
Specific ion effects directed noble metal aerogels: Versatile manipulation for electrocatalysis and beyond

Ran Du;Yue Hu;René Hübner;Jan-Ole Joswig

120
Citations
Low damping and microstructural perfection of sub-40nm-thin yttrium iron garnet films grown by liquid phase epitaxy

Carsten Dubs;Oleksii Surzhenko;Ronny Thomas;Julia Osten

116
Citations
Room-temperature short-wavelength infrared Si photodetector

Yonder Berencén;Slawomir Prucnal;Fang Liu;Ilona Skorupa

115
Citations
Electrochemical behavior of nanocrystalline Ta/TaN multilayer on 316L stainless steel: Novel bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel-cells

M. Alishahi;F. Mahboubi;S. M. Mousavi Khoie;Mario Aparicio

113
Citations
A Roadmap for 3D Metal Aerogels: Materials Design and Application Attempts

Xiaodi Jiang;Ran Du;Ran Du;Ran Du;René Hübner;Yue Hu

113
Citations
Printing nearly-discrete magnetic patterns using chemical disorder induced ferromagnetism.

Rantej Bali;Rantej Bali;Sebastian Wintz;Falk Meutzner;René Hübner

104
Citations
Self-Supporting Hierarchical Porous PtAg Alloy Nanotubular Aerogels as Highly Active and Durable Electrocatalysts

Wei Liu;Danny Haubold;Bogdan Rutkowski;Martin Oschatz

93
Citations
Structure and thermal stability of graded Ta-TaN diffusion barriers between Cu and SiO2

R Hübner;M Hecker;N Mattern;V Hoffmann

92
Citations