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Rüdiger Berger

Rüdiger Berger

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Materials Science

D-Index
48
Citations
8783
World Ranking
10820
National Ranking
605

Overview

Rüdiger Berger is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work encompasses various subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics such as Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics, and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization.

Frequently publishing in key scientific journals, the venues for their research include Langmuir, Advanced Materials, Nature Physics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Science Advances. These journals highlight their engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of materials and surface science as well as applied physics and chemistry.

Their recent notable papers consist of:

  • When and how self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces works, 2020, Science Advances
  • Contact angle hysteresis, 2022, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
  • Spontaneous charging affects the motion of sliding drops, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Understanding the evolution of lithium dendrites at Li6.25Al0.25La3Zr2O12 grain boundaries via operando microscopy techniques, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Adaptive Wetting of Polydimethylsiloxane, 2020, Langmuir

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors, including Hans-Jürgen Butt, Xiaomei Li, Alexander Saal, Kaloian Koynov, and Doris Vollmer. These repeated collaborations suggest a sustained engagement with teams working on related scientific problems.

Best Publications

  • Photoswitching of glass transition temperatures of azobenzene-containing polymers induces reversible solid-to-liquid transitions

    Hongwei Zhou;Changguo Xue;Philipp Weis;Yasuhito Suzuki

  • When and how self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces works

    Florian Geyer;Maria D’Acunzi;Azadeh Sharifi-Aghili;Alexander Saal

  • Real-space observation of unbalanced charge distribution inside a perovskite-sensitized solar cell.

    Victor W. Bergmann;Stefan A. L. Weber;F. Javier Ramos;Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

  • How drops start sliding over solid surfaces

    Nan Gao;Florian Geyer;Dominik W. Pilat;Sanghyuk Wooh

  • Patchy nanocapsules of poly(vinylferrocene)-based block copolymers for redox-responsive release.

    Roland H. Staff;Markus Gallei;Markus Mazurowski;Matthias Rehahn

  • Yttrium-substituted nanocrystalline TiO2 photoanodes for perovskite based heterojunction solar cells

    Peng Qin;Anna L. Domanski;Aravind Kumar Chandiran;Rüdiger Berger

  • Engineering the structural properties of DNA block copolymer micelles by molecular recognition.

    Ke Ding;Fikri E. Alemdaroglu;Michael Börsch;Rüdiger Berger

  • Ferroelastic Fingerprints in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite

    Ilka M. Hermes;Simon A. Bretschneider;Victor W. Bergmann;Dan Li

  • Dynamic Measurement of the Force Required to Move a Liquid Drop on a Solid Surface

    D. W. Pilat;P. Papadopoulos;D. Schäffel;Doris Vollmer

  • Local Time-Dependent Charging in a Perovskite Solar Cell.

    Victor W. Bergmann;Yunlong Guo;Hideyuki Tanaka;Ilka M. Hermes

  • Humidity-Induced Grain Boundaries in MAPbI3 Perovskite Films

    Dan Li;Simon A. Bretschneider;Victor W. Bergmann;Ilka M. Hermes

  • Understanding the evolution of lithium dendrites at Li6.25Al0.25La3Zr2O12 grain boundaries via operando microscopy techniques

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  • Entangled Azobenzene-Containing Polymers with Photoinduced Reversible Solid-to-Liquid Transitions for Healable and Reprocessable Photoactuators

    Mingsen Chen;Mingsen Chen;Mingsen Chen;Bingjian Yao;Bingjian Yao;Michael Kappl;Senyang Liu

  • Electrical modes in scanning probe microscopy.

    Rüdiger Berger;Hans-Jiirgen Butt;Maria B. Retschke;Stefan A. L. Weber

  • Adaptive Wetting—Adaptation in Wetting

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Rüdiger Berger;Werner Steffen;Doris Vollmer

  • Impact of atomic force microscopy on interface and colloid science.

    Hans-Jürgen Butt;Rüdiger Berger;Elmar Bonaccurso;Y. Chen

  • Antibacterial Strategies from the Sea: Polymer‐Bound Cl‐Catechols for Prevention of Biofilm Formation

    Luis García-Fernández;Jiaxi Cui;Cristina Serrano;Zahid Shafiq

  • Glucose-responsive polymer brushes for microcantilever sensing

    Tao Chen;Debby P. Chang;Ting Liu;Ramya Desikan

  • Pulicaria glutinosa plant extract: a green and eco-friendly reducing agent for the preparation of highly reduced graphene oxide

    Mujeeb Khan;Abdulhadi H. Al-Marri;Merajuddin Khan;Nils Mohri

  • Enzymatic Control of the Size of DNA Block Copolymer Nanoparticles

    Fikri E. Alemdaroglu;Jie Wang;Michael Börsch;Rüdiger Berger

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes on Micromechanical Cantilevers

    Gina-Gabriela Bumbu;Gunnar Kircher;Markus Wolkenhauer;Rüdiger Berger

  • Two-dimensional aggregation of organogelators induced by biaxial hydrogen-bonding gives supramolecular nanosheets

    Riju Davis;Rüdiger Berger;Rudolf Zentel

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Jürgen Butt
Hans-Jürgen Butt Max Planck Society
Jochen S. Gutmann
Jochen S. Gutmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Patrick Theato
Patrick Theato Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Tremel
Wolfgang Tremel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Tobias Weidner
Tobias Weidner Aarhus University
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Doris Vollmer
Doris Vollmer Max Planck Society
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Kaloian Koynov
Kaloian Koynov Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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