2026 Siegfried Bauer: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	87	1939	7	341	31907

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Materials Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
2019 - SPIE Fellow
2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the understanding and application of electroactive polymer dielectrics
1992 - Member of Academia Europaea
1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Siegfried Bauer was affiliated with the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria. Their academic work was primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with subfields including Biomedical Engineering, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research encompassed a variety of topics, notably:

Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Dielectric materials and actuators
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Child Nutrition and Water Access

Their publication record included contributions to several prominent venues, with multiple papers published in Advanced Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Materials, Advanced Intelligent Systems, and Nature Materials.

Significant recent publications included:

"Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics" (2020, Nature Materials)
"Elastocaloric heat pump with specific cooling power of 20.9 W g-1 exploiting snap-through instability and strain-induced crystallization" (2021, Nature Energy)
"A Lesson from Plants: High-Speed Soft Robotic Actuators" (2020, Advanced Science)
"Stretchable Polymerized High Internal Phase Emulsion Separators for High Performance Soft Batteries" (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
"iSens: A Fiber-Based, Highly Permeable and Imperceptible Sensor Design" (2021, Advanced Materials)

Frequent collaborators included Martin Kaltenbrunner, Guoyong Mao, Michael Drack, Daniela Wirthl, and Reinhard Schwödiauer, with collaboration counts ranging from six to twelve joint works.

Siegfried Bauer received several honors over their career, including membership in the Academia Europaea since 1992, fellowships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1970, IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions related to electroactive polymer dielectrics, and SPIE Fellow in 2019.

Best Publications

An ultra-lightweight design for imperceptible plastic electronics

Martin Kaltenbrunner;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder;Tomoyuki Yokota

2655
Citations
Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility

Martin Kaltenbrunner;Matthew S. White;Eric D. Głowacki;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani

1928
Citations
Organic Nonvolatile Memory Transistors for Flexible Sensor Arrays

Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tomoyuki Yokota;Ute Zschieschang;Hagen Klauk

1125
Citations
Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–metal contacts for improved stability in air

Martin Kaltenbrunner;Getachew Adam;Eric Daniel Głowacki;Michael Drack

1073
Citations
Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs

Matthew S. White;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Eric D. Głowacki;Kateryna Gutnichenko

998
Citations
25th Anniversary Article: A Soft Future: From Robots and Sensor Skin to Energy Harvesters

Siegfried Bauer;Simona Bauer-Gogonea;Ingrid Graz;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner

922
Citations
Magnetic Field and Plasma Observations at Mars: Initial Results of the Mars Global Surveyor Mission

M. H. Acuña;J. E. P. Connerney;P. Wasilewski;R. P. Lin

890
Citations
Ferroelectrets: Soft Electroactive Foams for Transducers

Siegfried Bauer;Reimund Gerhard-Multhaupt;Gerhard M. Sessler

642
Citations
Stretching Dielectric Elastomer Performance

Federico Carpi;Siegfried Bauer;Danilo De Rossi

601
Citations
Materials for stretchable electronics

Sigurd Wagner;Siegfried Bauer

531
Citations
Green and biodegradable electronics

Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Eric. D. Głowacki;Gundula Voss;Siegfried Bauer

502
Citations
Biocompatible and Biodegradable Materials for Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Pavel A. Troshin;Melanie Reisinger;Lyuba Shmygleva

493
Citations
Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics

Melanie Baumgartner;Florian Hartmann;Michael Drack;David Preninger

490
Citations
Harnessing snap-through instability in soft dielectrics to achieve giant voltage-triggered deformation

Christoph Keplinger;Christoph Keplinger;Tiefeng Li;Tiefeng Li;Richard Baumgartner;Zhigang Suo

488
Citations
Instant tough bonding of hydrogels for soft machines and electronics

Daniela Wirthl;Robert Pichler;Michael Drack;Gerald Kettlguber

477
Citations
Indigo - a natural pigment for high performance ambipolar organic field effect transistors and circuits

Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Eric D. Glowacki;Pavel A. Troshin;Guenther Schwabegger

467
Citations
Dielectric Elastomer Generators: How Much Energy Can Be Converted?

S J A Koh;C Keplinger;Tiefeng Li;Siegfried Bauer

414
Citations
Magnetic field of Mars: Summary of results from the aerobraking and mapping orbits

M. H. Acuña;J. E. P. Connerney;P. Wasilewski;R. P. Lin

403
Citations
Giant voltage-induced deformation in dielectric elastomers near the verge of snap-through instability

Tiefeng Li;Tiefeng Li;Christoph Keplinger;Christoph Keplinger;Richard Baumgartner;Siegfried Bauer

403
Citations
Current versus gate voltage hysteresis in organic field effect transistors

Martin Egginger;Siegfried Bauer;Reinhard Schwödiauer;Helmut Neugebauer

395
Citations
Hydrogen-bonds in molecular solids – from biological systems to organic electronics

Eric Daniel Głowacki;Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Siegfried Bauer;Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

348
Citations