2026 Tobias Hertel: 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	10378	10023	579	561	171	15926

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Overview

Tobias Hertel is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Building and Construction.

The main topics of their work encompass:

Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
Mechanical and Optical Resonators
Bauxite Residue and Utilization
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Graphene Research and Applications
Recycling and Utilization of Industrial and Municipal Waste in Materials Production
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Their publications have appeared frequently in notable venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ECS Meeting Abstracts
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among their recent papers are:

"Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation" (2020, Nature Nanotechnology)
"Electroluminescence from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Quantum Defects" (2022, ACS Nano)
"Tuning counterion chemistry to reduce carrier localization in doped semiconducting carbon nanotube networks" (2023, Cell Reports Physical Science)
"Probing the ultrafast dynamics of excitons in single semiconducting carbon nanotubes" (2022, Nature Communications)
"Carrier density and delocalization signatures in doped carbon nanotubes from quantitative magnetic resonance" (2023, Nanoscale Horizons)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

Klaus H. Eckstein (19 joint publications)
Yiannis Pontikes (9 joint publications)
Friedrich Schöppler (6 joint publications)
Florian Oberndorfer (5 joint publications)
Richard Martel (4 joint publications)

Best Publications

Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

R. Martel;T. Schmidt;H. R. Shea;T. Hertel

4068
Citations
Interlayer cohesive energy of graphite from thermal desorption of polyaromatic hydrocarbons

Renju Zacharia;Hendrik Ulbricht;Tobias Hertel

1290
Citations
Deformation of carbon nanotubes by surface van der Waals forces

Tobias Hertel;Robert E. Walkup;Phaedon Avouris

886
Citations
Atomic force microscope tip-induced local oxidation of silicon: kinetics, mechanism, and nanofabrication

Phaedon Avouris;Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel

694
Citations
Manipulation of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Their Interaction with Surfaces

Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel;Phaedon Avouris

525
Citations
Ultrafast Electron Dynamics at Cu(111): Response of an Electron Gas to Optical Excitation

T Hertel;E Knoesel;M Wolf;G Ertl

498
Citations
Carbon nanotubes: nanomechanics, manipulation, and electronic devices

Ph Avouris;T Hertel;R Martel;T Schmidt

408
Citations
Quantum Yield Heterogeneities of Aqueous Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Suspensions

Jared Crochet;Michael Clemens;Tobias Hertel

319
Citations
Exponential Decay Lifetimes of Excitons in Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Axel Hagen;Mathias Steiner;Markus B. Raschke;Christoph Lienau

318
Citations
Quantitative analysis of optical spectra from individual single-wall carbon nanotubes

Axel Hagen;Tobias Hertel

316
Citations
Size and mobility of excitons in (6, 5) carbon nanotubes

Larry Lüer;Sajjad Hoseinkhani;Dario Polli;Jared Crochet

312
Citations
Interaction of C60 with carbon nanotubes and graphite.

Hendrik Ulbricht;Gunnar Moos;Tobias Hertel

292
Citations
Ultrafast dynamics of electrons in image-potential states on clean and Xe-covered Cu(111).

M. Wolf;E. Knoesel;T. Hertel

271
Citations
Spectroscopy of single- and double-wall carbon nanotubes in different environments.

Tobias Hertel;Axel Hagen;Vadim Talalaev;Katharina Arnold

268
Citations
Physisorption of molecular oxygen on single-wall carbon nanotube bundles and graphite

Hendrik Ulbricht;Gunnar Moos;Tobias Hertel

262
Citations
Electron-phonon interaction in single-wall carbon nanotubes: A time-domain study

Tobias Hertel;Gunnar Moos

258
Citations
Diffusion limited photoluminescence quantum yields in 1-D semiconductors: single-wall carbon nanotubes.

Tobias Hertel;Sabine Himmelein;Thomas Ackermann;Dominik Stich

250
Citations
AFM-TIP-INDUCED AND CURRENT-INDUCED LOCAL OXIDATION OF SILICON AND METALS

P. Avouris;R. Martel;T. Hertel;R. Sandstrom

241
Citations
Thermal desorption of gases and solvents from graphite and carbon nanotube surfaces

Hendrik Ulbricht;Renju Zacharia;Nesibe Cindir;Tobias Hertel

213
Citations
Molar Extinction Coefficient of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Friedrich Schöppler;Christoph Mann;Tilman C. Hain;Felix M. Neubauer

203
Citations