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Materials Science D-index 56 Citations 10,183 215 World Ranking 5415 National Ranking 1529

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Awards & Achievements

2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

2013 - ASM Fellow "For important advances in modern materials synthesis technologies, including direct casting of ceramics, oxide ceramic nanomaterials, nucleation and growth modeling of metallic nanowires, and aqueous sol-gel processing of transition metal oxides."

2003 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Organic chemistry
  • Oxygen
  • Polymer

Wolfgang M. Sigmund focuses on Nanotechnology, Carbon nanotube, Chemical engineering, Nanofiber and Composite material. His studies in Nanotechnology integrate themes in fields like Optoelectronics and Semiconductor. His Carbon nanotube research includes elements of Nanoparticle, Coating, Catalysis and Polyelectrolyte.

His Chemical engineering research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Titanium, Specific surface area and Photocatalysis, Anatase. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Electrochemistry and Electrospinning. His Composite material study frequently involves adjacent topics like Annealing.

His most cited work include:

  • Photocatalytic Carbon‐Nanotube–TiO2 Composites (1100 citations)
  • Novel Powder-Processing Methods for Advanced Ceramics (384 citations)
  • Processing and Structure Relationships in Electrospinning of Ceramic Fiber Systems (324 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Wolfgang M. Sigmund mainly investigates Chemical engineering, Composite material, Nanotechnology, Nanofiber and Ceramic. The study incorporates disciplines such as Photocatalysis, Inorganic chemistry, Polymer chemistry and Aqueous solution in addition to Chemical engineering. His study in Composite material is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Sol-gel and Annealing.

The Annealing study which covers Microstructure that intersects with Composite number, Calcination and Amorphous solid. His Nanotechnology study often links to related topics such as Optoelectronics. Wolfgang M. Sigmund studied Nanofiber and Electrospinning that intersect with Fiber.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Chemical engineering (33.61%)
  • Composite material (29.46%)
  • Nanotechnology (26.97%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2018)?

  • Chemical engineering (33.61%)
  • Nanoparticle (13.28%)
  • Nanofiber (20.75%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Chemical engineering, Nanoparticle, Nanofiber, Composite material and Nanotechnology. His Chemical engineering research incorporates elements of Langmuir adsorption model, Inorganic chemistry, Anode, Chemical-mechanical planarization and Surface. The various areas that Wolfgang M. Sigmund examines in his Nanoparticle study include Photocatalysis, Photochemistry and Redox.

His study on Nanofiber also encompasses disciplines like

  • Fiber, Anatase and Thermoelectric effect most often made with reference to Electrospinning,
  • Lithium that connect with fields like Thermal diffusivity and Conductivity,
  • Lithium-ion battery which intersects with area such as Calcination and Crystallite. His studies deal with areas such as Suspension and Alkyl as well as Composite material. The concepts of his Nanotechnology study are interwoven with issues in Optoelectronics and Polygon mesh.

Between 2012 and 2018, his most popular works were:

  • Defect chemistry and defect engineering of TiO2-based semiconductors for solar energy conversion (160 citations)
  • Polyaniline/Polyoxometalate Hybrid Nanofibers as Cathode for Lithium Ion Batteries with Improved Lithium Storage Capacity (69 citations)
  • Polyaniline/Polyoxometalate Hybrid Nanofibers as Cathode for Lithium Ion Batteries with Improved Lithium Storage Capacity (69 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Organic chemistry
  • Oxygen
  • Polymer

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Inorganic chemistry, Chemical engineering, Nanoparticle, Nanofiber and Nanocomposite. His work focuses on many connections between Inorganic chemistry and other disciplines, such as Cathode, that overlap with his field of interest in Solid solution, Chemical composition, Crystallite, Ion and Analytical chemistry. Wolfgang M. Sigmund usually deals with Chemical engineering and limits it to topics linked to Anode and Tin oxide, Tin, Nanosheet and Indium.

His research integrates issues of Photocatalysis, Surface, Freundlich model and Density functional theory in his study of Nanoparticle. Wolfgang M. Sigmund works mostly in the field of Nanofiber, limiting it down to topics relating to Lithium and, in certain cases, Polyoxometalate, Phosphomolybdic acid, Polyaniline, Polyaniline nanofibers and Electrochemistry. His study on Nanocrystal is covered under Nanotechnology.

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Best Publications

Photocatalytic Carbon-Nanotube–TiO2 Composites

Karran Woan;Georgios Pyrgiotakis;Wolfgang Sigmund.
Advanced Materials (2009)

1542 Citations

Novel Powder-Processing Methods for Advanced Ceramics

Wolfgang M. Sigmund;Nelson S. Bell;Lennart Bergström.
Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2004)

623 Citations

Processing and Structure Relationships in Electrospinning of Ceramic Fiber Systems

Wolfgang Sigmund;Junhan Yuh;Hyun Park;Vasana Maneeratana.
Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2006)

511 Citations

Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotube/Gold Nanoparticle Composites

Bumsu Kim;Wolfgang M. Sigmund.
Langmuir (2004)

432 Citations

Defect chemistry and defect engineering of TiO2-based semiconductors for solar energy conversion

Janusz Nowotny;Mohammad Abdul Alim;Tadeusz Bak;Mohammad Asri Idris.
Chemical Society Reviews (2015)

262 Citations

Formation of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes

Seung-woo Lee;Wolfgang M. Sigmund.
Chemical Communications (2003)

222 Citations

Synthesis of barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanofibers via electrospinning

Junhan Yuh;Juan C. Nino;Wolfgang M. Sigmund.
Materials Letters (2005)

221 Citations

Structure and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline cobalt ferrite powders synthesized using organic acid precursor method

R.M. Mohamed;M.M. Rashad;F.A. Haraz;W. Sigmund;W. Sigmund.
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2010)

198 Citations

Improvement in nanofiber filtration by multiple thin layers of nanofiber mats

Qi Zhang;James Welch;Hyoungjun Park;Chang-Yu Wu.
Journal of Aerosol Science (2010)

187 Citations

Poly(acrylic acid) nanofibers by electrospinning

Bumsu Kim;Hyun Park;Sung-Hwan Lee;Wolfgang M. Sigmund.
Materials Letters (2005)

179 Citations

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