[4][5] He developed scanning Hall probe microscopy[6] and has made notable contributions to the field of superconductors.

[1] Following his PhD, Bending joined the group of Dr P. Guéret at IBM Research Laboratories, Zürich, Switzerland, as a postdoc, in 1985.

In 1986, he became a postdoc in the group of Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, at the Max Planck Institut FKF, in Stuttgart, Germany.

[6] Highlights of his work include studies of vortex matter in highly anisotropic superconductors,[7][8] ferromagnetic superconductors,[9][14] ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures,[10] domain wall phenomena and dynamics in ferromagnetic thin films[11] and the realisation of novel hybrid material structures by electrocrystallisation.

[12][15][16] More recently the focus of Bending's research has shifted to new physics in two-dimensional crystals, e.g., graphene and other layered (super)conductors.