Iwan Moreels

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
123 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

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Iwan Moreels is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Iwan Moreels has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Materials Chemistry, 99 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Iwan Moreels's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (106 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (81 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (31 papers). Iwan Moreels is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (106 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (81 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (31 papers). Iwan Moreels collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and Spain. Iwan Moreels's co-authors include Zeger Hens, José C. Martins, Liberato Manna, Karel Lambert, Sotirios Christodoulou, Ali Hossain Khan, Frank Vanhaecke, David De Muynck, G. Allan and Beatriz Martín‐García and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Iwan Moreels

121 papers receiving 8.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Size-Dependent Optical Properties of Colloidal PbS Quantum Dots

2009 1.0k citations Iwan Moreels, José C. Martins et al. profile →
Size-Tunable, Bright, and Stable PbS Quantum Dots: A Surface Chemistry Study

2011 477 citations Iwan Moreels, José C. Martins et al. profile →
Role of Acid–Base Equilibria in the Size, Shape, and Phase Control of Cesium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals

2018 447 citations Ali Hossain Khan, Iwan Moreels et al. profile →
Continuous-wave biexciton lasing at room temperature using solution-processed quantum wells

2014 441 citations Sotirios Christodoulou, Francesco Di Stasio et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iwan Moreels Belgium	49	8.0k	6.8k	1.2k	1.0k	996	123	8.9k
Jeffrey M. Pietryga United States	43	8.9k 1.1×	7.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	726 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	60	9.6k
Alexander L. Efros United States	34	7.3k 0.9×	5.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	789 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	66	8.3k
Benjamin T. Diroll United States	47	5.7k 0.7×	4.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	174	7.2k
Ageeth A. Bol Netherlands	46	6.6k 0.8×	4.8k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	849 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	120	8.1k
Wolfgang Heiß Germany	43	7.4k 0.9×	7.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	109	9.4k
Anton V. Malko United States	33	4.8k 0.6×	4.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	611 0.6×	951 1.0×	95	5.8k
Benoît Mahler France	32	4.9k 0.6×	3.6k 0.5×	620 0.5×	660 0.7×	746 0.7×	76	5.7k
Sergio Brovelli Italy	52	8.8k 1.1×	8.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	713 0.7×	661 0.7×	159	10.6k
Junbo Han China	43	6.9k 0.9×	6.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	156	8.7k
Dongchen Qi Australia	50	5.4k 0.7×	5.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	1.2k 1.2×	214	8.7k

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Remaut, Katrien, et al.. (2025). Cationic Polyelectrolyte Adsorption onto Anionic Nanoparticles Analyzed with Frequency‐Domain Scanning Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. Small Methods. 9(9). e2401985–e2401985. 1 indexed citations

Goeman, Jan, et al.. (2024). Selenium reduction pathways in the colloidal synthesis of CdSe nanoplatelets. Nanoscale. 16(12). 6268–6277. 2 indexed citations

Cirignano, Matilde, et al.. (2024). Blue CdSe/CdS core/crown nanoplatelet light-emitting diodes obtained via a design-of-experiments approach. Nanoscale. 17(1). 304–313. 2 indexed citations

Martín‐García, Beatriz, Anastasia Rousaki, Peter Vandenabeele, et al.. (2023). Charge Carrier Dynamics in Colloidally Synthesized Monolayer MoX₂ Nanosheets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(10). 2620–2626. 5 indexed citations

Wagner, Isabella, Ali Hossain Khan, Kai Chen, et al.. (2023). Optical gain and lasing from bulk cadmium sulfide nanocrystals through bandgap renormalization. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(12). 1423–1429. 31 indexed citations

Belykh, V. V., et al.. (2023). Coherent Spin Dynamics of Electrons in CdSe Colloidal Nanoplatelets. Nanomaterials. 13(23). 3077–3077. 3 indexed citations

Vezzoli, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Purifying single photon emission from giant shell CdSe/CdS quantum dots at room temperature. Nanoscale. 15(4). 1645–1651. 14 indexed citations

Rousaki, Anastasia, Matteo Barbone, Rosaria Brescia, et al.. (2022). Colloidal Continuous Injection Synthesis of Fluorescent MoX₂ (X = S, Se) Nanosheets as a First Step Toward Photonic Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(8). 10311–10320. 11 indexed citations

Anand, Abhinav, Matteo L. Zaffalon, Francesca Cova, et al.. (2022). Optical and Scintillation Properties of Record-Efficiency CdTe Nanoplatelets toward Radiation Detection Applications. Nano Letters. 22(22). 8900–8907. 23 indexed citations

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Martín‐García, Beatriz, et al.. (2022). A colloidal route to semiconducting tungsten disulfide nanosheets with monolayer thickness. Nanoscale. 14(42). 15859–15868. 10 indexed citations

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Geiregat, Pieter, Carmelita Rodà, Shalini Singh, et al.. (2021). Localization-limited exciton oscillator strength in colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets revealed by the optically induced stark effect. Light Science & Applications. 10(1). 112–112. 53 indexed citations

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Pensa, Evangelina, Ali Hossain Khan, Anatolii Polovitsyn, et al.. (2020). Electrical control of single-photon emission in highly charged individual colloidal quantum dots. Science Advances. 6(38). 40 indexed citations

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Imran, Muhammad, Márcio M. Soares, H. Tolentino, et al.. (2020). Composition-, Size-, and Surface Functionalization-Dependent Optical Properties of Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(6). 2079–2085. 47 indexed citations

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Moreels, Iwan. (2020). Semiconductor Nanostructures for Electronic and Opto‐Electronic Device Applications. physica status solidi (a). 217(5). 2 indexed citations

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Scott, Riccardo, Sotirios Christodoulou, G. Bertrand, et al.. (2019). Size-dependent exciton substructure in CdSe nanoplatelets and its relation to photoluminescence dynamics. Nanoscale. 11(25). 12230–12241. 20 indexed citations

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Venettacci, Carlo, Beatriz Martín‐García, Mirko Prato, Iwan Moreels, & Andrea De Iacovo. (2019). Increasing responsivity and air stability of PbS colloidal quantum dot photoconductors with iodine surface ligands. Nanotechnology. 30(40). 405204–405204. 26 indexed citations

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Scott, Riccardo, Anatol Prudnikau, Artsiom Antanovich, et al.. (2019). A comparative study demonstrates strong size tunability of carrier–phonon coupling in CdSe-based 2D and 0D nanocrystals. Nanoscale. 11(9). 3958–3967. 24 indexed citations

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Martín‐García, Beatriz, Yu Bi, Mirko Prato, et al.. (2018). Reduction of moisture sensitivity of PbS quantum dot solar cells by incorporation of reduced graphene oxide. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 183. 1–7. 70 indexed citations

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Martín‐García, Beatriz, Massimo Colombo, Anatolii Polovitsyn, et al.. (2016). Mechanically flexible and optically transparent three-dimensional nanofibrous amorphous aerocellulose. Carbohydrate Polymers. 149. 217–223. 12 indexed citations

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Smet, Philippe F., Iwan Moreels, Zeger Hens, & Dirk Poelman. (2010). Luminescence in Sulfides: A Rich History and a Bright Future. Materials. 3(4). 2834–2883. 232 indexed citations

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