Kai Sotthewes

1.5k total citations
58 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Kai Sotthewes is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Sotthewes has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 30 papers in Materials Chemistry and 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Kai Sotthewes's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (22 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (10 papers) and Graphene research and applications (10 papers). Kai Sotthewes is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (22 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (10 papers) and Graphene research and applications (10 papers). Kai Sotthewes collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Kai Sotthewes's co-authors include Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Pantelis Bampoulis, Bene Poelsema, Rik van Bremen, Qirong Yao, E. Stefan Kooij, H. Patrick Jansen, Gert Desmet, Han Gardeniers and Martin Herman Siekman and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kai Sotthewes

57 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Sotthewes Netherlands 19 724 603 279 278 126 58 1.2k
V. Semet France 19 1.1k 1.5× 450 0.7× 479 1.7× 333 1.2× 94 0.7× 50 1.4k
Nils Hartmann Germany 20 405 0.6× 349 0.6× 385 1.4× 319 1.1× 55 0.4× 72 1.0k
Stephen T. Purcell France 19 898 1.2× 472 0.8× 387 1.4× 581 2.1× 82 0.7× 55 1.3k
H. Tostmann United States 17 391 0.5× 308 0.5× 235 0.8× 284 1.0× 57 0.5× 26 983
Mattia Scardamaglia Sweden 22 749 1.0× 463 0.8× 224 0.8× 157 0.6× 42 0.3× 61 1.1k
Tyson C. Back United States 22 781 1.1× 484 0.8× 224 0.8× 191 0.7× 39 0.3× 75 1.2k
Reinhard Carius Germany 23 1.1k 1.5× 1.5k 2.5× 365 1.3× 211 0.8× 44 0.3× 114 1.7k
R. Coratger France 17 468 0.6× 658 1.1× 517 1.9× 802 2.9× 151 1.2× 68 1.4k
Peigen Cao United States 10 637 0.9× 282 0.5× 361 1.3× 239 0.9× 37 0.3× 12 946

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Sotthewes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Sotthewes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Sotthewes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Sotthewes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Sotthewes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Sotthewes. Kai Sotthewes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Linarts, Artis, et al.. (2025). Strong piezoelectric-like electromechanical response from single granular PMMA interface. Nano Energy. 146. 111519–111519.
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Mālnieks, Kaspars, et al.. (2025). Granular Interfaces in TENGs: The Role of Close‐Packed Polymer Bead Monolayers for Energy Harvesters. Small. 21(9). e2410155–e2410155. 2 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, et al.. (2024). Toward the Assembly of 2D Tunable Crystal Patterns of Spherical Colloids on a Wafer-Scale. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(9). 12007–12017. 10 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, et al.. (2024). Solvent-free confinement of ordered microparticle monolayers: effect of host substrate and pattern symmetry. Soft Matter. 20(47). 9413–9423. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Hairong, G. Li, Jirui Hou, & Kai Sotthewes. (2023). Probing surface properties of organic molecular layers by scanning tunneling microscopy. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 318. 102956–102956. 11 indexed citations
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Zandvliet, Harold J. W., et al.. (2022). Low coverage disordered decanethiol monolayers on Au(001): A conjecture regarding the formation of Au-adatom-molecule complexes. Applied Surface Science. 594. 153364–153364. 2 indexed citations
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Houselt, Arie van, et al.. (2022). Self-Assembled Decanethiolate Monolayers on Au(001): Expanding the Family of Known Phases. Langmuir. 38(33). 10202–10215. 2 indexed citations
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Birkhölzer, Yorick A., Kai Sotthewes, Nicolas Gauquelin, et al.. (2022). High-Strain-Induced Local Modification of the Electronic Properties of VO2 Thin Films. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 4(12). 6020–6028. 7 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, et al.. (2021). Confined Friedel oscillations on Au(111) terraces probed by thermovoltage scanning tunneling microscopy. Physical review. B.. 103(24). 5 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Dzung T., Matthias Freitag, Kai Sotthewes, et al.. (2020). Ein auf Arylazopyrazol basierendes N‐heterocyclisches Carben als Photoschalter auf Goldoberflächen: Lichtschaltbare Benetzbarkeit, Austrittsarbeit und Leitwert. Angewandte Chemie. 132(32). 13754–13759. 9 indexed citations
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Kap, Özlem, et al.. (2020). Structural Stability of Physisorbed Air-Oxidized Decanethiols on Au(111). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(22). 11977–11984. 10 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, et al.. (2020). Free energy of domain walls and order-disorder transition in a triangular lattice with anisotropic nearest-neighbor interactions. Physical review. E. 102(3). 32138–32138. 3 indexed citations
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Borca, Bogdana, et al.. (2020). Image potential states of germanene. 2D Materials. 7(3). 35021–35021. 33 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Dzung T., Matthias Freitag, Kai Sotthewes, et al.. (2020). An Arylazopyrazole‐Based N‐Heterocyclic Carbene as a Photoswitch on Gold Surfaces: Light‐Switchable Wettability, Work Function, and Conductance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(32). 13651–13656. 66 indexed citations
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Gao, Yuqiang, et al.. (2020). Nanoscale Work Function Contrast Induced by Decanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111). Langmuir. 36(42). 12745–12754. 10 indexed citations
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Yao, Qirong, et al.. (2020). Singularities and topologically protected states in twisted bilayer graphene. Applied Physics Letters. 116(1). 11 indexed citations
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Bremen, Rik van, et al.. (2018). Combined I(V) and dI(V)/dz scanning tunneling spectroscopy. AIP Advances. 8(7). 3 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, Martin Herman Siekman, & Harold J. W. Zandvliet. (2016). A method to measure the thermovoltage with a high spatial resolution. Applied Physics Letters. 108(14). 4 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of copper-phthalocyanine molecules on Au/Ge(001). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 143(13). 134303–134303. 8 indexed citations
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Sotthewes, Kai & Harold J. W. Zandvliet. (2013). Universal behaviour of domain wall meandering. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 25(20). 205301–205301. 3 indexed citations

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