Sandra Van Aert

9.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
166 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

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Sandra Van Aert is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Van Aert has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Structural Biology, 91 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films and 67 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sandra Van Aert's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (91 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (91 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (22 papers). Sandra Van Aert is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (91 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (91 papers) and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (22 papers). Sandra Van Aert collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Sandra Van Aert's co-authors include Sara Bals, Johan Verbeeck, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Annick De Backer, D. Van Dyck, Karel H. W. van den Bos, Gerardo Martínez, Arnold J. den Dekker, Thomas Altantzis and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Van Aert

163 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Highly Emissive Divalent-Ion-Doped Colloidal CsPb_1–xM_xBr₃ Perovskite Nanocrystals through Cation Exchange

2017 651 citations Ward van der Stam, Thomas Altantzis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis

2023 186 citations Matteo Monai, Kellie Jenkinson et al. Science profile →
An Atomically Dispersed Mn-Photocatalyst for Generating Hydrogen Peroxide from Seawater via the Water Oxidation Reaction (WOR)

2023 157 citations Peng Ren, Tong Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sandra Van Aert	4.3k	2.1k	2.1k	1.9k	1.8k	166	7.2k
Andrew R. Lupini	5.1k 1.2×	3.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	209	9.2k
Colin Ophus	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	869 0.5×	292	7.8k
Mark P. Oxley	3.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	113	5.7k
Martin Hÿtch	4.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	761 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	148	7.4k
Peter D. Nellist	2.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	748 0.4×	208	6.9k
Scott D. Findlay	3.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.7×	3.1k 1.6×	932 0.5×	167	7.2k
Albina Y. Borisevich	6.6k 1.5×	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	3.2k 1.8×	188	9.3k
Ondrej L. Krivanek	3.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.3×	3.8k 1.8×	3.6k 1.9×	752 0.4×	147	8.3k
Niklas Dellby	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	3.3k 1.6×	2.8k 1.5×	601 0.3×	96	6.2k
J. Silcox	4.4k 1.0×	3.3k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	176	9.3k

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Pradhan, Suman, Peng Ren, Noopur Jain, et al.. (2025). An Atomically Dispersed Photocatalyst for Undirected para ‐Selective C─H Bond Functionalizations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202508512–e202508512. 3 indexed citations

Braeckevelt, Tom, Annick De Backer, Nadine J. Schrenker, et al.. (2025). Increasing the Phase Stability of CsPbI₃ Nanocrystals by Zn²⁺ and Cd²⁺ Addition: Synergy of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics. ACS Nano. 19(18). 17698–17708.

Zito, Juliette, Yurii P. Ivanov, Andréa Toma, et al.. (2025). Halide Perovskite–Chalcohalide Nanocrystal Heterostructures as a Platform for the Synthesis and Investigation of the CsPbCl ₃ –CsPbI ₃ Epitaxial Interface. Advanced Materials. 38(6). e12502–e12502.

Lobato, Iván, Thomas Friedrich, & Sandra Van Aert. (2024). Deep convolutional neural networks to restore single-shot electron microscopy images. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 23 indexed citations

Zhang, Zezhong, Iván Lobato, Hamish G. Brown, et al.. (2024). Relativistic EELS scattering cross-sections for microanalysis based on Dirac solutions. Ultramicroscopy. 269. 114083–114083. 1 indexed citations

Backer, Annick De, et al.. (2024). Element specific atom counting for heterogeneous nanostructures: Combining multiple ADF STEM images for simultaneous thickness and composition determination. Ultramicroscopy. 259. 113941–113941. 1 indexed citations

Chezganov, D. S., Andrey Orekhov, Sandra Van Aert, et al.. (2024). In Situ Plasma Studies Using a Direct Current Microplasma in a Scanning Electron Microscope. Advanced Materials Technologies. 9(8). 4 indexed citations

Schrenker, Nadine J., Tom Braeckevelt, Annick De Backer, et al.. (2024). Investigation of the Octahedral Network Structure in Formamidinium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals by Low-Dose Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Nano Letters. 24(35). 10936–10942. 6 indexed citations

Piane, Massimo Delle, et al.. (2024). Sampling Real‐Time Atomic Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles by Combining Experiments, Simulations, and Machine Learning. Advanced Science. 11(25). e2307261–e2307261. 10 indexed citations

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Kavak, Safiyye, Daen Jannis, Annick De Backer, et al.. (2024). High-resolution electron microscopy imaging of MOFs at optimized electron dose. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(6). 4281–4291. 5 indexed citations

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Arteaga-Cardona, Fernando, Noopur Jain, Radian Popescu, et al.. (2023). Preventing cation intermixing enables 50% quantum yield in sub-15 nm short-wave infrared-emitting rare-earth based core-shell nanocrystals. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4462–4462. 23 indexed citations

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Monai, Matteo, Kellie Jenkinson, Angela E. M. Melcherts, et al.. (2023). Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis. Science. 380(6645). 644–651. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ren, Peng, Tong Zhang, Noopur Jain, et al.. (2023). An Atomically Dispersed Mn-Photocatalyst for Generating Hydrogen Peroxide from Seawater via the Water Oxidation Reaction (WOR). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(30). 16584–16596. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

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Friedrich, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Phase Object Reconstruction for 4D-STEM using Deep Learning. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(1). 395–407. 11 indexed citations

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Braeckevelt, Tom, Jinhui Guo, Bapi Pradhan, et al.. (2023). Additivity of Atomic Strain Fields as a Tool to Strain-Engineering Phase-Stabilized CsPbI₃ Perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(48). 23400–23411. 3 indexed citations

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Backer, Annick De, Zezhong Zhang, Karel H. W. van den Bos, et al.. (2022). Element Specific Atom Counting at the Atomic Scale by Combining High Angle Annular Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X‐ray Spectroscopy. Small Methods. 6(11). e2200875–e2200875. 9 indexed citations

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Bos, Karel H. W. van den, Thomas Altantzis, Annick De Backer, Sandra Van Aert, & Sara Bals. (2018). Recent breakthroughs in scanning transmission electron microscopy of small species. Advances in Physics X. 3(1). 1480420–1480420. 8 indexed citations

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Liao, Zhaoliang, Nicolas Gauquelin, Robert J. Green, et al.. (2018). Metal–insulator-transition engineering by modulation tilt-control in perovskite nickelates for room temperature optical switching. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(38). 9515–9520. 60 indexed citations

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Peters, Joep L., Karel H. W. van den Bos, Sandra Van Aert, et al.. (2017). Ligand-Induced Shape Transformation of PbSe Nanocrystals. Chemistry of Materials. 29(9). 4122–4128. 48 indexed citations

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Bals, Sara, Bart Goris, Annick De Backer, Sandra Van Aert, & Gustaaf Van Tendeloo. (2016). Atomic resolution electron tomography. MRS Bulletin. 41(7). 525–530. 22 indexed citations

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