Steven De Feyter

25.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
509 papers, 22.0k citations indexed

About

Steven De Feyter is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven De Feyter has authored 509 papers receiving a total of 22.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 314 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 254 papers in Materials Chemistry and 229 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Steven De Feyter's work include Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (282 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (186 papers) and Graphene research and applications (80 papers). Steven De Feyter is often cited by papers focused on Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (282 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (186 papers) and Graphene research and applications (80 papers). Steven De Feyter collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and Japan. Steven De Feyter's co-authors include Frans C. De Schryver, Shengbin Lei, Kazukuni Tahara, Yoshito Tobe, Kunal S. Mali, Kläus Müllen, Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, Jinne Adisoejoso, Mark Van der Auweraer and Joan Teyssandier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Steven De Feyter

498 papers receiving 21.8k 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.

Two-dimensional supramolecular self-assembly probed by scanning tunneling microscopy

2003 921 citations Steven De Feyter et al. profile →
Molecular and Supramolecular Networks on Surfaces: From Two‐Dimensional Crystal Engineering to Reactivity

2009 579 citations Steven De Feyter et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Chemical vapour deposition of zeolitic imidazolate framework thin films

2015 576 citations Ivo Stassen, Steven De Feyter et al. profile →
Synthesis of structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons

2013 437 citations Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven De Feyter Belgium	72	11.8k	11.6k	8.8k	6.1k	3.6k	509	22.0k
Paolo Samorı́ France	83	16.2k 1.4×	8.3k 0.7×	13.2k 1.5×	3.8k 0.6×	3.3k 0.9×	532	27.4k
Frans C. De Schryver Belgium	76	10.4k 0.9×	6.0k 0.5×	7.0k 0.8×	5.5k 0.9×	5.1k 1.4×	542	22.6k
Jürgen P. Rabe Germany	79	8.6k 0.7×	5.8k 0.5×	9.7k 1.1×	5.0k 0.8×	5.8k 1.6×	402	22.0k
Colin Nuckolls United States	91	14.4k 1.2×	4.8k 0.4×	16.4k 1.9×	5.8k 1.0×	7.9k 2.2×	361	29.9k
Christopher B. Murray United States	90	26.1k 2.2×	6.8k 0.6×	12.8k 1.5×	3.4k 0.6×	2.9k 0.8×	299	34.7k
Jurriaan Huskens Netherlands	65	5.5k 0.5×	5.3k 0.5×	4.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.3×	3.8k 1.0×	502	17.6k
Abraham Ulman United States	54	7.8k 0.7×	4.7k 0.4×	11.8k 1.3×	4.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	141	19.7k
Jiannian Yao China	99	20.4k 1.7×	4.4k 0.4×	20.5k 2.3×	3.4k 0.6×	4.9k 1.4×	703	37.3k
Andreas Hirsch Germany	87	25.7k 2.2×	6.0k 0.5×	8.8k 1.0×	2.9k 0.5×	15.8k 4.4×	715	34.9k
Justin D. Holmes Ireland	61	8.8k 0.7×	5.3k 0.5×	5.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	423	15.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven De Feyter

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Eyley, Samuel, et al.. (2025). Tuning the Crystallinity of a Metal–Organic Coordination Network at the Liquid–Solid Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(9). 7682–7693. 2 indexed citations

Carro, Pilar, et al.. (2024). Electrografting of aryl amines on graphitic surfaces: An alternative to diazonium salts?. Applied Surface Science. 663. 160184–160184. 4 indexed citations

Feyter, Steven De, et al.. (2024). Probing the Roles of Temperature and Cooperative Effects in Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity: Photoelectron Spin Polarization in Helical Tetrapyrroles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(38). 9620–9629. 2 indexed citations

Fron, Eduard, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic Characterization of Thiacarbocyanine Dye Molecules Adsorbed on Hexagonal Boron Nitride: a Time-Resolved Study. ACS Omega. 8(39). 35638–35652. 2 indexed citations

Fang, Yuan, Oleksandr Ivasenko, Kunal S. Mali, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous and scanning-assisted desorption–adsorption dynamics in porous supramolecular networks at the solution–solid interface. Nanoscale. 15(9). 4301–4308. 5 indexed citations

Sato, Yuta, Steven De Feyter, & Kazukuni Tahara. (2023). Formation of Supramolecular Heterostacks at the Liquid–Solid Interface: Impact of Symmetry Mismatching on Structural Growth. Langmuir. 39(47). 16825–16832. 1 indexed citations

Auweraer, Mark Van der, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Cooperative Process of Molecular Self-Assembly on Surfaces: A Case Study of Isophthalic Acids. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(4). 2025–2034. 3 indexed citations

Freddi, Sonia, et al.. (2023). Machine‐Learning‐Aided NO₂ Discrimination with an Array of Graphene Chemiresistors Covalently Functionalized by Diazonium Chemistry. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(60). e202302154–e202302154. 17 indexed citations

Eyley, Samuel, Carlos Márquez, Dirk De Vos, et al.. (2022). Adsorptive separation using self-assembly on graphite: from nanoscale to bulk processes. Chemical Science. 13(31). 9035–9046. 2 indexed citations

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Kaneko, Hiromasa, et al.. (2022). Symmetry and spacing controls in periodic covalent functionalization of graphite surfaces templated by self-assembled molecular networks. Nanoscale. 14(35). 12595–12609. 2 indexed citations

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Freddi, Sonia, Miriam C. Rodríguez González, Pilar Carro, L. Sangaletti, & Steven De Feyter. (2022). Chemical Defect‐Driven Response on Graphene‐Based Chemiresistors for Sub‐ppm Ammonia Detection. Angewandte Chemie. 134(16). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Xu, Ji Ma, Wenhao Zheng, et al.. (2021). Cove-Edged Graphene Nanoribbons with Incorporation of Periodic Zigzag-Edge Segments. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(1). 228–235. 42 indexed citations

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Lamers, Brigitte A. G., et al.. (2021). Double Lamellar Morphologies and Odd–Even Effects in Two- and Three-Dimensional N,N′-bis(n-alkyl)-naphthalenediimide Materials. Chemistry of Materials. 33(22). 8800–8811. 7 indexed citations

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Iyoda, Masahiko, et al.. (2020). Trapping a pentagonal molecule in a self-assembled molecular network: an alkoxylated isosceles triangular molecule does the job. Chemical Communications. 56(40). 5401–5404. 12 indexed citations

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Piskorz, Tomasz K., et al.. (2019). Nucleation Mechanisms of Self-Assembled Physisorbed Monolayers on Graphite. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(28). 17510–17520. 17 indexed citations

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Cruz, Alexander John, Ivo Stassen, Mikhail Krishtab, et al.. (2019). Integrated Cleanroom Process for the Vapor-Phase Deposition of Large-Area Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials. 31(22). 9462–9471. 68 indexed citations

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Hu, Yi, Oleksandr Ivasenko, Brandon E. Hirsch, et al.. (2019). Phase selectivity triggered by nanoconfinement: the impact of corral dimensions. Chemical Communications. 55(15). 2226–2229. 16 indexed citations

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Walke, Peter, Yasuhiko Fujita, Shuichi Toyouchi, et al.. (2018). Silver nanowires for highly reproducible cantilever based AFM-TERS microscopy: towards a universal TERS probe. Nanoscale. 10(16). 7556–7565. 31 indexed citations

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Chen, Qiang, Luigi Brambilla, Lakshya Daukiya, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of Triply Fused Porphyrin‐Nanographene Conjugates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(35). 11233–11237. 67 indexed citations

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Chen, Zongping, Hai I. Wang, Nerea Bilbao, et al.. (2017). Lateral Fusion of Chemical Vapor Deposited N = 5 Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(28). 9483–9486. 62 indexed citations

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