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Netherlands
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
121
Citations
83838
World Ranking
460
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal experimental discoveries of the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and other contributions to nanoscience
  • 2003 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Cees Dekker is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering. The scientist's subfields of study include molecular biology, biomedical engineering, genetics, ecology, and plant science.

The main topics covered in their work focus on nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, genomics and chromatin dynamics, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and bacterial genetics and biotechnology.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Jacob Kerssemakers, Roman Barth, Jaco van der Torre, Aleksandre Japaridze, and Alessio Fragasso. The scientist has published many papers in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biophysical Journal, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and ACS Nano.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Nanopore-based technologies beyond DNA sequencing, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Multiple rereads of single proteins at single-amino acid resolution using nanopores, 2021, Science
  • The emerging landscape of single-molecule protein sequencing technologies, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Comparing Current Noise in Biological and Solid-State Nanopores, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Bridging-induced phase separation induced by cohesin SMC protein complexes, 2021, Science Advances

Cees Dekker has received recognition including election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 for experimental discoveries related to electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and contributions to nanoscience. They were also elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube

    Sander J. Tans;Alwin R. M. Verschueren;Cees Dekker

  • Electronic structure of atomically resolved carbon nanotubes

    Jeroen W. G. Wilder;Liesbeth C. Venema;Andrew G. Rinzler;Richard E. Smalley

  • Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires

    Sander J. Tans;Michel H. Devoret;Hongjie Dai;Andreas Thess

  • Logic circuits with carbon nanotube transistors

    Adrian Bachtold;Peter Hadley;Takeshi Nakanishi;Cees Dekker

  • Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

    Andrea C. Ferrari;Francesco Bonaccorso;Francesco Bonaccorso;Vladimir Fal'ko;Konstantin S. Novoselov

  • Carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions

    Zhen Yao;Henk W. Ch. Postma;Leon Balents;Cees Dekker

  • Direct measurement of electrical transport through DNA molecules

    Danny Porath;Alexey Bezryadin;Alexey Bezryadin;Simon de Vries;Cees Dekker

  • Solid-state nanopores

    Cees Dekker

  • Carbon nanotubes as molecular quantum wires

    Cees Dekker

  • High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes

    Zhen Yao;Charles L. Kane;Cees Dekker

  • Carbon Nanotube Single-Electron Transistors at Room Temperature

    Henk W. Ch. Postma;Tijs Teepen;Zhen Yao;Milena Grifoni

  • Fabrication of solid-state nanopores with single-nanometre precision.

    A. J. Storm;J. H. Chen;X. S. Ling;X. S. Ling;H. W. Zandbergen

  • Enzyme-Coated Carbon Nanotubes as Single-Molecule Biosensors

    Koen Besteman;Jeong-O Lee;Frank G. M. Wiertz;Hendrik A. Heering

  • Surface-charge-governed ion transport in nanofluidic channels.

    Derek Stein;Maarten Kruithof;Cees Dekker

  • DNA Translocation through Graphene Nanopores

    Grégory F. Schneider;Stefan W. Kowalczyk;Victor E. Calado;Grégory Pandraud

  • Salt dependence of ion transport and DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores.

    Ralph M M Smeets;Ulrich F Keyser;Diego Krapf;Meng-Yue Wu

  • Fast DNA Translocation through a Solid-State Nanopore

    Arnold J. Storm;Cornelis Storm;Jianghua Chen;Henny Zandbergen

  • Direct force measurements on DNA in a solid-state nanopore

    Ulrich F. Keyser;Bernard N. Koeleman;Stijn van Dorp;Diego Krapf

  • Motor proteins at work for nanotechnology.

    Martin G. L. van den Heuvel;Cees Dekker

  • Electrostatic trapping of single conducting nanoparticles between nanoelectrodes

    A. Bezryadin;C. Dekker;G. Schmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge G. Lemay
Serge G. Lemay University of Twente
Henny W. Zandbergen
Henny W. Zandbergen Delft University of Technology
Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Leo P. Kouwenhoven Delft University of Technology
Ulrich F. Keyser
Ulrich F. Keyser University of Cambridge
Magnus P. Jonsson
Magnus P. Jonsson Linköping University
Claire Wyman
Claire Wyman Erasmus MC
Herre S. J. van der Zant
Herre S. J. van der Zant Delft University of Technology
Roland Kanaar
Roland Kanaar Erasmus University Rotterdam
Adrian Bachtold
Adrian Bachtold ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences

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