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Derck Schlettwein

Derck Schlettwein

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Chemistry

D-Index
40
Citations
7110
World Ranking
17857
National Ranking
1294

Overview

Derck Schlettwein is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Organic Chemistry.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Derck Schlettwein comprise:

  • Pascal Schweitzer
  • Teresa Gatti
  • Harald Locke
  • Jonas Horn
  • G. Albrecht

The scientist's recent publication record highlights studies in advanced functional materials, particularly perovskite-based compounds and metal oxide films. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Lanthanide-Induced Photoluminescence in Lead-Free Cs2AgBiBr6 Bulk Perovskite: Insights from Optical and Theoretical Investigations" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Opportunities from Doping of Non-Critical Metal Oxides in Last Generation Light-Conversion Devices" (2021) published in Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Large Cation Engineering in Two-Dimensional Silver-Bismuth Bromide Double Perovskites" (2021) published in Chemistry of Materials
  • "Electrochromic switching of tungsten oxide films grown by reactive ion-beam sputter deposition" (2020) published in Journal of Materials Science
  • "Improved Hole Extraction and Band Alignment via Interface Modification in Hole Transport Material-Free Ag/Bi Double Perovskite Solar Cells" (2024) published in Solar RRL

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, ECS Meeting Abstracts, Journal of Materials Science, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and RSC Advances. These venues correspond to their interdisciplinary approach combining crystallographic databases, materials science, and physical chemistry research.

Best Publications

  • Electrodeposition of Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Thin Films

    Tsukasa Yoshida;Jingbo Zhang;Daisuke Komatsu;Seiichi Sawatani

  • Electrochemical Self‐Assembly of Nanoporous ZnO/Eosin Y Thin Films and Their Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Performance

    T. Yoshida;K. Terada;D. Schlettwein;T. Oekermann

  • Self-Assembly of Zinc Oxide Thin Films Modified with Tetrasulfonated Metallophthalocyanines by One-Step Electrodeposition

    Tsukasa Yoshida;Masashi Tochimoto;Derck Schlettwein;Dieter Wöhrle

  • Exciton Dynamics and Electron–Phonon Coupling Affect the Photovoltaic Performance of the Cs2AgBiBr6 Double Perovskite

    Robin Kentsch;Mirko Scholz;Jonas Horn;Derck Schlettwein

  • Improved photoelectrochemical performance of electrodeposited ZnO/EosinY hybrid thin films by dye re-adsorption.

    Tsukasa Yoshida;Mamiko Iwaya;Hiroaki Ando;Torsten Oekermann

  • Investigations of n/p-junction photovoltaic cells of perylenetetracarboxylic acid diimides and phthalocyanines

    Dieter Wöhrle;Lutz Kreienhoop;Günter Schnurpfeil;Jörg Elbe

  • A novel route to molecular self-assembly: self-intermixed monolayer phases.

    Michael de Wild;Simon Berner;Hitoshi Suzuki;Hisao Yanagi

  • Controlled p-doping of pigment layers by cosublimation: Basic mechanisms and implications for their use in organic photovoltaic cells

    M Pfeiffer;A Beyer;B Plönnigs;A Nollau

  • Selective electroacatalysis for CO2 reduction in the aqueous phase using cobalt phthalocyanine/poly-4-vinylpyridine modified electrodes

    Tsukasa Yoshida;Kazuhiro Kamato;Masaaki Tsukamoto;Takeaki Iida

  • Electronic Energy Levels in Individual Molecules, Thin Films, and Organic Heterojunctions of Substituted Phthalocyanines

    D. Schlettwein;K. Hesse;N. E. Gruhn;P. A. Lee

  • Conduction type of substituted tetraazaporphyrins and perylene tetracarboxylic acid diimides as detected by thermoelectric power measurements

    D. Schlettwein;D. Woehrle;E. Karmann;U. Melville

  • Photochemical stability of various porphyrins in solution and as thin film electrodes

    Abdol Khezer Sobbi;Dieter Wöhrle;Derck Schlettwein

  • LiPON thin films with high nitrogen content for application in lithium batteries and electrochromic devices prepared by RF magnetron sputtering

    Yurong Su;Jane Falgenhauer;Angelika Polity;Thomas Leichtweiß

  • Light-induced dioxygen reduction at thin film electrodes of various porphyrins

    D. Schlettwein;M. Kaneko;A. Yamada;D. Woehrle

  • Adsorption and two-dimensional phases of a large polar molecule: Sub-phthalocyanine on Ag(111)

    S. Berner;M. de Wild;L. Ramoino;S. Ivan

  • Fluorinated phthalocyanines as molecular semiconductor thin films

    H. Brinkmann;C. Kelting;S. Makarov;O. Tsaryova

  • Ultrathin Films of Perylenedianhydride and Perylenebis(dicarboximide) Dyes on (001) Alkali Halide Surfaces

    D. Schlettwein;A. Back;B. Schilling;T. Fritz

  • Redox mediation enabled by immobilised centres in the pores of a metal-organic framework grown by liquid phase epitaxy

    André Dragässer;Osama Shekhah;Olexandra Zybaylo;Cai Shen

  • Cathodic Electrodeposition of ZnO/EosinY Hybrid Thin Films from Dye Added Zinc Nitrate Bath and Their Photoelectrochemical Characterizations

    Tsukasa Yoshida;Torsten Oekermann;Kenji Okabe;Derek Schlettwein

  • Influence of surface reactions and ionization gradients on junction properties of F16PcZn

    Stefan Hiller;Derck Schlettwein;Derck Schlettwein;Neal R. Armstrong;Dieter Wöhrle

  • Correlation of frontier orbital positions and conduction type of molecular semiconductors as derived from UPS in combination with electrical and photoelectrochemical experiments

    D. Schlettwein;N. R. Armstrong

  • Photoelectrochemical sensitisation of ZnO–tetrasulfophthalocyaninatozinc composites prepared by electrochemical self-assembly

    D Schlettwein;T Oekermann;T Yoshida;M Tochimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Wöhrle
Dieter Wöhrle University of Bremen
Tsukasa Yoshida
Tsukasa Yoshida Yamagata University
Neal R. Armstrong
Neal R. Armstrong University of Arizona
Tebello Nyokong
Tebello Nyokong Rhodes University
Mats Andersson
Mats Andersson Flinders University
Bruno K. Meyer
Bruno K. Meyer University of Giessen
Gunther Wittstock
Gunther Wittstock Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Wolfram Jaegermann
Wolfram Jaegermann Technical University of Darmstadt
Michael Wark
Michael Wark Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thomas A. Jung
Thomas A. Jung Paul Scherrer Institute

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