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D-Index
52
Citations
8944
World Ranking
13578
National Ranking
1000

Jan K. G. Dhont publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jan K. G. Dhont sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 187 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Jan K. G. Dhont D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jan K. G. Dhont sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jan K. G. Dhont is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with a particular emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Food Science.

The scientific contributions of Jan K. G. Dhont cover several main topics, including:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems

Dhont has published extensively in a number of scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Soft Matter (5 publications)
  • Nature Communications (1 publication)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (1 publication)
  • Small (1 publication)
  • ACS Nano (1 publication)

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Self assembling cluster crystals from DNA based dendritic nanostructures, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Self-Assembly of All-DNA Rods with Controlled Patchiness, 2021, Small
  • DNA Self-Assembly Mediated by Programmable Soft-Patchy Interactions, 2020, ACS Nano
  • The Effects of Electric Fields on Protein Phase Behavior and Protein Crystallization Kinetics, 2024, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Anisotropic dynamics of magnetic colloidal cubes studied by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, 2021, Physical Review Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jan K. G. Dhont include:

  • Kyongok Kang
  • Gerhard Nägele
  • W. J. Briels
  • Emmanuel Stiakakis
  • Emmanuel Kentzinger

The body of work by Dhont spans interdisciplinary approaches that intersect chemistry, physics, and biology to explore complex self-assembly processes and interactions in materials and biological systems.

Best Publications

  • Experimental Phase Diagram of a Binary Colloidal Hard-Sphere Mixture with a Large Size Ratio

    A. Imhof;J. K. G. Dhont

  • Phase Diagram of a Model Adhesive Hard-Sphere Dispersion

    Henk Verduin;Jan K.G. Dhont

  • Long‐time self‐diffusion of spherical colloidal particles measured with fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

    A. van Blaaderen;J. Peetermans;G. Maret;J. K. G. Dhont

  • Thermodiffusion of charged colloids: single-particle diffusion.

    Jan K. G. Dhont;S. Wiegand;S. Duhr;D. Braun

  • Gradient and vorticity banding

    Jan K.G. Dhont;Willem J. Briels

  • Depletion-Induced Phase Separation of Aggregated Whey Protein Colloids by an Exocellular Polysaccharide

    R Remco Tuinier;Jkg Dhont;CG de Kruif

  • A time resolved static light scattering study on nucleation and crystallization in a colloidal system

    Jan K.G Dhont;Carla Smits;Henk N.W Lekkerkerker

  • Light scattering of colloidal dispersions in non-polar solvents at finite concentrations. Silic spheres as model particles for hard-sphere interactions

    A. Vrij;J. W. Jansen;J. K. G. Dhont;C. Pathmamanoharan

  • On the calculation of the self-diffusion coefficient of interacting Brownian particles

    H. N. W. Lekkerkerker;J. K. G. Dhont

  • A constitutive relation describing the shear-banding transition.

    Jan K. G. Dhont

  • Viscoelasticity of suspensions of long, rigid rods

    Jan K.G. Dhont;Willem J. Briels

  • Fluid-fluid phase separation in colloid-polymer mixtures studied with small angle light scattering and light microscopy

    Nynke A.M. Verhaegh;Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt;Jan K.G. Dhont;Henk N.W. Lekkerkerker

  • Rheology and structural arrest of casein suspensions.

    Louisa Dahbi;M. Alexander;Véronique Trappe;J.K.G. Dhont

  • A comparison between the long-time self-diffusion and low shear viscosity of concentrated dispersions of charged colloidal silica spheres

    A. Imhof;A. van Blaaderen;G. Maret;J. Mellema

  • Thermodiffusion of interacting colloids. I. A statistical thermodynamics approach

    Jan K. G. Dhont

  • Anisotropy of Brownian motion caused only by hydrodynamic interaction with a wall.

    Peter Holmqvist;Jan K. G. Dhont;Peter R. Lang

  • ‘‘Aging’’ of the structure of crystals of hard colloidal spheres

    Willem K. Kegel;Jan K. G. Dhont

  • Morphology and Kinetics of the Isotropic−Nematic Phase Transition in Dispersions of Hard Rods

    M. P. B. van Bruggen;J. K. G. Dhont;H. N. W. Lekkerkerker

  • Colloidal dynamics near a wall studied by evanescent wave light scattering: Experimental and theoretical improvements and methodological limitations

    Peter Holmqvist;Jan K. G. Dhont;Peter R. Lang

  • Attractive colloidal rods in shear flow.

    M. Ripoll;P. Holmqvist;R. G. Winkler;G. Gompper

  • Electric-field induced transitions in suspensions of charged colloidal rods

    Kyongok Kang;Jan K. G. Dhont

  • Cooperative diffusion in colloidal mixtures

    G. Nägele;J. Bergenholtz;J. K. G. Dhont

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker
Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker Utrecht University
Arnout Imhof
Arnout Imhof Utrecht University
Gerhard Gompper
Gerhard Gompper Forschungszentrum Jülich
Albert P. Philipse
Albert P. Philipse Utrecht University
Jan Vermant
Jan Vermant ETH Zurich
C. G. de Kruif
C. G. de Kruif Utrecht University
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Dieter Richter
Dieter Richter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Peter Schurtenberger
Peter Schurtenberger Lund University
Matthias Wessling
Matthias Wessling RWTH Aachen University

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