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Johan Hofkens

Johan Hofkens

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Chemistry
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
40785
World Ranking
681
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Johan Hofkens is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research output spans a variety of subfields, notably Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics

Johan Hofkens has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Maarten B. J. Roeffaers
  • Feili Lai
  • Elke Debroye
  • Julian A. Steele
  • Susana Rocha

The scientist has published in multiple research venues with a focus on materials and physical chemistry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Nano

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Johan Hofkens are:

  • State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Tuning the Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Cs2AgBiBr6 Double-Perovskite Single Crystals through Alkali-Metal Substitution, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Solar-Driven Metal Halide Perovskite Photocatalysis: Design, Stability, and Performance, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • Direct Z-Scheme Heterojunction of Semicoherent FAPbBr3/Bi2WO6 Interface for Photoredox Reaction with Large Driving Force, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Edge stabilization in reduced-dimensional perovskites, 2020, Nature Communications

In recognition of contributions to science, Johan Hofkens was named Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2017 and elected Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals.

    Amrita Dey;Junzhi Ye;Apurba De;Elke Debroye

  • Dopant-induced electron localization drives CO 2 reduction to C 2 hydrocarbons

    Yansong Zhou;Yansong Zhou;Fanglin Che;Min Liu;Min Liu;Chengqin Zou

  • The Rylene Colorant Family—Tailored Nanoemitters for Photonics Research and Applications

    Tanja Weil;Tom Vosch;Johan Hofkens;Kalina Peneva

  • Iron(III)-based metal-organic frameworks as visible light photocatalysts.

    Katrien G. M. Laurier;Frederik Vermoortele;Rob Ameloot;Dirk E. De Vos

  • Thermal unequilibrium of strained black CsPbI3 thin films

    Julian A. Steele;Handong Jin;Iurii Dovgaliuk;Robert F. Berger

  • Tuning the Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Cs(2)AgBiBr(6)Double-Perovskite Single Crystals through Alkali-Metal Substitution

    Masoumeh Keshavarz;Elke Debroye;Martin Ottesen;Cristina Martin;Cristina Martin

  • Reversible single-molecule photoswitching in the GFP-like fluorescent protein Dronpa

    Satoshi Habuchi;Ryoko Ando;Peter Dedecker;Wendy Verheijen

  • Solar-Driven Metal Halide Perovskite Photocatalysis: Design, Stability, and Performance

    Haowei Huang;Bapi Pradhan;Johan Hofkens;Maarten B. J. Roeffaers

  • It's a trap! On the nature of localised states and charge trapping in lead halide perovskites

    Handong Jin;Elke Debroye;Masoumeh Keshavarz;Ivan G. Scheblykin

  • Fluorescence lifetime standards for time and frequency domain fluorescence spectroscopy

    Noël Boens;Wenwu Qin;Nikola Basarić;Johan Hofkens

  • Spatially resolved observation of crystal-face-dependent catalysis by single turnover counting

    Maarten B. J. Roeffaers;Bert F. Sels;Hiroshi Uji-i;Frans C. De Schryver

  • Perovskite seeding growth of formamidinium-lead-iodide-based perovskites for efficient and stable solar cells.

    Yicheng Zhao;Yicheng Zhao;Hairen Tan;Haifeng Yuan;Haifeng Yuan;Zhenyu Yang

  • Bandgap opening in oxygen plasma-treated graphene.

    Amirhasan Nourbakhsh;Mirco Cantoro;Tom Vosch;Geoffrey Pourtois

  • Stretched exponential decay and correlations in the catalytic activity of fluctuating single lipase molecules

    Ophir Flomenbom;Kelly Velonia;Davey Loos;Sadahiro Masuo

  • Handbook of fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging : from single molecules to ensembles

    Markus Sauer;Johan Hofkens;Jörg Enderlein

  • Auto-production of biosurfactants reverses the coffee ring effect in a bacterial system

    Wouter Sempels;Raf De Dier;Hideaki Mizuno;Johan Hofkens

  • Energy dissipation in multichromophoric single dendrimers

    F. C. De Schryver;T. Vosch;M. Cotlet;M. Van der Auweraer

  • An experimental comparison of the maximum likelihood estimation and nonlinear least-squares fluorescence lifetime analysis of single molecules.

    M Maus;M Cotlet;J Hofkens;T Gensch

  • Degradation of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Structures through Light and Electron Beam Driven Ion Migration.

    Haifeng Yuan;Elke Debroye;Kris P F Janssen;Hiroyuki Naiki

  • Probing Photophysical Processes in Individual Multichromophoric Dendrimers by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

    Johan Hofkens;Michael Maus;Thomas Gensch;Tom Vosch

  • Iron(III)-Based MetalOrganic Frameworks As Visible Light Photocatalysts

    Katrien G. M. Laurier;Frederik Vermoortele;Rob Ameloot;Dirk E. De Vos

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Uji-i
Hiroshi Uji-i KU Leuven
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Tom Vosch
Tom Vosch University of Copenhagen
Bert F. Sels
Bert F. Sels KU Leuven
Dirk De Vos
Dirk De Vos KU Leuven
Mircea Cotlet
Mircea Cotlet Brookhaven National Laboratory
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University

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