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Roel van de Krol publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roel van de Krol sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 172 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Roel van de Krol D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roel van de Krol sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roel van de Krol is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie in Germany. Their research encompasses multiple disciplines primarily within materials science, energy, and engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in the subfields of materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering. Their work focuses on topics including advanced photocatalysis techniques, electronic and structural properties of oxides, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, and hybrid renewable energy systems.

Roel van de Krol has contributed to a number of papers in well-regarded publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Solar RRL

Some recent papers authored by or involving Roel van de Krol include:

  • Protonated Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Understanding the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Kinetics of Electrodeposited Nickel-Molybdenum in Acidic, Near-Neutral, and Alkaline Conditions, 2020, ChemElectroChem
  • Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Host, Suppressor, and Promoter-The Roles of Ni and Fe on Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity and Stability of NiFe Alloy Thin Films in Alkaline Media, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Low-bias photoelectrochemical water splitting via mediating trap states and small polaron hopping, 2022, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Roel van de Krol has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors. These include Fatwa F. Abdi, Dennis Friedrich, Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Marco Favaro, and Peter Bogdanoff, with collaboration counts ranging notably from 15 to 52 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Semiconducting materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion

    Kevin Sivula;Roel van de Krol

  • Efficient solar water splitting by enhanced charge separation in a bismuth vanadate-silicon tandem photoelectrode

    Fatwa F. Abdi;Lihao Han;Arno H. M. Smets;Miro Zeman

  • Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

    Roel van de Krol;Michael Grätzel

  • Solar hydrogen production with nanostructured metal oxides

    Roel van de Krol;Yongqi Liang;Joop Schoonman

  • Unravelling the mechanism of photoinduced charge transfer processes in lead iodide perovskite solar cells

    Arianna Marchioro;Joël Teuscher;Dennis Friedrich;Marinus Kunst

  • The Origin of Slow Carrier Transport in BiVO4 Thin Film Photoanodes: A Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity Study

    Fatwa F. Abdi;Tom J. Savenije;Matthias M. May;Bernard Dam

  • Nature and Light Dependence of Bulk Recombination in Co-Pi-Catalyzed BiVO4 Photoanodes

    Fatwa F. Abdi;Roel van de Krol

  • Photocurrent of BiVO4 is limited by surface recombination, not surface catalysis

    Carolin Zachäus;Fatwa F. Abdi;Laurence M. Peter;Roel van de Krol

  • Water‐Splitting Catalysis and Solar Fuel Devices: Artificial Leaves on the Move

    Khurram Saleem Joya;Yasir F. Joya;Kasim Ocakoglu;Roel van de Krol

  • Highly Improved Quantum Efficiencies for Thin Film BiVO4 Photoanodes

    Yongqi Liang;Toshiki Tsubota;Lennard P. A. Mooij;Roel van de Krol

  • Efficient BiVO4 Thin Film Photoanodes Modified with Cobalt Phosphate Catalyst and W‐doping

    Fatwa F. Abdi;Nienke Firet;Roel van de Krol;Roel van de Krol

  • Protonated Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Jin Yang;Amitava Acharjya;Meng-Yang Ye;Jabor Rabeah

  • Comprehensive Evaluation of CuBi2O4 as a Photocathode Material for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

    Sean P. Berglund;Fatwa F. Abdi;Peter Bogdanoff;Abdelkrim Chemseddine

  • Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies

    Shane Ardo;David Fernandez Rivas;Miguel A. Modestino;Verena Schulze Greiving

  • Hetero-type dual photoanodes for unbiased solar water splitting with extended light harvesting.

    Jin Hyun Kim;Ji-Wook Jang;Ji-Wook Jang;Yim Hyun Jo;Fatwa F. Abdi

  • Understanding the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Kinetics of Electrodeposited Nickel-Molybdenum in Acidic, Near-Neutral, and Alkaline Conditions

    Fuxi Bao;Erno Kemppainen;Iris Dorbandt;Radu Bors

  • A Bismuth Vanadate–Cuprous Oxide Tandem Cell for Overall Solar Water Splitting

    Pauline Bornoz;Fatwa F. Abdi;Fatwa F. Abdi;S. David Tilley;Bernard Dam

  • Selective photoreduction of nitric oxide to nitrogen by nanostructured TiO2 photocatalysts: role of oxygen vacancies and iron dopant.

    Qingping Wu;Roel van de Krol

  • Mott-Schottky analysis of nanometer-scale thin-film anatase TiO2

    R. van de Krol;A. Goossens;J. Schoonman

  • Gradient Self-Doped CuBi2O4 with Highly Improved Charge Separation Efficiency

    Fuxian Wang;Wilman Septina;Abdelkrim Chemseddine;Fatwa F. Abdi

  • In Situ X‐Ray Diffraction of Lithium Intercalation in Nanostructured and Thin Film Anatase TiO2

    Roel van de Krol;Albert Goossens;Eric A. Meulenkamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Dam
Bernard Dam Delft University of Technology
Joop Schoonman
Joop Schoonman Delft University of Technology
Ji-Wook Jang
Ji-Wook Jang Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Arno H. M. Smets
Arno H. M. Smets Delft University of Technology
Miro Zeman
Miro Zeman Delft University of Technology
Hongqiang Wang
Hongqiang Wang National University of Defense Technology
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Kevin Sivula
Kevin Sivula École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bernd Stannowski
Bernd Stannowski Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Daniel Abou-Ras
Daniel Abou-Ras Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

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