2026 Stefan Hecht: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	81	2551	2462	147	140	323	27778
Chemistry	85	2640	2381	196	179	339	29867

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Stefan Hecht is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover a diverse range of areas:

Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
2D Materials and Applications

Hecht is a frequent contributor to several prominent academic journals and publication venues. The top venues for their work include:

Advanced Materials (13 publications)
Journal of the American Chemical Society (8 publications)
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (7 publications)
Angewandte Chemie (7 publications)
Chemistry - A European Journal (6 publications)

The scientist has collaborated with multiple researchers on recurring projects. Notable frequent co-authors include:

Paolo Samorí (11 joint publications)
Yves Garmshausen (9 joint publications)
Martin Herder (8 joint publications)
Dragos Mutruc (6 joint publications)
Lars Heinke (6 joint publications)

Recent selected publications by Stefan Hecht illustrate the range and impact of their contributions:

"Enlightening Materials with Photoswitches" (2020, Advanced Materials)
"Xolography for linear volumetric 3D printing" (2020, Nature)
"Covalent on-surface polymerization" (2020, Nature Chemistry)
"Multiresponsive Nonvolatile Memories Based on Optically Switchable Ferroelectric Organic Field-Effect Transistors" (2021, Advanced Materials)
"Donor-Acceptor Dihydropyrenes Switchable with Near-Infrared Light" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

In 2020, Stefan Hecht was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea, signifying an acknowledgment by a European, multidisciplinary academy of scholars.

Best Publications

Nano-architectures by covalent assembly of molecular building blocks

Leonhard Grill;Matthew Dyer;Leif Lafferentz;Mats Persson

1523
Citations
Dendritic Encapsulation of Function: Applying Nature's Site Isolation Principle from Biomimetics to Materials Science.

Stefan Hecht;Jean M. J. Fréchet

1325
Citations
Photoswitches: From Molecules to Materials

Maria-Melanie Russew;Stefan Hecht

1151
Citations
Multivalency as a chemical organization and action principle.

Carlo Fasting;Christoph A. Schalley;Marcus Weber;Oliver Seitz

1067
Citations
o-Fluoroazobenzenes as Readily Synthesized Photoswitches Offering Nearly Quantitative Two-Way Isomerization with Visible Light

David Bléger;Jutta Schwarz;Albert M. Brouwer;Stefan Hecht

910
Citations
Visible-Light-Activated Molecular Switches.

David Bléger;Stefan Hecht

818
Citations
Electric field-induced isomerization of azobenzene by STM

Micol Alemani;Maike V. Peters;Stefan Hecht;Karl-Heinz Rieder

712
Citations
Foldamers : structure, properties, and applications

Stefan Hecht;Ivan Huc;François Diederich

653
Citations
Controlling on-surface polymerization by hierarchical and substrate-directed growth

Leif Lafferentz;Leif Lafferentz;V. Eberhardt;C. Dri;C. Africh

590
Citations
Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length

Leif Lafferentz;Francisco Ample;Hao Yu;Stefan Hecht

589
Citations
Enlightening Materials with Photoswitches

Alexis Goulet-Hanssens;Alexis Goulet-Hanssens;Alexis Goulet-Hanssens;Fabian Eisenreich;Fabian Eisenreich;Fabian Eisenreich;Stefan Hecht;Stefan Hecht;Stefan Hecht

515
Citations
Xolography for linear volumetric 3D printing

Martin Regehly;Yves Garmshausen;Marcus Reuter;Niklas F. König

475
Citations
ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: visible light switches with very long-lived Z isomers

Christopher Knie;Manuel Utecht;Fangli Zhao;Hannes Kulla

440
Citations
A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

Kamlesh Kumar;Christopher Knie;David Bléger;Mark A. Peletier

437
Citations
Artificial light-gated catalyst systems.

Ragnar S. Stoll;Stefan Hecht

409
Citations
Remote-controlling chemical reactions by light: Towards chemistry with high spatio-temporal resolution

Robert Göstl;Antti Senf;Stefan Hecht

400
Citations
Improving the fatigue resistance of diarylethene switches.

Martin Herder;Bernd M Schmidt;Lutz Grubert;Michael Pätzel

398
Citations
Biosynthesis of terpenoids: YgbB protein converts 4-diphosphocytidyl-2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2-phosphate to 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate.

Stefan Herz;Juraithip Wungsintaweekul;Christoph A. Schuhr;Stefan Hecht

383
Citations
Flexible non-volatile optical memory thin-film transistor device with over 256 distinct levels based on an organic bicomponent blend

Tim Leydecker;Martin Herder;Egon Pavlica;Gvido Bratina

370
Citations
Covalent on-surface polymerization

Leonhard Grill;Stefan Hecht

346
Citations
Biosynthesis of terpenoids: YchB protein of Escherichia coli phosphorylates the 2-hydroxy group of 4-diphosphocytidyl-2C-methyl-D-erythritol.

Holger Lüttgen;Felix Rohdich;Stefan Herz;Juraithip Wungsintaweekul

336
Citations