Carré

dr. K. Sotthewes (Kai)

Assistant Professor
TNW-NEM-PIN
Carré C2213
k.sotthewes@utwente.nl
+31534893961
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Expertise

  • Material Science

    • Surface
    • Monolayers
    • Graphene
    • Electronic Property

  • Chemistry

    • Self Assembled Monolayer
    • Monolayer
    • Molecule

  • Physics

    • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Publications

2026

Competing effects of geometrical deformation and band bending on the electronic properties of a nanoscale Schottky junction of PdSe2 (2026)2D Materials, 13(1), 015005. Sotthewes, K., Galca, A. C., Cojocariu, I., Jugovac, M., Menteş, T. O., Szpytma, M., Hengst, A.-J. R., Locovei, C., Marinova, V., Dimitrov, D., Locatelli, A., Velea, A., Zandvliet, H. J. W. & Borca, B.https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ae1847

2025

Strong piezoelectric-like electromechanical response from single granular PMMA interface (2025)Nano Energy, 146. Article 111519. Jimidar, I. S. M., Linarts, A., Sotthewes, K., Lungevičs, J., Sherrell, P. C. & Šutka, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.111519Dry versus Wet Particle Assembly: Toward Solvent-Free Fabrication (2025)ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 17(24), 34855-34871. Jimidar, I. S. M. & Sotthewes, K.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c05262Granular Interfaces in TENGs: The Role of Close‐Packed Polymer Bead Monolayers for Energy Harvesters (2025)Small, 21(9). Article 2410155. Jimidar, I. S. M., Mālnieks, K., Sotthewes, K., Sherrell, P. C. & Šutka, A.https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202410155

2024

Navigating the Landscape of Dry Assembling Ordered Particle Structures: Can Solvents Become Obsolete? (2024)Small, 20(49). Article 2405410. Sotthewes, K. & Jimidar, I. S. M.https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202405410Molecular switching by proton-coupled electron transport drives giant negative differential resistance (2024)Nature communications, 15(1). Article 8300. Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Nickle, C., Zhang, Z., Leoncini, A., Qi, D. C., Sotthewes, K., Borrini, A., Zandvliet, H. J. W., del Barco, E., Thompson, D. & Nijhuis, C. A.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52496-ySolvent-free confinement of ordered microparticle monolayers: effect of host substrate and pattern symmetry (2024)Soft matter, 20(47), 9413-9423. Jimidar, I. S. M., de Waard, M. T. J., Roozendaal, G. & Sotthewes, K.https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM01196AStrain-induced shape transition of VSi2 clusters on Si(111) (2024)Thin solid films, 798. Article 140394. Oldenkotte, V. J. S., Vries, S. E., Smithers, M. A., Sotthewes, K. & Zandvliet, H. J. W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2024.140394Toward the Assembly of 2D Tunable Crystal Patterns of Spherical Colloids on a Wafer-Scale (2024)ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(9), 12007–12017. Sotthewes, K., Roozendaal, G., Šutka, A. & Jimidar, I. S. M.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c16830

2023

Influence of Wettability and Geometry on Contact Electrification between Nonionic Insulators (2023)ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15(35), 42004-42014. Jimidar, I. S. M., Kwiecinski, W., Roozendaal, G., Kooij, E. S., Gardeniers, H. J. G. E., Desmet, G. & Sotthewes, K.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c05729

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University of Twente

Carré (building no. 15), room C2213
Hallenweg 23
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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