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Andrew A. Peterson

Andrew A. Peterson

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Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
24593
World Ranking
14622
National Ranking
3735

Overview

Andrew A. Peterson is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans key areas within engineering and materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their work also covers renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and electrochemistry.

Their scholarly output focuses on several main topics, including machine learning in materials science, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, electrochemical analysis and applications, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies. Additional areas of research involve fuel cells and related materials, nanoparticles nucleation and surface interactions, and catalytic processes in materials science.

Andrew A. Peterson has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed papers in prestigious venues. Recent notable publications include:

  • GPAW: An open Python package for electronic structure calculations, 2024, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Anisotropic Strain Tuning of L10 Ternary Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Career in Catalysis: Jens Kehlet Nørskov, 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • On the Coupling of Electron Transfer to Proton Transfer at Electrified Interfaces, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Ordered CoPt oxygen reduction catalyst with high performance and durability, 2022, Chem Catalysis

Their frequent collaborators include researchers such as Andrew J. Medford, Georg Kastlunger, Cheng Zeng, C. Franklin Goldsmith, and Ju Ye Kim.

Their work has been frequently published in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Catalysis Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • The Atomic Simulation Environment - A Python library for working with atoms

    Ask Hjorth Larsen;Ask Hjorth Larsen;Jens Jørgen Mortensen;Jakob Blomqvist;Ivano E. Castelli

  • How copper catalyzes the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels

    Andrew Peterson;Frank Abild-Pedersen;Felix Studt;Jan Rossmeisl

  • Thermochemical biofuel production in hydrothermal media: A review of sub- and supercritical water technologies

    Andrew A. Peterson;Andrew A. Peterson;Frédéric Vogel;Russell P. Lachance;Morgan Fröling

  • Activity Descriptors for CO2 Electroreduction to Methane on Transition-Metal Catalysts

    Andrew A. Peterson;Jens K. Nørskov

  • Monodisperse Au nanoparticles for selective electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO.

    Wenlei Zhu;Ronald Michalsky;Önder Metin;Haifeng Lv

  • Active and Selective Conversion of CO2 to CO on Ultrathin Au Nanowires

    Wenlei Zhu;Yin-Jia Zhang;Hongyi Zhang;Haifeng Lv

  • Understanding Trends in the Electrocatalytic Activity of Metals and Enzymes for CO2 Reduction to CO.

    Heine A. Hansen;Heine A. Hansen;Joel B. Varley;Joel B. Varley;Andrew A. Peterson;Andrew A. Peterson;Jens K. Nørskov;Jens K. Nørskov

  • The importance of surface morphology in controlling the selectivity of polycrystalline copper for CO2 electroreduction

    Wei Tang;Andrew A. Peterson;Ana Sofia Varela;Zarko P. Jovanov

  • Structure effects on the energetics of the electrochemical reduction of CO2 by copper surfaces

    William J. Durand;Andrew A. Peterson;Andrew A. Peterson;Felix Studt;Frank Abild-Pedersen

  • Competition between CO2 Reduction and H2 Evolution on Transition-Metal Electrocatalysts

    Yin-Jia Zhang;Vijay Sethuraman;Ronald Michalsky;Andrew A. Peterson

  • Hard-Magnet L10-CoPt Nanoparticles Advance Fuel Cell Catalysis

    Junrui Li;Shubham Sharma;Xiaoming Liu;Yung-Tin Pan

  • Trends in the Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Metal Carbide Catalysts

    Ronald Michalsky;Yin-Jia Zhang;Andrew A. Peterson

  • Insights into C ? C Coupling in CO2 Electroreduction on Copper Electrodes

    Joseph H. Montoya;Andrew A. Peterson;Jens K. Nørskov;Jens K. Nørskov

  • How strain can break the scaling relations of catalysis

    Alireza Khorshidi;James Violet;Javad Hashemi;Andrew A. Peterson

  • Amp: A modular approach to machine learning in atomistic simulations☆

    Alireza Khorshidi;Andrew A. Peterson

  • Catalytic Activities of Sulfur Atoms in Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide for the Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Louisa Rui Lin Ting;Yilin Deng;Liang Ma;Yin-Jia Zhang

  • Operando Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide (MoSx) during the Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Identification of Sulfur Atoms as Catalytically Active Sites for H+ Reduction

    Yilin Deng;Louisa Rui Lin Ting;Perlin Hui Lin Neo;Yin-Jia Zhang

  • Chemical looping of metal nitride catalysts: low-pressure ammonia synthesis for energy storage

    Ronald Michalsky;Ronald Michalsky;Ronald Michalsky;Alexandru M. Avram;Brian A. Peterson;Peter H. Pfromm

  • Controlled-Potential Simulation of Elementary Electrochemical Reactions: Proton Discharge on Metal Surfaces

    Georg Kastlunger;Per Lindgren;Andrew A. Peterson

  • A Challenge to the G ∼ 0 Interpretation of Hydrogen Evolution

    Per Lindgren;Georg Kastlunger;Andrew A. Peterson

  • Kinetic Evidence of the Maillard Reaction in Hydrothermal Biomass Processing: Glucose−Glycine Interactions in High-Temperature, High-Pressure Water

    Andrew A. Peterson;Russell P. Lachance;Jefferson W. Tester

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Jefferson W. Tester
Jefferson W. Tester Cornell University
Shouheng Sun
Shouheng Sun Brown University
Pradeep R. Guduru
Pradeep R. Guduru Brown University
Tejs Vegge
Tejs Vegge Technical University of Denmark
Felix Studt
Felix Studt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Chuan Shi
Chuan Shi Dalian University of Technology
Kai Yan
Kai Yan Sun Yat-sen University
Maarten Nachtegaal
Maarten Nachtegaal Paul Scherrer Institute
Joshua S. Weitz
Joshua S. Weitz Georgia Institute of Technology

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