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Cristiana Di Valentin

Cristiana Di Valentin

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
68
Citations
20549
World Ranking
4774
National Ranking
63

Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
20941
World Ranking
5772
National Ranking
120

Cristiana Di Valentin 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 Cristiana Di Valentin sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 190 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cristiana Di Valentin 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 Cristiana Di Valentin sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Cristiana Di Valentin is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in materials science, engineering, and energy. Their work spans several specialized fields including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's research covers a broad range of topics with notable focus areas including:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Molecular junctions and nanostructures
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Catalytic processes in materials science
  • Nanoparticle-based drug delivery
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Cristiana Di Valentin are:

  • "Operando visualization of the hydrogen evolution reaction with atomic-scale precision at different metal-graphene interfaces," 2021, published in Nature Catalysis
  • "Copper single-atoms embedded in 2D graphitic carbon nitride for the CO2 reduction," 2021, published in npj 2D Materials and Applications
  • "Single Atom Catalysts (SAC) trapped in defective and nitrogen-doped graphene supported on metal substrates," 2020, published in Carbon
  • "Improving the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Fe3O4(001) with Single-Atom Catalysts," 2023, published in ACS Catalysis
  • "'Inside out' growth method for high-quality nitrogen-doped graphene," 2020, published in Carbon

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Nanoscale
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Carbon
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Cristiana Di Valentin has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with a notable number of joint publications alongside:

  • Daniele Perilli
  • Paulo Siani
  • Edoardo Donadoni
  • Aldo Ugolotti
  • Giulia Frigerio

Best Publications

  • Visible-light activation of TiO2 photocatalysts: Advances in theory and experiments

    Vinodkumar Etacheri;Vinodkumar Etacheri;Cristiana Di Valentin;Jenny Schneider;Detlef Bahnemann;Detlef Bahnemann

  • Characterization of paramagnetic species in N-doped TiO2 powders by EPR spectroscopy and DFT calculations.

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni;Stefano Livraghi

  • N-doped TiO2: Theory and experiment

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Emanuele Finazzi;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Origin of photoactivity of nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide under visible light.

    Stefano Livraghi;Maria Cristina Paganini;Elio Giamello;Annabella Selloni

  • Electronic Structure of Defect States in Hydroxylated and Reduced Rutile TiO 2 ( 110 ) Surfaces

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Theory of Carbon Doping of Titanium Dioxide

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Reduced and n-Type Doped TiO2: Nature of Ti3+ Species

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Excess electron states in reduced bulk anatase TiO2: Comparison of standard GGA, GGA+U, and hybrid DFT calculations

    Emanuele Finazzi;Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Origin of the different photoactivity of N -doped anatase and rutile TiO 2

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Theoretical studies on anatase and less common TiO2 phases: bulk, surfaces, and nanomaterials.

    Filippo De Angelis;Cristiana Di Valentin;Simona Fantacci;Andrea Vittadini

  • The Nature of Defects in Fluorine-Doped TiO2

    Am Czoska;S Livraghi;M Chiesa;E Giamello

  • Trends in non-metal doping of anatase TiO2: B, C, N and F

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of WO3: A Systematic Hybrid DFT Study

    Fenggong Wang;Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni

  • Bulk and Surface Polarons in Photoexcited Anatase TiO2

    Cristiana Di Valentin;Annabella Selloni

  • Doping of WO3 for Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Hints from Density Functional Theory

    Fenggong Wang;Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni

  • Paramagnetic Defects in Polycrystalline Zirconia: An EPR and DFT Study

    Chiara Gionco;Maria Cristina Paganini;Elio Giamello;Robertson Burgess

  • Density Functional Theory and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study on the Effect of N−F Codoping of TiO2

    C. Di Valentin;E. Finazzi;G. Pacchioni;Annabella Selloni

  • Electronic structure and phase stability of oxide semiconductors: Performance of dielectric-dependent hybrid functional DFT, benchmarked against G W band structure calculations and experiments

    Matteo Gerosa;Carlo Enrico Bottani;Lucia Caramella;Giovanni Onida

  • Boron-Doped Anatase TiO2: Pure and Hybrid DFT Calculations

    Emanuele Finazzi;Cristiana Di Valentin;Gianfranco Pacchioni

  • Single and Multiple Doping in Graphene Quantum Dots: Unraveling the Origin of Selectivity in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Marco Favaro;Lara Ferrighi;Gianluca Fazio;Luciano Colazzo

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianfranco Pacchioni
Gianfranco Pacchioni University of Milano-Bicocca
Elio Giamello
Elio Giamello University of Turin
Annabella Selloni
Annabella Selloni Princeton University
Livia Giordano
Livia Giordano University of Milano-Bicocca
Maria Cristina Paganini
Maria Cristina Paganini University of Turin
Carlo Enrico Bottani
Carlo Enrico Bottani Polytechnic University of Milan
Stefano Agnoli
Stefano Agnoli University of Padua
Hans-Joachim Freund
Hans-Joachim Freund Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Francesc Illas
Francesc Illas University of Barcelona

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