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Cynthia M. Friend

Cynthia M. Friend

Harvard University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
19106
World Ranking
5805
National Ranking
1784

Cynthia M. Friend publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cynthia M. Friend sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 406 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Cynthia M. Friend D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cynthia M. Friend sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1991 - Garvan–Olin Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Overview

Cynthia M. Friend is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a focused contribution to Materials Chemistry and related subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The scientist has made significant contributions to several main topics within their field, including:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions

Over the course of their career, Cynthia M. Friend has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent publication records showcase several papers reflecting advances in catalytic materials and nanostructures. These include:

  • "Guidelines to Achieving High Selectivity for the Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Bimetallic and Dilute Alloy Catalysts: A Review" (2020, Chemical Reviews)
  • "Dilute Alloys Based on Au, Ag, or Cu for Efficient Catalysis: From Synthesis to Active Sites" (2022, Chemical Reviews)
  • "Enhancing catalytic performance of dilute metal alloy nanomaterials" (2020, Communications Chemistry)
  • "Evolution of Metastable Structures at Bimetallic Surfaces from Microscopy and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Entropic Control of HD Exchange Rates over Dilute Pd-in-Au Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts" (2021, ACS Catalysis)

Cynthia M. Friend has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • R. J. Madix
  • Philippe Sautet
  • C. R. O'Connor
  • Kaining Duanmu
  • Joanna Aizenberg

The scientist's work has been recognized through multiple awards and honors, such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008)
  • Garvan-Olin Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS) (1991)

Best Publications

  • Nanoporous Gold Catalysts for Selective Gas-Phase Oxidative Coupling of Methanol at Low Temperature

    A. Wittstock;V. Zielasek;J. Biener;C. M. Friend

  • Heterogeneous gold-based catalysis for green chemistry: low-temperature CO oxidation and propene oxidation.

    Byoung Koun Min;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Achieving Selective and Efficient Electrocatalytic Activity for CO2 Reduction Using Immobilized Silver Nanoparticles.

    Cheonghee Kim;Hyo Sang Jeon;Hyo Sang Jeon;Taedaehyeong Eom;Michael Shincheon Jee;Michael Shincheon Jee

  • O2 Activation by Metal Surfaces: Implications for Bonding and Reactivity on Heterogeneous Catalysts

    Matthew M. Montemore;Matthijs A. van Spronsen;Robert J. Madix;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis: A Central Science for a Sustainable Future.

    Cynthia M. Friend;Bingjun Xu

  • Infrared absorption by conical silicon microstructures made in a variety of background gases using femtosecond-laser pulses

    R. Younkin;J. E. Carey;E. Mazur;J. A. Levinson

  • Dynamic restructuring drives catalytic activity on nanoporous gold-silver alloy catalysts

    Branko Zugic;Lucun Wang;Christian Heine;Dmitri N. Zakharov

  • Model studies of the desulfurization reactions on metal surfaces and in organometallic complexes

    Benjamin C. Wiegand;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Guidelines to Achieving High Selectivity for the Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Bimetallic and Dilute Alloy Catalysts: A Review.

    Mathilde Luneau;Jin Soo Lim;Dipna A. Patel;E. Charles H. Sykes

  • Enhancement of O2 dissociation on Au(111) by adsorbed oxygen: Implications for oxidation catalysis

    Xingyi Deng;Byoung Koun Min;Amado Guloy;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Role of the Background Gas in the Morphology and Optical Properties of Laser-Microstructured Silicon

    Michael A. Sheehy;Luke Winston;James E. Carey;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Selectivity Control in Gold‐Mediated Esterification of Methanol

    Bingjun Xu;Xiaoying Liu;Jan Haubrich;Robert J. Madix

  • Sequential Photo-oxidation of Methanol to Methyl Formate on TiO2(110)

    Katherine R Phillips;Stephen C Jensen;Martin Baron;Shao-Chun Li

  • Toward digitally controlled catalyst architectures: Hierarchical nanoporous gold via 3D printing

    Cheng Zhu;Zhen Qi;Victor A. Beck;Mathilde Luneau

  • Formation of regular arrays of silicon microspikes by femtosecond laser irradiation through a mask

    M. Y. Shen;C. H. Crouch;J. E. Carey;R. Younkin

  • A density functional study of clean and hydrogen-covered α-MoO3(010): Electronic structure and surface relaxation

    M. Chen;U. V. Waghmare;C. M. Friend;Efthimios Kaxiras

  • Efficient CO oxidation at low temperature on Au(111).

    B. K. Min;A. R. Alemozafar;D. Pinnaduwage;X. Deng

  • Vapour-phase gold-surface-mediated coupling of aldehydes with methanol

    Bingjun Xu;Xiaoying Liu;Jan Haubrich;Cynthia M. Friend

  • Dilute Alloys Based on Au, Ag, or Cu for Efficient Catalysis: From Synthesis to Active Sites.

    Unknown

  • Oxygen-Mediated Coupling of Alcohols over Nanoporous Gold Catalysts at Ambient Pressures

    Kathryn M. Kosuda;Arne Wittstock;Arne Wittstock;Cynthia M. Friend;Marcus Bäumer

  • Reaction of Au(111) with Sulfur and Oxygen: Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Study

    B. K. Min;A. R. Alemozafar;M. M. Biener;J. Biener;J. Biener

  • Chalcogen doping of silicon via intense femtosecond-laser irradiation

    Michael A. Sheehy;Brian R. Tull;Cynthia M. Friend;Eric Mazur

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Madix
Robert J. Madix Harvard University
Efthimios Kaxiras
Efthimios Kaxiras Harvard University
Juergen Biener
Juergen Biener Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Bingjun Xu
Bingjun Xu University of Delaware
Joanna Aizenberg
Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University
Stavros Karakalos
Stavros Karakalos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Eric A. Stach
Eric A. Stach University of Pennsylvania
Philippe Sautet
Philippe Sautet University of California, Los Angeles
Alexandre Tkatchenko
Alexandre Tkatchenko University of Luxembourg

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