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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
109
Citations
41842
World Ranking
937
National Ranking
569

Materials Science

D-Index
113
Citations
42228
World Ranking
639
National Ranking
227

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
44775
World Ranking
676
National Ranking
279

Physics

D-Index
111
Citations
43215
World Ranking
1131
National Ranking
600

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of quantum chemistry computational methods for the design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy.
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her pioneering development and applications of abinitio methods to energetics, kinetics and dynamics studies of surface reactions
  • 1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Emily A. Carter is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected scientific fields, including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and environmental science, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and catalysis.

The scientist's most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Theory and Simulations
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emily A. Carter are:

  • John Mark P. Martirez
  • Hossein Robatjazi
  • Peter Nordlander
  • Naomi J. Halas
  • Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Emily A. Carter include:

  • Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts, 2020, Nature Energy
  • DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Earth-abundant photocatalyst for H 2 generation from NH 3 with light-emitting diode illumination, 2022, Science
  • Factors Governing Oxygen Vacancy Formation in Oxide Perovskites, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Facet-Independent Oxygen Evolution Activity of Pure β-NiOOH: Different Chemistries Leading to Similar Overpotentials, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Emily A. Carter has received multiple awards and professional recognitions, including:

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2020
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2016, for development of quantum chemistry computational methods for the design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2014
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1998, cited for pioneering development and applications of ab initio methods to energetics, kinetics and dynamics studies of surface reactions
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1993

Best Publications

  • The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

    Cameron Hepburn;Ella Adlen;John Beddington;Emily A. Carter;Emily A. Carter

  • Hot Electrons Do the Impossible: Plasmon-Induced Dissociation of H2 on Au

    Shaunak Mukherjee;Florian Libisch;Nicolas Large;Oara Neumann

  • Constrained reaction coordinate dynamics for the simulation of rare events

    E.A. Carter;Giovanni Ciccotti;Giovanni Ciccotti;James T. Hynes;Raymond Kapral

  • Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis

    Linan Zhou;Dayne F. Swearer;Chao Zhang;Hossein Robatjazi

  • Oligoacenes: Theoretical Prediction of Open-Shell Singlet Diradical Ground States

    Michael Bendikov;Hieu M. Duong;Kyle Starkey;K. N. Houk

  • Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts

    Linan Zhou;John Mark P. Martirez;John Mark P. Martirez;Jordan Finzel;Chao Zhang

  • Diffusion of interstitial hydrogen into and through bcc Fe from first principles

    D. E. Jiang;Emily A. Carter

  • Water Oxidation on Pure and Doped Hematite (0001) Surfaces: Prediction of Co and Ni as Effective Dopants for Electrocatalysis

    Peilin Liao;John A. Keith;Emily A. Carter

  • Theoretical Insights into Heterogeneous (Photo)electrochemical CO2 Reduction

    Shenzhen Xu;Emily Ann Carter

  • Carbon dissolution and diffusion in ferrite and austenite from first principles

    D. E. Jiang;Emily A. Carter

  • Heterometallic antenna-reactor complexes for photocatalysis

    Dayne F. Swearer;Hangqi Zhao;Linan Zhou;Chao Zhang

  • First principles scheme to evaluate band edge positions in potential transition metal oxide photocatalysts and photoelectrodes

    Maytal Caspary Toroker;Dalal K. Kanan;Nima Alidoust;Leah Y. Isseroff

  • Solvation dynamics for an ion pair in a polar solvent: Time‐dependent fluorescence and photochemical charge transfer

    Emily A. Carter;James T. Hynes

  • First principles study of the surfaces of Zirconia

    Asbjørn Christensen;Emily A. Carter

  • A quantum-mechanically informed continuum model of hydrogen embrittlement

    S. Serebrinsky;E. A. Carter;M. Ortiz

  • Aluminum Nanocrystals as a Plasmonic Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Dissociation

    Linan Zhou;Chao Zhang;Michael J. McClain;Alejandro Manjavacas

  • Rotationally invariant ab initio evaluation of Coulomb and exchange parameters for DFT+U calculations

    Nicholas J. Mosey;Peilin Liao;Emily A. Carter

  • Relation between singlet-triplet gaps and bond energies

    Emily A. Carter;William A. Goddard

  • Mechanistic Contrasts between Manganese and Rhenium Bipyridine Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

    Christoph Riplinger;Matthew D. Sampson;Andrew M. Ritzmann;Clifford P. Kubiak

  • Orbital-free kinetic-energy density functionals with a density-dependent kernel

    Yan Alexander Wang;Niranjan Govind;Emily A. Carter

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Pavone
Michele Pavone University of Naples Federico II
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Peter Nordlander
Peter Nordlander Rice University
De-en Jiang
De-en Jiang Vanderbilt University
Michael Ortiz
Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology
Houlong L. Zhuang
Houlong L. Zhuang Arizona State University
Todd J. Martínez
Todd J. Martínez Stanford University
Naomi J. Halas
Naomi J. Halas Rice University
Yiguang Ju
Yiguang Ju Princeton University
Lin-Wang Wang
Lin-Wang Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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