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55
Citations
9632
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8674
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Kathleen J. Stebe 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 Kathleen J. Stebe sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 218 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kathleen J. Stebe 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 Kathleen J. Stebe sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For lasting contributions to the physics of fluidfluid interfaces, and in particular the discovery of surface remobilization and other sufactant phenomena, to the dynamics of drops and bubbles and to nanoparticle selfassembly

Overview

Kathleen J. Stebe is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, and Organic Chemistry.

Their work covers several main topics including Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, Micro and Nano Robotics, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and Proteins in Food Systems.

Stebe has contributed to multiple publication venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • Soft Matter
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Nano
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Langmuir

Among recent papers are:

  • Motile Bacteria at Oil-Water Interfaces: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2020, Langmuir
  • Surface Topography-Adaptive Robotic Superstructures for Biofilm Removal and Pathogen Detection on Human Teeth, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Polymer-Infiltrated Nanoparticle Films Using Capillarity-Based Techniques: Toward Multifunctional Coatings and Membranes, 2021, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Fabrication and application of bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsions gels, 2021, Applied Physics Reviews
  • Scalable Manufacturing of Bending-Induced Surface Wrinkles, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stebe include:

  • Daeyeon Lee
  • Nicholas G. Chisholm
  • Jiayi Deng
  • Ravi Radhakrishnan
  • Mehdi Molaei

Kathleen J. Stebe has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020. Earlier, in 2010, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions related to the physics of fluid-fluid interfaces, including discoveries of surface remobilization and surfactant phenomena, drop and bubble dynamics, and nanoparticle self-assembly.

Best Publications

  • Capillary interactions between anisotropic particles

    Lorenzo Botto;Eric P. Lewandowski;Marcello Cavallaro;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Curvature-driven capillary migration and assembly of rod-like particles

    Marcello Cavallaro;Lorenzo Botto;Eric P. Lewandowski;Marisa Wang

  • Relationship between Absorbance Spectra and Particle Size Distributions for Quantum-Sized Nanocrystals

    Noshir S. Pesika;Kathleen J. Stebe;Peter C. Searson

  • Patterning of small particles by a surfactant-enhanced Marangoni-Bénard instability

    Van X. Nguyen;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Tip streaming from a drop in the presence of surfactants.

    Charles D. Eggleton;Tse-Min Tsai;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Catalytic antimicrobial robots for biofilm eradication.

    Geelsu Hwang;Amauri J. Paula;Amauri J. Paula;Elizabeth E. Hunter;Yuan Liu

  • Assembly of colloidal particles by evaporation on surfaces with patterned hydrophobicity.

    Fengqiu Fan;Kathleen J Stebe

  • Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials

    Kathleen J. Stebe;Eric Lewandowski;Moniraj Ghosh

  • Nanoparticles at fluid interfaces: exploiting capping ligands to control adsorption, stability and dynamics.

    Valeria Garbin;John C. Crocker;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Influence of surfactants on an evaporating drop: Fluorescence images and particle deposition patterns

    Van Nguyen Truskett;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Determination of the particle size distribution of quantum nanocrystals from absorbance spectra

    Noshir S. Pesika;Kathleen J. Stebe;Peter C. Searson

  • Orientation and self-assembly of cylindrical particles by anisotropic capillary interactions.

    Eric P. Lewandowski;Marcello Cavallaro;Marcello Cavallaro;Lorenzo Botto;Jorge C. Bernate

  • The Reduction in Electroporation Voltages by the Addition of a Surfactant to Planar Lipid Bilayers

    Gregory C. Troiano;Leslie Tung;Vinod Sharma;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Insoluble surfactants on a drop in an extensional flow: a generalization of the stagnated surface limit to deforming interfaces

    Charles D. Eggleton;Yashodhara P. Pawar;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Remobilizing surfactant retarded fluid particle interfaces. I. Stress‐free conditions at the interfaces of micellar solutions of surfactants with fast sorption kinetics

    Kathleen J. Stebe;Shi‐Yow Lin;Charles Maldarelli

  • Chemotaxis of Cell Populations through Confined Spaces at Single-Cell Resolution

    Zi Qiu Tong;Eric M. Balzer;Matthew R. Dallas;Wei Chien Hung

  • Spontaneous pattern formation by dip coating of colloidal suspensions on homogeneous surfaces.

    Moniraj Ghosh;Fengqiu Fan;Kathleen J. Stebe

  • Continuous Fabrication of Hierarchical and Asymmetric Bijel Microparticles, Fibers, and Membranes by Solvent Transfer-Induced Phase Separation (STRIPS).

    Martin F. Haase;Kathleen J. Stebe;Daeyeon Lee

  • Poloxamer 188 decreases susceptibility of artificial lipid membranes to electroporation.

    Vinod Sharma;Kathleen Stebe;John C. Murphy;Leslie Tung

  • Multifunctional nanocomposite hollow fiber membranes by solvent transfer induced phase separation.

    Martin F. Haase;Harim Jeon;Noah Hough;Jong Hak Kim

  • Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals.

    Apiradee Honglawan;Daniel A. Beller;Marcello Cavallaro;Randall D. Kamien

Frequent Co-Authors

Daeyeon Lee
Daeyeon Lee University of Pennsylvania
Shu Yang
Shu Yang University of Pennsylvania
Peter C. Searson
Peter C. Searson Johns Hopkins University
John C. Crocker
John C. Crocker University of Pennsylvania
Tobias Baumgart
Tobias Baumgart University of Pennsylvania
Richard K. Assoian
Richard K. Assoian University of Pennsylvania
Mark Goulian
Mark Goulian University of Pennsylvania
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos Johns Hopkins University
Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar University of Pennsylvania

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