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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
33259
World Ranking
2044
National Ranking
747

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos 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 Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 227 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos 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 Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and conducted research primarily in the fields of Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, and Energy. Their work extensively covered subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research focused on several key topics including Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Catalysts for Methane Reforming, Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies, and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos include:

  • Single-Atom Alloy Catalysis, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC, 2021, Nature
  • First-principles design of a single-atom-alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst, 2021, Science
  • Directing reaction pathways via in situ control of active site geometries in PdAu single-atom alloy catalysts, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Pt Atomic Single-Layer Catalyst Embedded in Defect-Enriched Ceria for Efficient CO Oxidation, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos included:

  • Georgios Giannakakis
  • Mengyao Ouyang
  • E. Charles H. Sykes
  • Sufeng Cao
  • Jilei Liu

The scientist published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Chemical Reviews

Best Publications

  • Active Nonmetallic Au and Pt Species on Ceria-Based Water-Gas Shift Catalysts

    Qi Fu;Howard Saltsburg;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Isolated Metal Atom Geometries as a Strategy for Selective Heterogeneous Hydrogenations

    Georgios Kyriakou;Matthew B. Boucher;April D. Jewell;Emily A. Lewis

  • Low-temperature water-gas shift reaction over Cu- and Ni-loaded cerium oxide catalysts

    Yue Li;Qi Fu;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Shape and Crystal-Plane Effects of Nanoscale Ceria on the Activity of Au-CeO2 Catalysts for the Water–Gas Shift Reaction†

    Rui Si;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Single-Atom Alloy Catalysis

    Ryan T Hannagan;Georgios Giannakakis;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos;E Charles H Sykes

  • Total Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Methane over Transition Metal Fluorite Oxide Composite Catalysts: I. Catalyst Composition and Activity

    Wei Liu;M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Alkali-stabilized Pt-OHx species catalyze low-temperature water-gas shift reactions.

    Yanping Zhai;Danny Pierre;Rui Si;Weiling Deng

  • Alkali‐Metal‐Promoted Pt/TiO2 Opens a More Efficient Pathway to Formaldehyde Oxidation at Ambient Temperatures

    Changbin Zhang;Fudong Liu;Yanping Zhai;Hiroko Ariga

  • Mild oxidation of methane to methanol or acetic acid on supported isolated rhodium catalysts

    Junjun Shan;Mengwei Li;Lawrence F. Allard;Sungsik Lee

  • Nanostructured Au–CeO2 Catalysts for Low-Temperature Water–Gas Shift

    Qi Fu;Adam Weber;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Catalytically active Au-O(OH)x- species stabilized by alkali ions on zeolites and mesoporous oxides

    Ming Yang;Sha Li;Yuan Wang;Jeffrey A. Herron

  • Selective hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene on platinum-copper alloys at the single-atom limit.

    Felicia R. Lucci;Jilei Liu;Matthew D. Marcinkowski;Ming Yang

  • Pt/Cu single-atom alloys as coke-resistant catalysts for efficient C-H activation.

    Matthew D. Marcinkowski;Matthew T. Darby;Jilei Liu;Joshua M. Wimble

  • Atomically dispersed supported metal catalysts.

    Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos;Bruce C. Gates

  • A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC.

    Xiao Zhang;Xiao Zhang;Mengtao Zhang;Yuchen Deng;Mingquan Xu

  • Tackling CO Poisoning with Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts

    Jilei Liu;Felicia R. Lucci;Ming Yang;Sungsik Lee

  • Total Oxidation of Carbon-Monoxide and Methane over Transition Metal Fluorite Oxide Composite Catalysts: II. Catalyst Characterization and Reaction-Kinetics

    Wei Liu;M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Activity and stability of low-content gold–cerium oxide catalysts for the water–gas shift reaction

    Qi Fu;Weiling Deng;Howard Saltsburg;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Reduction characteristics of copper oxide in cerium and zirconium oxide systems

    Lj Kundakovic;M Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

  • Raman Analysis of Mode Softening in Nanoparticle CeO2−δ and Au-CeO2−δ during CO Oxidation

    Youjin Lee;Guanghui He;Austin J. Akey;Rui Si

  • Atomically dispersed Au-(OH)x species bound on titania catalyze the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction.

    Ming Yang;Lawrence F Allard;Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Charles H. Sykes
E. Charles H. Sykes Tufts University
Lawrence F. Allard
Lawrence F. Allard Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Adel F. Sarofim
Adel F. Sarofim University of Utah
Rui Si
Rui Si Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lanny D. Schmidt
Lanny D. Schmidt University of Minnesota
Cynthia M. Friend
Cynthia M. Friend Harvard University
Stefan Vajda
Stefan Vajda Czech Academy of Sciences
Guido Busca
Guido Busca University of Genoa
Juergen Biener
Juergen Biener Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University

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