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Materials Science

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60
Citations
16345
World Ranking
6948
National Ranking
1747

Chemistry

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60
Citations
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World Ranking
9571
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Peter Zapol 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 Peter Zapol sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 209 publications — 34th percentile

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

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

Peter Zapol 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 Peter Zapol sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% 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 American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to computational methods in novel materials systems including nanostructures, surfaces, and interfaces for energyrelated applications

Overview

Peter Zapol is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with a substantial focus on electrical and electronic engineering and materials chemistry. Additional areas of work include renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's research topics include advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, advanced battery technologies research, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, as well as thermal expansion and ionic conductivity.

Peter Zapol has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include ECS Meeting Abstracts, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review B, and Nature Energy.

Recent publications reflect a focus on energy-related materials and electrocatalysis. Notable papers include:

  • Dynamic stability of active sites in hydr(oxy)oxides for the oxygen evolution reaction, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Dynamically Stable Active Sites from Surface Evolution of Perovskite Materials during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • 2D Copper Tetrahydroxyquinone Conductive Metal-Organic Framework for Selective CO2 Electrocatalysis at Low Overpotentials, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Oxide-Based Solid-State Batteries: A Perspective on Composite Cathode Architecture, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • High-Voltage Phosphate Cathodes for Rechargeable Ca-Ion Batteries, 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Peter Zapol collaborates frequently with researchers such as Haesun Park, Robert F. Klie, John T. Vaughey, Haiying He, and Saul H. Lapidus, with multiple joint publications documented among these coauthors.

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020. The citation for this award notes contributions to computational methods in novel materials systems including nanostructures, surfaces, and interfaces for energy-related applications.

Best Publications

  • Measurements of near-ultimate strength for multiwalled carbon nanotubes and irradiation-induced crosslinking improvements.

    Bei Peng;Mark Locascio;Peter Zapol;Shuyou Li

  • Dynamic stability of active sites in hydr(oxy)oxides for the oxygen evolution reaction

    Dong Young Chung;Pietro P. Lopes;Pedro Farinazzo Bergamo Dias Martins;Haiying He

  • Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction in ionic liquid.

    Mohammad Asadi;Kibum Kim;Kibum Kim;Cong Liu;Aditya Venkata Addepalli

  • Subnanometre platinum clusters as highly active and selective catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane.

    Stefan Vajda;Michael J. Pellin;Jeffrey P. Greeley;Christopher L. Marshall

  • Hierarchical Nanoassembly of MoS2/Co9S8/Ni3S2/Ni as a Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting in a Wide pH Range.

    Yan Yang;Huiqin Yao;Zihuan Yu;Saiful M. Islam;Saiful M. Islam

  • Synthesis and characterization of highly-conducting nitrogen-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond films

    S. Bhattacharyya;O. Auciello;J. Birrell;J. A. Carlisle

  • Role of Water and Carbonates in Photocatalytic Transformation of CO2 to CH4 on Titania

    Nada M. Dimitrijevic;Baiju K. Vijayan;Oleg G. Poluektov;Tijana Rajh

  • Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol over Size-Selected Cu4 Clusters at Low Pressures

    Cong Liu;Bing Yang;Eric Tyo;Soenke Seifert

  • Tight-binding molecular-dynamics simulation of impurities in ultrananocrystalline diamond grain boundaries

    Peter Zapol;Michael Sternberg;Larry A. Curtiss;Thomas Frauenheim

  • A model for the phase stability of arbitrary nanoparticles as a function of size and shape

    Amanda S. Barnard;Peter Zapol

  • Dopant‐Dependent Stability of Garnet Solid Electrolyte Interfaces with Lithium Metal

    Yisi Zhu;Justin G. Connell;Sanja Tepavcevic;Peter Zapol

  • Effects of particle morphology and surface hydrogenation on the phase stability of Ti O 2

    A. S. Barnard;P. Zapol

  • Lyotropic liquid-crystalline gel formation in a room-temperature ionic liquid.

    Millicent A. Firestone;Julie A. Dzielawa;Peter Zapol;Larry A. Curtiss

  • Assessment of Gaussian-3 and Density Functional Theories for Enthalpies of Formation of C1−C16 Alkanes†

    Paul C. Redfern;Peter Zapol;Larry A. Curtiss;Krishnan Raghavachari

  • Tailoring the Edge Structure of Molybdenum Disulfide toward Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

    Pedram Abbasi;Mohammad Asadi;Cong Liu;Soroosh Sharifi-Asl

  • Dynamically Stable Active Sites from Surface Evolution of Perovskite Materials during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Pietro P Lopes;Dong Young Chung;Xue Rui;Hong Zheng

  • Computational studies of catechol and water interactions with titanium oxide nanoparticles.

    P. C. Redfern;P. Zapol;L. A. Curtiss;T. Rajh

  • Modeling the Morphology and Phase Stability of TiO2 Nanocrystals in Water

    Barnard As;Zapol P;Curtiss La

  • Microporous polyphenylenes with tunable pore size for hydrogen storage

    Shengwen Yuan;Brian Dorney;Desiree White;Scott Kirklin

  • Revisiting the Corrosion of the Aluminum Current Collector in Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Tianyuan Ma;Gui-Liang Xu;Yan Li;Li Wang

  • A Theoretical Study of CO2 Anions on Anatase (101) Surface

    Haiying He;Peter Zapol;Larry A. Curtiss

  • Charge Transfer Across the Nanocrystalline-DNA Interface: Probing DNA Recognition

    Tijana Rajh;Zoran Saponjic;Jianqin Liu;Nada M. Dimitrijevic

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry A. Curtiss
Larry A. Curtiss Argonne National Laboratory
Robert F. Klie
Robert F. Klie University of Illinois at Chicago
Jeffrey A. Eastman
Jeffrey A. Eastman Argonne National Laboratory
Hoydoo You
Hoydoo You Argonne National Laboratory
Paul H. Fuoss
Paul H. Fuoss SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stefan Vajda
Stefan Vajda Czech Academy of Sciences
Dieter M. Gruen
Dieter M. Gruen Argonne National Laboratory
Amanda S. Barnard
Amanda S. Barnard Australian National University
John T. Vaughey
John T. Vaughey Argonne National Laboratory
Jordi Cabana
Jordi Cabana University of Illinois at Chicago

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