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Stefan Vajda is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemical engineering, with an emphasis on materials chemistry and catalysis.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, including:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications

Stefan Vajda has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues of publication include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Some recent papers authored by or including Stefan Vajda are:

  • CO2 Methanation on Cu-Cluster Decorated Zirconia Supports with Different Morphology: A Combined Experimental In Situ GIXANES/GISAXS, Ex Situ XPS and Theoretical DFT Study (2021), ACS Catalysis
  • Interpreting the Operando XANES of Surface-Supported Subnanometer Clusters: When Fluxionality, Oxidation State, and Size Effect Fight (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Probing Active Sites in CuxPdy Cluster Catalysts by Machine-Learning-Assisted X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (2021), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Exploring the materials space in the smallest particle size range: from heterogeneous catalysis to electrocatalysis and photocatalysis (2022), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Mechanism of Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation to Methane and Methanol Using a Bimetallic Cu3Pd Cluster at a Zirconia Support (2022), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Avik Halder
  • Libor Kvı́tek
  • Joanna E. Olszówka
  • Mykhailo Vaidulych
  • Karolína Simkovičová

Best Publications

  • Increased Silver Activity for Direct Propylene Epoxidation via Subnanometer Size Effects

    Y. Lei;Y. Lei;Faisal Mehmood;Sungsik Lee;Jeffrey P. Greeley

  • Catalysis by clusters with precise numbers of atoms

    Eric C. Tyo;Stefan Vajda

  • 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

  • Deciphering the reaction dynamics underlying optimal control laser fields.

    Chantal Daniel;Jürgen Full;Leticia González;Cosmin Lupulescu

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

    Cong Liu;Bing Yang;Eric Tyo;Soenke Seifert

  • Simple size-controlled synthesis of Au nanoparticles and their size-dependent catalytic activity.

    Petr Suchomel;Libor Kvitek;Robert Prucek;Ales Panacek

  • Catalysis Applications of Size-Selected Cluster Deposition

    Stefan Vajda;Michael G. White;Michael G. White

  • Selective propene epoxidation on immobilized au(6-10) clusters: the effect of hydrogen and water on activity and selectivity.

    Sungsik Lee;Luis M. Molina;María J. López;Julio A. Alonso

  • Femtosecond to nanosecond solvation dynamics in pure water and inside the γ-cyclodextrin cavity

    Štefan Vajda;Štefan Vajda;Ralph Jimenez;Sandra J. Rosenthal;Sandra J. Rosenthal;Vlastimil Fidler;Vlastimil Fidler

  • Atomic layer deposition of a submonolayer catalyst for the enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of water oxidation with hematite.

    Shannon C. Riha;Benjamin M. Klahr;Eric C. Tyo;Sönke Seifert

  • Effect of the size-selective silver clusters on lithium peroxide morphology in lithium-oxygen batteries.

    Jun Lu;Lei Cheng;Kah Chun Lau;Eric Tyo

  • Copper Cluster Size Effect in Methanol Synthesis from CO2

    Bing Yang;Cong Liu;Avik Halder;Eric C. Tyo

  • Size-Dependent Subnanometer Pd Cluster (Pd4, Pd6, and Pd17) Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis

    Gihan Kwon;Glen A Ferguson;Christopher J Heard;Eric C Tyo

  • Feedback optimization of shaped femtosecond laser pulses for controlling the wavepacket dynamics and reactivity of mixed alkaline clusters

    Štefan Vajda;Andreas Bartelt;Eva-Cristina Kaposta;Thomas Leisner

  • Strongly cluster size dependent reaction behavior of CO with O2 on free silver cluster anions

    Liana D. Socaciu;Jan Hagen;Jérôme Le Roux;Denisia Popolan

  • Time-resolved fluorescence study of chain dynamics. 1. Poly(methacrylic acid) in dilute water solutions

    Bohumil Bednar;Jitka Trnena;Petr Svoboda;Stefan Vajda

  • Size-dependent selectivity and activity of silver nanoclusters in the partial oxidation of propylene to propylene oxide and acrolein: A joint experimental and theoretical study

    Luis M. Molina;Sungsik Lee;Kristian Sell;Giovanni Barcaro

  • Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Cyclohexane on Cobalt Oxide (Co3O4) Nanoparticles: The Effect of Particle Size on Activity and Selectivity

    Eric C. Tyo;Chunrong Yin;Marcel Di Vece;Qiang Qian

  • Perspective: Size selected clusters for catalysis and electrochemistry

    Avik Halder;Larry A. Curtiss;Alessandro Fortunelli;Stefan Vajda;Stefan Vajda

  • Analysis and control of laser induced fragmentation processes in CpMn(CO)3

    Chantal Daniel;Jürgen Full;Leticia González;Cristina Kaposta

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall E. Winans
Randall E. Winans Argonne National Laboratory
Michael J. Pellin
Michael J. Pellin Argonne National Laboratory
Ludger Wöste
Ludger Wöste Freie Universität Berlin
Byeongdu Lee
Byeongdu Lee Argonne National Laboratory
Larry A. Curtiss
Larry A. Curtiss Argonne National Laboratory
Jeffrey W. Elam
Jeffrey W. Elam Argonne National Laboratory
Jeffrey Greeley
Jeffrey Greeley Purdue University West Lafayette
Khalil Amine
Khalil Amine Argonne National Laboratory
Anastassia N. Alexandrova
Anastassia N. Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles
Alessandro Fortunelli
Alessandro Fortunelli National Research Council (CNR)

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