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Materials Science
Ireland
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
81
Citations
28279
World Ranking
2544
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Stefano Sanvito is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and has a research focus primarily within Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Multiferroics and related materials
  • Graphene research and applications

Stefano Sanvito has contributed to numerous scholarly papers. Among recent publications are:

  • The 2020 magnetism roadmap, 2020, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • Prediction of the two-dimensional Janus ferrovalley material LaBrI, 2021, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Multiple spin-phonon relaxation pathways in a Kramer single-ion magnet, 2021, Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Prediction of room-temperature ferromagnetism and large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a planar hypercoordinate FeB3 monolayer, 2020, Nanoscale Horizons
  • Improving stability of organometallic-halide perovskite solar cells using exfoliation two-dimensional molybdenum chalcogenides, 2020, npj 2D Materials and Applications

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin)
  • npj Computational Materials

Collaborations have been a notable part of their academic activity, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Matteo Cobelli
  • Alessandro Lunghi
  • Andrea Droghetti
  • Shimin Hou
  • Urvesh Patil

Stefano Sanvito was honored as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2016, reflecting engagement recognized within academic circles.

Best Publications

  • The high-throughput highway to computational materials design

    Stefano Curtarolo;Gus L. W. Hart;Gus L. W. Hart;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Natalio Mingo

  • Towards molecular spintronics.

    Alexandre R. Rocha;Vi­ctor M. García-suárez;Steve W. Bailey;Colin J. Lambert

  • AFLOWLIB.ORG: A distributed materials properties repository from high-throughput ab initio calculations

    Stefano Curtarolo;Stefano Curtarolo;Wahyu Setyawan;Shidong Wang;Junkai Xue

  • Liquid exfoliation of solvent-stabilized few-layer black phosphorus for applications beyond electronics

    Damien Hanlon;Claudia Backes;Evie Doherty;Clotilde S Cucinotta

  • Solvent exfoliation of transition metal dichalcogenides: dispersibility of exfoliated nanosheets varies only weakly between compounds.

    Graeme Cunningham;Mustafa Lotya;Clotilde S. Cucinotta;Stefano Sanvito

  • Revealing the role of organic cations in hybrid halide perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3

    Carlo Motta;Fedwa El-Mellouhi;Sabre Kais;Nouar Tabet

  • Possible doping strategies for MoS 2 monolayers: An ab initio study

    Kapildeb Dolui;Ivan Rungger;Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju;Stefano Sanvito

  • Hybrid Graphene and Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanocomposite: Gap Opening, Electron–Hole Puddle, Interfacial Charge Transfer, and Enhanced Visible Light Response

    Aijun Du;Stefano Sanvito;Zhen Li;Dawei Wang

  • Molecular spintronics: The rise of spinterface science

    Stefano Sanvito

  • Ferromagnetism driven by intrinsic point defects in HfO(2).

    Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju;S. Sanvito

  • First-Principles Prediction of a Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Janus VSSe Monolayer with Piezoelectricity, Ferroelasticity, and Large Valley Polarization

    Chunmei Zhang;Yihan Nie;Stefano Sanvito;Aijun Du

  • Self-Interaction Errors in Density-Functional Calculations of Electronic Transport

    C. Toher;A. Filippetti;S. Sanvito;Kieron Burke

  • Charge carrier mobility in hybrid halide perovskites.

    Carlo Motta;Fedwa El-Mellouhi;Stefano Sanvito

  • Basal-Plane Functionalization of Chemically Exfoliated Molybdenum Disulfide by Diazonium Salts

    Kathrin C. Knirsch;Nina C. Berner;Hannah C. Nerl;Clotilde S. Cucinotta

  • First-principles study of the origin and nature of ferromagnetism in Ga 1-x Mn x As

    Stefano Sanvito;Pablo Ordejón;Nicola A. Hill

  • Algorithm for the construction of self-energies for electronic transport calculations based on singularity elimination and singular value decomposition

    Ivan Rungger;Stefano Sanvito

  • General Green’s-function formalism for transport calculations with spd Hamiltonians and giant magnetoresistance in Co- and Ni-based magnetic multilayers

    S. Sanvito;C. J. Lambert;J. H. Jefferson;A. M. Bratkovsky

  • Origin of the n-type and p-type conductivity of MoS2 monolayers on a SiO2 substrate

    Kapildeb Dolui;Ivan Rungger;Stefano Sanvito

  • First-principles prediction of metal-free magnetism and intrinsic half-metallicity in graphitic carbon nitride.

    Aijun Du;Stefano Sanvito;Sean C. Smith

  • Ground state of half-metallic zinc-blende MnAs

    Stefano Sanvito;Nicola A. Hill

  • Accelerated discovery of new magnets in the Heusler alloy family.

    Stefano Sanvito;Stefano Sanvito;Corey Oses;Junkai Xue;Anurag Tiwari

  • Charge carrier mobility in hybrid halide perovskites

    Carlo Motta;Fedwa El Mellouhi;Stefano Sanvito

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin J. Lambert
Colin J. Lambert Lancaster University
Faxian Xiu
Faxian Xiu Fudan University
Udo Schwingenschlögl
Udo Schwingenschlögl King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Stefano Curtarolo
Stefano Curtarolo Duke University
Aijun Du
Aijun Du Queensland University of Technology
Valeria Nicolosi
Valeria Nicolosi Trinity College Dublin
Jing Lu
Jing Lu Peking University
Alessio Filippetti
Alessio Filippetti University of Cagliari
J. M. D. Coey
J. M. D. Coey Trinity College Dublin
John J. Boland
John J. Boland Trinity College Dublin

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