2026 Stephen O'Brien: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	61	6660	6435	1683	1564	173	18791

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Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen O'Brien is affiliated with the City College of New York in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a substantial body of work focusing on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Multiferroics and related materials, Conducting polymers and applications, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, and Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen O'Brien include Nasim Farahmand, Jan Grimm, Christine K. McGinn, Ioannis Kymissis, and Qize Zhang. Their work has appeared in various publication venues, most notably:

Journal of Applied Physics
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Nanotheranostics
Advanced Materials
Nano Letters

Significant recent papers reflect the scientist's interdisciplinary approach and cover several aspects of nanomaterials and their biomedical applications. These include:

Biomedical Applications of Lanthanide Nanomaterials, for Imaging, Sensing and Therapy (2021, Nanotheranostics)
Self-Complementary Zwitterionic Peptides Direct Nanoparticle Assembly and Enable Enzymatic Selection of Endocytic Pathways (2021, Advanced Materials)
Ultrasmall Downconverting Nanoparticle for Enhanced Cerenkov Imaging (2021, Nano Letters)
Comparison of Methods for Surface Modification of Barium Titanate Nanoparticles for Aqueous Dispersibility: Toward Biomedical Utilization of Perovskite Oxides (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
Purcell Effect of Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances and Its Influence on Energy Transfer (2021, ACS Photonics)

Stephen O'Brien has been recognized by the scientific community with distinctions such as membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2018 and being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

Structural diversity in binary nanoparticle superlattices

Elena V. Shevchenko;Dmitri V. Talapin;Dmitri V. Talapin;Nicholas A. Kotov;Stephen O'Brien

2493
Citations
Copper oxide nanocrystals.

Ming Yin;Chun Kwei Wu;Yongbing Lou;Clemens Burda

1079
Citations
Three-dimensional binary superlattices of magnetic nanocrystals and semiconductor quantum dots

F. X. Redl;K.-S. Cho;K.-S. Cho;C. B. Murray;S. O'Brien

1077
Citations
Covalently Bridging Gaps in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Conducting Molecules

Xuefeng Guo;Joshua P. Small;Jennifer E. Klare;Yiliang Wang

621
Citations
Structural Characterization of Self-Assembled Multifunctional Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices

Elena V. Shevchenko;Dmitri V. Talapin;Christopher B. Murray;Stephen O'brien

598
Citations
Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Barium Titanate: Toward a Generalized Strategy of Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis

Stephen O'brien;Louis Brus;Christopher B. Murray

595
Citations
Magnetic, electronic, and structural characterization of nonstoichiometric iron oxides at the nanoscale.

Franz X. Redl;Charles T. Black;Georgia C. Papaefthymiou;Robert L. Sandstrom

491
Citations
Zeta-Potential Measurements of Surfactant-Wrapped Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Brian White;Sarbajit Banerjee;Stephen O'brien;Nicholas J. Turro

482
Citations
Photonic band-gap effects and magnetic activity in dielectric composites

Stephen O'Brien;John B Pendry

464
Citations
Hydrothermal and postsynthesis surface modification of cubic, MCM-48, and ultralarge pore SBA-15 mesoporous silica with titanium

Mark S. Morey;Stephen O'Brien;Stephan Schwarz;Galen D. Stucky

415
Citations
Quantum confinement in ZnO nanorods

Y. Gu;Igor L. Kuskovsky;M. Yin;S. O’Brien

376
Citations
Cooperative Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Block Copolypeptides in Aqueous Media

Larken E. Euliss;Stephanie G. Grancharov;Stephen O'brien;Timothy J. Deming

363
Citations
Complete CO oxidation over Cu2O nanoparticles supported on silica gel.

Brian White;Ming Yin;Andrew Hall;Duy Le

344
Citations
Zinc oxide quantum rods.

Ming Yin;Yi Gu;Igor L. Kuskovsky;Tamar Andelman

338
Citations
Spectroscopic Characterization of the Surface of Iron Oxide Nanocrystals

Amanda L. Willis;Nicholas J. Turro;Stephen O'Brien

337
Citations
Magnetic activity at infrared frequencies in structured metallic photonic crystals

S O’Brien;J B Pendry

336
Citations
Probing Electronic Transitions in Individual Carbon Nanotubes by Rayleigh Scattering

Matthew Y. Sfeir;Feng Wang;Limin Huang;Chia-Chin Chuang

333
Citations
Optical spectroscopy of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes of defined chiral structure.

Matthew Y. Sfeir;Matthew Y. Sfeir;Tobias Beetz;Feng Wang;Limin Huang

310
Citations
Synthesis of monodisperse nanocrystals of manganese oxides.

Ming Yin;Stephen O'Brien

306
Citations
Origin of defect-related green emission from ZnO nanoparticles: effect of surface modification

Yinyan Gong;Tamar Andelman;Gertrude F Neumark;Stephen O’Brien

293
Citations