Phillip Christopher

22.5k total citations · 12 hit papers
133 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

Phillip Christopher is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Phillip Christopher has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Materials Chemistry, 61 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 51 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Phillip Christopher's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (78 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (35 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (35 papers). Phillip Christopher is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (78 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (35 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (35 papers). Phillip Christopher collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Phillip Christopher's co-authors include Suljo Linic, David Ingram, Hongliang Xin, Matthew J. Kale, Talin Avanesian, Xiaoqing Pan, George W. Graham, Marimuthu Andiappan, Joaquin Resasco and Vanessa Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Phillip Christopher

129 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Plasmonic-metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy

2011 4.2k citations Phillip Christopher et al. Nature Materials profile →
Visible-light-enhanced catalytic oxidation reactions on plasmonic silver nanostructures

2011 1.7k citations Phillip Christopher et al. profile →
Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis

2018 900 citations Linan Zhou, Dayne F. Swearer et al. Science profile →
Direct Photocatalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures

2013 812 citations Matthew J. Kale, Phillip Christopher et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
Adsorbate-mediated strong metal–support interactions in oxide-supported Rh catalysts

2016 762 citations George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan et al. profile →
Singular characteristics and unique chemical bond activation mechanisms of photocatalytic reactions on plasmonic nanostructures

2012 759 citations Phillip Christopher et al. Nature Materials profile →
Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts

2020 639 citations Linan Zhou, Jordan Finzel et al. profile →
Catalyst Architecture for Stable Single Atom Dispersion Enables Site-Specific Spectroscopic and Reactivity Measurements of CO Adsorbed to Pt Atoms, Oxidized Pt Clusters, and Metallic Pt Clusters on TiO₂

2017 639 citations Sheng Dai, George W. Graham et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Isolated Metal Active Site Concentration and Stability Control Catalytic CO₂ Reduction Selectivity

2015 634 citations Phillip Christopher et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity

2019 512 citations Joaquin Resasco, Sheng Dai et al. Nature Materials profile →
First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst

2021 299 citations Ryan T. Hannagan, Georgios Giannakakis et al. Science profile →
Limits of Detection for EXAFS Characterization of Heterogeneous Single-Atom Catalysts

2023 121 citations Jordan Finzel, Adam S. Hoffman et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phillip Christopher United States	51	14.1k	10.0k	4.9k	3.9k	3.2k	133	19.0k
Suljo Linic United States	56	14.2k 1.0×	10.3k 1.0×	6.0k 1.2×	3.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	103	19.6k
Qing Peng China	59	15.1k 1.1×	8.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	128	20.3k
Qian He China	61	9.7k 0.7×	5.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.3×	4.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	334	15.3k
Zhaoxiong Xie China	86	17.7k 1.3×	13.3k 1.3×	6.3k 1.3×	1.8k 0.4×	4.3k 1.3×	367	29.9k
Michael Hävecker Germany	64	11.3k 0.8×	5.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	6.2k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	196	16.2k
Raymond E. Schaak United States	73	12.6k 0.9×	11.0k 1.1×	3.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	237	22.0k
Yafei Li China	83	16.4k 1.2×	15.9k 1.6×	2.5k 0.5×	3.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	291	28.7k
Junko N. Kondo Japan	78	15.5k 1.1×	8.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.4×	3.7k 0.9×	3.5k 1.1×	376	22.4k
Xiulian Pan China	55	10.5k 0.7×	5.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	7.0k 1.8×	2.3k 0.7×	145	16.1k
Qing Peng China	78	12.2k 0.9×	14.0k 1.4×	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	158	24.2k

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Stottlemyer, Alan L., Christopher S. Letko, Nasim Hooshyar, et al.. (2025). Differentiating urethane and urea bond activation in polyurethane foam acidolysis. Chemical Science. 17(5). 2685–2693.

Hunt, Adrian, Adam S. Hoffman, Iradwikanari Waluyo, et al.. (2025). Nickel promotes selective ethylene epoxidation on silver. Science. 387(6736). 869–873. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaobo, Yonghyuk Lee, Seunghwa Hong, et al.. (2025). Defect-Driven Redox Interplay on Anatase TiO ₂ : Surface-Structure Dependent Activation for CO ₂ Hydrogenation Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(47). 43273–43285. 2 indexed citations

Beck, Arik, et al.. (2024). Is There a Discernible Photochemical Effect Beyond Heating for Visible Photon-Mediated NH₃ Decomposition over Ru/Al₂O₃?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(21). 8590–8600. 8 indexed citations

Lee, Jaeha & Phillip Christopher. (2024). Does H₂ Temperature‐Programmed Reduction Always Probe Solid‐State Redox Chemistry? The Case of Pt/CeO₂. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414388–e202414388. 8 indexed citations

Genç, Arda, et al.. (2024). AI-Enhanced Nanoparticle Analysis: Integrating Single-Shot Object Detection and Vision Transformer for Rapid and Accurate Characterization. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Gordon, Michael J., et al.. (2024). Visible Light Photolysis at Single Atom Sites in Semiconductor Perovskite Oxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(1). 898–909. 3 indexed citations

Robatjazi, Hossein, Jordan Finzel, Peter Tieu, et al.. (2024). Dynamic Behavior of Platinum Atoms and Clusters in the Native Oxide Layer of Aluminum Nanocrystals. ACS Nano. 18(8). 6638–6649. 4 indexed citations

Robatjazi, Hossein, Andrea Schirato, Alessandro Alabastri, et al.. (2022). Reply to: Distinguishing thermal from non-thermal contributions to plasmonic hydrodefluorination. Nature Catalysis. 5(4). 247–250. 12 indexed citations

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Jang, Jun Hee, et al.. (2022). One-step production of renewable adipic acid esters from mucic acid over an Ir–ReO_x/C catalyst with low Ir loading. Catalysis Science & Technology. 13(3). 714–725. 9 indexed citations

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Hannagan, Ryan T., Georgios Giannakakis, Romain Réocreux, et al.. (2021). First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst. Science. 372(6549). 1444–1447. 299 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shetty, Manish, Amber Walton, M. Alexander Ardagh, et al.. (2020). The Catalytic Mechanics of Dynamic Surfaces: Stimulating Methods for Promoting Catalytic Resonance. ACS Catalysis. 10(21). 12666–12695. 85 indexed citations

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Ardagh, M. Alexander, Manish Shetty, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2020). Catalytic resonance theory: parallel reaction pathway control. Chemical Science. 11(13). 3501–3510. 50 indexed citations

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Ro, Insoo, Mingjie Xu, George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan, & Phillip Christopher. (2019). Synthesis of Heteroatom Rh–ReO_x Atomically Dispersed Species on Al₂O₃ and Their Tunable Catalytic Reactivity in Ethylene Hydroformylation. ACS Catalysis. 9(12). 10899–10912. 112 indexed citations

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Resasco, Joaquin, Sheng Dai, Alexey Boubnov, et al.. (2019). Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity. Nature Materials. 18(7). 746–751. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hou, Bingya, Lang Shen, Haotian Shi, et al.. (2019). Resonant and Selective Excitation of Photocatalytically Active Defect Sites in TiO₂. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(10). 10351–10355. 3 indexed citations

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Seemala, Bhogeswararao, Xianzhi Meng, Rajeev Kumar, et al.. (2018). Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Hardwood Biomass to Methylated Furans and Depolymerized Technical Lignin. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(8). 10587–10594. 18 indexed citations

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Zhou, Linan, Dayne F. Swearer, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2018). Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis. Science. 362(6410). 69–72. 900 indexed citations breakdown →

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Therrien, Andrew J., Matthew J. Kale, L. Yuan, et al.. (2018). Impact of chemical interface damping on surface plasmon dephasing. Faraday Discussions. 214(0). 59–72. 60 indexed citations

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Meng, Xianzhi, Bhogeswararao Seemala, Rajeev Kumar, et al.. (2018). Chemical Transformations of Poplar Lignin during Cosolvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation Process. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(7). 8711–8718. 90 indexed citations

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