Štefan Vajda

9.1k citations

143 papers · 7.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Catalysis top 0.5%
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 1%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Papers in

Catalysis 44
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions 34
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming 14
Materials Chemistry 83
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science 67
- Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications 17

Co-authors: Eric C. Tyo Larry A. Curtiss Michael J. Pellin Sönke Seifert Randall E. Winans Jeffrey W. Elam Byeongdu Lee Sungsik Lee
Journals: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (13 papers)The Journal of Chemical Physics (12 papers)ACS Catalysis (8 papers)Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (8 papers)Physical Review Letters (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Czechia

In The Last Decade

Štefan Vajda

140 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Catalysis by clusters with precise numbers of atoms 2015 · 613 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Nature Nanotechnology
2010 Science
2009 Nature Materials

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1	The Solvothermal Method: An Efficient Tool for the Preparation of Ni-Based Catalysts with High Activity in CO2 Methanation Nanomaterials ·Claire Lobet Maris, Rosa Parcero Oubiña, Anne H. Puchala, M. Kroz, Irina Feritovna Abitova, C. M. Southcott, Robert Prucek, Aleš Panáček, Josef Kašlík, Patrizia Frontera, Roman Kouřil, Kazi Zakir Hossian, Carlo Pirola, Libor Brabec, Zdenĕk Bastl, Štefan Vajda, Libor Kvı́tek	2025	1
2	Low-Temperature Direct Oxidation of Propane to Propylene Oxide Using Supported Subnanometer Cu Clusters ACS Catalysis ·Avik Halder, Robert E. Warburton, Geng Sun, Lei Cheng, Rajeev S. Assary, Sönke Seifert, Peimeng Shuai, Jeffrey Greeley, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Philippe Sautet, Larry A. Curtiss, Štefan Vajda	2025	0
3	Combined hydrothermal and mechanochemical control of structural modifications of zirconium dioxide for catalytic applications Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Janelle Born, Colleen Wescott, José Raliuson Inácio Silva, L. Vasylechko, C. M. Southcott, Learned Foote, Na Min, Štefan Vajda, Joanna E. Olszówka	2024	0
4	Nanoplasmonic sensing to study CO and oxygen adsorption and CO oxidation on size-selected Pt₁₀ clusters Nanoscale ·Benjamin Demirdjian, Mykhailo Vaidulych, Igor Ozerov, F. Bedu, Štefan Vajda, Claude R. Henry	2024	1
5	Absence of a pressure gap and atomistic mechanism of the oxidation of pure Co nanoparticles Nature Communications ·Jaianth Vijayakumar, Tatiana Savchenko, E Nfor, Fengying Tang, Armand Béché, Johan Verbeeck, Štefan Vajda, F. Nolting, C. A. F. Vaz, Armin Kleibert	2023	9
6	Cyclohexane Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Graphene-Oxide-Supported Cobalt Ferrite Nanohybrids: Effect of Dynamic Nature of Active Sites on Reaction Selectivity ACS Catalysis ·Usman Muhammad, Stefania Sandoval, Zdenĕk Bastl, C. M. Southcott, Libor Kvı́tek, Juraj Jašík, Joanna E. Olszówka, Learned Foote, Mykhailo Vaidulych, Jaroslava Morávková, Petr Sazama, David Kubička, Arnaud Travert, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, Alessandro Fortunelli, Armin Kleibert, Martin Kalbáč, Štefan Vajda	2023	11
7	Selective oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Štefan Vajda	2023	0
8	Hydrogenation of CO2 on Nanostructured Cu/FeOx Catalysts: The Effect of Morphology and Cu Load on Selectivity Catalysts ·C. M. Southcott, Muhammad I. Qadir, Naděžda Žilková, Joanna E. Olszówka, Li Ching. Chen, Libor Kvı́tek, Štefan Vajda	2022	6
9	Probing Active Sites in Cu_xPd_y Cluster Catalysts by Machine-Learning-Assisted X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Yang Liu, Avik Halder, Söenke Seifert, Nicholas Marcella, Štefan Vajda, Anatoly I. Frenkel	2021	32
10	Interpreting the Operando XANES of Surface-Supported Subnanometer Clusters: When Fluxionality, Oxidation State, and Size Effect Fight The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Borna Zandkarimi, Geng Sun, Avik Halder, Söenke Seifert, Štefan Vajda, Philippe Sautet, Anastassia N. Alexandrova	2020	28
11	Mapping XANES spectra on structural descriptors of copper oxide clusters using supervised machine learning The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Yang Liu, Nicholas Marcella, Janis Timoshenko, Avik Halder, Yang Bing, 庄市小柴, Michael J. Pellin, Sönke Seifert, Štefan Vajda, Ping Liu, Anatoly I. Frenkel	2019	71
12	Using first principles calculations to interpret XANES experiments: extracting the size-dependence of the ( p , T ) phase diagram of sub-nanometer Cu clusters in an O ₂ environment Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Nisha Mammen, Leonardo Spanu, Eric C. Tyo, Bing Yang, Avik Halder, Sönke Seifert, Michael J. Pellin, Štefan Vajda, Shobhana Narasimhan	2019	8
13	Oxidative dehydrogenation of cyclohexene on size selected subnanometer cobalt clusters: improved catalytic performance via evolution of cluster-assembled nanostructures Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Sungsik Lee, Marcel Di Vece, Byeongdu Lee, Sönke Seifert, Randall E. Winans, Štefan Vajda	2012	34
14	A first-principles theoretical approach to heterogeneous nanocatalysis Nanoscale ·Fábio R. Negreiros, Edoardo Aprà, Giovanni Barcaro, Luca Sementa, Štefan Vajda, Alessandro Fortunelli	2011	46
15	Combined TPRx, in situ GISAXS and GIXAS studies of model semiconductor-supported platinum catalysts in the hydrogenation of ethene Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Alokasih Gulo, Olga M. Kudryavtseva, Sungsik Lee, Byeongdu Lee, Marcel Di Vece, Xuebing Li, Sönke Seifert, Randall E. Winans, M. Stutzmann, Johannes A. Lercher, Štefan Vajda	2010	36
16	Selective Propene Epoxidation on Immobilized Au_6–10 Clusters: The Effect of Hydrogen and Water on Activity and Selectivity Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Sungsik Lee, L. M. Molina, M. J. López, J. A. Alonso, Bjørk Hammer, Byeongdu Lee, Sönke Seifert, Randall E. Winans, Jeffrey W. Elam, Michael J. Pellin, Štefan Vajda	2009	231
17	Subnanometre platinum clusters as highly active and selective catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane Nature Materials ·Štefan Vajda, Michael J. Pellin, Jeffrey Greeley, Christopher L. Marshall, Larry A. Curtiss, Saná Makhoul, Jeffrey W. Elam, 譲榎本, Paul C. Redfern, Faisal Mehmood, Peter Zapol Hit paper breakdown →	2009	714
18	Observation and Theoretical Description of Periodic Geometric Rearrangement in Electronically Excited Nonstoichiometric Sodium-Fluoride Clusters Physical Review Letters ·Štefan Vajda, C. Lupulescu, A. Merli, Napoleón Reibán Gómez, L. Wöste, Michael Hartmann, Jiřı́ Pittner, Vlasta Bonačić‐Koutecký	2002	17
19	Nanosecond fluorescence of tryptophans in cytochrome P-450scc (CYP11A1): Effect of substrate binding Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Pavel Anzenbacher, Jiřı́ Hudeček, Štefan Vajda, Vlastimil Fidler, Christian Larroque, Reinhard Lange	1991	7
20	Nanosecond fluorometry of the single tryptophan in cytochrome P-450e (P450IIB2) Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Pavel Anzenbacher, Jiřı́ Hudeček, Štefan Vajda, Vlastimil Fidler	1989	5

About Štefan Vajda

Štefan Vajda is a scholar working on Catalysis, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Radiation, having authored 143 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (67 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (34 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (29 papers), Nuclear physics research studies (19 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (17 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (14 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (13 papers) and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Catalysis (1.9k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (2.0k citations), Materials Chemistry (5.1k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (233 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.7k citations). Štefan Vajda has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include Eric C. Tyo, Larry A. Curtiss, Michael J. Pellin, Sönke Seifert, Randall E. Winans, Jeffrey W. Elam, Byeongdu Lee, Sungsik Lee, Avik Halder and Jeffrey Greeley. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, The Journal of Chemical Physics, ACS Catalysis, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Physical Review Letters.

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