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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University

Education

BS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
MS, University of Florida; PhD, University of Minnesota
All degrees in Chemical Engineering

Professional Activities/Honors

Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering (1999-present), Raytheon Professor of Pollution Prevention (1994-1999), Chemical Engineering Department, Tufts University; Principal Research Associate of Chemical Engineering at MIT (1985-1993); member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, CA; North and South American Editor, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental; Advisory Board, Energy and Fuels (2003-present); Awards and distinctions include: Henry J. Albert award, International Precious Metals Institute (2008); Distinguished Scholar Award, Tufts University (2007); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008); Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2009).

Courses

Spring 2010

• DHP P258 - Clean Energy Technologies and Policy

Research Interests

Clean energy technologies; Nanocatalysis, specifically the design and study of novel nanoscale catalysts and sorbent materials for fuel processing; for air pollutant abatement, and for the production of upgraded hydrogen feedstocks for fuel cell and other uses.

Selected Publications

• "Charging and Chemical Reactivity of Gold Nanoparticles and Adatoms on the (111) Surface of Single-Crystal Magnetite: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy Study," (co-author), J. Phys. Chem. C (2009).
• "Evolution of gold structure during thermal treatment of Au/FeOx catalysts revealed by aberration-corrected electron microscopy," (co-author), J. Electron Microscopy (2009).
• "SO2 -induced stability of Ag-alumina catalysts in the SCR of NO with methane," (co-author), Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2009).
• "Reaction-relevant gold structures in the low temperature water-gas shift reaction on Au-CeO2 ," (co-author) J. Phys. Chem. C (2008).
• "The Role of the Interface in CO Oxidation on Au/CeO2 Multi-layer Nanotowers," (co-author) Advanced Functional Materials (2008).
• "Shape and Crystal Plane Effect of Nanoscale Ceria on the Activity of Au-CeO2 Catalysts for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction," (co-author) Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2008).
• "Regenerative adsorption and removal of H2S from hot fuel gas streams by rare earth oxides," (co-author), Science (2006).
• "Activity and stability of Ag-alumina for the Selectedive catalytic reduction of NOx with methane in high-content SO2 gas streams," (co-author) Catalysis Today (2007).
• "Spectroscopic features and reactivity of CO adsorbed on different Au/CeO2 catalysts," (co-author) Journal of Catalysis (2007).
• "Active non-metallic Au and Pt species on ceria-based water-gas shift catalysts," (co-author) Science (2003).