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Name: Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Title: Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Departmental Affiliation: Chemical & Biological Engineering
Degrees: 1973 B.S., National Technical University of Athens, Greece
1975 M.S. University of Florida
1978 Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Expertise: Environmental catalysis, Clean energy technologies
Major Awards: NASA Certificate of Recognition; NSF Career Advancement award; Raytheon Professorship in Pollution Prevention; EPA-STAR grant; UNIDO Lectureship, Beijing, PR China; Editorial Board, Applied Catalysis B, 1998-2001; Director, AIChE-CRE Division, 2001-2004; Editor, North and South America, Applied Catalysis B, 2002-present; Advisory Board: Energy and Fuels, 2003-present; Mellon Senior Faculty Research Semester Fellowship, Fall 2006; Distinguished Scholar Award, Tufts University, 2007; International Precious Metals Institute Henry J. Albert award, 2008; Fellow of the AAAS, 2008.
E-mail: mflytzan@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: I. Valsamakis, R. Si, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos. “Stability of Lanthanum oxide-based H2S sdorbents in realistic fuel processeor/fuel cell.” J. Power Sources, In Press (2009).

N. Yi, R. Si, H Saltsburg, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos. “Steam reforming of methanol over ceria and gold-ceria nanoshapes.” Appl. Catal. B., In Press (2009).

K.T. Rim, D. Eom, L. Liu, E. Stolyarova, J.M. Raitano, S.-W. Chan, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, G. W. Flynn, "Charging and Chemical Reactivity of Gold Nanoparticles and Adatoms on the (111) Surface of Single-Crystal Magnetite: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy Study," J. Phys. Chem. C, 113: 10198-10205 (2009).

L.F. Allard, A. Borisevich, W. Deng, R. Si, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, S.H. Overbury, "Evolution of gold structure during thermal treatment of Au/FeOx catalysts revealed by aberration-corrected electron microscopy," J. Electron Microscopy, 58:199-212 (2009)

X. She, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, C. Wang, Y. Yang, C.H.F. Peden, "SO2 -induced stability of Ag-alumina catalysts in the SCR of NO with methane," Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 88:98-105 (2009).

W. Deng, A.I. Frenkel, R. Si, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Reaction-relevant gold structures in the low temperature water-gas shift reaction on Au-CeO2 ," J. Phys. Chem. C 112:12834-12840 (2008)

Z. Zhou, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, S. Kooi, H. Saltsburg, "The Role of the Interface in CO Oxidation on Au/CeO2 Multi-layer Nanotowers," Advanced Functional Materials 18: 2801-2807 (2008).

R. Si and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Shape and Crystal Plane Effect of Nanoscale Ceria on the Activity of Au-CeO2 Catalysts for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47:2884-2887 (2008).

D. Pierre, W. Deng and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "The Importance of Strongly Bound Pt-CeOx Species for the Water-gas Shift Reaction: Catalyst Activity and Stability Evaluation," Topics in Catalysis 46: 363-373 (2007).

W. Deng, C. Carpenter, N. Yi, and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Comparison of the activity of Au/CeO2 and Au/Fe2O3 catalysts for the CO oxidation and the water-gas shift reactions" Topics in Catalysis 44, 199-208 (2007).

X. She and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Activity and stability of Ag-alumina for the selective catalytic reduction of Nox with methane in high-content SO2 gas streams," Catalysis Today 127, 207-218 (2007).

3. F.C. Meunier, D. Reid, A. Goguet, S. Shekhtman, C. Hardacre, R. Burch, W. Deng and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Quantitative analysis of the reactivity of formate species seen by DRIFTS over a Au/Ce(La)O2 water–gas shift catalyst: First unambiguous evidence of the minority role of formates as reaction intermediates" Journal of Catalysis 247, 269-79 (2007).

4. M. Manzoli, F. Boccuzzi, A. Chiorino, F. Vindigni, W. Deng, and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Spectroscopic features and reactivity of CO adsorbed on different Au/CeO2 catalysts," Journal of Catalysis 245, 308-15 (2007).

M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M. Sakbodin, Z.Wang "Regenerative adsorption and removal of H2S from hot fuel gas streams by rare earth oxides." Science 312,1508-10 (2006).

W. Deng and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "On the deactivation of nanostructured gold-ceria and platinum-ceria catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction in practical fuel cell applications", Angewandte Chemie International Edition 45, 2285-2289 (2006).

X. She and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "The role of Ag-O-Al species in silver-alumina catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with methane" J. Catalysis 237, 79-93 (2006).

Q. Fu, W. Deng, H. Saltsburg and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Activity and stability of low-content gold-ceria catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction", Special issue, Appl. Catal. B 56 (1-2), 57-68 (2005).

Z. Wang and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, "Cerium Oxide Based Sorbents for Regenerative Hot Reformate Gas Desulfurization", Energy and Fuels 19, 2089- 2097 (2005).

W. Deng, J. DeJesus, H. Saltsburg and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; “Low-content gold-ceria catalysts for the water-gas shift and preferential CO oxidation reactions”, Appl. Catal. A 291 (1-2), 126-135 (2005).

Q. Fi, H. Saltsburg and M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Active non-metallic Au and Pt species on Ceria-based Water-gas shift Catalysts,” Science 301, 935-938 (2003).

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