2026 Blas P. Uberuaga: 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	66	5225	5055	1364	1278	375	37825
Chemistry	65	7526	6829	2202	1822	333	37238

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of accelerated molecular dynamics methods and their application to the understanding of radiation effects in materials, including the amorphization resistance of complex oxides, and the discovery of a new mechanism for point defect recovery at interfaces

Overview

Blas P. Uberuaga is a researcher affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their work spans various areas within materials science and engineering, with a particular focus on the behavior and properties of nuclear and fusion materials, as well as condensed matter physics.

Their main fields of study include:

Materials Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their research engages with subfields such as:

Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Key research topics covered in their publications are:

Fusion materials and technologies
Nuclear materials and radiation effects
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Semiconductor materials and devices
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Uberuaga has contributed to numerous papers, including the following recent examples:

A Machine Learning Approach for the Prediction of Formability and Thermodynamic Stability of Single and Double Perovskite Oxides, 2021, Chemistry of Materials
Prediction of structure and cation ordering in an ordered normal-inverse double spinel, 2020, Communications Materials
Machine learning in nuclear materials research, 2022, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science
Chemical manipulation of hydrogen induced high p-type and n-type conductivity in Ga₂O₃, 2020, PubMed
Effects of Radiation-Induced Defects on Corrosion, 2021, Annual Review of Materials Research

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Acta Materialia
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequent collaborators include:

Ghanshyam Pilania
Danny Pérez
Aaron A. Kohnert
P. D. Hatton
Peter Hosemann

Recognition of their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020, with a citation noting their development of accelerated molecular dynamics methods and their application to radiation effects in materials, including the amorphization resistance of complex oxides and mechanisms for point defect recovery at interfaces.

Best Publications

A climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths

Graeme Henkelman;Blas P. Uberuaga;Hannes Jónsson

22059
Citations
Efficient annealing of radiation damage near grain boundaries via interstitial emission.

Xian-Ming Bai;Arthur F. Voter;Richard G. Hoagland;Michael Nastasi

1165
Citations
Radiation-induced amorphization resistance and radiation tolerance in structurally related oxides

Kurt E. Sickafus;Robin W. Grimes;James A. Valdez;Antony Cleave

622
Citations
Defect-interface interactions

I.J. Beyerlein;M.J. Demkowicz;A. Misra;B.P. Uberuaga

605
Citations
Radiation damage tolerant nanomaterials

I.J. Beyerlein;A. Caro;M.J. Demkowicz;N.A. Mara

591
Citations
Machine learning bandgaps of double perovskites

Ghanshyam Pilania;Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi;Blas Uberuaga;Rampi Ramprasad

472
Citations
Band-gap engineering for removing shallow traps in rare-earth Lu 3 Al 5 O 12 garnet scintillators using Ga 3 + doping

M. Fasoli;A. Vedda;M. Nikl;C. Jiang

353
Citations
Synchronization of trajectories in canonical molecular-dynamics simulations: observation, explanation, and exploitation.

Blas P. Uberuaga;Marian Anghel;Arthur F. Voter

305
Citations
Chapter 4 Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods: Introduction and Recent Developments

Danny Perez;Blas P. Uberuaga;Yunsic Shim;Jacques G. Amar

220
Citations
The relationship between grain boundary structure, defect mobility and grain boundary sink efficiency

Blas Pedro Uberuaga;Louis J. Vernon;Enrique Martinez;Arthur F. Voter

210
Citations
Radiation Effects in Solids

Kurt E. Sickafus;Eugene A. Kotomin;Blas P. Uberuaga

208
Citations
Defect Structure of Flash‐Sintered Strontium Titanate

Aylin Karakuscu;Marco Cologna;Dmitry Yarotski;Jonghan Won

200
Citations
Direct transformation of vacancy voids to stacking fault tetrahedra.

B. P. Uberuaga;R. G. Hoagland;A. F. Voter;S. M. Valone

195
Citations
First-principles prediction of disordering tendencies in pyrochlore oxides

Chao Jiang;C. R. Stanek;K. E. Sickafus;B. P. Uberuaga

184
Citations
Cooperativity among defect sites in A O 2 + x and A 4 O 9 ( A = U , Np , Pu ) : Density functional calculations

D. A. Andersson;J. Lezama;J. Lezama;B. P. Uberuaga;C. Deo

178
Citations
U and Xe transport in UO 2 ± x : Density functional theory calculations

D. A. Andersson;B. P. Uberuaga;P. V. Nerikar;C. Unal

173
Citations
Accelerated molecular dynamics methods: introduction and recent developments

Blas Pedro Uberuaga;Arthur F Voter;Danny Perez;Y Shim

170
Citations
Vacancy-mediated dopant diffusion activation enthalpies for germanium

A. Chroneos;H. Bracht;R. W. Grimes;B. P. Uberuaga

166
Citations
Comparison of screened hybrid density functional theory to diffusion Monte Carlo in calculations of total energies of silicon phases and defects

Enrique R. Batista;Jochen Heyd;Richard G. Hennig;Blas P. Uberuaga

160
Citations
Role of atomic structure on grain boundary-defect interactions in Cu

Xian-Ming Bai;Louis J. Vernon;Richard G. Hoagland;Arthur F. Voter

147
Citations
Stick-slip behavior of grain boundaries studied by accelerated molecular dynamics

Y. Mishin;A. Suzuki;B. P. Uberuaga;A. F. Voter

144
Citations