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66
Citations
37825
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5223
National Ranking
1362

Chemistry

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Citations
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Blas P. Uberuaga publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Blas P. Uberuaga sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 375 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Blas P. Uberuaga D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Blas P. Uberuaga sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Defect-interface interactions

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

  • Radiation damage tolerant nanomaterials

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

  • Machine learning bandgaps of double perovskites

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Chapter 4 Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods: Introduction and Recent Developments

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

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

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

  • Radiation Effects in Solids

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

  • Defect Structure of Flash‐Sintered Strontium Titanate

    Aylin Karakuscu;Marco Cologna;Dmitry Yarotski;Jonghan Won

  • Direct transformation of vacancy voids to stacking fault tetrahedra.

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

  • First-principles prediction of disordering tendencies in pyrochlore oxides

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Accelerated molecular dynamics methods: introduction and recent developments

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

  • Vacancy-mediated dopant diffusion activation enthalpies for germanium

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur F. Voter
Arthur F. Voter Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kurt E. Sickafus
Kurt E. Sickafus University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Amit Misra
Amit Misra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robin W. Grimes
Robin W. Grimes Imperial College London
Yongqiang Wang
Yongqiang Wang Los Alamos National Laboratory
Terry G. Holesinger
Terry G. Holesinger Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quanxi Jia
Quanxi Jia University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Richard G. Hoagland
Richard G. Hoagland Los Alamos National Laboratory
Simon R. Phillpot
Simon R. Phillpot University of Florida
Michael Nastasi
Michael Nastasi Texas A&M University

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