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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal experiments demonstrating the importance of vibrational entropy to the phase stability of materials and transformational leadership in the development of neutron scattering techniques

Overview

Brent Fultz is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans Materials Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The main topics addressed in their work include nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, high-pressure geophysics and materials, material dynamics and properties, solidification and crystal growth phenomena, thermal properties of materials, microstructure and mechanical properties, and metallic glasses and amorphous alloys.

The scientist has contributed notably to the literature through various papers, including:

  • A thermodynamic explanation of the Invar effect, 2023, Nature Physics
  • Temperature-dependent phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of silicon by inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio calculations, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Magmatic and post-magmatic evolution of post-collisional rare-metal bearing granite: The Neoproterozoic Homrit Akarem Granitic Intrusion, south Eastern Desert of Egypt, Arabian-Nubian Shield, 2021, Geochemistry
  • Anharmonic Origin of the Giant Thermal Expansion of NaBr, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Temperature dependence of electron-phonon interactions in vanadium, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Their frequent co-authors include S. H. Lohaus, C. M. Bernal-Choban, C. N. Saunders, D. L. Abernathy, and Hillary L. Smith.

Among publication venues where Brent Fultz often publishes are:

  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Physical Review Materials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Physics
  • Geochemistry

The scientist has also authored a book titled Phase Transitions in Materials, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Brent Fultz was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017. The citation recognizes seminal experiments demonstrating the importance of vibrational entropy to the phase stability of materials and leadership in the development of neutron scattering techniques.

Best Publications

  • Transmission electron microscopy and diffractometry of materials

    Brent Fultz;James M. Howe

  • Hydrogen adsorption and cohesive energy of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Y. Ye;C. C. Ahn;C. Witham;B. Fultz

  • Highly Reversible Lithium Storage in Nanostructured Silicon

    J. Graetz;C. C. Ahn;R. Yazami;B. Fultz

  • Vibrational thermodynamics of materials

    Brent Fultz

  • Altering Hydrogen Storage Properties by Hydride Destabilization through Alloy Formation: LiH and MgH2 Destabilized with Si

    John J. Vajo;Florian Mertens;Channing C. Ahn;Robert C. Bowman

  • White lines and d-electron occupancies for the 3d and 4d transition metals

    D. H. Pearson;C. C. Ahn;B. Fultz

  • Nanocrystalline and Thin Film Germanium Electrodes with High Lithium Capacity and High Rate Capabilities

    J. Graetz;C. C. Ahn;R. Yazami;B. Fultz

  • Structure of the high voltage phase of layered P2-Na2/3−z[Mn1/2Fe1/2]O2 and the positive effect of Ni substitution on its stability

    Elahe Talaie;Victor Duffort;Hillary L. Smith;Brent Fultz

  • Hydrogen desorption and adsorption measurements on graphite nanofibers

    C. C. Ahn;Y. Ye;B. V. Ratnakumar;C. K. Witham

  • Electrochemical Studies on LaNi(sub 5-x)Sn(sub x) Metal Hydride Alloys

    B. V. Ratnakumar;C. Witham;R. C. Bowman;A. Hightower

  • Irreversible Capacities of Graphite in Low‐Temperature Electrolytes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    M. C. Smart;B. V. Ratnakumar;S. Surampudi;Y. Wang

  • Metallic Hydrides I: Hydrogen Storage and Other Gas- Phase Applications

    Robert C. Bowman;Brent Fultz

  • Thermodynamics of Lithium Intercalation into Graphites and Disordered Carbons

    Yvan Reynier;Rachid Yazami;Brent Fultz

  • The entropy and enthalpy of lithium intercalation into graphite

    Yvan Reynier;Rachid Yazami;Brent Fultz

  • Phase Diagram of Li x FePO4

    J. L. Dodd;R. Yazami;B. Fultz

  • Phonons in Nanocrystalline 57 Fe

    B. Fultz;C. C. Ahn;E. E. Alp;W. Sturhahn

  • Hexagonal to Cubic Spinel Transformation in Lithiated Cobalt Oxide TEM Investigation

    Heike Gabrisch;Rachid Yazami;Rachid Yazami;Brent Fultz

  • Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials

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  • The effect of tin on the degradation of LaNi5−ySny metal hydrides during thermal cycling

    R.C. Bowman;C.H. Luo;C.C. Ahn;C.K. Witham

  • Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials

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  • Anomalous Isosteric Enthalpy of Adsorption of Methane on Zeolite-Templated Carbon

    Nicholas P. Stadie;Maxwell Murialdo;Channing C. Ahn;Brent Fultz

  • Phonon anharmonicity of rutile TiO 2 studied by Raman spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations

    Tian Lan;Xiaoli Tang;Brent Fultz

  • Zeolite-templated carbon materials for high-pressure hydrogen storage.

    Nicholas P. Stadie;John J. Vajo;Robert W. Cumberland;Andrew A. Wilson

  • Entropy of Li intercalation in LixCoO2

    Yvan Reynier;Yvan Reynier;Jason Graetz;Tabitha Swan-Wood;Peter Rez

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Bowman
Robert C. Bowman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Morris
John Morris University of California, Berkeley
James M. Howe
James M. Howe University of Virginia
Jason Graetz
Jason Graetz HRL Laboratories (United States)
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Xun-Li Wang
Xun-Li Wang City University of Hong Kong
Tian Lan
Tian Lan George Washington University
Paul C. Canfield
Paul C. Canfield Iowa State University
William L. Johnson
William L. Johnson California Institute of Technology
Craig M. Brown
Craig M. Brown National Institute of Standards and Technology

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