World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Christopher A. Schuh

Christopher A. Schuh

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
93
Citations
33873
World Ranking
1448
National Ranking
452

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to design science and application of nanocrystalline metals.
  • 2017 - ASM Fellow "For leadership in the fields of materials science, engineering, and education, including the successful integration of fundamental science into the design, fabrication, and commercial implementation of advanced materials products."

Overview

Christopher A. Schuh is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions across subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics Christopher A. Schuh has worked on include:

  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • Advanced materials and composites
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Schuh include:

  • "Nanotwinning-assisted dynamic recrystallization at high strains and strain rates" (2022), published in Nature Materials
  • "Learning grain boundary segregation energy spectra in polycrystals" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Stability of nanocrystalline metals: The role of grain-boundary chemistry and structure" (2021), published in MRS Bulletin
  • "Particle size effects in metallic microparticle impact-bonding" (2020), published in Acta Materialia
  • "Particle flattening during cold spray: Mechanistic regimes revealed by single particle impact tests" (2020), published in Surface and Coatings Technology

The most frequent publication venues for Schuh's work include:

  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scripta Materialia
  • Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources

Frequent collaborators in Schuh's research include Malik Wagih, Nutth Tuchinda, Keith A. Nelson, Edward L. Pang, and Griselda Bonilla.

Christopher A. Schuh has been recognized with several awards, including Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2019), Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019) for contributions to design science and application of nanocrystalline metals, and ASM Fellow (2017) acknowledged for leadership in materials science, engineering, and education, including integration of fundamental science into the design, fabrication, and commercial implementation of advanced materials products.

Best Publications

  • Mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

    Christopher A. Schuh;Todd C. Hufnagel;Upadrasta Ramamurty

  • Six decades of the Hall–Petch effect – a survey of grain-size strengthening studies on pure metals

    Zachary Copoulos Cordero;Braden E. Knight;Christopher A Schuh

  • Design of stable nanocrystalline alloys.

    Tongjai Chookajorn;Heather A. Murdoch;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Nanoindentation studies of materials

    Christopher A. Schuh

  • A nanoindentation study of serrated flow in bulk metallic glasses

    C.A. Schuh;T.G. Nieh

  • The effect of solid solution W additions on the mechanical properties of nanocrystalline Ni

    C.A. Schuh;T.G. Nieh;H. Iwasaki

  • Atomistic basis for the plastic yield criterion of metallic glass.

    Christopher A. Schuh;Alan C. Lund

  • New regime of homogeneous flow in the deformation map of metallic glasses: elevated temperature nanoindentation experiments and mechanistic modeling

    Christopher A. Schuh;Alan C. Lund;T.G. Nieh

  • Deformation of metallic glasses: Recent developments in theory, simulations, and experiments

    Todd C. Hufnagel;Christopher A. Schuh;Michael L. Falk

  • Quantitative insight into dislocation nucleation from high-temperature nanoindentation experiments.

    C. A. Schuh;J. K. Mason;A. C. Lund

  • Hall–Petch breakdown manifested in abrasive wear resistance of nanocrystalline nickel

    C.A. Schuh;T.G. Nieh;T. Yamasaki

  • Tailoring and patterning the grain size of nanocrystalline alloys

    Andrew J. Detor;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Sliding wear of nanocrystalline Ni-W: Structural evolution and the apparent breakdown of Archard scaling

    Timothy J. Rupert;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Grain boundary segregation and thermodynamically stable binary nanocrystalline alloys

    Jason R. Trelewicz;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Analysis of grain boundary networks and their evolution during grain boundary engineering

    Christopher A. Schuh;Mukul Kumar;Wayne E. King

  • The Hall-Petch breakdown in nanocrystalline metals: A crossover to glass-like deformation

    Jason R. Trelewicz;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Adiabatic shear instability is not necessary for adhesion in cold spray

    Mostafa Hassani-Gangaraj;David Veysset;Victor K. Champagne;Keith A. Nelson

  • A survey of instrumented indentation studies on metallic glasses

    C.A. Schuh;T.G. Nieh

  • Nanoscale shape-memory alloys for ultrahigh mechanical damping.

    Jose San Juan;Jose San Juan;Maria L Nó;Christopher A Schuh

  • Shape Memory and Superelastic Ceramics at Small Scales

    Alan Lai;Zehui Du;Chee Lip Gan;Christopher A. Schuh

  • Grain boundary segregation, chemical ordering and stability of nanocrystalline alloys: Atomistic computer simulations in the Ni–W system

    Andrew J. Detor;Christopher A. Schuh

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Dunand
David C. Dunand Northwestern University
Jan Schroers
Jan Schroers Yale University
T.G. Nieh
T.G. Nieh University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yat Li
Yat Li University of California, Santa Cruz
Mukul Kumar
Mukul Kumar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Rodney
David Rodney Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Hidetoshi Somekawa
Hidetoshi Somekawa National Institute for Materials Science

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Christopher A. Schuh

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles