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Materials Science

D-Index
58
Citations
31433
World Ranking
7534
National Ranking
1858

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
32285
World Ranking
10431
National Ranking
2879

Davide Donadio 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 Davide Donadio sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 209 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Davide Donadio 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 Davide Donadio sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% 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

  • 2023 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
  • 2022 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Davide Donadio is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their primary area of research lies within the field of Materials Science, with a substantial focus on Materials Chemistry and related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Their work also spans Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Spectroscopy.

The main topics explored in Donadio's research encompass thermal properties of materials, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional areas of interest include crystallization and solubility studies, machine learning applications in materials science, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Donadio include Zekun Chen, Kirill Kovnir, Shunda Chen, Frank Cerasoli, and Margaret L. Berrens.

Their research has been published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Review B

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Direct observation of ultrafast hydrogen bond strengthening in liquid water, 2021, Nature
  • Bathochromic Shift in the UV-Visible Absorption Spectra of Phenols at Ice Surfaces: Insights from First-Principles Calculations, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Non-Fourier heat transport in nanosystems, 2023, Rivista Del Nuovo Cimento
  • III-V Clathrate Semiconductors with Outstanding Hole Mobility: Cs8In27Sb19 and A8Ga27Sb19 (A = Cs, Rb), 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Engineering Thermal Transport across Layered Graphene-MoS2 Superlattices, 2021, ACS Nano

Davide Donadio was awarded the Hellman Fellow recognition in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling

    Giovanni Bussi;Davide Donadio;Michele Parrinello

  • PLUMED: a portable plugin for free-energy calculations with molecular dynamics

    Massimiliano Bonomi;Davide Branduardi;Giovanni Bussi;Carlo Camilloni

  • Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations

    M. Bonomi;M. Bonomi;B. Giovanni;C. Camilloni;G.A. Tribello

  • Length-dependent thermal conductivity in suspended single-layer graphene.

    Xiangfan Xu;Luiz F. C. Pereira;Yu Wang;Jing Wu

  • Atomistic simulations of heat transport in silicon nanowires.

    Davide Donadio;Giulia Galli

  • Force and heat current formulas for many-body potentials in molecular dynamics simulations with applications to thermal conductivity calculations

    Zheyong Fan;Zheyong Fan;Luiz Felipe C. Pereira;Hui-Qiong Wang;Jin-Cheng Zheng

  • Homogeneous ice nucleation from supercooled water

    Tianshu Li;Davide Donadio;Giovanna Russo;Giulia Galli

  • Freezing of a Lennard-Jones fluid: from nucleation to spinodal regime.

    Federica Trudu;Davide Donadio;Michele Parrinello

  • Crystal structure transformations in SiO2 from classical and ab initio metadynamics.

    Roman Martonak;Davide Donadio;Artem R. Oganov;Michele Parrinello

  • Metadynamics Simulations of the High-Pressure Phases of Silicon Employing a High-Dimensional Neural Network Potential

    Jörg Behler;Jörg Behler;Roman Martoňák;Roman Martoňák;Davide Donadio;Davide Donadio;Michele Parrinello

  • Thermal conductivity of isolated and interacting carbon nanotubes: comparing results from molecular dynamics and the boltzmann transport equation.

    Davide Donadio;Giulia Galli

  • Hamiltonian adaptive resolution simulation for molecular liquids.

    Raffaello Potestio;Sebastian Fritsch;Pep Español;Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni

  • Nanophononics: state of the art and perspectives

    Sebastian Volz;Jose Ordonez-Miranda;Andrey Shchepetov;Mika Prunnila

  • Blocking Phonon Transport by Structural Resonances in Alloy-Based Nanophononic Metamaterials Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

    Shiyun Xiong;Shiyun Xiong;Kimmo Sääskilahti;Yuriy A. Kosevich;Yuriy A. Kosevich;Haoxue Han

  • Modeling heat transport in crystals and glasses from a unified lattice-dynamical approach.

    Leyla Isaeva;Giuseppe Barbalinardo;Davide Donadio;Stefano Baroni

  • Temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of thin silicon nanowires

    Davide Donadio;Giulia Galli

  • Divergence of the thermal conductivity in uniaxially strained graphene

    Luiz Felipe C. Pereira;Davide Donadio

  • Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice

    M. Alejandra Sánchez;Tanja Kling;Tatsuya Ishiyama;Marc Jan Van Zadel

  • First Principles Simulations of the Infrared Spectrum of Liquid Water Using Hybrid Density Functionals

    Cui Zhang;Davide Donadio;François Gygi;Giulia Galli

  • An electrochemical thermal transistor

    Aditya Sood;Feng Xiong;Feng Xiong;Shunda Chen;Haotian Wang;Haotian Wang

  • Atomistic Simulations of Heat Transport in Silicon Nanowires

    Davide Donadio

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulia Galli
Giulia Galli University of Chicago
Marco Bernasconi
Marco Bernasconi University of Milano-Bicocca
Francois Gygi
Francois Gygi University of California, Davis
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Eric Pop
Eric Pop Stanford University
Kenneth E. Goodson
Kenneth E. Goodson Stanford University
Luciano Colombo
Luciano Colombo University of Cagliari
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Tapio Ala-Nissila
Tapio Ala-Nissila Aalto University

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