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Donald W. Brenner is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including advanced materials and composites, high entropy alloys studies, diamond and carbon-based materials research, metal and thin film mechanics, high-temperature coating behaviors, advanced materials characterization techniques, and machine learning in materials science.

Recent publications by Donald W. Brenner include the following:

  • Disordered enthalpy-entropy descriptor for high-entropy ceramics discovery, 2024, Nature
  • High-Entropy Ultra-High-Temperature Borides and Carbides: A New Class of Materials for Extreme Environments, 2021, Annual Review of Materials Research
  • Electron and phonon thermal conductivity in high entropy carbides with variable carbon content, 2020, Acta Materialia
  • Entropy Landscaping of High-Entropy Carbides, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Carbon stoichiometry and mechanical properties of high entropy carbides, 2021, Acta Materialia

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stefano Curtarolo
  • Jon-Paul Maria
  • William G. Fahrenholtz
  • Eva Zurek
  • Cormac Toher

Publication venues where Donald W. Brenner has frequently contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Physical Review Materials

Best Publications

  • Empirical potential for hydrocarbons for use in simulating the chemical vapor deposition of diamond films

    Donald W. Brenner

  • A second-generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential energy expression for hydrocarbons

    Donald W Brenner;Olga A Shenderova;Judith A Harrison;Steven J Stuart

  • Energetics of Nanoscale Graphitic Tubules

    D. H. Robertson;D. W. Brenner;J. W. Mintmire

  • High-entropy high-hardness metal carbides discovered by entropy descriptors

    Pranab Sarker;Tyler Harrington;Cormac Toher;Corey Oses

  • Molecular Simulation of the Influence of Chemical Cross-Links on the Shear Strength of Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Interfaces

    S. J. V. Frankland;A. Caglar;D. W. Brenner;M. Griebel

  • Phase stability and mechanical properties of novel high entropy transition metal carbides

    Tyler J. Harrington;Joshua Gild;Pranab Sarker;Cormac Toher

  • Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology

    William A. Goddard;Donald W. Brenner;Sergey Edward Lyshevski;Gerald J. Iafrate

  • The stress–strain behavior of polymer–nanotube composites from molecular dynamics simulation

    S.J.V. Frankland;V.M. Harik;G.M. Odegard;D.W. Brenner

  • Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Nanotubes

    J. Bernholc;D. Brenner;M. Buongiorno Nardelli;V. Meunier

  • Charge-Induced Disorder Controls the Thermal Conductivity of Entropy-Stabilized Oxides

    Jeffrey L. Braun;Christina M. Rost;Mina Lim;Ashutosh Giri

  • Atomistic modeling of the fracture of polycrystalline diamond

    O. A. Shenderova;D. W. Brenner;A. Omeltchenko;X. Su

  • Molecular-dynamics simulations of atomic-scale friction of diamond surfaces.

    Harrison Ja;White Ct;Colton Rj;Brenner Dw

  • The Art and Science of an Analytic Potential

    D.W. Brenner

  • Colloidal stability of modified nanodiamond particles

    N. Gibson;O. Shenderova;O. Shenderova;T.J.M. Luo;S. Moseenkov

  • Erratum: Empirical potential for hydrocarbons for use in simulating the chemical vapor deposition of diamond films [Phys. Rev. B 42, 9458 (1990)]

    Donald W. Brenner

  • Influence of Chemisorption on the Thermal Conductivity of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

    Clifford W. Padgett;Donald W. Brenner

  • Predictions of Enhanced Chemical Reactivity at Regions of Local Conformational Strain on Carbon Nanotubes: Kinky Chemistry

    Deepak Srivastava;Donald W. Brenner;J. David Schall;Kevin D. Ausman

  • Carbon nanostructures for advanced composites

    Yanhong Hu;Olga A Shenderova;Zushou Hu;Clifford W Padgett

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dimer Opening on a Diamond {001}(2x1) Surface

    Barbara J. Garrison;Eric J. Dawnkaski;Deepak Srivastava;Donald W. Brenner

  • Mechanical properties of nanotubule fibers and composites determined from theoretical calculations and simulations

    S.B. Sinnott;O.A. Shenderova;C.T. White;D.W. Brenner

  • Carbon Nanostructures

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Frequent Co-Authors

Carter T. White
Carter T. White United States Naval Research Laboratory
Olga Shenderova
Olga Shenderova Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc.
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Jon-Paul Maria
Jon-Paul Maria Pennsylvania State University
Barbara J. Garrison
Barbara J. Garrison Pennsylvania State University
Patrick E. Hopkins
Patrick E. Hopkins University of Virginia
Susan B. Sinnott
Susan B. Sinnott Pennsylvania State University
Stefano Curtarolo
Stefano Curtarolo Duke University
Kenneth S. Vecchio
Kenneth S. Vecchio University of California, San Diego
Jian Luo
Jian Luo University of California, San Diego

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