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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the understanding of structures of melts, amorphous metals, and semiconductors.
  • 2005 - Heyn Commemorative Medal
  • 1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of isoconfigurational atomic transport in metallic glasses and of crystalmelt interfaces

Overview

Frans Spaepen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research work spans multiple disciplines including Materials Science, Engineering, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to Material Dynamics and Properties, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, RNA Research and Splicing, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Recent publications by Frans Spaepen include the following papers:

  • Biomolecular condensates with complex architectures via controlled nucleation (2024) in Nature Chemical Engineering
  • Microscopic origins of the crystallographically preferred growth in evaporation-induced colloidal crystals (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Propagation of extended fractures by local nucleation and rapid transverse expansion of crack-front distortion (2024) in Nature Physics
  • Work hardening in colloidal crystals (2024) in Nature
  • Dislocation interactions during plastic relaxation of epitaxial colloidal crystals (2023) in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Spaepen include:

  • David A. Weitz (12 collaborations)
  • Ilya Svetlizky (4 collaborations)
  • Michael P. Brenner (3 collaborations)
  • Seong-Soo Kim (3 collaborations)
  • Joseph Z. Terdik (3 collaborations)

Publication venues where Frans Spaepen has frequently published are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)
  • Physical Review E (2 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (2 publications)
  • Nature Chemical Engineering (1 publication)

Among recognitions received, Frans Spaepen has been awarded the Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2008, became a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for contributions to the understanding of structures of melts, amorphous metals, and semiconductors, received the Heyn Commemorative Medal in 2005, and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 for work related to atomic transport in metallic glasses and crystal-melt interfaces.

Best Publications

  • A microscopic mechanism for steady state inhomogeneous flow in metallic glasses

    Frans Spaepen

  • Tensile testing of free-standing Cu, Ag and Al thin films and Ag/Cu multilayers

    Haibo Huang;F Spaepen

  • Strain localization in amorphous metals

    P.S. Steif;F. Spaepen;J.W. Hutchinson

  • Interfaces and stresses in thin films

    F Spaepen

  • Structural Rearrangements That Govern Flow in Colloidal Glasses

    Peter Schall;Peter Schall;David A. Weitz;David A. Weitz;Frans Spaepen;Frans Spaepen

  • A structural model for the solid-liquid interface in monatomic systems

    Frans Spaepen

  • Research opportunities on clusters and cluster-assembled materials—A Department of Energy, Council on Materials Science Panel Report

    R. P. Andres;Robert S Averback;W. L. Brown;L. E. Brus

  • Effect of sample size on deformation in amorphous metals

    C. A. Volkert;A. Donohue;F. Spaepen

  • Calorimetric studies of crystallization and relaxation of amorphous Si and Ge prepared by ion implantation

    E. P. Donovan;F. Spaepen;D. Turnbull;J. M. Poate

  • On the approximation of the free energy change on crystallization

    Carl V. Thompson;Frans Spaepen

  • Structural relaxation and defect annihilation in pure amorphous silicon

    S. Roorda;W. C. Sinke;J. M. Poate;D. C. Jacobson

  • The kinetics of structural relaxation of a metallic glass

    A.I Taub;F Spaepen

  • Heat of crystallization and melting point of amorphous silicon

    E. P. Donovan;F. Spaepen;D. Turnbull;J. M. Poate

  • Calorimetric evidence for the microquasicrystalline structure of amorphous Al/transition metal alloys

    L. C. Chen;F. Spaepen

  • Homogeneous crystal nucleation in binary metallic melts

    C.V. Thompson;F. Spaepen

  • DENSITY OF AMORPHOUS SI

    J. S. Custer;Michael O. Thompson;D. C. Jacobson;J. M. Poate

  • The yield strength of thin copper films on Kapton

    Denis Y. W. Yu;Frans Spaepen

  • Analysis of calorimetric measurements of grain growth

    L. C. Chen;F. Spaepen

  • The structure of grain boundaries described as a packing of polyhedra

    M.F. Ashby;F. Spaepen;S. Williams

  • Polytetrahedral Order in Condensed Matter

    David R. Nelson;Frans Spaepen

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz Harvard University
David Turnbull
David Turnbull Harvard University
Michael J. Aziz
Michael J. Aziz Harvard University
Jene Andrew Golovchenko
Jene Andrew Golovchenko Harvard University
Matthias Wuttig
Matthias Wuttig RWTH Aachen University
John M. Poate
John M. Poate Nokia (United States)
Lee Goldman
Lee Goldman Columbia University
Byungwoo Park
Byungwoo Park Seoul National University
Daniel Josell
Daniel Josell National Institute of Standards and Technology

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