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Jaakko Akola is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
  • Glass properties and applications
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies

Akola's recent publications demonstrate contributions in multiple areas of materials research. Selected papers include:

  • "Structure and properties of densified silica glass: characterizing the order within disorder" (2020, NPG Asia Materials)
  • "Conductivity control via minimally invasive anti-Frenkel defects in a functional oxide" (2020, Nature Materials)
  • "Very sharp diffraction peak in nonglass-forming liquid with the formation of distorted tetraclusters" (2020, NPG Asia Materials)
  • "Precipitate formation in aluminium alloys: Multi-scale modelling approach" (2020, Acta Materialia)
  • "Strain-engineered widely tunable perfect absorption angle in black phosphorus from first principles" (2020, Physical Review B)

Akola often collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sander Ø. Hanslin
  • Konstantinos Konstantinou
  • Didrik R. Småbråten
  • Sverre M. Selbach
  • Hannes Jónsson

Their publications are found across prominent venues such as:

  • Physical Review B
  • Nature Materials
  • Acta Materialia
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Best Publications

  • A unified view of ligand-protected gold clusters as superatom complexes

    Michael Walter;Jaakko Akola;Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Pablo D. Jadzinsky

  • On the structure of thiolate-protected Au25

    Jaakko Akola;Michael Walter;Robert L. Whetten;Hannu Häkkinen

  • Structural phase transitions on the nanoscale: The crucial pattern in the phase-change materials Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 and GeTe

    J. Akola;J. Akola;R. O. Jones

  • Structure and Bonding in the Ubiquitous Icosahedral Metallic Gold Cluster Au144(SR)60

    Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Jaakko Akola;Robert L. Whetten;Henrik Grönbeck

  • Quantum size effects in ambient CO oxidation catalysed by ligand-protected gold clusters

    Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Katarzyna A. Kacprzak;Jaakko Akola;Jaakko Akola;Hannu Häkkinen

  • Photoelectron spectra of aluminum cluster anions: Temperature effects and ab initio simulations

    Jaakko Akola;Matti Manninen;Hannu Häkkinen;Uzi Landman

  • From local structure to nanosecond recrystallization dynamics in AgInSbTe phase-change materials

    Toshiyuki Matsunaga;Jaakko Akola;Jaakko Akola;Jaakko Akola;Shinji Kohara;Tetsuo Honma

  • Highly ductile amorphous oxide at room temperature and high strain rate.

    Erkka J. Frankberg;Erkka J. Frankberg;Janne Kalikka;Francisco García Ferré;Lucile Joly-Pottuz

  • Ionization potential of aluminum clusters

    J. Akola;H. Häkkinen;M. Manninen

  • Aluminum cluster anions: Photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio simulations

    Jaakko Akola;Matti Manninen;Hannu Häkkinen;Uzi Landman

  • Density functional study of amorphous, liquid and crystalline Ge(2)Sb(2)Te(5): homopolar bonds and/or AB alternation?

    J Akola;J Akola;R O Jones

  • Binary Alloys of Ge and Te: Order, Voids, and the Eutectic Composition

    J. Akola;J. Akola;R. O. Jones

  • ATP Hydrolysis in Water − A Density Functional Study

    J. Akola;R. O. Jones

  • Relationship between topological order and glass forming ability in densely packed enstatite and forsterite composition glasses

    S. Kohara;J. Akola;H. Morita;K. Suzuya

  • Density functional study of alkali-metal atoms and monolayers on graphite (0001)

    K. Rytkönen;J. Akola;M. Manninen

  • Edge-dependent selection rules in magic triangular graphene flakes

    J. Akola;H. P. Heiskanen;M. Manninen

  • Experimentally constrained density-functional calculations of the amorphous structure of the prototypical phase-change material Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5

    J. Akola;J. Akola;R. O. Jones;S. Kohara;S. Kimura

  • Thiolate-Protected Au25 Superatoms as Building Blocks: Dimers and Crystals†

    Jaakko Akola;Katarzyna A. Kacprzak;Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Michael Walter

  • Molecular-Scale Ligand Effects in Small Gold–Thiolate Nanoclusters

    Daniel M. Chevrier;Lluís Raich;Carme Rovira;Carme Rovira;Anindita Das

  • Atomistic Simulations of Functional Au144(SR)60 Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Environment

    Elena Heikkilä;Andrey A. Gurtovenko;Andrey A. Gurtovenko;Hector Martinez-Seara;Hannu Häkkinen

  • A density functional investigation of thiolate-protected bimetal PdAu24(SR)18z clusters: doping the superatom complex

    Katarzyna A. Kacprzak;Lauri Lehtovaara;Jaakko Akola;Jaakko Akola;Olga Lopez-Acevedo

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannu Häkkinen
Hannu Häkkinen University of Jyväskylä
Shinji Kohara
Shinji Kohara National Institute for Materials Science
Richard E. Palmer
Richard E. Palmer Swansea University
Masaki Takata
Masaki Takata Tohoku University
Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata Waseda University
Carme Rovira
Carme Rovira University of Barcelona
Kari Laasonen
Kari Laasonen Aalto University
Kirill Kovnir
Kirill Kovnir Iowa State University
Henrik Grönbeck
Henrik Grönbeck Chalmers University of Technology
Keisuke Kobayashi
Keisuke Kobayashi Japan Atomic Energy Agency

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