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  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development and application of models of the nonequilibrium processes of epitaxy, chemisorption and catalytic reactions at surfaces

Overview

James W. Evans is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Recent papers contributed by James W. Evans include:

  • "Mild and Selective Hydrogenation of Nitrate to Ammonia in the Absence of Noble Metals" (2020), published in ACS Catalysis
  • "Sierpiński Structure and Electronic Topology in Bi Thin Films on InSb(111)B Surfaces" (2021), published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Strain-Enhanced Metallic Intermixing in Shape-Controlled Multilayered Core-Shell Nanostructures: Toward Shaped Intermetallics" (2020), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Thermodynamic Preference for Atom Adsorption on versus Intercalation into Multilayer Graphene" (2020), published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Adsorption, intercalation, diffusion, and adhesion of Cu at the 2H−MoS2 (0001) surface from first-principles calculations" (2020), published in Physical Review Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Evans include Yong Han, Michael C. Tringides, Da-Jiang Liu, King C. Lai, and P. A. Thiel.

The scientist's publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Physical Review E
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

James W. Evans received the honor of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002. The citation recognized their development and application of models of nonequilibrium processes related to epitaxy, chemisorption, and catalytic reactions at surfaces.

Best Publications

  • Electrochemical measurement of transference numbers in polymer electrolytes

    James Evans;Colin A. Vincent;Peter G. Bruce

  • Morphological evolution during epitaxial thin film growth: Formation of 2D islands and 3D mounds

    J.W. Evans;P.A. Thiel;M.C. Bartelt;M.C. Bartelt

  • Scaling analysis of diffusion-mediated island growth in surface adsorption processes.

    M. C. Bartelt;James W. Evans

  • Conductivity and transference number measurements on polymer electrolytes

    Peter G. Bruce;James Evans;Colin A. Vincent

  • Diffusion of Large Two-Dimensional Ag Clusters on Ag(100)

    J.-M. Wen;S.-L. Chang;Joseph W. Burnett;James W. Evans

  • Low-temperature epitaxial growth of thin metal films

    James W. Evans;D. E. Sanders;Patricia A. Thiel;Andrew E. DePristo

  • Coarsening mechanisms in a metal film: From cluster diffusion to vacancy ripening

    J.-M. Wen;James W. Evans;M. C. Bartelt;Joseph W. Burnett

  • Fluctuation-Induced Transitions in a Bistable Surface Reaction: Catalytic CO Oxidation on a Pt Field Emitter Tip

    Yu Suchorski;J. Beben;E. W. James;James W. Evans

  • Organic solar cells and fully printed super-capacitors optimized for indoor light energy harvesting

    Balthazar P. Lechêne;Martin Cowell;Adrien Pierre;James W. Evans

  • Nucleation and growth of square islands during deposition: Sizes, coalescence, separations and correlations

    M.C. Bartelt;J.W. Evans

  • Growth morphology and properties of metals on graphene

    Xiaojie Liu;Yong Han;Yong Han;James W. Evans;James W. Evans;Albert K. Engstfeld

  • Exact island-size distributions for submonolayer deposition: Influence of correlations between island size and separation

    M. C. Bartelt;James W. Evans

  • Transition to Multilayer Kinetic Roughening for Metal (100) Homoepitaxy

    M. C. Bartelt;James W. Evans

  • Kinetic phase transitions in catalytic reaction models

    James W. Evans

  • Characterizing kinetics near a first-order catalytic-poisoning transition.

    James W. Evans;M. S. Miesch

  • Anisotropy in nucleation and growth of two-dimensional islands during homoepitaxy on "hex" reconstructed Au(100).

    S. Günther;E. Kopatzki;M. C. Bartelt;James W. Evans

  • Factors mediating smoothness in epitaxial thin-film growth

    James W. Evans

  • Coarsening of Two-Dimensional Nanoclusters on Metal Surfaces

    Patricia A. Thiel;Mingmin Shen;Da-Jiang Liu;James W. Evans

  • Corrosion of Aluminum Current Collectors in Lithium-Ion Batteries with Electrolytes Containing LiPF6

    Xueyuan Zhang;Bryon Winget;Marca Doeff;James W. Evans;James W. Evans

  • Fluctuations and critical phenomena in catalytic CO oxidation on nanoscale Pt facets

    Yu. Suchorski;J. Beben;R. Imbihl;E. W. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Cai-Zhuang Wang
Cai-Zhuang Wang Iowa State University
Li Huang
Li Huang Southern University of Science and Technology
Andreas K. Schmid
Andreas K. Schmid Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thomas A. Lograsso
Thomas A. Lograsso Ames Laboratory
Talat S. Rahman
Talat S. Rahman University of Central Florida
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
Klaus Kern
Klaus Kern Max Planck Society
Kai-Ming Ho
Kai-Ming Ho Iowa State University
Alan I. Goldman
Alan I. Goldman Iowa State University
Jin-Feng Jia
Jin-Feng Jia Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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