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  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For simulations that revealed new phenomena in the kinetics of reaction systems, selfassembly of nanostructures, and diffusion in mesoporous systems

Overview

Kristen A. Fichthorn is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research focuses on topics such as nanoparticles nucleation and surface interactions, synthesis and applications of gold and silver nanoparticles, quantum dots synthesis and properties, nanomaterials and printing technologies, machine learning in materials science, molecular junctions and nanostructures, as well as copper-based nanomaterials and applications.

Recent publications by Kristen A. Fichthorn include the following:

  • "Nanoparticle Assembly and Oriented Attachment: Correlating Controlling Factors to the Resulting Structures," 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • "Theory of Anisotropic Metal Nanostructures," 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • "Isotropic Iodide Adsorption Causes Anisotropic Growth of Copper Microplates," 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • "Understanding crystal nucleation mechanisms: where do we stand? General discussion," 2022, Faraday Discussions
  • "Oriented attachment mechanism of triangular Ag nanoplates: a molecular dynamics study," 2020, Nanoscale Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fichthorn include:

  • Zihao Chen
  • Tianyu Yan
  • Eun Mi Kim
  • Benjamin J. Wiley
  • Omid Jahanmahin

They have published repeatedly in venues such as Nanoscale, Faraday Discussions, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, The Journal of Chemical Physics, and ECS Meeting Abstracts.

Kristen A. Fichthorn's research outputs cover a wide range of scientific and engineering challenges relating to nanomaterials and their properties, with particular attention to the mechanisms underlying nanoparticle behavior and growth.

In recognition of their work, Kristen A. Fichthorn was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010, cited for simulations revealing new phenomena in reaction kinetics, self-assembly of nanostructures, and diffusion within mesoporous systems.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical foundations of dynamical Monte Carlo simulations

    Kristen A. Fichthorn;W. H. Weinberg

  • Island nucleation in thin-film epitaxy: A first-principles investigation

    Kristen A. Fichthorn;Matthias Scheffler

  • Accelerated molecular dynamics with the bond-boost method

    Radu A. Miron;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Adsorption of Polyvinylpyrrolidone on Ag Surfaces: Insight into a Structure-Directing Agent

    W. A. Al-Saidi;Haijun Feng;Kristen Ann Fichthorn

  • Noise-induced bistability in a Monte Carlo surface-reaction model

    Kristen Ann Fichthorn;Erdogan Gulari;Robert Ziff

  • Mechanisms of oriented attachment of TiO2 nanocrystals in vacuum and humid environments: reactive molecular dynamics.

    Muralikrishna Raju;Adri C. T. van Duin;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Thermal Desorption of Large Molecules from Solid Surfaces

    Kristen Ann Fichthorn;Radu A. Miron

  • CONCERTED DIFFUSION OF MOLECULAR CLUSTERS IN A MOLECULAR SIEVE

    David S. Sholl;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • ReaxFF Reactive Force Field Study of the Dissociation of Water on Titania Surfaces

    Muralikrishna Raju;Sung Yup Kim;Adri C.T. Van Duin;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Normal, single-file, and dual-mode diffusion of binary adsorbate mixtures in AlPO4-5

    David S. Sholl;David S. Sholl;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Revisiting the Polyol Synthesis of Silver Nanostructures: Role of Chloride in Nanocube Formation.

    Zhifeng Chen;Tonnam Balankura;Kristen A. Fichthorn;Robert M. Rioux

  • Effects of Hierarchical Surface Roughness on Droplet Contact Angle.

    Michael S. Bell;Azar Shahraz;Kristen A. Fichthorn;Ali Borhan

  • Binding of Polyvinylpyrrolidone to Ag Surfaces: Insight into a Structure-Directing Agent from Dispersion-Corrected Density Functional Theory

    Wissam A. Saidi;Haijun Feng;Haijun Feng;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • How Structure-Directing Agents Control Nanocrystal Shape: Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Mediated Growth of Ag Nanocubes

    Xin Qi;Tonnam Balankura;Ya Zhou;Kristen Ann Fichthorn

  • Fractal clustering of reactants on a catalyst surface

    Robert M. Ziff;Kristen Fichthorn

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of the aggregation of titanium dioxide nanocrystals: preferential alignment.

    Mozhgan Alimohammadi;Kristen A Fichthorn

  • Sintering of aluminum nanoparticles: A molecular dynamics study

    J.S. Raut;R.B. Bhagat;K.A. Fichthorn

  • Multiple-time scale accelerated molecular dynamics: addressing the small-barrier problem.

    Radu A. Miron;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Molecular-dynamics simulation of forces between nanoparticles in a Lennard-Jones liquid

    Yong Qin;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Single-Crystal Electrochemistry Reveals Why Metal Nanowires Grow.

    Myung Jun Kim;Samuel Alvarez;Zihao Chen;Kristen A. Fichthorn

  • Multi-scale simulation of the thermal desorption of large molecules from solid surfaces

    K Fichthorn;A Kulkarni;R A Miron

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
David S. Sholl
David S. Sholl Georgia Institute of Technology
Erdogan Gulari
Erdogan Gulari University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christine D. Keating
Christine D. Keating Pennsylvania State University
Scott T. Milner
Scott T. Milner Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin J. Wiley
Benjamin J. Wiley Duke University
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University
Ronald G. Larson
Ronald G. Larson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert M. Rioux
Robert M. Rioux Pennsylvania State University
Peter T. Cummings
Peter T. Cummings Heriot-Watt University

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