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Overview

Kristin A. Persson is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their academic output includes numerous contributions centered on topics such as Machine Learning in Materials Science, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions.

Kristin A. Persson has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • npj Computational Materials

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Persson are:

  • "Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation "Beyond Li-ion" Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization" (2020), published in Chemical Reviews
  • "An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of novel materials" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Uncharted Waters: Super-Concentrated Electrolytes" (2020), published in Joule
  • "Efficient calculation of carrier scattering rates from first principles" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "A Review on Challenges and Successes in Atomic-Scale Design of Catalysts for Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide" (2020), published in ACS Catalysis

Frequent collaborators include Matthew K. Horton, Gerbrand Ceder, Shyam Dwaraknath, Matthew J. McDermott, and Anubhav Jain. These collaborations reflect a sustained joint effort in topics relevant to advanced materials research.

Best Publications

  • Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

    Anubhav Jain;Shyue Ping Ong;Geoffroy Hautier;Wei-Wei Chen

  • Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis

    Shyue Ping Ong;William Davidson Richards;Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier

  • Promises and challenges of next-generation "beyond Li-ion" batteries for electric vehicles and grid decarbonization

    Yaosen Tian;Yaosen Tian;Guobo Zeng;Guobo Zeng;Ann Rutt;Tan Shi

  • Formation enthalpies by mixing GGA and GGA + U calculations

    Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier;Shyue Ping Ong;Charles J. Moore

  • Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges

    Pieremanuele Canepa;Pieremanuele Canepa;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Daniel C. Hannah;Rahul Malik

  • A high-throughput infrastructure for density functional theory calculations

    Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier;Charles J. Moore;Shyue Ping Ong

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

    Maarten de Jong;Wei Chen;Thomas Angsten;Anubhav Jain

  • Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature

    Vahe Tshitoyan;Vahe Tshitoyan;John Dagdelen;John Dagdelen;Leigh Weston;Alexander Dunn;Alexander Dunn

  • Surface energies of elemental crystals

    Richard Tran;Zihan Xu;Balachandran Radhakrishnan;Donald Winston

  • Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

    Logan Ward;Logan Ward;Alexander Dunn;Alexander Dunn;Alireza Faghaninia;Nils E.R. Zimmermann

  • Lithium Diffusion in Graphitic Carbon

    Kristin Persson;Kristin Persson;Vijay A. Sethuraman;Vijay A. Sethuraman;Laurence J. Hardwick;Laurence J. Hardwick;Yoyo Hinuma;Yoyo Hinuma

  • The Thermodynamic Scale of Inorganic Crystalline Metastability

    Wenhao Sun;Stephen Dacek;Shyue Ping Ong;Geoffroy Hautier

  • Computational predictions of energy materials using density functional theory

    Anubhav Jain;Yongwoo Shin;Kristin A. Persson;Kristin A. Persson

  • Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors.

    Rachel Woods-Robinson;Rachel Woods-Robinson;Rachel Woods-Robinson;Yanbing Han;Yanbing Han;Hanyu Zhang;Tursun Ablekim

  • Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation

    Daniel P. Tabor;Loïc M. Roch;Semion K. Saikin;Christoph Kreisbeck

  • The Abinit project: Impact, environment and recent developments

    Xavier Gonze;Bernard Amadon;Gabriel Antonius;Frédéric Arnardi

  • Materials Design Rules for Multivalent Ion Mobility in Intercalation Structures

    Ziqin Rong;Rahul Malik;Pieremanuele Canepa;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

  • Lattice instabilities in metallic elements

    Göran Grimvall;Blanka Magyari-Köpe;Vidvuds Ozoliņš;Kristin A. Persson

  • Spinel compounds as multivalent battery cathodes: A systematic evaluation based on ab initio calculations

    Miao Liu;Ziqin Rong;Rahul Malik;Pieremanuele Canepa

  • Efficient calculation of carrier scattering rates from first principles

    Alex M. Ganose;Junsoo Park;Alireza Faghaninia;Rachel Woods-Robinson;Rachel Woods-Robinson

  • The Materials Application Programming Interface (API): A simple, flexible and efficient API for materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles

    Shyue Ping Ong;Shreyas Cholia;Anubhav Jain;Miriam Brafman

  • The origin of high electrolyte-electrode interfacial resistances in lithium cells containing garnet type solid electrolytes

    Lei Cheng;Lei Cheng;Ethan J. Crumlin;Wei Chen;Ruimin Qiao

  • Prediction of solid-aqueous equilibria: Scheme to combine first-principles calculations of solids with experimental aqueous states

    Kristin A. Persson;Bryn Waldwick;Predrag Lazic;Gerbrand Ceder

  • Surface energies of elemental crystals

    Richard Tran;Zihan Xu;Balachandran Radhakrishnan;Donald Winston

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline

    Wei Chen;Thomas Angsten;Anubhav Jain;Randy Notestine

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder University of California, Berkeley
Shyue Ping Ong
Shyue Ping Ong University of California, San Diego
Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier Dartmouth College
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey B. Neaton
Jeffrey B. Neaton University of California, Berkeley
John M. Gregoire
John M. Gregoire California Institute of Technology
Pieremanuele Canepa
Pieremanuele Canepa National University of Singapore
Dane Morgan
Dane Morgan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Karl T. Mueller
Karl T. Mueller Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
G. Jeffrey Snyder
G. Jeffrey Snyder Northwestern University

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