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45
Citations
7860
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16390
National Ranking
4081

Laurence E. Fried publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence E. Fried sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 202 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Laurence E. Fried D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence E. Fried sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Laurence E. Fried is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans across materials science and engineering, focusing notably on topics related to energetic materials, high-pressure geophysics, and machine learning applications in materials science.

Fried's recent notable publications include:

  • High Explosive Ignition through Chemically Activated Nanoscale Shear Bands, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Ultrafast shock synthesis of nanocarbon from a liquid precursor, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Submicrosecond Aggregation during Detonation Synthesis of Nanodiamond, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Many-body reactive force field development for carbon condensation in C/O systems under extreme conditions, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Active learning for robust, high-complexity reactive atomistic simulations, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Sorin Bastea
  • Rebecca Lindsey
  • Nir Goldman
  • Matthew P. Kroonblawd
  • Michael H. Nielsen

Laurence E. Fried commonly publishes in several scientific venues, such as:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Propellants Explosives Pyrotechnics
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The main fields of study for Fried are:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

With a detailed focus on subfields, their work includes:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geophysics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Aerospace Engineering

The core research topics covered by Fried are:

  • Energetic Materials and Combustion
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Epilepsy research and treatment

Best Publications

  • Design and Synthesis of Energetic Materials1

    Laurence E Fried;M Riad Manaa;Philip F Pagoria;Randall L. Simpson

  • Dynamic ionization of water under extreme conditions.

    Alexander F. Goncharov;Nir Goldman;Laurence E. Fried;Jonathan C. Crowhurst

  • Generation of methane in the Earth's mantle: In situ high pressure–temperature measurements of carbonate reduction

    Henry P. Scott;Russell J. Hemley;Ho-kwang Mao;Dudley R. Herschbach

  • Simulation of the intermolecular vibrational spectra of liquid water and water clusters

    Wayne B. Bosma;Laurence E. Fried;Shaul Mukamel

  • Decomposition of HMX at extreme conditions: A molecular dynamics simulation

    M. Riad Manaa;Laurence E. Fried;Carl F. Melius;Marcus Elstner

  • Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy: femtosecond dynamics in Liouville space

    Yi Jing Yan;Laurence E. Fried;Shaul Mukamel

  • Atomistic simulations of spinodal phase separation preceding polymer crystallization

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  • Synthesis of glycine-containing complexes in impacts of comets on early Earth

    Nir Goldman;Evan J. Reed;Laurence E. Fried;I.-F. William Kuo

  • Energy transfer rates in primary, secondary, and insensitive explosives

    Laurence E. Fried;Anthony J. Ruggiero

  • Semiclassical quantization using classical perturbation theory: Algebraic quantization of multidimensional systems

    Laurence E. Fried;Gregory S. Ezra

  • Solvation structure and the time‐resolved Stokes shift in non‐Debye solvents

    Laurence E. Fried;Shaul Mukamel

  • Bonding in the Superionic Phase of Water

    Nir Goldman;Laurence E. Fried;I-Feng W. Kuo;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Early chemistry in hot and dense nitromethane: molecular dynamics simulations.

    M. Riad Manaa;Evan J. Reed;Laurence E. Fried;Giulia Galli

  • Ab initio based force field and molecular dynamics simulations of crystalline TATB.

    Richard H. Gee;Szczepan Roszak;Krishnan Balasubramanian;Laurence E. Fried

  • Ab initio simulation of the equation of state and kinetics of shocked water

    Nir Goldman;Evan J. Reed;I.-F. William Kuo;Laurence E. Fried

  • Ultrafast transformation of graphite to diamond: An ab initio study of graphite under shock compression

    Christopher J. Mundy;Alessandro Curioni;Nir Goldman;I.-F. Will Kuo

  • An accurate equation of state for the exponential-6 fluid applied to dense supercritical nitrogen

    Laurence E. Fried;W. Michael Howard

  • Electronic structure of solid 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene under uniaxial compression: Possible role of pressure-induced metallization in energetic materials

    Christine J. Wu;Lin H. Yang;Laurence E. Fried;Jason Quenneville

  • Ab Initio Study of RDX Decomposition Mechanisms

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  • Simulation of Nonlinear Electronic Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase

    Laurence E. Fried;Shaul Mukamel

  • Structure, dynamics, and the electronic absorption of benzene-argon clusters

    Laurence E. Fried;Shaul Mukamel

  • A Method for Tractable Dynamical Studies of Single and Double Shock Compression

    Evan J. Reed;Laurence E. Fried;M. Riad Manaa;J. D. Joannopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan J. Reed
Evan J. Reed Stanford University
Shaul Mukamel
Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine
Amitesh Maiti
Amitesh Maiti Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Christopher J. Mundy
Christopher J. Mundy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Fady Najjar
Fady Najjar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
William D. Henshaw
William D. Henshaw Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Carl F. Melius
Carl F. Melius Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alexander F. Goncharov
Alexander F. Goncharov Carnegie Institution for Science
Oliver Tschauner
Oliver Tschauner University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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