2026 Laurent Capolungo: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	47	11128	10750	2620	2433	179	8280

Overview

Laurent Capolungo is a researcher affiliated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their primary focus lies within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant number of publications addressing interdisciplinary topics bridging these areas.

Their research encompasses several specialized subfields, including:

Materials Chemistry
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Biomaterials
Aerospace Engineering

Capolungo's work engages deeply with a variety of topics related to material properties and structural behavior, especially in metallic systems. Key thematic areas include:

Microstructure and mechanical properties
Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications
High Temperature Alloys and Creep
Nuclear Materials and Properties
Fusion materials and technologies
Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties

Frequent coauthors appearing in Capolungo's research include:

C.N. Tomé, with 24 joint publications
Rodney J. McCabe, with 23 joint publications
Ricardo A. Lebensohn, with 18 joint publications
Darshan Bamney, with 15 joint publications
Khanh Dang, with 14 joint publications

Their research outputs have been featured extensively in specialized venues, demonstrating a consistent presence in peer-reviewed outlets. Some of the most frequent publication platforms include:

Acta Materialia (13 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal (11 publications)
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (7 publications)
Scripta Materialia (7 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (6 publications)

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Laurent Capolungo illustrate the scope and depth of their contributions:

"Multiscale modelling of precipitation hardening in Al-Cu alloys: Dislocation dynamics simulations and experimental validation," 2020, Acta Materialia
"New large-strain FFT-based formulation and its application to model strain localization in nano-metallic laminates and other strongly anisotropic crystalline materials," 2022, Mechanics of Materials
"The kinetics of static recovery by dislocation climb," 2022, npj Computational Materials
"A new mechanism for void-cascade interaction from nondestructive depth-resolved atomic-scale measurements of ion irradiation-induced defects in Fe," 2020, Science Advances
"Characteristic boundaries associated with three-dimensional twins in hexagonal metals," 2020, Science Advances

Best Publications

Statistical analyses of deformation twinning in magnesium

I.J. Beyerlein;L. Capolungo;P.E. Marshall;R.J. McCabe

591
Citations
Nucleation and growth of twins in Zr: A statistical study

L. Capolungo;P.E. Marshall;R.J. McCabe;I.J. Beyerlein

338
Citations
Hydrogen in zirconium alloys: A review

Arthur T. Motta;Laurent Capolungo;Long Qing Chen;Mahmut Nedim Cinbiz

335
Citations
Nucleation of a (1¯012) twin in hexagonal close-packed crystals

J. Wang;R.G. Hoagland;J.P. Hirth;L. Capolungo

240
Citations
Variant selection during secondary twinning in Mg–3%Al

É. Martin;L. Capolungo;L. Jiang;J.J. Jonas

236
Citations
Virtual diffraction analysis of Ni [0?1?0] symmetric tilt grain boundaries

S P Coleman;D E Spearot;L Capolungo

219
Citations
Nucleation and stability of twins in hcp metals

L. Capolungo;I. J. Beyerlein

207
Citations
On the selection of extension twin variants with low Schmid factors in a deformed Mg alloy

Zhang-Zhi Shi;Yudong Zhang;Francis Wagner;Pierre-Alexandre Juan

199
Citations
On the strength of dislocation interactions and their effect on latent hardening in pure Magnesium

N. Bertin;C.N. Tomé;I.J. Beyerlein;M.R. Barnett

194
Citations
Slip-assisted twin growth in hexagonal close-packed metals

L. Capolungo;I.J. Beyerlein;C.N. Tomé

187
Citations
Dislocation nucleation from bicrystal interfaces and grain boundary ledges: Relationship to nanocrystalline deformation

L. Capolungo;D.E. Spearot;M. Cherkaoui;D.L. McDowell

176
Citations
On the interaction between slip dislocations and twins in HCP Zr

L. Capolungo;I.J. Beyerlein;G.C. Kaschner;C.N. Tomé

160
Citations
On the importance of prismatic/basal interfaces in the growth of (1¯012) twins in hexagonal close packed crystals

B. Xu;B. Xu;L. Capolungo;D. Rodney

157
Citations
Anisotropic stress–strain response and microstructure evolution of textured α-uranium

Marko Knezevic;Laurent Capolungo;Carlos N. Tomé;Ricardo A. Lebensohn

142
Citations
Connections between the basal I1 “growth” fault and 〈c+a〉 dislocations

S.R. Agnew;L. Capolungo;C.A. Calhoun

139
Citations
Role of microstructure on twin nucleation and growth in HCP titanium: A statistical study

M. Arul Kumar;M. Wroński;R.J. McCabe;L. Capolungo

135
Citations
Homogenization Method for Strength and Inelastic Behavior of Nanocrystalline Materials

L. Capolungo;C. Jochum;M. Cherkaoui;J. Qu

129
Citations
Dislocation induced twin growth and formation of basal stacking faults in {101¯2} twins in pure Mg

Fulin Wang;Christopher D. Barrett;Rodney J. McCabe;Haitham El Kadiri

124
Citations
Stress and strain relaxation in magnesium AZ31 rolled plate: In-situ neutron measurement and elastic viscoplastic polycrystal modeling

Huamiao Wang;Bjorn Clausen;Laurent Capolungo;Irene Jane Beyerlein

120
Citations
An elasto-plastic theory of dislocation and disclination fields

C. Fressengeas;V. Taupin;L. Capolungo

118
Citations
On the elastic–viscoplastic behavior of nanocrystalline materials

L. Capolungo;L. Capolungo;M. Cherkaoui;M. Cherkaoui;J. Qu

114
Citations
On the importance of prismatic/basal interfaces in the growth of (-1012) twins in hexagonal close-packed crystals

Ben Xu;Laurent Capolungo;David Rodney

9
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