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Leonid Dubrovinsky

Leonid Dubrovinsky

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Chemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
22905
World Ranking
3419
National Ranking
253

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure

Overview

Leonid Dubrovinsky is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions in Materials Chemistry, Geophysics, and Inorganic Chemistry. Additional expertise includes Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials as well as Mechanics of Materials.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other research topics include boron and carbon nanomaterials, inorganic chemistry and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, and diamond and carbon-based materials research.

Frequent publication venues for Dubrovinsky's research include The Cambridge Structural Database, arXiv (Cornell University), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Communications.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Natalia Dubrovinskaia
  • Timofey Fedotenko
  • Maxim Bykov
  • Vitali B. Prakapenka
  • Stella Chariton

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Dubrovinsky include:

  • Materials synthesis at terapascal static pressures, 2022, Nature
  • <i>Domain Auto Finder</i> (<i>DAFi</i>) program: the analysis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data from polycrystalline samples, 2022, Journal of Applied Crystallography
  • Stabilization of Polynitrogen Anions in Tantalum-Nitrogen Compounds at High Pressure, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded BeN4 Polymorph, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • High-Pressure Polymeric Nitrogen Allotrope with the Black Phosphorus Structure, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Leonid Dubrovinsky has received the Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2017 for the development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure.

Best Publications

  • Finite-size and pressure effects on the Raman spectrum of nanocrystalline anatase Ti O 2

    Varghese Swamy;Alexei Kuznetsov;Leonid S. Dubrovinsky;Rachel A. Caruso

  • Materials Science - The hardest known oxide

    Leonid S Dubrovinsky;Natalia A Dubrovinskaia;Varghese Swamy;Joseph Muscat

  • Implementation of micro-ball nanodiamond anvils for high-pressure studies above 6 Mbar

    Leonid Dubrovinsky;Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Vitali B. Prakapenka;Artem M. Abakumov

  • BX90: A new diamond anvil cell design for X-ray diffraction and optical measurements

    Innokenty Kantor;Vitali B. Prakapenka;Anastasia Kantor;P. Dera

  • MossA: a program for analyzing energy-domain Mössbauer spectra from conventional and synchrotron sources

    Clemens Prescher;Catherine McCammon;Leonid Dubrovinsky

  • Thermal Expansion of Periclase (MgO) and Tungsten (W) to Melting Temperatures

    L. S. Dubrovinsky;S. K. Saxena

  • Superhard nanocomposite of dense polymorphs of boron nitride: Noncarbon material has reached diamond hardness

    Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Vladimir L. Solozhenko;Nobuyoshi Miyajima;Vladimir Dmitriev

  • Lonsdaleite is faulted and twinned cubic diamond and does not exist as a discrete material

    Péter Németh;Laurence A. J. Garvie;Toshihiro Aoki;Natalia Dubrovinskaia

  • Body-centered cubic iron-nickel alloy in Earth's core.

    L. Dubrovinsky;N. Dubrovinskaia;O. Narygina;I. Kantor

  • Discovery of a superhard iron tetraboride superconductor.

    Huiyang Gou;Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Elena Bykova;Alexander A. Tsirlin;Alexander A. Tsirlin

  • The most incompressible metal osmium at static pressures above 750 gigapascals

    Leonid Dubrovinsky;Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Elena Bykova;Maxim Bykov

  • Experimental and Theoretical Identification of a New High-Pressure TiO2 Polymorph

    Natalia A. Dubrovinskaia;Leonid S. Dubrovinsky;Rajeev Ahuja;Vitaly B. Prokopenko

  • Structural complexity of simple Fe2O3 at high pressures and temperatures.

    Elena Bykova;Leonid Dubrovinsky;Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Maxim Bykov

  • Terapascal static pressure generation with ultrahigh yield strength nanodiamond

    Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Leonid Dubrovinsky;Natalia A. Solopova;Artem M. Abakumov

  • Fe-N System at High Pressure Reveals a Compound Featuring Polymeric Nitrogen Chains

    Maxim Bykov;Elena Bykova;Georgios Aprilis;Konstantin Glazyrin

  • Experimental and theoretical identification of a new high-pressure phase of silica

    L. S. Dubrovinsky;S. K. Saxena;P. Lazor;R. Ahuja

  • The S3– Ion Is Stable in Geological Fluids at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures

    Gleb S. Pokrovski;Leonid S. Dubrovinsky

  • Size-dependent pressure-induced amorphization in nanoscale TiO2.

    Varghese Swamy;Alexei Kuznetsov;Leonid S. Dubrovinsky;Paul F. McMillan

  • Synchrotron X-ray Study of Iron at High Pressure and Temperature.

    S. K. Saxena;L. S. Dubrovinsky;P. Häggkvist;Y. Cerenius

  • Natural NaAlSi3O8-Hollandite in the shocked Sixiangkou meteorite

    Philippe Gillet;Ming Chen;Leonid Dubrovinsky;Ahmed El Goresy

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Natalia Dubrovinskaia University of Bayreuth
Catherine McCammon
Catherine McCammon University of Bayreuth
Vitali B. Prakapenka
Vitali B. Prakapenka University of Chicago
Michael Hanfland
Michael Hanfland European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Igor A. Abrikosov
Igor A. Abrikosov Linköping University
Surendra K. Saxena
Surendra K. Saxena Florida International University
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja Uppsala University
Artem M. Abakumov
Artem M. Abakumov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Falko Langenhorst
Falko Langenhorst Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Daniel J. Frost
Daniel J. Frost University of Bayreuth

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