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Leonid V. Zhigilei is a researcher affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses largely on topics related to laser-based techniques and materials at the nanoscale. Key research areas include:

  • Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles
  • Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
  • Laser Material Processing Techniques
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Thermal properties of materials

Leonid V. Zhigilei has published extensively across several notable scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Advances
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Their notable recent papers feature studies on nanoparticle generation via laser ablation, laser-induced melting kinetics, and graphene-enhanced carbon fibers. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Graphene reinforced carbon fibers," 2020, Science Advances
  • "The effect of pulse duration on nanoparticle generation in pulsed laser ablation in liquids: insights from large-scale atomistic simulations," 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Atomistic View of Laser Fragmentation of Gold Nanoparticles in a Liquid Environment," 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "Kinetics of laser-induced melting of thin gold film: How slow can it get?," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Effect of a liquid environment on single-pulse generation of laser induced periodic surface structures and nanoparticles," 2020, Nanoscale

Collaborative work is also a significant aspect of Zhigilei's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Maxim V. Shugaev
  • Chaobo Chen
  • Miao He
  • Cheng-Yu Shih
  • Mikhail I. Arefev

Best Publications

  • Electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity of metals under conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium

    Zhibin Lin;Leonid V. Zhigilei;Vittorio Celli

  • Combined atomistic-continuum modeling of short-pulse laser melting and disintegration of metal films

    Dmitriy S. Ivanov;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Atomistic Modeling of Short Pulse Laser Ablation of Metals: Connections between Melting, Spallation, and Phase Explosion†

    Leonid V. Zhigilei;Zhibin Lin;Dmitriy S. Ivanov

  • Microscopic mechanisms of laser ablation of organic solids in the thermal and stress confinement irradiation regimes

    Leonid V. Zhigilei;Leonid V. Zhigilei;Barbara J. Garrison

  • Effects of temperature and disorder on thermal boundary conductance at solid-solid interfaces: Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

    Robert J. Stevens;Leonid V. Zhigilei;Pamela M. Norris

  • Microscopic mechanisms of laser spallation and ablation of metal targets from large-scale molecular dynamics simulations

    Chengping Wu;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Dynamics of the plume formation and parameters of the ejected clusters in short-pulse laser ablation

    L.V. Zhigilei

  • Metal ablation by picosecond laser pulses: A hybrid simulation

    Carsten Schäfer;Herbert M. Urbassek;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Computer Simulations of Laser Ablation of Molecular Substrates

    Leonid V. Zhigilei;Elodie Leveugle;Barbara J. Garrison;Yaroslava G. Yingling

  • Photomechanical spallation of molecular and metal targets: molecular dynamics study

    E. Leveugle;D.S. Ivanov;L.V. Zhigilei

  • Fundamentals of ultrafast laser-material interaction

    Maxim V. Shugaev;Chengping Wu;Oskar Armbruster;Aida Naghilou

  • MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODEL FOR LASER ABLATION AND DESORPTION OF ORGANIC SOLIDS

    Leonid V. Zhigilei;Prasad B. S. Kodali;Barbara J. Garrison

  • Explosive Boiling of Water Films Adjacent to Heated Surfaces: A Microscopic Description †

    Yusheng Dou;Leonid V. Zhigilei;Nicholas Winograd;Barbara J. Garrison

  • Two mechanisms of nanoparticle generation in picosecond laser ablation in liquids: the origin of the bimodal size distribution

    Cheng-Yu Shih;René Streubel;Johannes Heberle;Alexander Letzel

  • A Microscopic View of Laser Ablation

    Leonid V. Zhigilei;Prasad B. S. Kodali;Barbara J. Garrison

  • Enhancing and tuning phonon transport at vibrationally mismatched solid-solid interfaces

    Timothy S. English;John C. Duda;Justin L. Smoyer;Donald A. Jordan

  • Kinetic Limit of Heterogeneous Melting in Metals

    Dmitriy S. Ivanov;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Molecular dynamics simulation study of the ejection and transport of polymer molecules in matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation

    Elodie Leveugle;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Effect of Pressure Relaxation on the Mechanisms of Short-Pulse Laser Melting

    Dmitriy S. Ivanov;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Limit of overheating and the threshold behavior in laser ablation

    Barbara J. Garrison;Tatiana E. Itina;Leonid V. Zhigilei

  • Graphene reinforced carbon fibers.

    Zan Gao;Jiadeng Zhu;Siavash Rajabpour;Kaushik Joshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara J. Garrison
Barbara J. Garrison Pennsylvania State University
Pamela M. Norris
Pamela M. Norris University of Virginia
Eduardo M. Bringa
Eduardo M. Bringa National University of Cuyo
Nicholas Winograd
Nicholas Winograd Pennsylvania State University
Wolfgang Kautek
Wolfgang Kautek University of Vienna
Robert E. Johnson
Robert E. Johnson The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Bruce Remington
Bruce Remington Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja Uppsala University
Jiadeng Zhu
Jiadeng Zhu North Carolina State University
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University

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