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Overview

Mark Asta is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and specializes in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research portfolio includes significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Asta's scientific investigation covers several main topics, including:

  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties

Their recent published papers highlight research on advanced alloys and atomistic simulations, including:

  • "Exceptional fracture toughness of CrCoNi-based medium- and high-entropy alloys at 20 kelvin" (2022, Science)
  • "Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in refractory high-entropy alloys and the effect of chemical short-range order" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Defect reconfiguration in a Ti-Al alloy via electroplasticity" (2020, Nature Materials)
  • "Theoretical prediction of high melting temperature for a Mo-Ru-Ta-W HCP multiprincipal element alloy" (2021, npj Computational Materials)
  • "A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry" (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Robert O. Ritchie
  • Andrew M. Minor
  • Flynn Walsh
  • D. C. Chrzan
  • Shivani Srivastava

Mark Asta's publications appear often in numerous scientific venues, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • npj Computational Materials
  • Acta Materialia

Overall, their work integrates computational and experimental aspects of materials science with an emphasis on crystallography, alloy characterization, and the application of machine learning techniques in materials chemistry. Their research contributes to understanding material behaviors at multiple scales, focusing on high-entropy alloys and related structural materials under diverse conditions.

Best Publications

  • Development of new interatomic potentials appropriate for crystalline and liquid iron

    M I Mendelev;S Han;D J Srolovitz;Graeme Ackland

  • Efficient stochastic generation of special quasirandom structures

    A. van de Walle;P. Tiwary;M. de Jong;D.L. Olmsted

  • Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

    Feng Lin;Isaac M. Markus;Isaac M. Markus;Dennis Nordlund;Tsu-Chien Weng

  • Lead‐Free Halide Perovskite Solar Cells with High Photocurrents Realized Through Vacancy Modulation

    Mulmudi Hemant Kumar;Sabba Dharani;Wei Lin Leong;Pablo P. Boix

  • Lead-free germanium iodide perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications

    Thirumal Krishnamoorthy;Hong Ding;Chen Yan;Wei Lin Leong

  • The Alloy Theoretic Automated Toolkit: A User Guide

    A. van de Walle;M. Asta;G. Ceder

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

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

  • Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

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

  • Solidification microstructures and solid-state parallels: Recent developments, future directions

    M. Asta;C. Beckermann;A. Karma;W. Kurz

  • Tunable stacking fault energies by tailoring local chemical order in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys.

    Jun Ding;Qin Yu;Mark Asta;Robert O. Ritchie;Robert O. Ritchie

  • First-principles theory of ionic diffusion with nondilute carriers

    A. Van der Ven;G. Ceder;M. Asta;P. D. Tepesch

  • Method for Computing the Anisotropy of the Solid-Liquid Interfacial Free Energy

    J. J. Hoyt;Mark Asta;Alain Karma

  • Atomistic modeling of interfaces and their impact on microstructure and properties

    Y. Mishin;M. Asta;Ju Li

  • Analysis of semi-empirical interatomic potentials appropriate for simulation of crystalline and liquid Al and Cu

    M I. Mendelev;M J. Kramer;Chandler A. Becker;M Asta

  • Atomistic and continuum modeling of dendritic solidification

    J.J. Hoyt;Mark Asta;Alain Karma

  • Crystal-melt interfacial free energies in hcp metals: A molecular dynamics study of Mg

    D. Y. Sun;M. I. Mendelev;C. A. Becker;K. Kudin

  • The structure and chemistry of the TiO(2)-rich surface of SrTiO(3) (001).

    Natasha Erdman;Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier;Mark Asta;Oliver Warschkow

  • Structural phase transformations in metallic grain boundaries

    Timofey Frolov;David L. Olmsted;Mark Asta;Yuri Mishin

  • Self-driven lattice-model Monte Carlo simulations of alloy thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams

    A van de Walle;M Asta

  • Hydrogen in aluminum: First-principles calculations of structure and thermodynamics

    C. Wolverton;V. Ozoliņš;M. Asta

  • Short-range order and its impact on the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy.

    Ruopeng Zhang;Ruopeng Zhang;Shiteng Zhao;Shiteng Zhao;Jun Ding;Yan Chong;Yan Chong

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline

    Wei Chen;Thomas Angsten;Anubhav Jain;Randy Notestine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. Hoyt
Jeffrey J. Hoyt McMaster University
D. de Fontaine
D. de Fontaine University of California, Berkeley
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder University of California, Berkeley
Robert O. Ritchie
Robert O. Ritchie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kristin A. Persson
Kristin A. Persson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gautam Ghosh
Gautam Ghosh Northwestern University
Alain Karma
Alain Karma Northeastern University
Stephen M. Foiles
Stephen M. Foiles Sandia National Laboratories
Andrew M. Minor
Andrew M. Minor University of California, Berkeley
Nripan Mathews
Nripan Mathews Nanyang Technological University

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