2026 Robert S Averback: 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	77	3128	3021	877	824	429	21311

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Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his research on the fundamental interactions between energetic ions and solids and the kinetic response of materials far from equilibrium

Overview

Robert S Averback is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering, along with work related to Biomedical Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's research focuses primarily on microstructure and mechanical properties, nuclear materials and properties, fusion materials and technologies, advanced materials characterization techniques, nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, advanced materials and composites, and aluminum alloys composites properties.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

Acta Materialia
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Materialia
SSRN Electronic Journal
JOM

Robert S Averback's recent papers show a focus on phase evolution and mechanical deformation in alloys. Selected publications include:

Phase evolution in driven alloys: An overview on compositional patterning, 2021, Journal of Nuclear Materials
Phase evolution in two-phase alloys during severe plastic deformation, 2021, Acta Materialia
Role of interfaces on phase formation during severe plastic deformation, 2022, Acta Materialia
A Review: Microstructural and Phase Evolution in Alloys during Extended Plastic Deformation, 2021, JOM
Strengthening of nanocrystalline Al using grain boundary solute additions: Effects of thermal annealing and ion irradiation, 2022, Materialia

They have collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors, including Pascal Bellon, Nirab Pant, Yinon Ashkenazy, Nisha Verma, and Soumyajit Jana.

In 2001, Robert S Averback was awarded the Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) for research on the fundamental interactions between energetic ions and solids and the kinetic response of materials far from equilibrium.

Best Publications

Defect production in collision cascades in elemental semiconductors and fcc metals

K. Nordlund;K. Nordlund;M. Ghaly;R. S. Averback;M. Caturla

1058
Citations
Research opportunities on clusters and cluster-assembled materials—A Department of Energy, Council on Materials Science Panel Report

R. P. Andres;Robert S Averback;W. L. Brown;L. E. Brus

608
Citations
Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

Kai Nordlund;Steven J. Zinkle;Steven J. Zinkle;Andrea E. Sand;Fredric Granberg

600
Citations
Thermal Conductance of metal-metal interfaces

Bryan Gundrum;David Cahill;Robert Averback

500
Citations
Displacement damage in irradiated metals and semiconductors

Robert S Averback;T. Diaz de la Rubia

473
Citations
Sintering characteristics of nanocrystalline TiO2

H. Hahn;J. Logas;R. S. Averback

442
Citations
Memory effects in an interacting magnetic nanoparticle system.

Young Sun;M. B. Salamon;K. Garnier;Robert S Averback

424
Citations
Role of thermal spikes in energetic displacement cascades.

T. Diaz De La Rubia;T. Diaz De La Rubia;T. Diaz De La Rubia;Robert S Averback;Robert S Averback;Robert S Averback;R. Benedek;R. Benedek;R. Benedek;W. E. King;W. E. King;W. E. King

389
Citations
Molecular dynamics investigations of surface damage produced by kiloelectronvolt self-bombardment of solids

Mai Ghaly;Kai Nordlund;Robert S Averback

379
Citations
Improving atomic displacement and replacement calculations with physically realistic damage models

Kai Nordlund;Steven J. Zinkle;Steven J. Zinkle;Andrea E. Sand;Fredric Granberg

366
Citations
The production of nanocrystalline powders by magnetron sputtering

H. Hahn;Robert S Averback

365
Citations
Ion-irradiation studies of the damage function of copper and silver

R. S. Averback;R. Benedek;K. L. Merkle

322
Citations
Ion beam mixing: Basic experiments

B. M. Paine;Robert S Averback

311
Citations
Nonequilibrium roughening of interfaces in crystals under shear: application to ball milling.

Pascal Bellon;Robert S Averback

301
Citations
Grain growth in nanocrystalline TiO2 and its relation to vickers hardness and fracture toughness

H.J. Höfler;R.S. Averback

281
Citations
Effect of viscous flow on ion damage near solid surfaces.

Mai Ghaly;R. S. Averback

279
Citations
Molecular dynamics simulation of displacement cascades in Cu and Ni: Thermal spike behavior

T. Diaz de la Rubia;R. S. Averback;Horngming Hsieh;R. Benedek

246
Citations
Fundamental aspects of ion beam mixing

Robert S Averback

243
Citations
Latent Tracks Do Exist in Metallic Materials

A. Barbu;A. Dunlop;D. Lesueur;Robert S Averback

223
Citations
Point defect movement and annealing in collision cascades

K. Nordlund;Robert S Averback

220
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