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Materials Science

D-Index
69
Citations
21559
World Ranking
4551
National Ranking
1207

Chemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
21150
World Ranking
6417
National Ranking
1944

Susan B. Sinnott publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan B. Sinnott sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 355 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Susan B. Sinnott D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan B. Sinnott sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For significant contributions developing and applying atomistic methods to investigate the physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials, material surfaces, and interfaces
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan B. Sinnott is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas in materials science and engineering, with a significant focus on computational modeling of materials.

The scientist has published extensively in various fields, with 57 publications each in Materials Science and Engineering. Subfields of their work include Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Specific research topics covered by Susan B. Sinnott's work include:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sinnott are:

  • Ismaïla Dabo
  • Christina M. Rost
  • Jacob T. Sivak
  • Jon-Paul Maria
  • Saeed S. I. Almishal

The most common publication venues where Sinnott's work appears include:

  • Computational Materials Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Science
  • ACS Nano
  • MRS Bulletin

Selected recent papers by Susan B. Sinnott include:

  • Heterostructures coupling ultrathin metal carbides and chalcogenides, 2024, Nature Materials
  • What is in a name: Defining "high entropy" oxides, 2022, APL Materials
  • Multiscale computational understanding and growth of 2D materials: a review, 2020, npj Computational Materials
  • The influence of alloying on the stacking fault energy of gold from density functional theory calculations, 2020, Computational Materials Science
  • Influence of phase and interface properties on the stress state dependent fracture initiation behavior in DP steels through computational modeling, 2020, Materials Science and Engineering A

Their contributions to the scientific community have been recognized through fellowships which include:

  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2012)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2012) with a citation for significant contributions developing and applying atomistic methods to investigate the physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials, material surfaces, and interfaces
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)

Best Publications

  • A second-generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential energy expression for hydrocarbons

    Donald W Brenner;Olga A Shenderova;Judith A Harrison;Steven J Stuart

  • Model of carbon nanotube growth through chemical vapor deposition

    S.B. Sinnott;R. Andrews;D. Qian;A.M. Rao

  • Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

    Susan B. Sinnott;Rodney Andrews

  • Effect of chemical functionalization on the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes

    Ajay Garg;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Topology-Scaling Identification of Layered Solids and Stable Exfoliated 2D Materials.

    Michael Ashton;Joshua Paul;Susan B. Sinnott;Richard G. Hennig

  • Chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes.

    Susan B. Sinnott

  • Parametrization of a reactive many-body potential for Mo-S systems

    Tao Liang;Simon R. Phillpot;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Classical atomistic simulations of surfaces and heterogeneous interfaces with the charge-optimized many body (COMB) potentials

    Tao Liang;Tzu Ray Shan;Yu Ting Cheng;Bryce D. Devine

  • Compression of carbon nanotubes filled with C60, CH4, or Ne: predictions from molecular dynamics simulations.

    Boris Ni;Susan B. Sinnott;Paul T. Mikulski;Judith A. Harrison

  • Predicted Surface Composition and Thermodynamic Stability of MXenes in Solution

    Michael Ashton;Kiran Mathew;Richard G. Hennig;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Mechanical properties of nanotubule fibers and composites determined from theoretical calculations and simulations

    S.B. Sinnott;O.A. Shenderova;C.T. White;D.W. Brenner

  • A Computational Study of Molecular Diffusion and Dynamic Flow through Carbon Nanotubes

    Zugang Mao;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of the filling and decorating of carbon nanotubules

    Zugang Mao;Ajay Garg;Susan B Sinnott

  • Reactive Potentials for Advanced Atomistic Simulations

    Tao Liang;Yun Kyung Shin;Yu Ting Cheng;Dundar E. Yilmaz

  • Charge optimized many-body potential for the Si ∕ SiO 2 system

    Jianguo Yu;Susan B. Sinnott;Simon R. Phillpot

  • Two-Dimensional Intrinsic Half-Metals With Large Spin Gaps

    Michael Ashton;Dorde Gluhovic;Susan B. Sinnott;Jing Guo

  • Ceramic/metal interface structures and their relationship to atomic- and meso-scale properties

    Susan B Sinnott;Elizabeth C Dickey

  • Mixed Bloch-Néel-Ising character of 180° ferroelectric domain walls

    Donghwa Lee;Rakesh K. Behera;Pingping Wu;Haixuan Xu

  • Separation of Organic Molecular Mixtures in Carbon Nanotubes and Bundles: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Zugang Mao;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Behavior of molecules and molecular ions near a field emitter

    Baptiste Gault;Baptiste Gault;David W. Saxey;Michael W. Ashton;Susan B. Sinnott

  • Charge-optimized many-body potential for the hafnium/hafnium oxide system

    Tzu Ray Shan;Bryce D. Devine;Travis W. Kemper;Susan B. Sinnott

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon R. Phillpot
Simon R. Phillpot University of Florida
Richard G. Hennig
Richard G. Hennig University of Florida
W. Gregory Sawyer
W. Gregory Sawyer Moffitt Cancer Center
Donald W. Brenner
Donald W. Brenner North Carolina State University
Blas P. Uberuaga
Blas P. Uberuaga Los Alamos National Laboratory
Elizabeth C. Dickey
Elizabeth C. Dickey Carnegie Mellon University
Venkatraman Gopalan
Venkatraman Gopalan Pennsylvania State University
Luke Hanley
Luke Hanley University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael J. Janik
Michael J. Janik Pennsylvania State University
Juan C. Nino
Juan C. Nino University of Florida

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