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Vitali B. Prakapenka

Vitali B. Prakapenka

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Materials Science

D-Index
87
Citations
29234
World Ranking
1950
National Ranking
586

Overview

Vitali B. Prakapenka is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Geophysics, Inorganic Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research topics are centered on high-pressure geophysics and materials, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional areas of focus include geological and geochemical analysis, diamond and carbon-based materials research, earthquake and tectonic studies, and crystal structures and properties.

Among the notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Prakapenka are:

  • Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Anomalous High-Temperature Superconductivity in YH6 (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • Superconductivity above 200 K discovered in superhydrides of calcium (2022, Nature Communications)
  • High-Pressure Polymeric Nitrogen Allotrope with the Black Phosphorus Structure (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • Nitrogen in black phosphorus structure (2020, Science Advances)

Frequent collaborators include Stella Chariton, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Timofey Fedotenko, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, and Maxim Bykov. These partnerships have contributed to extensive publication records and sustained research output.

Prakapenka frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • American Mineralogist
  • Physical Review B

Best Publications

  • DIOPTAS: a program for reduction of two-dimensional X-ray diffraction data and data exploration

    Clemens Prescher;Vitali B. Prakapenka

  • Synthesis of clathrate cerium superhydride CeH9 at 80-100 GPa with atomic hydrogen sublattice.

    Nilesh P. Salke;M. Mahdi Davari Esfahani;Youjun Zhang;Ivan A. Kruglov

  • Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures

    A. P. Drozdov;P. P. Kong;V. S. Minkov;S. P. Besedin

  • Unexpected Stable Stoichiometries of Sodium Chlorides

    Weiwei Zhang;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Qiang Zhu

  • Hollow iron oxide nanoparticles for application in lithium ion batteries.

    Bonil Koo;Hui Xiong;Michael D. Slater;Vitali B. Prakapenka

  • Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure.

    Panpan Kong;Vasily S. Minkov;Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov;Alexander P. Drozdov

  • Anomalous High-Temperature Superconductivity in YH6.

    Ivan A Troyan;Dmitrii V Semenok;Alexander G Kvashnin;Andrey V Sadakov

  • Nanostructured bilayered vanadium oxide electrodes for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries.

    Sanja Tepavcevic;Hui Xiong;Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Xiaobing Zuo

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

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

  • A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure

    Xiao Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Elissaios Stavrou;Elissaios Stavrou

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

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

  • Advanced flat top laser heating system for high pressure research at GSECARS: application to the melting behavior of germanium

    V. B. Prakapenka;A. Kubo;A. Kuznetsov;A. Laskin

  • Polymorphism in a high-entropy alloy

    Fei Zhang;Yuan Wu;Hongbo Lou;Zhidan Zeng

  • The COMPRES/GSECARS gas-loading system for diamond anvil cells at the Advanced Photon Source

    Mark Rivers;Vitali B. Prakapenka;Atsushi Kubo;Clayton Pullins

  • Iron-Rich Post-Perovskite and the Origin of Ultralow-Velocity Zones

    Wendy L Mao;Ho Kwang Mao;Ho Kwang Mao;Wolfgang Sturhahn;Jiyong Zhao

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

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

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

    Leonid Dubrovinsky;Natalia Dubrovinskaia;Elena Bykova;Maxim Bykov

  • Spin transition zone in Earth;s lower mantle

    Jung Fu Lin;György Vankó;György Vankó;Steven D. Jacobsen;Valentin Iota

  • Heterogeneous nucleation and shape transformation of multicomponent metallic nanostructures.

    Soon Gu Kwon;Galyna Krylova;Patrick J. Phillips;Robert F. Klie

  • High-Pressure Synthesis of a Pentazolate Salt

    Brad A. Steele;Elissaios Stavrou;Jonathan C. Crowhurst;Joseph M. Zaug

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonid Dubrovinsky
Leonid Dubrovinsky University of Bayreuth
Alexander F. Goncharov
Alexander F. Goncharov Carnegie Institution for Science
Yue Meng
Yue Meng Argonne National Laboratory
Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Natalia Dubrovinskaia University of Bayreuth
Jung-Fu Lin
Jung-Fu Lin The University of Texas at Austin
Artem R. Oganov
Artem R. Oganov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Andrew J. Campbell
Andrew J. Campbell University of Chicago
Catherine McCammon
Catherine McCammon University of Bayreuth
Ho-kwang Mao
Ho-kwang Mao Carnegie Institution for Science
Igor A. Abrikosov
Igor A. Abrikosov Linköping University

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