Alejandro Strachan

10.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
247 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Strachan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Strachan has authored 247 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Materials Chemistry, 78 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 46 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Strachan's work include Energetic Materials and Combustion (50 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (43 papers) and Polymer crystallization and properties (23 papers). Alejandro Strachan is often cited by papers focused on Energetic Materials and Combustion (50 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (43 papers) and Polymer crystallization and properties (23 papers). Alejandro Strachan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and Hong Kong. Alejandro Strachan's co-authors include William A. Goddard, Chunyu Li, Adri C. T. van Duin, Chunyu Li, Tahir Çağın, Nicolas Onofrio, Qingsong Zhang, Xin Xu, Shannon F. Stewman and Edward M. Kober and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Strachan

233 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ReaxFF_SiO Reactive Force Field for Silicon and Silicon Oxide Systems

2003 814 citations Adri C. T. van Duin, Alejandro Strachan et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A profile →
Shock Waves in High-Energy Materials: The Initial Chemical Events in Nitramine RDX

2003 510 citations Alejandro Strachan, Adri C. T. van Duin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Strachan United States	44	4.7k	2.7k	1.7k	1.2k	1.1k	247	8.1k
Aidan P. Thompson United States	32	7.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	734 0.6×	1.8k 1.6×	86	12.0k
Hasan Metin Aktulga United States	20	5.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	382 0.3×	1.8k 1.6×	56	10.6k
Aiichiro Nakano United States	55	6.2k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	838 0.7×	2.4k 2.1×	398	10.1k
Pieter J. in ’t Veld United States	20	4.1k 0.9×	931 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	266 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	26	7.8k
Christian Robert Trott United States	12	4.5k 1.0×	882 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	306 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	23	8.7k
Stan Moore United States	12	4.0k 0.9×	885 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	296 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	27	7.5k
Rajiv K. Kalia United States	60	7.6k 1.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	2.6k 2.3×	410	12.3k
Axel Kohlmeyer United States	18	4.4k 0.9×	889 0.3×	1.6k 1.0×	295 0.3×	1.4k 1.3×	31	8.5k
Priya Vashishta United States	63	8.9k 1.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	2.9k 2.6×	460	14.8k
Paul Crozier United States	22	4.7k 1.0×	896 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	300 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	46	9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Strachan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Strachan

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Flanagan, Joseph C., Sung-Hwan Hwang, Kenneth H. Sandhage, et al.. (2025). Design of high-hardness complex concentrated alloys from physics, machine learning, and experiments. Journal of Applied Physics. 138(8).

Larentzos, James P., et al.. (2024). Graph neural network coarse-grain force field for the molecular crystal RDX. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 5 indexed citations

Marinero, Ernesto E., et al.. (2023). Atomistic Mechanisms Underlying the Maximum in Diffusivity in Doped Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(22). 10806–10812. 2 indexed citations

Li, Chunyu, et al.. (2023). Mapping microstructure to shock-induced temperature fields using deep learning. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 10 indexed citations

Li, Chunyu, et al.. (2023). Ordered and amorphous phases of polyacrylonitrile: Effect of tensile deformation of structure on relaxation and glass transition. Polymer. 277. 125969–125969. 7 indexed citations

Wyatt, Brian C., Anupma Thakur, Zachary D. Hood, et al.. (2023). Design of Atomic Ordering in Mo₂Nb₂C₃T_x MXenes for Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Nano Letters. 23(3). 931–938. 35 indexed citations

Choy, C. L., et al.. (2023). Mass uptake during oxidation of metallic alloys: Literature data collection, analysis, and FAIR sharing. Computational Materials Science. 233. 112671–112671. 1 indexed citations

Anasori, Babak, et al.. (2022). 2D rare-earth metal carbides (MXenes) Mo2NdC2T2 electronic structure and magnetic properties: A DFT + U study. Journal of Applied Physics. 132(20). 5 indexed citations

Vishnu, Karthik Guda, et al.. (2021). Multiferroic ground states in free standing perovskite-based nanodots: a density functional theory study. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 29(5). 55002–55002. 1 indexed citations

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Ginhoven, Renée M. Van, et al.. (2021). Computational study of first-row transition metals in monodoped 4H-SiC. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 29(5). 55008–55008. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Chunyu, et al.. (2021). Continuum and molecular dynamics simulations of pore collapse in shocked β-tetramethylene tetranitramine (β-HMX) single crystals. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(1). 48 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Brenden W., et al.. (2021). Predicted Reaction Mechanisms, Product Speciation, Kinetics, and Detonation Properties of the Insensitive Explosive 2,6-Diamino-3,5-dinitropyrazine-1-oxide (LLM-105). The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 125(8). 1766–1777. 26 indexed citations

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Lo, Chun‐Li, Benjamin A. Helfrecht, Yanbo He, et al.. (2020). Opportunities and challenges of 2D materials in back-end-of-line interconnect scaling. Journal of Applied Physics. 128(8). 61 indexed citations

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Li, Chunyu, et al.. (2019). Mechanically induced amorphization of small molecule organic crystals. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(7). 74005–74005. 7 indexed citations

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Foiles, Stephen M., David L. McDowell, & Alejandro Strachan. (2019). Preface for focus issue on uncertainty quantification in materials modeling. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(8). 80301–80301. 2 indexed citations

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Strachan, Alejandro, et al.. (2019). Functional uncertainty quantification for isobaric molecular dynamics simulations and defect formation energies. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 27(4). 44002–44002. 3 indexed citations

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Onofrio, Nicolas, et al.. (2017). Novel doping alternatives for transition metal dichalcogenides from high-throughput DFT calculations. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Brophy, Sean, Alejandra J. Magana, & Alejandro Strachan. (2013). Lectures and Simulation Laboratories to improve Learners’ Conceptual Understanding. AEE Journal. 3(3). 30 indexed citations

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Anderson, Nathan, et al.. (2011). First-Principles Investigation of Low Energy E' Center Precursors in Amorphous Silica. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 2 indexed citations

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Han, Si‐ping, Adri C. T. van Duin, William A. Goddard, & Alejandro Strachan. (2005). Thermal decomposition of condensed nitromethane from molecular dynamics using the ReaxFF Reactive force field. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

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