James P. Best

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

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James P. Best is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, James P. Best has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 23 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in James P. Best's work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (20 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (15 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (14 papers). James P. Best is often cited by papers focused on Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (20 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (15 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (14 papers). James P. Best collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Switzerland. James P. Best's co-authors include Frank Caruso, Hirotaka Ejima, Georgina K. Such, Jiwei Cui, Kang Liang, Joseph J. Richardson, Martin P. van Koeverden, Johann Michler, Yan Yan and Markus Müllner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James P. Best

79 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Scale-bridging dislocation plasticity in MgO at room temperature 2025 ·International Journal of Plasticity ·Jiawen Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James P. Best, (unknown), Zhenyong Chen, Yinan Cui, Xufei Fang, Wenjun Lu	0
2	Effect of chemical composition on mechanical properties and shear band propagation in fully-amorphous ZrCu/ZrCuAl nanolaminates 2025 ·Scripta Materialia ·(unknown), (unknown), Chanwon Jung, Fatiha Challali, Philippe Djémia, Gerhard Dehm, James P. Best, Matteo Ghidelli	2
3	Near-theoretical strength and deformation stabilization achieved via grain boundary segregation and nano-clustering of solutes 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Chang Liu, (unknown), Zhongji Sun, Wenjun Lu, James P. Best, Xuehan Li, Wenzhen Xia, Yilun Gong, Ye Wei, Bozhao Zhang, Jun Ding, Ge Wu, E. Ma	26
4	Tailoring Mechanical Properties and Shear Band Propagation in ZrCu Metallic Glass Nanolaminates Through Chemical Heterogeneities and Interface Density 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Ankush Kashiwar, Chanwon Jung, Xukai Zhang, (unknown), Nicolas Gauquelin, Johan Verbeeck, Philippe Djémia, D. Faurie, Gerhard Dehm, Hosni Idrissi, James P. Best, Matteo Ghidelli	2
5	Mechanical properties and thermal stability of ZrCuAlx thin film metallic glasses: Experiments and first-principle calculations 2023 ·Acta Materialia ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Philippe Djémia, D. Faurie, Fatiha Challali, Chenhui Li, L. Belliard, Gerhard Dehm, James P. Best, Matteo Ghidelli	9
6	Electron microscope loading and in situ nanoindentation of water ice at cryogenic temperatures 2023 ·PLoS ONE ·Renelle Dubosq, Eric Woods, Baptiste Gault, James P. Best	4
7	Decoupling the electrical resistivity contribution of grain boundaries in dilute Fe-alloyed Cu thin films 2023 ·Scripta Materialia ·Hanna Bishara, (unknown), Xuyang Zhou, Baptiste Gault, James P. Best, Gerhard Dehm	8
8	Automated Classification of Granular Bainite and Polygonal Ferrite by Electron Backscatter Diffraction Verified through Local Structural and Mechanical Analyses 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·(unknown), Shao‐Pu Tsai, Alexander Welle, (unknown), (unknown), James P. Best, Christoph Kirchlechner, Gerhard Dehm	2
9	Microstructural and micromechanical characterization of intergranular oxidation in Fe-15Cr alloy 2023 ·Corrosion Science ·(unknown), María Jazmin Duarte, (unknown), Siyuan Zhang, Jiejie Li, Aleksander Kostka, Enrico Bruder, Jianjun Li, Wenwen Song, Karsten Durst, James P. Best, Xufei Fang	1
10	Local Strength of Bainitic and Ferritic HSLA Steel Constituents Understood Using Correlative Electron Microscopy and Micro-compression Testing 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James P. Best, Christoph Kirchlechner, Gerhard Dehm	1
11	Local composition and nanoindentation response of δ-phase and adjacent γ′′-free zone in a Ni-based superalloy 2022 ·Materials Research Letters ·Vitor V. Rielli, Felix Theska, (unknown), James P. Best, Sophie Primig	8
12	Massive interstitial solid solution alloys achieve near-theoretical strength 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Chang Liu, Wenjun Lu, Wenzhen Xia, Chaowei Du, Ziyuan Rao, James P. Best, Steffen Brinckmann, Jian Lü, Baptiste Gault, Gerhard Dehm, Ge Wu, Zhiming Li, Dierk Raabe	89
13	Superior Room Temperature Compressive Plasticity of Submicron Beta‐Phase Gallium Oxide Single Crystals 2022 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Yueqin Wu, (unknown), James P. Best, Dekui Mu, Xipeng Xu, Han Huang	19
14	Advanced structural analysis of a laser additive manufactured Zr-based bulk metallic glass along the build height 2022 ·Journal of Materials Science ·James P. Best, Keita Nomoto, Fan Yang, Bosong Li, Moritz Stolpe, (unknown), Zach Evenson, Christoph Hugenschmidt, Xiaopeng Li, Simon P. Ringer, Jamie J. Kruzic	13
15	Unsupervised Clustering of Nanoindentation Data for Microstructural Reconstruction: Challenges in Phase Discrimination 2022 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Gerhard Dehm, (unknown), James P. Best, (unknown), (unknown), Christoph Kirchlechner	1
16	Dopant-segregation to grain boundaries controls electrical conductivity of n-type NbCo(Pt)Sn half-Heusler alloy mediating thermoelectric performance 2021 ·Acta Materialia ·Ting Luo, Federico Serrano‐Sánchez, Hanna Bishara, Siyuan Zhang, Ruben Bueno Villoro, Jimmy Jiahong Kuo, Claudia Felser, Christina Scheu, G. Jeffrey Snyder, James P. Best, Gerhard Dehm, Yuan Yu, Dierk Raabe, Chenguang Fu, Baptiste Gault	41
17	High strain rate in situ micropillar compression of a Zr-based metallic glass 2021 ·Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources ·Rajaprakash Ramachandramoorthy, Fan Yang, Daniele Casari, Moritz Stolpe, Manish Jain, Jakob Schwiedrzik, Johann Michler, Jamie J. Kruzic, James P. Best	23
18	Connecting structural defects to tensile failure in a 3D-printed fully-amorphous bulk metallic glass 2021 ·Materials Science and Engineering A ·(unknown), Songyun Ma, Shuai Wei, James P. Best, Moritz Stolpe, Bernd Markert	24
19	Mechanical properties of cortical bone and their relationships with age, gender, composition and microindentation properties in the elderly 2015 ·Bone ·Mohammad J. Mirzaali, Jakob Schwiedrzik, (unknown), James P. Best, Johann Michler, Philippe K. Zysset, Uwe Wolfram	229
20	A comparison of three different notching ions for small-scale fracture toughness measurement 2015 ·Scripta Materialia ·James P. Best, Johannes Zechner, Ivan Shorubalko, Jozef Vincenc Oboňa, Juri Wehrs, M. Morstein, Johann Michler	41

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