King C. Lai

462 total citations
24 papers, 360 citations indexed

About

King C. Lai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atmospheric Science and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, King C. Lai has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 360 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in King C. Lai's work include nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (15 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (8 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (5 papers). King C. Lai is often cited by papers focused on nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (15 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (8 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (5 papers). King C. Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Mexico. King C. Lai's co-authors include James W. Evans, Yong Han, P. A. Thiel, Ann Lii-Rosales, Michael C. Tringides, Da‐Jiang Liu, Wenyu Huang, Dapeng Jing, Linxia Wang and Li Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

King C. Lai

24 papers receiving 358 citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
King C. Lai United States 10 272 110 78 77 44 24 360
Jinwoo Park South Korea 13 364 1.3× 44 0.4× 132 1.7× 82 1.1× 37 0.8× 27 440
Gopi Krishnan Netherlands 13 276 1.0× 52 0.5× 74 0.9× 24 0.3× 47 1.1× 24 364
Ann Lii-Rosales United States 14 341 1.3× 55 0.5× 195 2.5× 64 0.8× 18 0.4× 23 415
Rachel S. Aga United States 9 345 1.3× 42 0.4× 99 1.3× 89 1.2× 36 0.8× 17 397
F.P. Leisenberger Austria 8 302 1.1× 48 0.4× 162 2.1× 153 2.0× 38 0.9× 22 444
Botan Jawdat Abdullah Iraq 11 343 1.3× 34 0.3× 103 1.3× 29 0.4× 45 1.0× 33 388
O. A. Oviedo Argentina 14 208 0.8× 140 1.3× 259 3.3× 90 1.2× 99 2.3× 35 525
David Mora‐Fonz United Kingdom 11 361 1.3× 28 0.3× 153 2.0× 34 0.4× 59 1.3× 17 440
Rik S. Koster Netherlands 10 279 1.0× 21 0.2× 120 1.5× 79 1.0× 62 1.4× 10 351
S Gritschneder Germany 8 307 1.1× 63 0.6× 86 1.1× 139 1.8× 16 0.4× 10 379

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lai, King C., et al.. (2025). Automatic Process Exploration through Machine Learning Assisted Transition State Searches. Physical Review Letters. 134(9). 96201–96201. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., et al.. (2024). ML-Accelerated Automatic Process Exploration Reveals Facile O-Induced Pd Step-Edge Restructuring on Catalytic Time Scales. ACS Catalysis. 15(1). 514–522. 7 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Da‐Jiang Liu, Wenyu Huang, Yong Han, & James W. Evans. (2024). Thermal Shape Stability of fcc Metal Nanocrystals Synthesized with Faceted Nonequilibrium Shapes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(17). 7026–7040. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Charles T. Campbell, & James W. Evans. (2023). Size-dependent diffusion of supported metal nanoclusters: mean-field-type treatments and beyond for faceted clusters. Nanoscale Horizons. 8(11). 1556–1567. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Da‐Jiang Liu, & James W. Evans. (2023). Nucleation-mediated reshaping of facetted metallic nanocrystals: Breakdown of the classical free energy picture. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(10). 104102–104102. 5 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Sebastian Matera, Christoph Scheurer, & Karsten Reuter. (2023). A fuzzy classification framework to identify equivalent atoms in complex materials and molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(2). 2 indexed citations
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Lii-Rosales, Ann, Yong Han, Dapeng Jing, et al.. (2021). Encapsulation of metal nanoparticles at the surface of a prototypical layered material. Nanoscale. 13(3). 1485–1506. 13 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Minda Chen, Jiaqi Yu, et al.. (2021). Shape Stability of Truncated Octahedral fcc Metal Nanocrystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(44). 51954–51961. 6 indexed citations
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Manzano, J. Sebastián, Takeshi Kobayashi, Pranjali Naik, et al.. (2020). Kinetics of the functionalization of mesoporous silica nanoparticles: Implications on surface group distributions, adsorption and catalysis. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 305. 110276–110276. 18 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., et al.. (2020). Fundamentals of Au(111) Surface Dynamics: Coarsening of Two-Dimensional Au Islands. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(13). 7492–7499. 11 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Minda Chen, Benjamin P. Williams, et al.. (2020). Reshaping of Truncated Pd Nanocubes: Energetic and Kinetic Analysis Integrating Transmission Electron Microscopy with Atomistic-Level and Coarse-Grained Modeling. ACS Nano. 14(7). 8551–8561. 12 indexed citations
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Jing, Dapeng, Ann Lii-Rosales, King C. Lai, et al.. (2020). Non-equilibrium growth of metal clusters on a layered material: Cu on MoS2. New Journal of Physics. 22(5). 53033–53033. 16 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., et al.. (2020). Generalized hydrodynamic analysis of transport through a finite open nanopore for two-component single-file systems. Physical review. E. 101(6). 62103–62103. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Ann Lii-Rosales, & James W. Evans. (2020). Equilibrium shapes of facetted 3D metal nanoclusters intercalated near the surface of layered materials. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 32(44). 445001–445001. 3 indexed citations
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Lii-Rosales, Ann, Yong Han, King C. Lai, et al.. (2019). Fabricating Fe nanocrystals via encapsulation at the graphite surface. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 37(6). 17 indexed citations
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Han, Yong, King C. Lai, Ann Lii-Rosales, et al.. (2019). Surface energies, adhesion energies, and exfoliation energies relevant to copper-graphene and copper-graphite systems. Surface Science. 685. 48–58. 97 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., et al.. (2019). Structure of Polydisperse fcc Nanocrystals: Implications for Crystal Fractionalization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(14). 9528–9537. 8 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Yong Han, Wenyu Huang, et al.. (2019). Reshaping, Intermixing, and Coarsening for Metallic Nanocrystals: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanical and Coarse-Grained Modeling. Chemical Reviews. 119(11). 6670–6768. 62 indexed citations
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Lai, King C. & James W. Evans. (2019). Complex oscillatory decrease with size in diffusivity of {100}-epitaxially supported 3D fcc metal nanoclusters. Nanoscale. 11(37). 17506–17516. 3 indexed citations
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Lai, King C., Da‐Jiang Liu, P. A. Thiel, & James W. Evans. (2018). Modeling of Diffusivity for 2D Vacancy Nanopits and Comparison with 2D Adatom Nanoislands on Metal(100) Surfaces Including Analysis for Ag(100). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(21). 11334–11344. 6 indexed citations

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