Peter W. Voorhees

19.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
335 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Peter W. Voorhees is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter W. Voorhees has authored 335 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 239 papers in Materials Chemistry, 97 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 89 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Peter W. Voorhees's work include Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (136 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (89 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (57 papers). Peter W. Voorhees is often cited by papers focused on Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (136 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (89 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (57 papers). Peter W. Voorhees collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and South Korea. Peter W. Voorhees's co-authors include Stephen H. Davis, M. E. Glicksman, Lorenz Ratke, William C. Johnson, Brian J. Spencer, J. Alkemper, Katsuyo Thornton, Scott A. Barnett, G. B. McFadden and Jonathan E. Guyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Peter W. Voorhees

328 papers receiving 14.8k 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.

The theory of Ostwald ripening

1985 1.6k citations Peter W. Voorhees profile →
Three-dimensional reconstruction of a solid-oxide fuel-cell anode

2006 660 citations Katsuyo Thornton, Peter W. Voorhees et al. profile →
Ostwald Ripening of Two-Phase Mixtures

1992 472 citations Peter W. Voorhees profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter W. Voorhees United States	64	9.6k	5.2k	3.2k	2.6k	2.5k	335	15.2k
Alexander Stukowski Germany	34	13.3k 1.4×	8.3k 1.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.2×	55	19.2k
Y. Mishin United States	53	11.6k 1.2×	7.6k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	160	14.4k
Stephen M. Foiles United States	56	10.7k 1.1×	4.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	168	15.1k
D. Wolf United States	64	11.4k 1.2×	5.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	231	14.7k
Gregory S. Rohrer United States	67	10.1k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	332	14.3k
Simon R. Phillpot United States	72	20.8k 2.2×	7.7k 1.5×	2.5k 0.8×	4.0k 1.6×	5.1k 2.0×	355	28.0k
Mark Asta United States	86	18.9k 2.0×	10.1k 1.9×	4.5k 1.4×	8.2k 3.2×	2.4k 1.0×	375	28.7k
K. Nordlund Finland	74	17.1k 1.8×	3.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	5.4k 2.1×	2.4k 1.0×	577	22.8k
F. Spaepen United States	64	10.8k 1.1×	8.6k 1.7×	648 0.2×	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	246	17.1k
W. W. Mullins United States	33	6.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	907 0.4×	81	11.3k

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Zhang, Jin, James A. Warren, & Peter W. Voorhees. (2025). Nonequilibrium thermodynamic foundation of the grand-potential phase field model. Physical review. E. 111(2). L022104–L022104.

Taillon, Joshua A., Edward S. Barnard, Maria K. Y. Chan, et al.. (2025). MaRDA FAIR materials microscopy and LIMS data working groups’ community recommendations. MRS Bulletin. 50(7). 793–804. 1 indexed citations

Kang, Chi Jung, Joshua Agar, Chris Wolverton, et al.. (2025). Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery, Development, and Optimization. ACS Nano. 19(30). 27116–27158. 11 indexed citations

Voorhees, Peter W., et al.. (2024). Thermodynamic coupling and interfacial non-equilibrium in a finite-diffusion model of microsegregation. Calphad. 87. 102744–102744. 1 indexed citations

Chadwick, Alexander F., Juan Guillermo Santos Macías, Arash Samaei, et al.. (2024). On microstructure development during laser melting and resolidification: An experimentally validated simulation study. Acta Materialia. 282. 120482–120482. 6 indexed citations

Dingreville, Rémi, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking machine learning strategies for phase-field problems. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(6). 65019–65019. 1 indexed citations

Voorhees, Peter W., et al.. (2024). Ambient-Pressure Ammonia Thermocatalyst Prepared by Exsolution of Cu–Ru–Fe Heterostructures. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(15). 6429–6436.

Chadwick, Alexander F. & Peter W. Voorhees. (2023). The Effects of Melt Pool Geometry and Scan Strategy on Microstructure Development During Additive Manufacturing. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 1274(1). 12010–12010. 3 indexed citations

Miksis, Michael J., G. Paul Neitzel, & Peter W. Voorhees. (2023). Interfacial Dynamics Pioneer Stephen H. Davis (1939–2021). Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 56(1). 1–20. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, Alexander F. Chadwick, David L. Chopp, & Peter W. Voorhees. (2023). Phase field modeling with large driving forces. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, Alexander F. Chadwick, & Peter W. Voorhees. (2023). Quantitative Phase Field Model for Electrochemical Systems. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(12). 120503–120503. 4 indexed citations

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Horwath, James P., Peter W. Voorhees, & Eric A. Stach. (2021). Quantifying Competitive Degradation Processes in Supported Nanocatalyst Systems. Nano Letters. 21(12). 5324–5329. 11 indexed citations

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He, Kun, Kyoungdoc Kim, Stephanie M. Ribet, et al.. (2021). Degeneration Behavior of Cu Nanowires under Carbon Dioxide Environment: An In Situ/Operando Study. Nano Letters. 21(16). 6813–6819. 17 indexed citations

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Voorhees, Peter W., et al.. (2020). Effect of transport mechanism on the coarsening of bicontinuous structures: A comparison between bulk and surface diffusion. Physical Review Materials. 4(10). 13 indexed citations

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Kim, Kyoungdoc, Logan Ward, Jiangang He, et al.. (2018). Accelerated Discovery of Quaternary Heusler with High-Throughput Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Cool, Terrill A. & Peter W. Voorhees. (2018). Dendrite fragmentation: an experiment-driven simulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 376(2113). 20170213–20170213. 17 indexed citations

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Davis, Stephen H., et al.. (2017). Instabilities in rapid directional solidification under weak flow. Physical review. E. 96(6). 62802–62802. 4 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, G., et al.. (2017). Critical Parameters Concerning the Columnar-to-Equiaxed Transition in Solidification Processing. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 3 indexed citations

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Schwalbach, Edwin J., Stephen H. Davis, Peter W. Voorhees, Daniel Wheeler, & James A. Warren. (2011). Liquid droplet dynamics and complex morphologies in vapor–liquid–solid nanowire growth. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 26(17). 2186–2198. 15 indexed citations

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Gurtin, Morton E. & Peter W. Voorhees. (1993). The continuum mechanics of coherent two-phase elastic solids with mass transport. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 440(1909). 323–343. 68 indexed citations

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