Stephen M. Foiles

18.7k citations

168 papers · 15.1k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Materials Chemistry top 0.2%
- Microstructure and mechanical properties
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 46
- nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions 46
Materials Chemistry 119
- Microstructure and mechanical properties 82

Co-authors: Murray S. Daw M. I. Baskes Elizabeth A. Holm David L. Olmsted James B. Adams Garritt J. Tucker N. W. Ashcroft Mark Asta
Journals: Physical review. B, Condensed matter (22 papers)Acta Materialia (13 papers)Physical Review Letters (9 papers)Surface Science (6 papers)Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Stephen M. Foiles

164 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Spectral neighbor analysis method for automated generation of quantum-accurate interatomic potentials 2014 · 769 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Journal of Computational Physics
2009 Acta Materialia
1993 The embedded-atom method: a review of theory and applications
1986 Physical review. B, Condensed matter
1985 Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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1	Roadmap on multiscale materials modeling Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering ·E. van der Giessen, Peter A. Schultz, Nicolas Bertin, Vasily V. Bulatov, Wei Cai, Gábor Csányi, Stephen M. Foiles, M.G.D. Geers, Carlos González, Markus Hütter, Woo Kyun Kim, Dennis M. Kochmann, Javier LLorca, Ann E. Mattsson, Jörg Rottler, Alexander L. Shluger, Ryan B. Sills, Ingo Steinbach, Alejandro Strachan, Ellad B. Tadmor	2020	137
2	Multiscale simulations of electron and ion dynamics in self-irradiated silicon Physical review. B. ·Cheng‐Wei Lee, James A. Stewart, Rémi Dingreville, Stephen M. Foiles, André Schleife	2020	47
3	Multi-objective optimization of interatomic potentials with application to MgO Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering ·M. Gersabeck, Laura Holty, Richard G. Hennig, Stephen M. Foiles, Simon R. Phillpot	2019	6
4	Preface for focus issue on uncertainty quantification in materials modeling Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering ·Stephen M. Foiles, David L. McDowell, Alejandro Strachan	2019	2
5	Revealing inconsistencies in X-ray width methods for nanomaterials Nanoscale ·Kyomi Gregory-Martin, Brad Boyce, Stephen M. Foiles, Rémi Dingreville	2019	23
6	New nanoscale toughening mechanisms mitigate embrittlement in binary nanocrystalline alloys Nanoscale ·Nathan Heckman, Stephen M. Foiles, Christopher John O'Brien, Michael Chandross, Christopher M. Barr, Nicolas Argibay, Khalid Hattar, Ping Lu, David P. Adams, Brad Boyce	2018	31
7	Fatigue-driven acceleration of abnormal grain growth in nanocrystalline wires Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering ·Stephen M. Foiles, Fadi Abdeljawad, Jiping Niu, Brad Boyce	2018	7
8	The role of the interface stiffness tensor on grain boundary dynamics Acta Materialia ·Fadi Abdeljawad, Stephen M. Foiles, Jiping Niu, F Gunsaulus, Christopher M. Barr, Nathan Heckman, Khalid Hattar, Brad Boyce	2018	31
9	Grain boundary phase transformations in PtAu and relevance to thermal stabilization of bulk nanocrystalline metals Journal of Materials Science ·Christopher John O'Brien, Christopher M. Barr, Patrick Price, Khalid Hattar, Stephen M. Foiles	2017	73
10	Exploration of the mechanisms of temperature-dependent grain boundary mobility: search for the common origin of ultrafast grain boundary motion Journal of Materials Science ·Christopher John O'Brien, Stephen M. Foiles	2016	29
11	SNAP: Automated Generation of Quantum-Accurate Interatomic Potentials. Journal of Computational Physics ·O.I. Simonova, Laura Swiler, Christian Robert Trott, Stephen M. Foiles, Garritt J. Tucker	2014	2
12	Electron–ion coupling effects on simulations of radiation damage in pyrochlore waste forms Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Ahmed Ismail, Jeffery A. Greathouse, Paul Crozier, Stephen M. Foiles	2010	18
13	Comparing grain boundary energies in face-centered cubic metals: Al, Au, Cu and Ni Scripta Materialia ·Elizabeth A. Holm, David L. Olmsted, Stephen M. Foiles	2010	126
14	Thin Film Compressive Stresses due to Adatom Insertion into Grain Boundaries Physical Review Letters ·Chun‐Wei Pao, Stephen M. Foiles, Edmund B. Webb, David J. Srolovitz, Jerrold A. Floro	2007	77
15	Computing the mobility of grain boundaries Nature Materials ·Maddy Janssens, David L. Olmsted, Elizabeth A. Holm, Stephen M. Foiles, Steven J. Plimpton, P. M. Derlet	2006	221
16	Copper segregation to the Sigma5 (310)/[001] symmetric tilt grain boundary in aluminum University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) ·Geoffrey H. Campbell, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Wayne E. King, Stephen M. Foiles, Christian Kisielowski, Gerd Duscher	2003	1
17	The rigid-body displacement observed at the Σ = 5, (310)-[001] symmetric tilt grain boundary in central transition bcc metals Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties ·Geoffrey H. Campbell, Mukul Kumar, Wayne E. King, James Belak, John A. Moriarty, Stephen M. Foiles	2002	15
18	Surface Step Effects on Nanoindentation Physical Review Letters ·Jonathan A. Zimmerman, Cynthia L. Kelchner, Patrick Klein, J. C. Hamilton, Stephen M. Foiles	2001	392
19	Effect of Surface Steps on Dislocation Structure During Nanoindentation MRS Proceedings ·Jonathan A. Zimmerman, Patrick Klein, Stephen M. Foiles	2000	3
20	High-resolution transmission electron microscopy studies of dislocation cores in metals and intermetallic compounds Ultramicroscopy ·Michael J. Mills, Murray S. Daw, Stephen M. Foiles	1994	32

About Stephen M. Foiles

Stephen M. Foiles is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, General Materials Science and Metals and Alloys, having authored 168 papers that have together received 15.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (82 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (46 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (32 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (27 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (25 papers), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (16 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (14 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Materials Chemistry (10.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (3.3k citations), Metals and Alloys (410 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.4k citations) and Mechanical Engineering (4.5k citations). Stephen M. Foiles has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Murray S. Daw, M. I. Baskes, Elizabeth A. Holm, David L. Olmsted, James B. Adams, Garritt J. Tucker, N. W. Ashcroft, Mark Asta, Aidan P. Thompson and Christian Robert Trott. Their work appears in journals such as Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Acta Materialia, Physical Review Letters, Surface Science and Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering.

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