William A. Steele

22.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
266 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

William A. Steele is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Steele has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 109 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 77 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William A. Steele's work include Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (79 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (44 papers). William A. Steele is often cited by papers focused on Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (79 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (44 papers). William A. Steele collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. William A. Steele's co-authors include Mary J. Bojan, В. А. Бакаев, Tayyab I. Suratwala, Lana L. Wong, Michael D. Feit, Nan Shen, Dominic J. Tildesley, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, Ted A. Laurence and Philip E. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William A. Steele

261 papers receiving 17.7k citations

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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.

Adsorption surface area and porosity

1983 7.0k citations William A. Steele profile →
The physical interaction of gases with crystalline solids

1973 1.4k citations William A. Steele Surface Science profile →
The interaction of gases with solid surfaces

1974 1.2k citations William A. Steele profile →
Computer simulation and the statistical mechanics of adsorption

1983 658 citations William A. Steele profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William A. Steele	8.3k	6.4k	4.0k	2.4k	2.3k	266	18.5k
Eli Ruckenstein	12.5k 1.5×	6.2k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	931	29.0k
Kenneth S. Pitzer	5.6k 0.7×	6.2k 1.0×	5.5k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	292	24.3k
H. T. Davis	5.0k 0.6×	4.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	940 0.4×	791 0.3×	381	18.1k
J. Ilja Siepmann	7.9k 0.9×	8.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	5.3k 2.3×	303	21.7k
Keith E. Gubbins	15.4k 1.8×	22.1k 3.4×	5.9k 1.5×	2.8k 1.2×	3.5k 1.5×	459	36.0k
John L. Margrave	10.5k 1.3×	2.3k 0.4×	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	445	17.7k
W.M. Haynes	5.8k 0.7×	4.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	816 0.3×	919 0.4×	53	17.3k
H. W. Salzberg	10.0k 1.2×	3.1k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	37	22.3k
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos	10.1k 1.2×	9.5k 1.5×	4.6k 1.1×	941 0.4×	727 0.3×	332	20.6k
Pablo G. Debenedetti	15.7k 1.9×	10.2k 1.6×	6.1k 1.5×	1.7k 0.7×	389 0.2×	314	27.0k

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Feit, Michael D., et al.. (2012). Optimized pitch button blocking for polishing high-aspect-ratio optics. Applied Optics. 51(35). 8350–8350. 6 indexed citations

Miller, Philip E., J. D. Bude, Tayyab I. Suratwala, et al.. (2010). Fracture-induced subbandgap absorption as a precursor to optical damage on fused silica surfaces. Optics Letters. 35(16). 2702–2702. 147 indexed citations

Suratwala, Tayyab I., J. Bude, Ted A. Laurence, et al.. (2009). Laser damage precursors in fused silica. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7504. 75040X–75040X. 68 indexed citations

Laurence, Ted A., J. Bude, Nan Shen, et al.. (2009). Metallic-like photoluminescence and absorption in fused silica surface flaws. Applied Physics Letters. 94(15). 104 indexed citations

Бакаев, В. А., et al.. (1999). Adsorption of CO2 and Ar on glass surfaces. Computer simulation and experimental study. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 111(21). 9813–9821. 33 indexed citations

Campbell, J.H., et al.. (1997). Laser induced damage and fracture in fused silica vacuum windows.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2966. 106–125. 1 indexed citations

MUELLER, A., et al.. (1995). Rayleigh and Raman spectral moments for N₂: experiment and simulation. Molecular Physics. 85(2). 233–242. 4 indexed citations

Бакаев, В. А. & William A. Steele. (1993). The Characteristic Curve in Physical Adsorption. Adsorption Science & Technology. 10(1-4). 123–136. 10 indexed citations

Steele, William A.. (1992). Detailed balance factors for freely rotating linear molecules. Molecular Physics. 76(5). 1265–1268. 4 indexed citations

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Steele, William A., et al.. (1991). Computer simulations of benzene adsorbed on graphite. 1. 85 K. Langmuir. 7(12). 3110–3117. 34 indexed citations

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Lustig, Rolf & William A. Steele. (1988). On the thermodynamics of liquid propane. Molecular Physics. 65(2). 475–486. 42 indexed citations

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Steele, William A.. (1985). Computer simulation study of the forbidden absorption spectra of liquid nitrogen. Molecular Physics. 56(2). 415–430. 30 indexed citations

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Rao, M.B., Robert G. Jenkins, & William A. Steele. (1985). Potential functions for diffusive motion in carbon molecular sieves. Langmuir. 1(1). 137–141. 57 indexed citations

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Kabadi, Vinayak N. & William A. Steele. (1985). Molecular Dynamics of Fluids: The Gaussian Overlap Model. Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie. 89(1). 2–9. 24 indexed citations

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Monson, P. A., Milton W. Cole, Flavio Toigo, & William A. Steele. (1982). Deviations from two-dimensionality in classical adsorbed films. Surface Science. 122(2). 401–407. 12 indexed citations

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Gupta, Sumnesh, J. M. Haile, & William A. Steele. (1982). Use of computer simulation to determine the triplet distribution function in dense fluids. Chemical Physics. 72(3). 425–440. 10 indexed citations

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Steele, William A.. (1973). The physical interaction of gases with crystalline solids. Surface Science. 36(1). 317–352. 1412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steele, William A., et al.. (1973). Expansion for the quantum second virial coefficient using hard-sphere basis functions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 59(2). 992–993. 12 indexed citations

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Steele, William A., et al.. (1972). Collisional Effects upon Rotational Correlations of Symmetric Top Molecules. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 57(11). 4638–4648. 62 indexed citations

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Steele, William A.. (1967). The Physical adsorption of gases on solids. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 1(1). 3–78. 37 indexed citations

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