Donald W. Brenner
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University State University of New York
Known for	Reactive empirical bond order
Scientific career
Fields	Computational materials science
Institutions	North Carolina State University U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Website	Brenner Research Group

Donald W. Brenner is a Kobe Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on computational studies of materials for extreme environments, high entropy ceramics, tribology and tribochemistry, shock and high strain rate dynamics, nuclear materials, and self-assembled monolayers.

Research and career

Donald W. Brenner is best known for his development of the reactive empirical bond order (REBO) interatomic potential,^[1] which was a precursor to ReaxFF and similar many-body reactive potentials. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry Brenner was a member of the research staff in the Theoretical Chemistry Section at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC before joining the faculty at the North Carolina State University.

His honors include the 2002 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (theory), the 2013 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award, and the 2016 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence. He has served on advisory and review committees for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials. He is also an editor of the "Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology, three editions", W. Goddard, D. Brenner, S. Lyshevski and G. Iafrate, Eds., CRC Press (2002, 2007 and 2012) and as co-authored over 275 papers, book chapters and major reports.

Education

• B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York in 1982
• Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1987

Selected publications

• Brenner, Donald (1990). "Empirical potential for hydrocarbons for use in simulating the chemical vapor deposition of diamond films". Phys. Rev. B. 42 (15): 9458–9471. Bibcode:1990PhRvB..42.9458B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.42.9458. PMID 9995183.
• Cormac Toher, Corey Oses, Marco Esters, David Hicks, George N. Kotsonis, Christina M. Rost, Donald W. Brenner, Jon-Paul Maria & Stefano Curtarolo (2022). "High-entropy ceramics: Propelling applications through disorder". MRS Bulletin. 47 (2): 194. arXiv:2111.11519. Bibcode:2022MRSBu..47..194T. doi:10.1557/s43577-022-00281-x. S2CID 258712799.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Sarker, Pranab; Harrington, Tyler; Toher, Cormac; Oses, Corey; Samiee, Mojtaba; Maria, Jon-Paul; Brenner, Donald W.; Vecchio, Kenneth S.; Curtarolo, Stefano (26 November 2018). "High-entropy high-hardness metal carbides discovered by entropy descriptors". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 4980. arXiv:1811.07730. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.4980S. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07160-7. PMC 6255778. PMID 30478375.
• Rak, Zs.; O’Brien, C. J.; Brenner, D. W.; Andersson, D. A.; Stanek, C. R. (November 2016). "Understanding the Atomic-Level Chemistry and Structure of Oxide Deposits on Fuel Rods in Light Water Nuclear Reactors Using First Principles Methods". JOM. 68 (11): 2912–2921. Bibcode:2016JOM....68k2912R. doi:10.1007/s11837-016-2102-z. S2CID 255401519.
• Sinnott, Susan B.; Brenner, Donald W. (May 2012). "Three decades of many-body potentials in materials research". MRS Bulletin. 37 (5): 469–473. doi:10.1557/mrs.2012.88. S2CID 136760920.
• Brenner, D. W.; Robertson, D. H.; Elert, M. L.; White, C. T. (5 April 1993). "Detonations at nanometer resolution using molecular dynamics". Physical Review Letters. 70 (14): 2174–2177. Bibcode:1993PhRvL..70.2174B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2174. PMID 10053489.
• Robertson, D. H.; Brenner, D. W.; Mintmire, J. W. (1 June 1992). "Energetics of nanoscale graphitic tubules". Physical Review B. 45 (21): 12592–12595. Bibcode:1992PhRvB..4512592R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.45.12592. PMID 10001304.

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