Donald Brenner
Head and Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor
Co-Director, THE XM
3010 Engineering Building I
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Donald Brenner received his B.S. from the State University of New York in 1982, and his Ph.D. from Penn. State University in 1987, both in Chemistry. He then joined the research staff of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a member of the Theoretical Chemistry Section. In 1994 Brenner joined the faculty at NC State, where he is currently a Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on the development and use of atomic, multi-scale and statistical modeling methods for the virtual design, development and characterization of advanced materials. His awards include the 2002 Feynman Prize for advances in nanotechnology, the 2013 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award, and the 2016 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence.
Education
Ph.D. Chemistry Pennsylvania State University 1987
B.S. Chemistry State University of New York 1982
Publications
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework , Mendeley Data (2026)
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework , Mendeley Data (2026)
- Effect of Composition on Grain‐Boundary Chemistry and Fracture Behavior in High‐Entropy Carbides , Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2026)
- Superhard refractory high-entropy diborides , Physical Review Materials (2026)
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework , Computer Physics Communications (2025)
- Interfacial defect properties of high-entropy carbides: Stacking faults, Shockley partial dislocations, and a new Evans-Polanyi-Semenov relation , Physical Review Materials (2025)
- A priori procedure to establish spinodal decomposition in alloys , Acta Materialia (2024)
- A super‐hard high entropy boride containing Hf, Mo, Ti, V, and W , Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2024)
- Bipolar HiPIMS kick‐pulse for high hardness in high‐entropy boride thin films , Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2024)
- Disordered enthalpy–entropy descriptor for high-entropy ceramics discovery , Nature (2024)