Duane D. Johnson

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Honors and Awards

• Thesis Research Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1983-1984)
• National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow (1987-1988)
• Award for Excellence, Sandia National Laboratories (1993)
• Editorial Board, “Methods in Materials Science” (1997)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (AGARD) Invited Lecturer (1997)
• Member, Materials Science Critical Technology Sector/Phase Transitions, ASM (2000-2010)
• Collins Scholar, Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education, University of Illinois-UC (2000)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (2003)
• Xerox Award for Faculty Research, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (2004)
• Listed in Who’s Who in America (2005)
• Bliss Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (2005-2009)
• Member-at-Large (elected), Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society (2005-2008)
• Silver “Humie” Award, with student K. Sastry, human competitive award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference and Best Paper in Real World Applications track (2006)
• Chair-Elect, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society (2008-2010)
• NCSA Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois-Champaign (2009)
• Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (2009-2010)
• DoE Hydrogen Program 2010 “Special Recognition Award” for Metal-Hydride Center of Excellence “In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the Department of Energy
• Inviteé Professor, École Centrale Paris (2010-2013)
• Special Editor, Computer Physics Communication (2010-2012)
• Excellence in Reviewing, Acta Materialia (2015)
• Ames Laboratory Inventor Incentive Award (2019): Polymers for Caloric Applications
• F. Wendell Miller Professor of Energy Science, Iowa State University (2010-2021)
• Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Iowa State University (2021-current)
• Excellence in Reviewing, Acta Materialia (2022)

Publications

2024 Selected

Anand P.S. Gaur, Renu Choudhary, Binzhi Liu, Yaroslav Mudryk, Duane D. Johnson, Jun Cui and Xiaoli Tan*, “Antiferroelectric Ceramics for Energy-Efficient Capacitors by Theory-Guided Discovery,” Advanced Materials 2312856-8 (2024).          10.1002/adma.202312856

Prashant Singh, Willian Trehern, Brent Vela, Prince Sharma, Tanner Kirk, Zongrui Pei, Raymundo Arróyave, Michael C. Gao, and Duane D. Johnson, “Understanding the effect of refractory-metal chemistry on the stacking-fault energy and mechanical properties of Cantor-based multi-principal element alloy,” Inter. J. of Plasticity 179, 104020-14 (2024).    10.1016/j.ijplas.2024.104020  

Prashant Singh; Cafer Acemi; Aditya Kuchibhotla; Brent Vela; Prince Sharma; Weiwei Zhang; Paul Mason; Ganesh Balasubramanian; Ibrahim Karaman; Raymundo Arróyave; M. Cynthia Hipwell; and Duane D. Johnson, “Alloying Effects on the Transport Properties of Refractory High-Entropy Alloys,” Acta Mater. 276, 120032-14 (2024).                                  10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120032 

Gaoyuan Ouyang, Olena Palasyuk; Prashant Singh; Pratik K. Ray; Vinay Deodeshmukh; Jun Cui; Duane D. Johnson; Matthew J. Kramer, “Predictive design of novel nickel-based superalloys beyond Haynes 282,” Acta Mater. 275, 120045-10 (2024).         10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120045

Prashant Singh, Duane D. Johnson, Jordan Tiarks, Emma M.H. White, Andrew Kustas, Jonathan Pegues, Morgan R. Jones, Hannah Lim, Frank W. DelRio, Jay D. Carroll, Gaoyuan Ouyang, Michael J. Abere, Rameshawari Naorem, Hailong Huang, Trevor M. Reidemann, Paul G. Kotula, Iver E. Anderson, and Nicolas Argibay, “Theory-Guided Design of Duplex-Phase Multi-Principal-Element Alloys,” Acta Mater. 272, 119952 (2024).   10.1016/j.actamat.2024.119952

Prince Sharma, Duane D Johnson; Ganesh Balasubramanian; Prashant Singh, “Unraveling the connection of electronic and phononic structure with mechanical properties of commercial AZ80 alloy,” Mater. Letts. 366, 136501 (2024).     10.1016/j.matlet.2024.136501

Prashant Singh, Tyler Del Rose, Yaroslav Mudryk, Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Duane D. Johnson, “Designed metal-insulator transition in low-symmetry magnetic intermetallics,” Phys. Rev. B 109 (2024) 064207-9.   10.1103/PhysRevB.109.064207

C. Ritter, D.H. Ryan, A. Provino, and G. Lamura, Y. Mudryk, R.K. Chouhan, P. Singh, Duane D. Johnson, V.K. Pecharsky, and P. Manfrinetti*, “Magnetic ordering in Eu₂In and Eu₂Sn compounds,” Journal of Alloys & Compounds 980 (2024) 173573. 10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.173573          Special JALCOM honoring Vitalij Pecharsky, my friend.

Kong, Seongyoung; Singh, P.; Sarkar, A.; Viswanathan, G.; Kolen’ko, Yury V.; Mudryk, Y.; Johnson, Duane D.; and Kovnir*, Kirill, “Enhancing properties with distortions: A comparative study of two iron-phosphide Fe₂P polymorphs,” Chemistry of Materials 36 (2024) 1665-1677.  10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03003

Thierry Auger, Lin-Lin Wang, Duane D. Johnson, and X. Gong, “First-principles study of grain boundary wetting in Fe-Σ5(013)[100] tilt boundary,” Acta Materialia 265 (2024) 119635-8. 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119635

2023

“Rapid discovery of high hardness multi-principal-element alloys using a generative adversarial network model,” Acta Materialia 257, 119177 (2023).   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119177

“Interplay between Kondo and Magnetic interactions in Pr_0.75Gd_0.25ScGeH,” Journal of Alloys & Compound (JALCOM) 966, 171351 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.171351

“Design of refractory multi-principal-element alloys for high-temperature applications,” npj Comput. Mater. 9, 141 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-023-01095-4 

 “A ductility metric for refractory-based multi-principal-element alloys,” Acta Materialia 257, 119104 (2023).   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119104 

 “Probing of the non-innocent role of P in transition-metal phosphide HER electrocatalysts via replacement with electropositive Si,” Chemistry of Materials 35, 5300-5310 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00460

“Orientation Dependence of the Effect of Short-Range Ordering on the Plastic Deformation of a Medium Entropy Alloy,” Materials Science & Engineering A 888, 145309 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145309 

 “Universal maximum strength of solid metals and alloys,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 166101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.166101 

“Accurate prediction of short-range order and its effect on thermodynamic, structural, and mechanical properties of disordered alloys: exemplified in archetypal Cu₃Au,” Materials Today Communications 35, 106214 (2023).   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2023.106214

“Bayesian Optimization with Active Learning of Design Constraints using an Entropy-based Approach,” npj Computational Materials 9: 49 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-023-01006-7 

 “High-throughput exploration of WMoVTaNbAl refractory multi-principal-element alloys under multiple-property constraints,” Acta Materialia 248, 118784 (2023).    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118784 

 “High-Mass loading of flower-like NiMoS₂ microspheres toward efficient intercalation pseudocapacitive electrode,” ACS Applied Energy Materials 2c03257 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c03257 

 “Oxidation Mechanism in a Refractory Multi-Principal-Element Alloy at High Temperature,” Acta Materialia 246, 118719-10 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118719 

2022

“Extreme Hardness at High Temperature with a Lightweight Additively Manufactured Multi-Principal-Element Superalloy,” Applied Materials Today 29, 101669 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101669    

“Multi-Objective Materials Bayesian Optimization with Active Learning of Design Constraints: Design of Ductile Refractory Multi-Principal-Element Alloys,” Acta Materialia 236, 118133 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118133

“Distilling physical origins of hardness in multi-principal element alloys directly from ensemble neural network models,” npj Computational Materials 8, 153 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-022-00842-3     

“Vacancy formation energies and migration barriers in multi-principal-element alloys,”  Acta Materialia 226, 117611-9 (2022).    /10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117611     

“Between harmonic crystal and glass: solids with dimpled potential-energy surfaces having multiple local energy minima,” Crystals 12 (1), 84-19 (2022).    /10.3390/cryst12010084       

“Effect of substitutional doping and disorder on the phase stability, magnetism, and half-metallicity of Heusler alloys,” Acta Materialia 225, 117477 (2022).   /10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117477    

“Grain-size effects on the deformation in nanocrystalline multi-principal-element alloys,” Materials Chemistry and Physics 277, 125546-8 (2022). /10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.125546

“Towards Stacking Fault Energy Engineering in FCC High-Entropy Alloys,” Acta Materialia 224, 117472-16 (2022).      /10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117472   

2021

“Effect of electric hysteresis on fatigue behavior in antiferroelectric bulk ceramics under bipolar loading,” Mater. Chem. C 9, 15542-15551 (2021). /10.1039/D1TC03520G

“Pseudo-elastic deformation in Mo-based refractory multi-principal-element alloys,” Acta Materialia 220, 117299 (2021).     /10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117299   

“Martensitic phase transformation in Fe₄₀Mn₄₀Co₁₀Cr₁₀ high-entropy alloy,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 115704 (2021).   10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.115704     

“Designing order-disorder transformation in high-entropy ferritic steels,” J. Materials Research  (2021), 1-9.  /10.1557/s43578-021-00336-w

“Machine-Learning Assisted Prediction of the Young’s Modulus of Compositionally Complex Alloys”, Scientific Reports (Nature) 11, 17149 (2021).  /10.1038/s41598-021-96507-0    

“CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy as enhanced hydrogen evolution catalyst in acidic solution,”  J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 17008 (2021).     /10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c03646

“Neural-networks model for force prediction in multi-principal-element alloys,” Comput. Mater. Sci. 198, 110693 (2021).   /10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110693  

“Effect of electric hysteresis on fatigue behavior in antiferroelectric bulk ceramics under bipolar loading,” Mater. Chem. C 9, 15542-15551 (2021). 10.1039/D1TC03520G

“Machine-learning-guided descriptor selection for predicting corrosion resistance in multi-principal-element alloys”,  NPJ Mat. Degrad. (2021).

“Pseudo-elastic deformation in Mo-based refractory multi-principal-element alloys,” Acta Materialia 220, 117299 (2021).        /10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117299    

“Enhanced Oxidation Resistance of (Mo₉₅W₅)₈₅Ta₁₀(TiZr)₅ Refractory Metal Multi-Principal Element Alloy up to 1300°C”, Acta Materialia 215, 117114 (2021).   10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117114

“Accelerating the computational modeling and design of high-entropy alloys,” Nature Computational Science 1, 54-61 (2021). 10.1038/s43588-020-00006-7

2020

“Vacancy-mediated complex phase selection in high entropy alloys,” Acta Materialia 194, 540-546 (2020).  10.1016/j.actamat.2020.04.063

“First-principles prediction of incipient order in arbitrary high-entropy alloys: exemplified in Ti_0.25CrFeNiAl_x,” Acta Materialia 189, 248-254 (2020).   10.1016/j.actamat.2020.02.063

“Crystallographic Facet Selective HER Catalysis: Exemplified in FeP and NiP₂ Single Crystals,” Chem. Sci. 11, 5007-5016 (2020).  10.1039/d0sc00676a

“Exploring the role of electronic structure on photo-catalytic behavior of carbon-nitride (C₃N₄) polymorphs,”  Carbon 168, 125-134 (2020).    /10.1016/j.carbon.2020.04.008  

2019

“Designed materials with a giant magnetocaloric effect near room temperature,”  Acta Materialia 180, 341-348 (2019).  10.1016/j.actamat.2019.09.023

“Reliable thermodynamic estimators for screening caloric materials,” Alloys & Compounds (JALCOM) 802, 712-722 (2019).    10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.150

“Tuning phase-stability and short-range ordering through Al-doping in (CoCrFeMn)_1-xAl_x (x ≤ 20) high entropy alloys,” Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 075002-9 (2019).    10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.075002  

“Revealing the nature of the antiferro-quadrupolar ordering in Cerium Hexaboride (CeB₆),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076401-6 (2019). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.076401

2018

“Lattice instability during solid-solid structural transformations under general applied stress tensor: example of Si I to Si II with metallization,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165701 (2018). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.165701

“Design of high-strength refractory complex solid-solution alloys,” npj Computational Materials 4:16 (2018). 10.1038/s41524-018-0072-0  

“Dirac Node Arcs in PtSn₄,” Nature Physics 12, 667-671 (2016). 0.1038/nphys3712

“A generalized solid-state nudged-elastic-band method,” J. Chem. Phys. 136, 074103-8 (2012). 10.1063/1.3684549

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