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Material Dynamics and Properties

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Qia Ke
Oregon State University
2
Kaixiang Tao
Northwestern Polytechnical University
3
Xiangrui Zheng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
4
Viktor Klippenstein
Technische Universität Darmstadt
5
Y. J. Duan
City University of Hong Kong
6
Zeng-Yu Yang
China Academy of Engineering Physics
7
Qingyong Ren
Chinese Academy of Sciences
8
Ali Eltareb
City University of New York
9
Zhen-Ya Zhou
Ningxia University
10
Bilin Zhuang
California Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
Toward atomic-scale understanding of structure-dynamics-properties relations for metallic glasses
Progress in Materials Science|2024
81 cit.
2
Connection between Mechanical Relaxation and Equilibration Kinetics in a High-Entropy Metallic Glass
Physical Review Letters|2024
58 cit.
3
A continuum of amorphous ices between low-density and high-density amorphous ice
Communications Chemistry|2024
18 cit.
4
Structural mechanism of glass transition uncovered by unsupervised machine learning
Acta Materialia|2024
14 cit.
5
Interfacial Mechanical Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Chitosan
Macromolecules|2024
14 cit.
6
In-situ study of the temperature effects on the magneto-structural transition in the MnCoGe-based magnetocaloric compounds
Acta Materialia|2025
11 cit.
7
Enhanced deep-freezing magneto- and elasto-caloric effects by modifying lattice anharmonicity and electronic structures
Acta Materialia|2025
11 cit.
8
Potential energy landscape of a flexible water model: Equation of state, configurational entropy, and Adam–Gibbs relationship
The Journal of Chemical Physics|2024
9 cit.
9
Understanding the role of chain stiffness in the mechanical response of cross-linked polymer: Flexible vs. semi-flexible chains
Extreme Mechanics Letters|2024
9 cit.
10
Artificial Intelligence Informed Hydrogel Biomaterials in Additive Manufacturing
Gels|2025
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas Blochowicz
University of Bayreuth
2
Zean Tian
Guizhou University
3
Biao Zuo
California University of Pennsylvania
4
Juan L. Aragones
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
5
Katrin Amann‐Winkel
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
6
Alexander Späh
Stockholm University
7
Simon A. Rogers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8
Daniel J. Strickland
University of Pennsylvania
9
Robert Ivancic
National Institute of Standards and Technology
10
Samuel S. Schoenholz
OpenAI (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Liquid-liquid phase separation in supercooled water from ultrafast heating of low-density amorphous ice
Nature Communications|2023
70 cit.
2
The nonlinear rheology of complex yield stress foods
Physics of Fluids|2022
54 cit.
3
Surface dynamics of glasses
Applied Physics Reviews|2022
54 cit.
4
Crystallization in thin films of polymer glasses: The role of free surfaces, solid interfaces and their competition
Progress in Polymer Science|2023
53 cit.
5
Understanding the transient large amplitude oscillatory shear behavior of yield stress fluids
Journal of Rheology|2023
48 cit.
6
Brittle and ductile yielding in soft materials
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
42 cit.
7
Time reversibility during the ageing of materials
Nature Physics|2024
33 cit.
8
Metastable Polymer Adsorption Dictates the Dynamical Gradients at Interfaces
Macromolecules|2023
28 cit.
9
Predicting compatibilized polymer blend toughness
Science Advances|2024
25 cit.
10
Investigation of the yielding transition in concentrated colloidal systems via rheo-XPCS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2023
23 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David A. Weitz
Harvard University
2
Daan Frenkel
University of Cambridge
3
H. Eugene Stanley
Boston University
4
Kurt Binder
BOKU University
5
Kurt Kremer
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
6
Sidney R. Nagel
American Institutes for Research
7
C. Austen Angell
University of Connecticut
8
Sharon C. Glotzer
University of Michigan
9
Gary S. Grest
Sandia National Laboratories
10
Hajime Tanaka
Tokyo University of Science

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
Circulation|2000
14.5k cit.
2
Understanding Molecular Simulation
Computers in Physics|1997
5.5k cit.
3
Spin glasses: Experimental facts, theoretical concepts, and open questions
Reviews of Modern Physics|1986
5.2k cit.
4
<i>Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications</i>
Physics Today|1997
5.1k cit.
5
Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
American Journal of Physics|1972
4.1k cit.
6
Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts:  A molecular-dynamics simulation
The Journal of Chemical Physics|1990
4k cit.
7
<i>Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena</i>
Physics Today|1973
3.7k cit.
8
Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis of nonstationary time series
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications|2002
3.6k cit.
9
Classes of small-world networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2000
3.1k cit.
10
Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures
Nature Materials|2007
2.8k cit.

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