Stefano Curtarolo
Professor and Director, Center for Materials Genomics
RESEARCH FIELDS
- Nanoscale Science of Energy
- Computational materials science
- Nanotube growth characterization
- Alloy theory
- Superlubricity on quasicrystals
- Superconductivity in Metal borides
- Genetic Approaches to QM Predictions of Materials Structures
- Materials for Nuclear Detection
The research is multidisciplinary and makes use of state of the art techniques from fields like materials science, chemistry, physics, quantum mechanics, mathematics and computer science.
Contact Information:
- Office Location: 144 Hudson Hall
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5310
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Education:
| PhD in Materials Science | Massachussets Institute of Technology | 2003 |
| MS - Physics | Penn State University | 1999 |
| Laurea in Physics | University of Padova | 1998 |
| Laurea in Electrical Engineering | University of Padova | 1995 |
Specialties:
Nanoscale/microscale computing systems
Computational Materials
Quantum Information
Materials
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:
- Best Paper Award, CALPHAD (Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry)
- MRS Silver Medal Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society
- NSF Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
- ONR Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research
Representative Publications: (More Publications)
- Curtarolo, Stefano and Ceder, Gerbrand, Dynamics of an inhomogeneously coarse grained multiscale system, Physical Review Letters, vol 88 no. 25 I (2002), pp. 255504 - 1 [PhysRevLett.88.255504] [abs].
- Curtarolo, Stefano and Morgan, Dane and Ceder, Gerbrand, Accuracy of ab initio methods in predicting the crystal structures of metals: A review of 80 binary alloys, Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, vol 29 no. 3 (2005), pp. 163 - 211 [002] [abs].
- Curtarolo, Stefano and Setyawan, Wahyu and Ferralis, Nicola and Diehl, Renee D. and Cole, Milton W., Evolution of topological order in Xe films on a quasicrystal surface, Physical Review Letters, vol 95 no. 13 (2005), pp. 1 - 4 [PhysRevLett.95.136104] [abs].
- Kolmogorov, A.N. and Curtarolo, S., Prediction of different crystal structure phases in metal borides: a lithium monoboride analog to MgB2, Phys. Rev., B, Condens, Matter Mater. Phys. (USA), vol 73 no. 18 (2006), pp. 180501 - 1 [PhysRevB.73.180501] [abs].
- Stan, G. and Bojan, M.J. and Curtarolo, S. and Gatica, S.M. and Cole, M.W., Uptake of gases in bundles of carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B, Condens. Matter (USA), vol 62 no. 3 (2000), pp. 2173 - 80 [2173] [abs].