Evgeni Penev

About

Evgeni Penev is an Associate Research Professor at Rice University. He studied physics at the St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia in Bulgaria, where he received his M.S. degree in solid-state physics. He earned his PhD in Computational Materials Science from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany, and was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement. His research focuses on the computational materials science of carbon-based systems and novel low-dimensional materials. His interests and experience also include semiconductor nanostructures, conventional and high-temperature superconductivity, biological systems, as well as methods and tools development.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Computer Science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Psychology
• Mathematics
• Chemical physics
• Composite material
• Biochemical engineering

Selected publications

• Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications

  ACS Nano · 2018-12-05 · 566 citations

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  Advances in the synthesis and scalable manufacturing of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) remain critical to realizing many important commercial applications. Here we review recent breakthroughs in the synthesis of SWCNTs and highlight key ongoing research areas and challenges. A few key applications that capitalize on the properties of SWCNTs are also reviewed with respect to the recent synthesis breakthroughs and ways in which synthesis science can enable advances in these applications.…

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• Theoretical Prediction of Two-Dimensional Materials, Behavior, and Properties

  ACS Nano · 2021 · 61 citations

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  , massively sought after and explored in experimental laboratories, and materials theoretical-computational models in general, flourishing on a fertile mix of condensed-matter physics and chemistry with advancing computational technology. Here the general methods and specific techniques of modeling are briefly overviewed, along with a somewhat philosophical assessment of what "prediction" is, followed by selected practical examples for 2D materials, from structures and properties, to device func…

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• Universal Strength Scaling in Carbon Nanotube Bundles with Frictional Load Transfer

  ACS Nano · 2020 · 41 citations

  Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) individually display exceptional mechanical properties, but the strength of their mesoscale assemblies such as bundles has a fundamental disconnect, with limited understanding of its scaling. Here we use coarse-grained implementation of a CNT interface with prescribed length distributions and parametrized cross-link density, providing two essential control parameters. It is shown that a linear relationship between strength of the bundles and these control parameters exist…

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• Honeycomb boron: alchemy on aluminum pan?

  Science Bulletin · 2018-02-23 · 38 citations

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• Transient Kinetic Selectivity in Nanotubes Growth on Solid Co–W Catalyst

  Nano Letters · 2018-07-06 · 37 citations

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  Solid Co–W catalysts have been shown to yield single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) with high selectivity, simplistically attributed to CNT-catalyst symmetry match for certain chiral indices (n,m). Here, based on large-scale first-principles calculations combined with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, we show instead that such selectivity arises from a complex kinetics of growth. The solid Co7W6 catalyst strongly favors a restructured, asymmetric CNT edge which entails preferential nucleation of t…

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Frequent coauthors

• Boris I. Yakobson

  Rice University

  64 shared

• Martin J. Field

  Institut Laue-Langevin

  49 shared

• Stefan Goedecker

  49 shared

• Shantanu Roy

  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

  49 shared

• Todor M. Mishonov

  Georgi Nadjakov Institute of Solid State Physics

  36 shared

• Zhuhua Zhang

  15 shared

• Peter Kratzer

  University of Duisburg-Essen

  14 shared

• Vasilii I. Artyukhov

  Rice University

  10 shared

Awards & honors

• Otto Hahn Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement

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