Donald Brenner
Head and Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor
- Email: brenner@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building I 3010
- Website: https://mse.ncsu.edu/brenner
Professor Donald Brenner, Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Department Head, received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the faculty at North Carolina State University. He is internationally recognized for his development of the Brenner Potential, a widely used method for modeling carbon and other materials at the atomic scale. His research focuses on computational materials science, molecular dynamics, and the design of new simulation methods to predict and guide materials innovations.
Publications
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework
- Roberts, J., Rijal, B., Divilov, S., Maria, J.-P., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Wolfe, D. E., … zurek, eva. (2026), Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/tw56p2s7rr
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework
- Roberts, J., Rijal, B., Divilov, S., Maria, J.-P., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Wolfe, D. E., … zurek, eva. (2026), Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/tw56p2s7rr.1
- Superhard refractory high-entropy diborides
- Hossain, M. D., McIlwaine, N. S., Marquez-Rios, N. O., Feltrin, A. C., Chawla, V., Mayanovic, R. A., … Maria, J.-P. (2026, January 2), Physical Review Materials. https://doi.org/10.1103/hqlp-dcvl
- A software package for generating robust and accurate potentials using the moment tensor potential framework
- Roberts, J., Rijal, B., Divilov, S., Maria, J.-P., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Wolfe, D. E., … Zurek, E. (2025, December 18), Computer Physics Communications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2025.110002
- Interfacial defect properties of high-entropy carbides: Stacking faults, Shockley partial dislocations, and a new Evans-Polanyi-Semenov relation
- Daigle, S. E., Curtarolo, S., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Maria, J.-P., Wolfe, D. E., Zurek, E., & Brenner, D. W. (2025, May 5), Physical Review Materials, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.053601
- A priori procedure to establish spinodal decomposition in alloys
- Divilov, S., Eckert, H., Toher, C., Friedrich, R., Zettel, A. C., Brenner, D. W., … Curtarolo, S. (2024, January 9), Acta Materialia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.119667
- A super‐hard high entropy boride containing Hf, Mo, Ti, V, and W
- Filipovic, S., Obradovic, N., Hilmas, G. E., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Brenner, D. W., Maria, J. P., … Curtarolo, S. (2024, March 23), Journal of the American Ceramic Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19795
- Bipolar HiPIMS kick‐pulse for high hardness in high‐entropy boride thin films
- McIlwaine, N. S., Rios, N. O. M., Zurek, E., Brenner, D. W., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Curtarolo, S., … Maria, J. P. (2024, November 22), Journal of the American Ceramic Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.20257
- Disordered enthalpy–entropy descriptor for high-entropy ceramics discovery
- Divilov, S., Eckert, H., Hicks, D., Oses, C., Toher, C., Friedrich, R., … Curtarolo, S. (2024, January 3), Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06786-y
- Machine learned interatomic potentials for ternary carbides trained on the AFLOW database
- Roberts, J., Rijal, B., Divilov, S., Maria, J.-P., Fahrenholtz, W. G., Wolfe, D. E., … Zurek, E. (2024, July 2), Npj Computational Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-024-01321-7
