William A. Goddard, III
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics
B.S., University of California (Los Angeles), 1960; Ph.D., Caltech, 1965. Noyes Research Fellow in Chemistry, 1964-66; Noyes Research Instructor, 1966-67; Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, 1967-71; Associate Professor, 1971-74; Professor, 1974-78; Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, 1978-84; Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, 1984-2001; Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, 2001-.
Research interests: new methodology for quantum mechanics of materials, reactive force fields for multiscale, reactive simulations, nanotechnology, fuel cells, batteries, photoelectrocatalysis and electrocatalysis, pharma, bulk amorphous metal alloys
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Goddard has been a pioneer in developing methods for quantum mechanics (QM), force fields (FF), reactive dynamics (ReaxFF RD), electron dynamics (eFF), molecular dynamics (MD), and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions on chemical, catalytic, and biochemical materials systems.
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- Tamtaji, Mohsen;Goddard III, William A. et al. (2025) High-throughput screening of axially bonded dual atom catalysts for enhanced electrocatalytic reactions: The effect of van der Waals interactionJournal of Materials Science & Technology
- Peng, Weiliang;Li, Shaobo et al. (2025) Breaking the Limitations of Activity and Stability in Powdered Materials for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: The Critical Role of Catalyst-Inducing SeedsApplied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy
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- Aryanfar, Asghar;Tayyar, Ali et al. (2025) Controlling the roughening of growing electrochemical interfaces using temperature gradientsPhysical Review E
- Zhou, Xiangyi;Tamtaji, Mohsen et al. (2025) Nonprecious Triple-Atom Catalysts with Ultrahigh Activity for Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia: A DFT ScreeningACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
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- Cheng, Yujie;Shen, Yidi et al. (2025) Energy dissipation mechanism of G-phase and L-phase metallic glass nanofilms subjected to high-velocity nano-ballistic impactExtreme Mechanics Letters
- Grayson, Robert W.;Giapis, Konstantinos P. et al. (2024) Methanol Formation in Hyperthermal Oxygen Collisions with Methane Clathrate IceJournal of Physical Chemistry A
- Xin, Yinger;Musgrave, Charles B. et al. (2024) Subtle Modifications in Interface Configurations of Iron/Cobalt Phthalocyanine‐based Electrocatalysts Determine Molecular CO₂ Reduction ActivitiesAngewandte Chemie International Edition