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• Strains Induced by Hydride Formation in Zirconium
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• Tailored homo- and hetero- lanthanide porphyrin dimers: a synthetic strategy for integrating multiple spintronic functionalities into a single molecule
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• Revealing Strain-Induced Effects in Ultrathin Heterostructures at the Nanoscale
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• Understanding the role of selenium in defect passivation for highly efficient selenium-alloyed cadmium telluride solar cells
• All-optical spiking neurosynaptic networks with self-learning capabilities
• 2019 ACS Nano Lectureship Award
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• Rebecca Nicholls
• Oxford leading project to revolutionise electric vehicle batteries
• Joints between low temperature and high temperature superconducting materials for future magnet systems
• New Zr alloys for fusion applications
• Controlling interfacial properties in solid state batteries using thin film techniques
• Understanding radiation damage mechanisms in high temperature superconductors for fusion applications
• Exploiting the field-effect mechanism in 2D semiconductors
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• Alexander Robertson
• Understanding battery chemistry with in-situ electron microscopy
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• Probing redox in Li-ion battery cathode materials using TEM
• A unified approach to crack fields and crack propagation
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• Atmospheric aerosol measurement using chip-scale optical devices
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• Inline physical nanoparticle analysis for the detection of listeria and legionella.
• Trapping and characterisation of small nanoparticles in fluids
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• Tunable exciton-polariton light sources with 2D nanomaterials
• Room temperature single photon sources in diamond
• Logical operations and control systems for scalable diamond quantum computing
• Cavity-coupled qubits in diamond for networked quantum computing
• Engineering spin qubits for diamond quantum computer chips
• Laser writing of point defects for photonic and quantum devices
• Interactions between point defects in diamond
• Fabrication of precision micro-photonic components using focused ion beams
• Influence of the support on stabilizing local defects in strained monolayer oxide films
• Atomic and electronic structure of an epitaxial Nb2O honeycomb monolayer on Au(111)
• Design for recycling: new alloys and processes to enhance sustainable materials use and re- circulation
• Barbara Gabrys
• Critical stripping in solid electrolyte cells
• Christopher Patrick
• Novel brain-inspired and neuromorphic photonic computing
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• Robert Weatherup
• Extending Soft X-ray Spectroscopies to Realistic Catalytic Conditions
• Device Materials
• Giant Photo-Induced Chirality in Thin Film Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)
• John Titchmarsh
• John Sykes
• George Smith FRS
• Sir Peter Hirsch FRS
• Professor Sir Richard Brook OBE ScD FREng
• Sir John Pethica FRS FREng
• Michael Whelan FRS
• Sergei Dudarev
• Ralf Drautz
• Brian Cantor CBE FREng
• Functionalisation of boron nitride from first principles
• Quantum thermodynamics at the nanoscale
• Development, processing and understanding of high entropy alloys
• Enzo Liotti
• Helical Dislocations: Observation of vacancy defect bias of screw dislocations in neutron irradiated Fe-9Cr
• Searching for new magnetostrictive materials with first-principles calculations
• Computational modelling of hard magnetic materials: from electrons to electric cars
• Fluoride-ion batteries
• Interfacial characterization of hybrid solid-liquid electrolytes for Li-metal anode batteries
• Lithium rich anti-perovskite solid-electrolytes for all-solid-state Li-metal batteries
• Efficiently measuring a quantum device using machine learning
• A coherent nanomechanical oscillator driven by single-electron tunnelling
• Functional thin films for thermal management applications using vacuum printing of nanomaterials in a polymer matrix
• Effects of irradiation damage and temperature on the mechanical properties of lithium-containing ceramics for tritium breeding.
• IoM3 James S Walker Prize 2018
• Prelims Prize 2018-2019
• Chinnapat Panwisawas
• Judy Kim
• Understanding the Mechanisms of Catalytic Phosphorene Growth
• Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure (DAFS) of battery materials
• Niobium Dioxide as an Alternative to Graphite Anode
• Exploiting first-generation quantum computers
• FEMMS Best Student Poster 2019
• Depth-Dependent Oxygen Redox Activity in Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes
• Micromechanical Studies of Fatigue in Superalloys
• Nanoscratch Testing - fundamentals of wear
• Dislocation density distribution at slip band-grain boundary intersections
• High Entropy Alloys
• Tension–compression asymmetry of slip in Ti–6Al
• A new approach to very high lithium salt content quasi-solid state electrolytes for lithium metal batteries using plastic crystals
• Quantum units from the topological engineering of molecular graphenoids
• Characterisation of slip and twin activity using digital image correlation and crystal plasticity finite element simulation: Application to orthorhomic a-uranium
• 'Excellence in Nuclear Reactor Science in the UK' Award
• Superstructure control of first-cycle voltage hysteresis in O-redox cathodes
• Evolution of residual stress in environmental barrier coatings for ceramic matrix composites
• Probing the chemical evolution of cathode material interfaces in Li-ion Batteries
• The effect of hydrogen on the early stages of oxidation of a magnesium alloy
• Understanding structure and defect dynamics in microporous catalysts using machine learning
• Development of demountable superconducting contacts for MRI magnet switches
• Using alpha hulls to automatically and reproducibly detect edge clusters in atom probe tomography datasets
• First Female Winner of Riviere Prize: Dr Alison Crossley
• Large amplitude charge noise and random telegraph fluctuations in room-temperature graphene single-electron transistors
• The interface between Li6.5La3Zr1.5Ta0.5O12 and liquid electrolyte
• Oxford leads in £80M National Nuclear User Facility Award
• Investigating Simultaneous Corrosion/Irradiation of Materials for Lead and Lead-Bismuth Eutectic Reactors at the Atomic Scale
• New Ion Optical Components for Enhanced Nano-Scale Imaging
• Quantifying oxygen distortions in lithium-rich transition-metal-oxide cathodes using ABF STEM
• Active Metamaterials with Negative Static Electric Susceptibility
• J-integral analysis: an EDXD and DIC comparative study for a fatigue crack
• Understanding and optimizing EBIC pn-junction characterization from modelling insights
• TATA Steel Prize awarded to Poppy Miller
• Prelims Practicals Prize 2019
• Materials Selection Poster Competition 2020
• Design and characterisation of ex situ bulk MgB2 superconductors containing a nanoscale dispersion of artificial pinning centres
• Measuring the brittle-to-ductile transition temperature of tungsten-tantalum alloy using chevron-notched micro-cantilevers
• In-line measurement of the dielectric permittivity of materials during additive manufacturing and 3D data reconstruction
• Radio-frequency optomechanical characterization of a silicon nitride drum
• Materials Postdocs Association
• Role of metallic leads and electronic degeneracies in thermoelectric power generation in quantum dots
• Filamentary high-resolution electrical probes for nanoengineering
• In-situ protection of lithium metal anodes for Li-S batteries
• New Journal "Materials for Quantum Technology"
• Shapes of epitaxial gold nanocrystals on SrTiO3 substrates
• Origin of the tunable carrier selectivity of atomic-layer-deposited Ti0x nanolayers in crystalline silicone solar cells
• Understanding the conversion mechanism and performance of monodisperse FeF2 nanocrystal cathodes
• Anna Kareer
• Professor Simon Benjamin: National Quantum Computing Centre
• Dr Joseph Prentice
• Reflections on the analysis of interfaces and grain boundaries by Atom Probe Tomography
• Hitachi Metals-Oxford UTC of Metallurgy