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- Superstructure control of first-cycle voltage hysteresis in O-redox cathodes
- The effect of hydrogen on the early stages of oxidation of a magnesium alloy
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- 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
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- Investigating the atomic-scale irradiation damage in an Inconel 617 superalloy
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- Design and characterisation of ex situ bulk MgB2 superconductors containing a nanoscale dispersion of artificial pinning centres
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- On optimising ring-rolling manufacturability of C&W nickel superalloys for aero-engine turbine disc
- Modelling the nucleation and propagation of cracks at twin boundaries
- Staff Updates - Hilary Term 2022
- Singlet oxygen and dioxygen bond cleavage in the aprotic lithium-oxygen battery
- Dr Yige Sun
- A new class of alumina-forming superalloy for 3D printing
- High temperature spherical nano-indentation of graphite crystals
- Epitaxially constrained grain boundary structures in an oxide honeycomb monolayer
- Pushing the strength limit of nickel-based superalloys (DPhil)
- Dr Stanislaw Zankowski
- Dr Barbara Maciejewska
- Junfu Bu
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- Real-time nanomechanical property modulation as a framework for tunable NEMS
- Ed Tarleton: RAEng Senior Fellowship
- James Gibson
- Oxford launches The ZERO Institute
- RoaRQ: Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing
- Susie Speller: EPSRC Open Plus Fellow
- A crystal plasticity model that accounts for grain size effects
- Insights into thermodynamic properties for battery applications
- Cycle-induced interfacial degradation and transition-metal cross-over
- Room-temperature coherence boosting of molecular graphenoids
- Efficiently computing excitations of complex systems
- Influence of soil type on chemiresistive detection of buried ANFO
- Atomic-scale investigation of cation doping and defect clustering in the anti-perovskite Na3OCI sodium-ion conductor
- Crack propagation in fine grained graphites
- The Pollution Clock Project
- Yuanbo T. Tang CEng FIMMM FHEA
- Results of Research Excellence Framework 2021 published
- Staff Updates - Trinity Term 2022
- Queen's Birthday Honours: Professor Sir Peter Bruce
- Sir Peter Bruce: Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Prize
- Uncovering the interplay of Competing Distortions in the Prussian Blue Analogue K2Cu[Fe(CN)6]
- New Associate Professor: Rebecca Nicholls
- Student prize winners
- Polarisation-selective reconfigurability in hybridised-active-dielectric nanowires
- Materials VPN
- Deformation behaviour of ion-irradiated FeCr: a nanoindentation study
- High-precision atomic-scale strain mapping of nanoparticles from STEM images
- Direct imaging of oxygen shifts associated with the oxygen redox of Li-rich layered oxides
- Menopause
- Christopher Allen
- Effect of irradiation swelling on the mechanical properties of unidirectional SiC/SiC composites
- DCCEM Image Competition Winners 2022
- Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship: Dr Clara Barker
- Exploring cost effective solar panels
- Monadic Pavlovian associative learning in a backpropgation-free photonic network
- Use of synchrotron X-rays for direct observation of wear damage in optically-opaque contacts
- Harassment Advisors' Policy
- Materials Graduate Studies Committee
- Royal Society Hughes Medal
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- Imaging Polymer Crystal Structures
- Size-selected Alloy Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production
- Three new full professors
- Effects of Hydrogen in Linepipe Steels
- Micromechanics of Primary Creep and Creep-Fatigue Interactions in Structural Materials
- Athena Swan Charter
- Collaboration agreement with Digital University Kerala
- Professor Sebastian Bonilla: 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Crystal growth control in aluminium alloys
- Liquid lithium corrosion for nuclear fusion
- Development of new nuclear fusion grade silicon carbide composites
- Enabling sustainable fusion and other power generation technologies by novel manufacturing
- Atom probe tomography characterisation of the solid-electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries
- Professor Richard Todd: ACS Fellow
- Benzo-extended cyclohepta[def]fluorene derivatives with very low flowing triplet states
- Defect-driven anomalous transport in fast-ion conducting solid electrolytes
- Exchange-induced spin polarization in a single magnetic molecule junction
- Understanding intercalation chemistry for sustainable aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide batteries
- Towards accurate atom scale characterisation of hydrogen passivation of interfaces in TOPCon architectures
- Automated calibration of model-driven reconstructions in atom probe tomography
- Multi-refiners for sustainable aluminium manufacturing
- Artificial Intelligence X-ray Imaging
- High Voltage Charge Storage Processes in Beyond Li Batteries
- Athena SWAN Award
- Equality Diversity & Inclusion Committee (EDIC)
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- Influence of High-Speed Mechanical Vibration and Environments on Precise Laser Machining
- British Science Association Honorary Fellow
- Modelling of Kelvin probe surface voltage and photovoltage in dielectric-semiconductor interfaces
- Electrostatic tuning of ionic charge in SiO2 dielectric thin films
- Observations of contact resistance in TOPCon and PERC solar cells
- In situ characterisation of intragranular slip bands by high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction
- Hoop strain measurement during a SiC/SiC ceramic composite tube burst test by X-ray computed tomography
- Charge-state dependent vibrational relaxation in a single-molecule junction
- In situ observation of compressive deformation of an interconnected network of zinc oxide tetrapods
- HR-EBSD analysis of in situ stable crack growth at the micron scale
- Image-based analysis for crack propagation resistance in polygranular nuclear graphite
- Dr Yuanbo Tang and the Henry Royce Institute
- Macroscopic analysis of time dependent plasticity in Ti alloys
- Sir Peter Bruce and BBC Sounds
- Barbara Maciejewska: Outstanding Research Supervision Award
- The role of grain boundaries in solid-state Li-metal batteries
- 2023 Calendar of Awareness Days
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- Workshop – Between Hype and Conspiracy: Can We Engage with Conspiracy Theorists?
- Talk – Technoscientific Conspiracies: From Chemtrails to Transhumanism
- Johnson Matthey Student Prize Winners 2021-2022
- Armourers and Brasiers'/TATA Prize Winners 2021-2022
- TATA Steel Prize Part I Practicals 2021-2022
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- 3D analysis of fatigue crack fields and crack growth by in situ synchrotron X-ray tomography
- Picoperovskites: the smallest conceivable isolated halide perovskite structures formed within carbon nanotubes
- Delocalized electron holes on oxygen in a battery cathode
- An iterative method for reference pattern selection in high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD)
- Abi Lister and STEM for Britain 2023
- Supramolecular self-assembly as a tool to preserve the electronic purity of perylene diimide chromophores
- Professor Mauro Pasta: Lead on new Faraday/SOLBAT project
- Zihao Wang
- Structural changes in the silver-carbon composite anode interlayer of solid-state batteries
- The effect of in situ irradiation on the superconducting performance of REBa2Cu3O7-8-coated conductors
- 2D Materials as 'winner-takes-all; neurons for next-generation AI computing
- New Centre for Energy Materials Research
- Unveiling the mechanism of the in situ formation of 3D fibre macroassemblies with controlled properties
- Effect of microsegregation and heat treatment on localised y and y' compositions in single crystal Ni-based superalloys
- Lithium plating stripping: toward anode-free solid-state batteries
- Recombination in passivating contacts
- Atomically thin optomemristive feedback neurons
- Alloys-by-design: application to new superalloys for additive manufacturing
- Potential 'game-changing' solid state batteries research
- Rob Weatherup: Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Black Prize
- Consultancies, editorial work, spin-out companies and other activities
- Saiful Islam: 2023 Robert Perrin Award
- Scalable high-precision trimming of photonic resonances by polymer exposure to energetic beams
- Solvent-in-salt electrolytes for fluoride ion batteries
- Improving the efficiency and stability of pervoskite solar cells
- James Marrow: MPLS Teaching Award 2023
- In-memory photonic dot-product engine with electrically programmable weight banks
- Integrated optical memristors
- Delivery Addresses
- Dendrite initiation and propagation in lithium metal solid-state batteries
- Charging Li-air batteries and degradation
- Anion-polarisation-directed short-range-order in antiperovskite Li2FeSo
- Interview with Dr Greg Rees
- Sebastian Bonilla - new Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow
- MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize
- Looped pipelines enabling effective 3D qubit lattices in a strictly 2D device
- Nanoscale chemistry and Atom Probe Tomography
- Ionic transport and non-aqueous potassium-ion
- Defect-trapped Pt single-site electrocatalysts
- Irradiation hardening of Eurofer-97
- CO2 hydrogenation and X-ray spectroscopy
- Phase-coherent charge transport through a Porphyrin nanoribbon
- Internal Newsletter
- Katharina (Tinka) Marquardt (she/her)
- Sustainable nanomanufacturing
- Free space optical information processing, light emitting and detection
- More-than-Moore Photonic Accelerators
- Leveraging Emerging Low-Dimensional Materials and Novel Architectures for Enhanced Nanoscale Quantum Optics
- Dislocation assisted grain boundary sliding : how dislocation interact with grain boundaries (characterization of materials / device materials/ Energy storage materials)
- Advanced EBSD pattern simulation to extract grain boundary variation with changing synthesis pressures – crossing disciplines from Materials to Earth science.
- Grain boundary engineering for humidity sensing high entropy ceramics
- Precision Forecasting for Terawatt-Scale Solar Energy
- Ion-Charged Nanolayer Materials for Analog Deep Learning Devices
- Yuanbo Tang: Higher Education Academic Fellow
- Professor Bhaskaran: new RAEng Fellow
- Elastic strain associated with irradiation-induced defects in self-ion irradiated tungsten
- In situ observation of crystal reorientation in polygranular graphite
- Elastic and plastic mechanical properties of lithium measured by nanoindentation
- Chemical origins of a fast-charge performance in disordered carbon anodes
- Atomic understanding of the coherent interface between lead iodide perovskite and lead iodide
- Insights into surface chemistry down to nanoscale
- Multiscale evidence for weathering and the preservation of carbonaceous material in an Antartic micrometeorite
- Design considerations for the bottom cell in perovskite/ silicon tandems
- A further £19M investment by the Faraday Institution
- Rob Weatherup: Roger Parsons Medal
- Laura Wheatley: ESAS International Young Researcher Prize
- Clara Barker: Royal Society of Chemistry grant
- A breakthrough in water treatment
- Yu Shu's BBC Radio 4 interview
- Balint Koczor
- Observing Catalyst Nanoparticles for CO2 Conversion at Atmospheric Pressures and Above
- Exploiting Spectroscopy Techniques for Improved Charge Transport Layers in Advanced Solar Energy Devices
- 3D electrospinning of AI203/SrO2 fibrous aerogels for multipurpose thermal insulation
- Planar NbnOm clusters on the AU(111) surface
- Solar panel technology is set to be turbo-charged
- Solid electrolyte interphases in lithium metal batteries
- Atomic-scale imaging of polyvinyl alcohol crystallinity using electron ptychography
- Micromechanical Studies of Fatigue
- In-situ radiation damage in high temperature superconducting magnet materials for fusion reactors
- Irradiation damage of iron-based superconductors
- BBC's 'Fake or Fortune?'
- Chemically Sensitive Imaging of Pharmaceuticals
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- Electron Ptychographic Tomography
- Multislice Electron Ptychography
- Towards a graphene transparent conducting electrode for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells