Kyle Defends His Thesis!
We are happy to announce Kyle has defended his thesis! He is now working as a research scientist at Citrine Informatics
Kathleen defends her thesis!
We are proud to announce that Kathleen defended her thesis. We will miss her as she moves onto her next steps!
Maggie wins lightning talk!
Maggie was awarded the Best Lightning Talk Session Two for her presentation "Structural Ordered Oxygen Vacancies for Ferroelectric and Magnetoelectric Materials Discovery" at the SUPREME (Superior Energy-Efficient Materials and Devices) Annual Review 2023....
Nathan Defends His Thesis!
Our very own Dr. Nathan Koocher defended his thesis!He gave an excellent presentation about materials with negative coefficients of thermal expansion and we wish him the best in future endeavors!
Lauren Defends Her Thesis
Our very own Dr. Lauren Walters defended her thesis! She gave a fantastic presentation on Thermodynamic and Electrochemical Models for Predicting Aqueous Materials Formation. We are so proud of Lauren for both her academic achievements and her outreach work. She will...
Xuezeng’s Hooding at Commencement in December, 2019
Congratulation on your successful graduation, Xuezeng!
MTD Group Members Present at the 2019 Fall MRS Meeting
Xuezeng, Nathan, Yongjin, and Raymond attended the 2019 Fall MRS Meeting and presented their work. Xuezeng was awarded Silver medal in Graduate Student Award. Congratulation! Raymond contributed an oral presentation in Symposium EM04-Chemistry and Physics—Fundamentals...
Xuezeng Lu Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Xuezeng for defending his PhD thesis! His dissertation titled “Strain engineered unusual polar-to-nonpolar transition and the emergent phenomena in hybrid improper phenomena in hybrid improper ferroelectrics” explores the tunability of epitaxial...
Daniel Passes Qualifier
Congratulations to Daniel on passing his qualifier and becoming an official PhD candidate! His proposed thesis is on design of non-centrosymmetric metals, rare materials which unite two properties, a polar structure and metallic conduction, previously thought to be...
Rondinelli elected Member-at-Large of the Division of Materials Physics (DMP)
Prof. Rondinelli was elected to serve on the DMP Executive Committee:of the American Physical Society. His 3 year term begins following the 2018 March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. DMP is one of 16 Divisions of the APS, which focuses on applying fundamental condensed...
Nenian Charles Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Nenian for defending his PhD thesis! His dissertation titled "Towards rational design of functional fluoride and oxyfluoride materials from first-principles" explores the chemistry and physics enable in solid-state materials that combining two...
Materials Research Society Names Rondinelli Outstanding Young Investigator
Professor Rondinelli has been selected to receive the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) "for pioneering advances in the theoretical understanding of atomic structure-electronic property relations of complex inorganic oxides...
Designing New Materials from ‘Small’ Data
Finding new functional materials is always tricky. But searching for very specific properties among a relatively small family of known materials is even more difficult. But Joshua Young and Prof. Rondinelli collaborating with Dr. Balachandran and Dr. Lookman of Los...
Yongjin Presents on Ruddlesden-Popper Oxides at EMA 2017 in Orlando, FL
Yongjin presents at the 2017 Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting (EMA 2017) of the American Ceramics Society. His contributed talk titled "Understanding the A-Cation Order Dependent Band Gap Variation in Ruddlesden-Popper Oxides" in the symposium on the...
Nenian Wins Ovshinsky Travel Award to Attend the APS March Meeting
Nenian receives one of ten Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards from the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Materials Physics/Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DMP/DCMP) for the 2017 APS March Meeting in New Orleans. The Ovshinsky Awards are named after...
Daniel Named Finalist in KAUST DIY Electronic Innovation Challenge
Daniel Hickox-Young has been named a finalist in the KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) DIY Electronic Innovation Challenge. He has been invited to attend the 2017 KAUST-NSF Researh Conference on Interactive Electronics for his work designing a...
MTD Group Members Present at the 2016 Fall MRS Meeting
Danilo and Liang attended the 2016 Fall MRS Meeting and presented their work in two symposia: Danilo presented an oral contribution in Symposium EM5-Materials and Mechanisms of Correlated Electronic Phenomena in Oxide Heterostructures titled "Design Strategy for Novel...
Rondinelli Presents Invited Talk at the CNMS User Meeting
Professor Rondinelli presents an invited talk titled "Design of New Multiferroics at the Interfaces of Conducting Complex Oxides," at the 2016 CNMS Users Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Directed Assembly of Materials and Interfaces session. The Center...