Summer BBQ to Celebrate Emerys’ MS Defense!
MTD Group members gathered at Prof. Rondinelli's to celebrate Emrys Tennessen passing his MS Defense and to enjoy the mild Chicago summer. Missing group members were globetrotting abroad.
Whither Machine Learning in Materials Science
Nicholas Wagner and Prof. Rondinelli lay out their concerns about the proper application of data science methods in their article, Theory-Guided Machine Learning in Materials Science appearing in the open-access journal Frontiers in Materials. Drawing upon both the...
Jaye Awarded an ACM SIGHPC/Intel Fellowship
Jaye receives one of the first ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships. These awards are presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing, with funding provided by Intel Corporation....
Professor Rondinelli Presents at Santorini-IV
Professor Rondinelli attends and delivers the first invited talk at the 4th Workshop on Complex Oxides-Santorini IV in Porquerolles, France from June 13-17, 2016. His talk titled "New Tricks from Epitaxial Strain Engineering in Older Complex Oxides" highlighted recent...
Rondinelli Presents Plenary Lecture at the CNM Users’ Meeting
Professor Rondinelli presents a plenary talk titled "Designing Functional Oxide-based Optical Materials from Quantum Mechanics to the Laboratory," at the 2016 APS/CNM Users Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory. The annual joint users meetings of the Center for...
Rondinelli Joins Emerging Leaders in Washington, D.C.
Professor Rondinelli was among the emerging leaders in science and engineering who talked about the impact of their work and the importance of federal funding for research during a recent roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. Each of the 11 scientists were...
Rondinelli Goes to Washington
James Rondinelli met with President Barack Obama, who congratulated him on his PECASE On Thursday, May 5, President Barack Obama met with more than 100 leading scientists and engineers from across the country to thank them for their work on some of the most...
Rondinelli Profiled by Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Professor Rondinelli is profiled as the 2016 Emerging Investigators themed issue on Novel design strategies for new functional materials appearing in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, which highlights 2016’s rising stars of materials chemistry research....
Joshua Young Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Josh for defending his PhD thesis! His dissertation titled "First-principles design of noncentrosymmetric oxides" covers the chemistry and physics underlying improper ferroelectric phase stability of both bulk and digitally ordered perovskite...
Rondinelli Presents at the 2016 Spring MRS Meeting
Professor Rondinelli presented an invited talk at the first Materials Research Society Spring meeting held in Phoenix, AZ, from March 28-April 1. His invited talk titled "Discovery of functional oxides by computational and epitaxial design" was apart of Symposium...
MTD Group Goes to Baltimore
The Materials Theory and Design Group attends the 2016 APS March Meeting from March 14-18 in Baltimore, MD. Danilo, Emrys, Liang, Josh, Kurt, Nenian, Nick, and Xuezeng gave contributed talks in sessions ranging from the physics of metals to advances in electronic...
Rondinelli Awarded a 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Professor Rondinelli wins a 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, which is intended to help young faculty achieve tenure while teaching and conducting research. The award recognizes Rondinelli for his work on the theory, design, and application of complex...
Rondinelli awarded a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
Professor Rondinelli is recognized this week as a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded in eight scientific and technical fields: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular...
Understanding Octahedral Rotation Preferences in Perovskite Halides
Joshua Young and Prof. Rondinelli explain in the Letter titled Octahedral Rotation Preferences in Perovskite Iodides and Bromides appearing in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters why halide perovskites favor in-phase octahedral tilt patterns whereas oxides...
James Rondinelli is awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Professor Rondinelli is recognized for his seminal research contributions in computational condensed matter physics and novel materials design approaches. The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals...
Rondinelli recognized as a 2016 Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Rondinelli was recognized by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C as "carrying out work with the potential to influence future directions in materials chemistry," in the fields of materials for optical, magnetic, and electronic devices. The...
Comprehensive Framework for the Design of Polar Oxides
Joshua Young, Parth Lalkiya, and Prof. Rondinelli recently reported in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C a materials design and selection approach for realizing noncentrosymmetric perovskites. The article, titled "Design of Noncentrosymmetric Perovskites from...
Xuezeng Presents on Hybrid Improper Ferroics at Ferro2016
Xuezeng presented a contributed talk titled “First-principles study of the layered oxides with hybrid improper ferroelectricity” in the Improper Ferroelectrics Session, chaired by Prof. Rondinelli, at the 2016 Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics and Related...