2018
| Jan | Eric Schmidt successfully defends his PhD thesis on "Atomistic modelling of precipitation in Ni-base superalloys" | |
| Mar | Zeyu Deng presents his paper on "Mechanical properties of halide perovskites: first principles calculations and nano-indentation measurements" at the APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, California | |
| April | Congratulations to Zeyu Deng for being awarded a MRS Graduate Student Silver Award at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Phoenix, Arizona. His award winning paper is entitled "Materials Discovery - From Bi-Based to Rare-Earth Hybrid Double Perovskites". | |
| June | Congratulations to Tianwei Wang for being awarded an E-MRS Graduate Student Award at the 2018 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Strasbourg, France. His award winning paper is entitled "A predictive modelling study of the impact of chemical doping on the strength of a metal/oxide interface". | |
| Oct | Paul Bristowe becomes a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Department | |
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Zeyu Deng successfully defends his PhD thesis on "Rational Design of Novel Halide Perovskites Combining Computations and Experiments" |
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| Dec |
Farewell to Zeyu Deng who has a postdoc position at the National University of Singapore |
2017
| Feb | Paul Bristowe is an Academic Visitor at the Department of Materials, Imperial College London | |
| June | Departmental Research Paper of the Month: “Surface Diffusion of Single Metal Atoms on Graphene Oxide", T. Furnival, R. K. Leary, E.C. Tyo, S. Vajda, Q. M. Ramasse, J. Meurig Thomas , P. D. Bristowe, P. A. Midgley, Chemical Physics Letters 683, 370-374 (2017) | |
| Sept | Tom Furnival successfully defends his PhD thesis on "Single atom imaging with time-resolved electron microscopy" | |
| Sept | Paul Bristowe is elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | |
| Oct | Dr Sam Azadi joins ASG to work on MAX phase project | |
| Oct | Farewell to Shafqat Shah who returns to Pakistan but continues collaboration |
2016
| Jan | Farewell to Mahdi Ghorbani Asl who has a research position at the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf. | |
| Jan | Dr Karolina Milowska joins ASG to work on the copper/carbon nanotube composite project in collaboration with Krzysztof Koziol. | |
| Mar | Tom Furnival presents his paper on "Observations of single atom diffusion on graphene oxide" at the MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona | |
| Jun | Douglas Robinson graduates in Pt III Materials Science and Metallurgy | |
| Jul | Tianwei Wang successfully defends his first year doctoral report |
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| Sept | Paul Bristowe is a Guest Researcher at the Donostia International Physics Center. | |
| Zeyu Deng successfully defends his first year doctoral thesis. | ||
| Oct | Dr Federico Brivio joins ASG to work on the Hybrid Perovskites project. | |
| Nov | ASG group members present papers and posters at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, USA |
2015
| May | Congratulations to Zeyu Deng for being awarded a CSC Cambridge International Scholarship to pursue his PhD research. | |
| June | Congratulations to Eric Schmidt for winning First Prize for his 2nd year PhD poster presentation on “Atomistic Simulation of Embryonic g’ Nanoparticles in Supersaturated Ni-Al Solid Solutions”. | |
| June | Congratulations to Jessica Halliday and Brett Abram for receiving Fist Class Honours in Pt III Materials Science and Metallurgy. | |
| July | Nikolai Eurich successfully defends his PhD thesis on “First principles Investigation of Intermetallic Phases and Defects in Ni-base Superalloys”. | |
| Sept | Departmental Research Paper of the Month: “A computational study of the quantum transport properties of a Cu-CNT composite”, Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Paul D. Bristowe and Krzysztof Koziol, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 18273-18277 (2015) | |
| Sept | ASG members present posters at the Psi-k conference in San Sebastian, Spain | |
| Sept | Zeyu Deng successfully defends his MPhil thesis on “First principles studies of the phase stability and mechanical properties of hybrid perovskites”. | |
| Sept | Farewell to Jung-Hoon Lee who has a postdoc position at UC Berkeley. | |
| Oct | Dr Shafqat Shah joins ASG to work on MAX phase project. | |
| Oct | Tianwei Wang joins ASG to work on glass coatings project. |