Highlights

PhD student Ben Shires has been awarded a Fitzwilliam College Senior Scholarship.

Superionic materials are simultaneously liquids and solids. In a multicomponent compound, the different constituents could melt independently, at different temperatures. In a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Nanjing University, a computational study has discovered that helium-water compounds under...

Techniques which predict crystal structure are a mainstay of modern materials science. A key ingredient in these techniques is the optimisation of candidate structures, which then reveal local energy minima. Optimisations are typically carried out in ordinary 2-dimensional space (for 'flat' materials like graphene), or in...

Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, but as the most noble gas it is extremely chemically inert. It strongly resists forming compounds. Iron is also highly abundant. With its excellent material properties, especially when alloyed with other elements, iron has played a central role in human...