Highlights

The Materials Theory Group welcomes new faculty member and new group member Bartomeu Monserrat.

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...