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Research
_Materials Design

Novel nano-architectured materials are at the heart of the next generation technologies. Most of them are composites, exhibiting complex ordering on multiple length scales. The optimal architecture can be extremely difficult to identify. The broad design space of different elemental compositions, structure phases, and microstructures is challenging to explore. Efficient discovery of the optimal solution requires an infrastructure able to combine different information sources with reliable predictive models. Different pieces of information together provide a more complete picture of the problem than independent studies. To harness the opportunity offered by engineered nanomaterials strong models have to be extracted from a limited set of configurations. Multiscale computational methods provide an efficient mean for the systematic investigation of the broad design space. Our goal is to complement experimental study for harvesting of both mechanical/kinematic models and solution optimization.

Tools​​

  • Materials Science

  • Crystallography

  • Multiscale Simulations

  • Machine Learning and Data Science

  • High-Performance Computing

  • X-ray and Neutron Scattering

Materials

  • Single-component Crystals

  • Multi-component Crystals

  • Poly-Crystals

  • Layered-Crystals

Publications

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Nature Communication – 11 (2020) 3041

Imaging the kinetics of anisotropic dissolution of bimetallic core-shell nanocubes

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ACS Nano – 13 (2019) – 4008

Achieving Highly Durable Random Alloy Nanocatalysts through Intermetallic Cores

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ACS Nano – 12 (2018) 9186

Particle Shape Control via Etching of Core@Shell Nanocrystals

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Scientific Reports – 6 (2016) 20712

On the reliability of powder diffraction Line Profile Analysis of plastically deformed nanocrystalline systems

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Physical Review B – 91 (2015) 155414

Anisotropic atom displacement in Pd nanocubes resolved by molecular dynamics simulations supported by x-ray diffraction imaging

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Philosophical Magazine – 92 (2012) 986

Realistic nano-polycrystalline microstructures: beyond the classical Voronoi Tessellation

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