Computational Materials Discovery Group

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Three of my graduate students successfully defended their MS research theses on Solar Water Splitting on Thursday (January 12, 2017). From left to right: Mr. Zia Ul Islam, Dr. Mansoor Ur Rehman, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, Dr. Altaf Karim, Mr. Naveed Ahmad, Mr. Mohammad Faazil Saad

Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabricatio...

BREAKING NEWS
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz

”for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”

They revealed the secrets of exotic matter
The 2016 Physics Laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states. They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films. Thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now on for new and exotic phases of matter. Many people are hopeful of future applications in both materials science and electronics.

Kosterlitz and Thouless have studied phenomena that arise in a flat world – on surfaces or inside extremely thin layers that can be considered two-dimensional, compared to the three dimensions (length, width and height) with which reality is usually described. Haldane has also studied matter that forms threads so thin they can be considered one-dimensional.

Their discoveries have brought about breakthroughs in the theoretical understanding of matter’s mysteries and created new perspectives on the development of innovative materials.

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits Scientists develop a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick.

Nature-Inspired Nanotubes That Assemble Themselves, With Precision

New Carbon Capture Membrane Boasts CO2 Highways New, highly permeable carbon capture membrane is part polymer and part metal-organic framework.

Berkeley's elemental legacy: how university contributions helped shape the periodic table The recent inclusion of four new elements to the periodic table was cause for the clinking of champagne glasses at places where people cook up such exotic stuff…