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Mixed anion control of negative thermal expansion in a niobium oxyfluoride

13 February, 2024

Although most materials expand when heated, a small minority actually contract or retain the same…

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Grouped Representation of Interatomic Distances (GRID)

28 February, 2023

If two materials share the same atomic species in the same positions, they will exhibit the same…

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Controlling electronic properties in oxyfluorides

20 January, 2023

Half-metallic materials have the unique electronic property of being conducting in one electron…

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Fully funded PhD opportunity

16 March, 2022

We are hiring!

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AI4SD Talk

04 March, 2022

James gave a talk about recent machine learning work within the group at the recent AI4SD…

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UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

29 March, 2021

Fellowship available.

UKIC funding call

A new year, new group members

30 October, 2020

We're delighted to welcome two new members to the group this year!

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PDRA Position

16 July, 2020

We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher!

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Electronic origin of negative thermal expansion in vanadium oxyphosphate

03 April, 2020

New Chemical Communications paper.

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Review: Machine learning descriptors to unify molecular and bulk systems

01 January, 2020

To use machine learning techniques to understand (and predict) structure-property relationships…

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