Congratulations Dieh

Congratulations to Dieh, whose paper on diffusion of transition metal adatoms on Ru-supported graphene has appeared in print: B. F. Habenicht, D. Teng, L. Semidey-Flecha, D. S. Sholl, and Y. Xu, Topics in Catalysis 57 (2014) 69 (DOI:10.1007/s11244-013-0163-6)

David's Book

David's book, "Density Functional Theory: A Practical Introduction" has recently been translated and published in Turkish. More information here: https://www.nobelkitap.com/kitap_48282_yogunluk-fonksiyonel-teorisi.html

What We are Reading

Jan 27th,
 
Separation of Hexane Isomers in a Metal-Organic Framework with Triangular Channels
Z.R. Herm, B.M. Wiers, J.A. Mason, J.M. van Baten, M.R. Hudson, P. Zajdel, C.M. Brown,
N. Masciocchi, R. Krishna, and J.R. Long. Science 340, 960 (2013).

Jan 21st,

DFT Study of the Chemistry of Sulfur in Graphite, Including Interactions with Defects, Edges and Folds  J-J. Adjizian, C.D. Latham, S. Oberg, P.R. Briddon, and M.I. Heggie. Carbon 62, 256 (2013).

Jan 14th,
 
Wetting Transparency of Graphene  J. Rafiee, X. Mi, H. Gullapalli, A.V. Thomas, F. Yavari, Y. Shi, P.M. Ajayan, and N.A. Koratkar. Nature Materials 11, 217 (2012).

Jan 6th,

Solid-Solid Collapse Transition in a Two Dimensional Model Molecular System
R.S. Singh and B. Bagchi. J. Chem. Phys. 139, 194702 (2013).

How To Win The Nobel Prize....now in YouTube

A video of David's recent seminar at Georgia Tech titled "How To Win The Nobel Prize and Change The World" is now available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRGjRukZpE

Welcome to Martin Maldovan

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Martin Maldovan to our group as a Research Engineer. Martin has worked for a number of years at MIT using innovative modeling methods to study photonic materials and heat transfer in structured materials. You can read about some of Martin's work in this article from The Economist from earlier this year:
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21570672-it-may-soon-be-possible-control-heat-flows-great-precision-good-conduct

Congratulations Hakan and Ben

Congratulations to Hakan and Ben, who have both successfully passed their PhD proposals. This is an important step along their path to successfully completing their PhD. 

Welcome to Jack (and welcome back Liwei, Dieh and Ambarish)

We are pleased to welcome Jack Evans, a PhD student from Adelaide University, who is visiting us. Jack uses modeling and experiments to study crystalline nanoporous materials. Jack's arrival maintains a constant level of Australians in the group, since Simon Smart returned to the University of Queensland last week.

We are also glad to have several people back in Atlanta after summer industrial internships: Dieh at KBR in Houston, TX, Liwei at Dow in Freeport, TX, and Ambarish at ExxonMobil in Clinton, NJ.