Contact Us
London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials
Search TYC
Science Highlights
The research groups of the Thomas Young Centre frequently publish important advances that are of interest to a wide multi-disciplinary audience. The items on our "Science Highlights" pages are short summaries of some of these advances, usually based on publications in high-impact journals. To see all previous highlights, follow the "Highlights Archive" link on the left.
-
27/08/2010Atomically smooth stress-corrosion cleavage of a hydrogen-implanted crystal
Gianpietro Moras, Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, Christian Elsaesser, Peter Gumbsch, Alessandro De Vita
Physical Review Letters 105, 075502 (2010)
Featured in Physical Review Focus (Vol. 26, Story 7, 13 August 2010) -
13/08/2010Ab initio Random Structure Searching
Chris J. Pickard, R. J. Needs
Nature Materials 9, 607-608 (2010). -
28/07/2010First-principles constraints on diffusion in lower-mantle minerals and a weak D′′ layer. M. W. Ammann, J. P. Brodholt, J. Wookey and D. P. Dobson. Nature 465, 462-465 (27 May 2010)
-
17/05/2010Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of bridged azobenzene explain
its counterintuitively improved photoswitching properties. M. Böckmann, N. L. Doltsinis, and D. Marx, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49 (2010) 3382.
Information about visitors to TYC, new partnerships with other organisations, awards to TYC members, etc...