Howard Yanxon

Farewell-Howard

Howard Yanxon left our group to join ANL as a postdoc. Congrats!

Defense-Howard

Howard Yanxon successfully completed his PhD. He is the first PhD student from the Zhu’s group!

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Machine learning

A highlight in Nature Materials

Our recent work on the Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics was recently highlighted by Nature Materials ...

Cover in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Our recent work on the simulation of GaN’s phase transition and machine learning metadynamics was published today in Physical Review Letter. It was also fea...

NSF Early Career Award

Professor Oiang Zhu has been honored by the NSF with a Faculty Early Career Development Program for his resarch in Organic Materials Discovery with the Aid o...

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PyXtal

PyXtal 0.0.3 Released

PyXtal 0.0.3 is available via pip instal pyxtal. Note this is a pre-release version. The official release will follow soon.

PyXtal 0.0.1 Released

PyXtal 0.0.1 is available via pip instal pyxtal. Note this is a pre-release version. The official release will follow soon.

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high throughput

Publication in PRB

Our work on high throughput screening of 2D electrides just came online in PRB

Publication in Nature Comm

Our work on high throughput screening of topological phononic materials just came online in Nature Communication

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machine learning

DOE Early Career Award

Professor Oiang Zhu received the DOE’s Early Career Award for his resarch in Data-driven Discovery of Inorganic Electrides for Energy Applications.

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neural networks

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TPDB

TPDB Released

We are happy to release the first topological phonon database with over 5000 material entries.

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Nature Communication

Publication in Nature Comm

Our collaborative work on Breakdown of the scaling relation of anomalous Hall effect in Kondo lattice ferromagnet USbTe just came online in Nature Communicat...

Publication in Nature Comm

Our work on high throughput screening of topological phononic materials just came online in Nature Communication

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Organic crystals

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Phase transition

A highlight in Nature Materials

Our recent work on the Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics was recently highlighted by Nature Materials ...

Cover in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Our recent work on the simulation of GaN’s phase transition and machine learning metadynamics was published today in Physical Review Letter. It was also fea...

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dielectric materials

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Scientific Data

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numerical optimization

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Julia

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graphite-diamond transition

Publication in Matter

Our recent work on the graphite-diamond transition was published today in Matter.

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Matter

Publication in Matter

Our recent work on the graphite-diamond transition was published today in Matter.

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topological phonons

Submission to arXiv

Happy Children’s Day! Another important work of ours was just submitted to the arXiv.

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arXiv

Submission to arXiv

Happy Children’s Day! Another important work of ours was just submitted to the arXiv.

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Journal of Applied Physics

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David Zagaceta

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Journal of Chemical Physics

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PyXtal\_FF

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Byung Kyun Kang

New Member-Byungkyun

Dr. Byung Kyun Kang joined our group as the research assistant professor.

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topologic phononics

Publication in Nature Comm

Our work on high throughput screening of topological phononic materials just came online in Nature Communication

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2D electrides

Publication in PRB

Our work on high throughput screening of 2D electrides just came online in PRB

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PRB

Publication in PRB

Our work on high throughput screening of 2D electrides just came online in PRB

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electrides

DOE Early Career Award

Professor Oiang Zhu received the DOE’s Early Career Award for his resarch in Data-driven Discovery of Inorganic Electrides for Energy Applications.

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Pedro Santos, David Zagaceta, Kevin Parrish

New Members-Pedro-David-Kevin

Pedro Santos joined our group as a postdoc. David Zagaceta and Kevin Parrish are entering the graduate program under the supervision of Zhu in Fall 2021.

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Organic materials

NSF Early Career Award

Professor Oiang Zhu has been honored by the NSF with a Faculty Early Career Development Program for his resarch in Organic Materials Discovery with the Aid o...

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Materials informatics

NSF Early Career Award

Professor Oiang Zhu has been honored by the NSF with a Faculty Early Career Development Program for his resarch in Organic Materials Discovery with the Aid o...

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Machine learnng force field

TMS meeting

Professor Oiang Zhu attended the 2022 TMS annual meeting at Anaheim, CA and gave a talk on Machine learning force field and its application to high entropy a...

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Materials Discovery, Machine learnng force field

Invited Seminar

Professor Oiang Zhu gave an invited seminar on Computational Materials Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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CeO2

Publication in JPCM

Our work on Modeling surface spin polarization on ceria-supported Pt nanoparticles just came online in J. Phys. Conden. Matter.

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Spin polarization

Publication in JPCM

Our work on Modeling surface spin polarization on ceria-supported Pt nanoparticles just came online in J. Phys. Conden. Matter.

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Nanopaticles

Publication in JPCM

Our work on Modeling surface spin polarization on ceria-supported Pt nanoparticles just came online in J. Phys. Conden. Matter.

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UNLV, Barrick Scholar

Barrick Scholar award

Professor Oiang Zhu received the prestigious Barrick Scholar award. It is the designed to recognize UNLV faculty members who have established a record of dis...

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UNLV, tenure

Tenure promotion

Oiang Zhu will be promoted to the Assoicate Professor with Tenure on July 1, 2022. Congrats!

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UNLV, interview

Interview

Oiang Zhu was recently interviewed by UNLV for his recent awards. The full story is available online

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Pedro Santos

New Members-Danilo-Kalhara

Danilo Arturo Rodriguez and Kalhara Perera are entering the graduate program under the supervision of Zhu in Fall 2022.

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Review

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Symmetry

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Materials Informatics

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Spin–Spin Interaction

Publication in J. Phys. Chem. C

Our recent work on the Spin–Spin Interaction in ε-VOPO4 through Doping Light Elements was published today in J. Phys. Chem. C.

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Byungkyun Kang

Farewell-Byungkyun Kang

Byungkyun Kang left our group to join University of Delaware as a computer scientist. Congrats!

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Hall effect

Publication in Nature Comm

Our collaborative work on Breakdown of the scaling relation of anomalous Hall effect in Kondo lattice ferromagnet USbTe just came online in Nature Communicat...

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UNCC

Moving to UNCC

We are glad to announce that the Zhu Group has moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science (MEES) of University of North Carolina at...

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