Publications & Research Highlights

Screening Dyes for photoelectrochemistry

Automated redox potentials assessment of dyes for photelectrochemical cells

Dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (DS-PEC) are promising systems for sustainable fuel production. A great advantage for their design is the modularity of these systems. In particular, it is of interest to tune the dye’s optical and...

Ni-Cr lattice ReaxFF

Thermal and mechanical properties of Ni-Cr alloys with ReaxFF

Understanding the temperature-dependent mechanical strength and physical properties such as elastic constants and the thermal response is essential for the applications of metallic alloys. While ReaxFF force fields for transition metals have been successfully applied...

Understanding halide perovskite solution chemistry

Solution synthesis is one of the most commonly employed method to prepare metal-halide perovskites for optoelectronic applications. A controlled perovskite growth from solution is crucial to obtain high quality materials and requires a deep understanding...

Healable composites

Reversing fatigue in carbon-fiber reinforced vitrimer composites

To address the irreversibility of fatigue in polymer composites, a recent study showed that vitrimeric polymers can be used to reverse the fatigue damage through topological rearrangement of the marcomolecular network, self-healing the polymers. To...

Quenching nanocrystals

Fast Intrinsic Emission Quenching in Cs4PbBr6 Nanocrystals

Cs4PbBr6  belongs to the family of 0D metal halides, with separated and isolated [PbBr6]4- octahedra. These systems, in both nanocrystal and bulk forms, have been reported as being either non-emissive or green-emissive at room temperature...

Halide perovskites: efficient & accurate DFTB simulations

The fundamental understanding of the material properties of metal halide perovskites is critical to improving the stability and efficiency of future solar cells devices. Computational simulations have been proven to be a valuable tool to...

PHIP-X NMR enhancement

Strong NMR enhancement: PHIP-X

NMR signals are often too weak for many chemical and biomedical applications such as reaction monitoring or the real time investigation of metabolism in-vivo. A new method has been developed to enhance NMR signals: parahydrogen-induced...

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Exceptional Uranium-Nitride Triple Bond Covalency confirmed with NMR

The Liddle group continues to deeply probe the unusual nature of the actinide-main group bonds through combined experimental and computational studies. We previously highlighted the first U-N triple bonds along with a number of other...

emission gold nanoparticles

Optical and photoluminescence properties of gold and silver nanoclusters

Silver and gold nanoclusters (NCs) have proven to be efficient and stable, with optical and emissive properties that can be tuned by changing the cluster’s geometric and electronic parameters. Due to the dependence of size,...

Low-order scaling and accurate GW calculations with ADF

The GW method has become an increasingly popular method to calculate charged excitations in molecules. However, achieving consensus between different GW codes is challenging since GW calculations are very sensitive with respect to many technical...