Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Electron microscopy techniques are instrumental in the characterization of energy storage materials, with atomic resolution images providing the detailed structural features that are needed to understand their properties. Atomically resolved electron microscopy techniques have been routinely used to study the microstructure in high performing Mn-based oxide cathodes, which often contain spinel-like […]

Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Bustamante | Summary:Following our recent numerical study [arXiv:2601.16299 (2026)], we investigate vibrational excitation induced by transient optical driving in molecular ensembles strongly coupled to a cavity mode using the field-driven Holstein–Tavis–Cummings model. We analyze how pulsed excitation redistributes energy among electronic, photonic, and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecular polaritons. Vibrational dynamics […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin Persson | Summary:As the number of theoretically predicted materials continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to assess not only their thermodynamic stability but also their kinetic viability under realistic synthesis conditions. In this study, we investigate the hypothesis that the kinetic persistence of a metastable polymorph is related to the topography […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via multi-modal learning using multiscale data. This perspective examines the landscape of generative design for inorganic materials and discusses the integration of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via multi-modal learning using multiscale data. This perspective examines the landscape of generative design for inorganic materials and discusses the integration of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via multi-modal learning using multiscale data. This perspective examines the landscape of generative design for inorganic materials and discusses the integration of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gerbrand Ceder| Summary:Self-driving laboratories promise to accelerate materials discovery. Yet current automated solid-state synthesis platforms are limited to ambient conditions, thereby precluding their use for air-sensitive materials. Here, we present A-Lab for Glovebox Powder Solid-state Synthesis (A-Lab GPSS), a robotic platform capable of synthesizing and characterizing air-sensitive inorganic materials under strict air-free conditions. […]

Kavli Affiliate: James Analytis| Summary:Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a distinct class of collinear antiferromagnets that break time-reversal symmetry, exhibiting a host of novel properties. Applied strain has attracted particular attention as a key tuning parameter for altermagnets. Although several experimental studies have demonstrated the preparation of single-domain states through a combination of applied strain […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kwabena Bediako| Summary:Correlated electron systems that host multiple electronic orders offer routes to multifunctional quantum materials, but strong competition between these orders often prevents their coexistence. Here we show that nanoscale, metastable intercalated heterostructures can stabilize a rare combination of long-range magnetism and a commensurate charge density wave (C-CDW) order in a single […]

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | Summary:In the symmetric rendezvous problem two players follow the same (randomized) strategy to visit one of $n$ locations in each time step $t=0,1,2,dots$. Their goal is to minimize the expected time until they visit the same location and thus meet. Anderson and Weber [J. Appl. Prob., 1990] proposed a strategy […]