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Increasing electrical conductivity with insulating groups. Organic semiconducting crystals are carbon-based materials in which molecules are held together by weak intermolecular forces. These materials can conduct electrical current owing to the presence of relatively unbound and, in some cases, partially…

Thermoplasmonics attracts significant interest in nanoscale heat transport applications such as catalysis, biomedical nanodevices (thermal therapies for cancer treatment) or imaging. These structures rely on the heating using electromagnetic radiation and the subsequent heat transfer to the surroundings. The dynamic…

Data-Driven Solution of the Inverse Problem in Classical Statistical Mechanics Statistical mechanics aims to relate observable macroscopic properties of matter with its underlying microscopic structure via appropriate averaging. The central property which facilitates such averaging is the probability density ρ(r) of finding…

Human activity has increased the amount of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Therefore, there is an imperative for the transformation of these two gases into useful chemicals. To this end, we have employed state-of-the-art…

Caloric systems, capable of heating and cooling environments in response to a change in external conditions, are in ever increasing demand, be it in fridges, freezers, air conditioning or radiators. Typically, these systems are based on the latent heat absorbed…

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of porous, crystalline materials composed of organic molecules, referred to as monomers, that are linked together through strong, covalent bonds. 2D COFs are synthesised by combining two planar organic monomers, and by virtue of…

Phasons are a particular type of collective motion of atoms that occur in aperiodic structures such as quasicrystals. The interaction between phasons and other collective excitations within a material leads to fascinating thermal and electronic transport phenomena. Recently, twisted moiré…

Machine learning and artificial intelligence is having a huge impact, but at their core they represent a set of models which can very accurately approximate high-dimensional functions. The wave function of a molecule or material describes the quantum mechanical probability…

The smoothness and feel of human hair are strongly influenced by the friction between strands. Typically, friction is controlled by surface roughness across a wide range of length scales. In this work, we study the nanoscale friction between two model…

Bismuth trichloride as a molecular precursor for silicon doping Atomic-scale device fabrication in semiconductor materials is a developing field with potential for revolutionary payoffs in quantum technologies. One key challenge in realizing this potential is the development of suitable precursor…