We have two new publications! The first is on the Materials API, a flexible interface to access materials data based on REpresentational State Transfer principles. The second is a high-throughput study of safety in Li-ion battery cathode materials, with insights on design limits of high voltage electrodes. Check them out on our publication page.
Prof Ong gave three talks on lithium superionic conductors, alkali-air batteries and room-temperature ionic liquids at the recent American Chemical Society 248th National Meeting in San Francisco. Please check out our media page for the slides of his most recent presentations.
We are seeking to fill one postdoc position. Successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead exciting projects that integrate advanced first principles methods, information technology and experiments (through external collaborations) to develop novel materials in energy storage and solid-state lighting. Interested candidates should send their resume and a list of three references to Dr. Ong.
Prof Ong and the Materials Virtual Lab are recently featured in ThisWeek@UCSD and Fox5 San Diego.
Prof Shyue Ping Ong is one of the 35 selectees for the DOE Early Career Research Program in the Basic Energy Science program area!
A recent publication in JACS, “Li10SnP2S12: An Affordable Lithium Superionic Conductor” (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja407393y ) provides experimental validation of one of Prof Ong’s computational predictions. In an paper published in Energy and Environmental Science earlier this year, Prof Ong and colleagues predicted using advanced ab initio molecular dynamics simulations that Sn substitution for Ge in the Li10GeP2S12 superionic conductor would result in a material with similar ionic conductivity at a substantially reduced cost. Check out the computational paper in our publications section and hit the link above for the experimental paper.
Our paper on “Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis” is the seventh most downloaded article of 2013 in Computational Materials Science! Check it out here.
We are hiring new postdocs and students! Drop us an email to find out more.
Our recent paper on “The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation” has been selected for the front cover of the inaugural issue of Applied Physics Letters Materials!