Energy Materials Laboratory - Curtarolo Group at Duke University
May 13, 2012: "A search model for topological insulators with high-throughput robustness descriptors", Nature Materials (2012) [doi=10.1038/nmat3332].
Apr. 16, 2012: The article "Prediction of acceleration of ordering in iron-vanadium alloys", was accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. [#74].
Feb. 10, 2012: Curtarolo was promoted to Full Professor of Materials Science and Physics.
Welcome to the
Energy Materials Laboratory - Curtarolo Group MEMBERS
Prof. Stefano Curtarolo (Professor of Materials Science and Physics)
Dr. Shidong Wang (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Keson Yang (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Mike Mehl (visitor from NRL)
Dr. Ohad Levy (visitor from NRCN)
Mr. Junkai Xue (graduate student)
Mr. Richard Taylor (graduate student)
Ms. Anna Hirsch (visiting graduate student from the Weizmann Istitute of Science) FORMER MEMBERS
Dr. Roman Chepulskyy (postdoctoral researcher, now at Samsung Electronics)
Dr. Michal Jahnatek (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Wahyu Setyawan (student/postdoctoral researcher, now Research Scientist at PNNL)
Dr. Aleksey N. Kolmogorov (Assistant Prof. of Physics at SUNY, Binghamton)
Dr. Aiqin Jiang (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Neha Awasthi (former graduate student)
Dr. Jeff Thomas (research professor shared with Earl Dowell's group)
Dr. Felipe Cervantes Sodi (former graduate student visiting from U. Cambridge, UK)
AWARDS and HONORS
2011 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics
2011 Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP)
2010 Cover for Physical Review Letters 103(5)
2009 Feinberg Foundation Visiting Faculty Program Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
2007 PECASE Presidential Award: Department of Defense
2007 NSF-Career Award
2007 ONR-Young Investigator Award
2005 Best paper published in 2005 in CALPHAD
2002 Material Research Society (MRS) Silver Medal Graduate Student Award
Research interests:
Materials for Energy Storage
Materials for Energy Conversion (catalysis, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics)
Materials for Energy Transportation (topological insulators)
Materials for Nuclear Detection (scintillators)
Computational Nanotechnology
Combinatorial Materials Science
Adsorption and fuel storage in Nanostructures
High-Throughput ab-initio computing: transition-metal binary alloys
Titanium alloys
Alloy theory, genetic algorithms
Multiscale modeling of materials
Quasicrystalline surfaces
Nano catalysis (an-initio thermodynamic)
Research Sponsors:
Office of Naval Research
Honda Corporation
American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund
