Davide Donadio

The metastable nucleation of graphite is a spectacular manifestation of Ostwald's step rule and is driven by density differences between the solid and the liquid phases.

In brief, we see spontaneous nucleation of either graphite or diamond when quenching liquid carbon at pressures between 5 and 30 GPa. Surprisingly, graphite also crystallizes at conditions where diamond is the thermodynamically stable phase.

Graphite 'hijacks' the journey from molten carbon to diamond – Physics World Machine-learning-based molecular simulations reveal unexpected crystallization pathway

Thank you @physicsworld.bsky.social for covering our work on homogeneous nucleation of graphite and diamond from molten carbon. Did I show you this? physicsworld.com/a/graphite-h...
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Also featured here phys.org/news/2025-03...

Machine Learning Helps Researchers Uncover Molecular Fingerprints at the Ice Surface In a new study appearing in JACS Au, UC Davis researchers harness the power of machine learning to improve the molecular interpretation of a spectroscopy technique that’s prominently used to investiga...

Happy to share Maggie's latest work on SFG of ice surfaces. We discuss proton ordering and molecular contributions to the SFG heterodyne spectra. Huge contribution from Anh and Marcos at LLNL.
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The Southwestern Alps were pretty dry during this winter break. Still beautiful.

Heavy Solution for Molecular Thermal Management: Phonon Transport Suppression with Heavy Atoms Thermal management in molecular systems presents challenges that require a deeper understanding of phonon transport, an essential aspect of heat conduction in single-molecule junctions. Our work intro...

Thanks to the creative work of William in Gemma's group, we have a new recipe for suppressing thermal transport in molecular junctions: heavy atoms are the key!
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Elastic moduli and thermal conductivity of quantum materials at finite temperature We describe a theoretical and computational approach to calculate the vibrational, elastic, and thermal properties of materials from the low-temperature quantum

Dylan's first research paper outlines a workflow to calculate vibrational properties, thermal conductivity, and elastic moduli at finite temperature with #MachineLearning potentials. #open-access in J.Appl.Phys. @aip.bsky.social
Collaboration with @flokno.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

Multiscale thermal modelling with AI - Nature Electronics Nature Electronics - Multiscale thermal modelling with AI

Excited to see our work on multiscale thermal modeling of transistors and circuits featured in @natureelectron.bsky.social
Alex Gabourie (DeepSim) will present it at #IEDM2024 in SF next week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I'm in California dreaming about who I used to be.
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