@nickhine.bsky.social
Professor of Physics, University of Warwick. Large-scale electronic structure (LS-DFT), 2D materials, theoretical spectroscopy, developer of ONETEP and ESTEEM.
With this approach we relax twisted bilayer models down to under 1 degree twist. We compare to experimental results and find strong agreement with observed reconstruction patterns, tending towards triangular domains in parallel homo-bilayers, hexagonal in antiparallel, and twirls for heterobilayers!
24.09.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New paper! Anas Siddiqui has done fantastic work training Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for the whole Transition Metal Dichalcogenide family, and used them to study domain reconstruction with vdW-DF level accuracy, in twisted homo- and hetero-bilayers.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
For those interested in twistronics, check out session C10 on Thursday morning. For those also interested in MLIPs, check out the talk by #hetsys PhD student Anas Siddiqui!
25.08.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the second time in 3 years my birthday has fallen during the Psi-K conference #psik2025 - awesome place to celebrate it actually! Great talks and great community - and a morning swim in Lac Leman
25.08.2025 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@jrkermode.co.uk and I are on the same train!
24.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Genius
17.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know a guy who
alloys steel
He makes it stronger
a harder feel
He don't use carbon
or molyb'
He don't use nickel
or any of these
He uses manganese
Seems crazy to change the format at this late stage though.
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Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Take a paddle steamer!
05.05.2025 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am at the #APSMarch meeting in Anaheim, California this week. Looking forward to lots of exciting talks on ML for materials science! Giving a talk myself on Thursday at 12:06in 263B!
17.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A standing ovation for federal workers by the thousands of physicists who are meeting in Anaheim this week, supporting their colleagues in science agencies who couldn’t afford—or weren’t allowed—to come. Sorry, no pictures, in part out of green-card holders’ fears. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
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27.02.2025 19:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have been a silent observer on bsky.app so far but happy to self-introduce on here by sharing news of a new paper with Anas Siddiqui. In Phys. Rev. Mater 9, 014004 we train an MLIP and a continuum model InSe and investigate Moire reconstructions with twist angle:
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