Nicole Benedek

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Workshop on Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials in Silver Spring, MD.

Ethan’s paper on thermal expansion in insulating materials is published in the Journal of Applied Physics and selected as an Editor’s Pick.

The group welcomes new PhD student, Tucker Swenson!

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 7th International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities in Dublin, Ireland.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference in Golden, Colorado.

Guru won a poster award at The 53rd Course of the International School of Crystallography in Erice, Italy!

We welcome REU student Priscila Santiesteban from Coe College!

Nicole presents an invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston.

Group research associate Guru Khalsa gives an invited talk at EMA 2019.

Ethan’s work on negative thermal expansion in PbTiO₃ is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. See the story behind the work in this write-up in the Cornell Chronicle.

Guru’s work with the Hayward group in Oxford is accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials.

Nicole and collaborators (PI Andrej Singer, and co-PIs Darrell Schlom and Kyle Shen) receive funding from the Department of Energy program on Research at the Frontiers of X-Ray Free Electron Laser: Ultrafast Chemical and Materials Sciences. See the Cornell Chronicle article here.

Nicole is the Discussion Leader for the Computational Approaches to Materials Discovery session at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Chemistry.

Brian successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr Abbett!

Sabrina passes the MSE qualifying exam!

Ethan presents his work on negative thermal expansion at the 2018 Carnegie Mellon University Simulators’ Meeting.

Ethan and Guru present their work at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Los Angeles.

Guru’s paper on optically induced ferromagnetism in GdTiO₃ is accepted for publication in npj Quantum Materials.

Our paper (with the Hayward group in Oxford) on polar layered perovskites is accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.

The group welcomes new PhD student, Sabrina Li!

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 24th annual International Workshop on Oxide Electronics in Chicago, Illinois.

Brian and Ethan present their work at the North American Solid-State Chemistry Conference in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 21st Interational Conference on Solid State Ionics in Padova, Italy.

Ethan presents his work at the 2017 Simulators Meeting at Carnegie Mellon University.

Nicole is invited to attend the NSF workshop Advancing and Accelerating Materials Innovation in Arlington, Virginia.

Ethan presents a poster on his work on negative thermal expansion at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.

Congratulations to group member Dana Havas on being awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation!

Ethan presents his work on negative thermal expansion at the American Physical Society March Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Workshop on Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Ethan passes his A-exam and is admitted to PhD candidacy. Congrats!

The group welcomes new student, Dana Havas.

Our paper with the Hayward group on controlling octahedral rotations in Ruddlesden-Popper phases through A-site cation order appears in Inorganic Chemistry.

La2SrCr2O7: Controlling the Tilting Distortions of n = 2 Ruddlesden–Popper Phases through A-Site Cation Order https://t.co/lez3MM7uTe

— Inorganic Chemistry (@InorgChem) August 9, 2016

Nicole presents an invited talk at the workshop on Ferroelectric Semiconductors for Energy Conversion at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution in Bath, UK. Many thanks to organizers Aron Walsh and Mark van Schilfgaarde for a great meeting!

The group receives an XSEDE award of 3.2 million service units of compute time on the San Diego Supercomputing Center’s Comet cluster!

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nicole presents an invited talk in the all-invited session “Recent Computational Advances in the Understanding of Complex Oxides” at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 2^nd Conference on Functional Oxide Thin-Films for Advanced Energy and Information Storage in Cancun, Mexico.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 2016 TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nicole is recognized as a 2016 Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Our paper on ‘ferroelectric’ metals is accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

A paper on non-centrosymmetric Dion-Jacobson phases from the Mallouk and Gopalan groups at Penn State, to which we contributed, is accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. This paper verifies predictions made by us in an earlier paper on Dion-Jacobson phases.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the workshop on Recent Advances in Materials Physics in Windsor, UK.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, UK.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the “Women Leaders in Physics and Engineering” series at Tulane University.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Houston.

Nicole has taken up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the North American Solid-State Chemistry Conference in Tallahassee, Florida.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Los Alamos Center for Nonlinear Studies workshop on Electronic Structure Approaches and Applications in Quantum Matter.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Xinyu’s paper on ionic transport in nickelate Ruddlesden-Popper phases is accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials.

Nicole presents an invited seminar in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT.

Our invited Perspective article on ferroelectricity in layered perovskites is accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Electronic Materials and Applications conference of the American Ceramics Society in Orlando, Florida.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the 42nd Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces in Utah.

Nicole receives a CAREER award from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory program of the National Science Foundation!

The Benedek Group welcomes undergraduate researcher Zach Levine.

Nicole presents an invited talk on ionic transport in layered perovskites at the invitation-only workshop Advances in Oxide Materials: Preparation, Properties, Performance at UC Santa Barbara. Xinyu presents a poster on his work.

Nicole presents two tutorials on exploring phase transitions with first-principles calculations at the Summer School on Computational Tools for Functional Oxide Materials at the International Center for Materials Research, UC Santa Barbara.

Nicole presents a poster on her work on Dion-Jacobson phases at the Gordon Research Conference on Solid-State Chemistry in New London, New Hampshire.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the conference on Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Applications in Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Nicole is awarded a Big XII Faculty Fellowship.

Nicole presents an invited seminar at Carnegie Mellon University and Aqyan and Alex attend the CMU Simulators’ Meeting, where Aqyan presents his work on the lattice dynamics/thermal transport properties of complex oxides.

Nicole is awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Our paper on the origin of ferroelectricity in the Dion-Jacobson phases appears as an ASAP article in Inorganic Chemistry. Thanks for the tweet!

Nicole is invited to write a Viewpoint for the APS journal Physics explaining a recent advance in ferroelectric materials from the Rabe and Vanderbilt groups at Rutgers.

The Call for Papers for the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting Frontiers in Complex Oxides symposium has been released. Nicole is Lead Organizer.

Our paper on the origin of ferroelectricity in the Dion-Jacobson phases is accepted for publication in Inorganic Chemistry.

Nicole attends the American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver as Lead Organizer of the Focus Topic on Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Oxides and gives a contributed talk on ferroelectricity in the Dion-Jacobson phases.

Nicole gives an invited talk on design rules for ionic transport in complex oxides at a workshop on Information Science for Materials Discovery and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The workshop was organized by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Nonlinear Studies.

Nicole gives an invited talk on new ferroelectrics at the 2014 Workshop on the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials in Washington, DC.

Nicole attends the APS Sorters Meeting as Lead Organizer for the Focus Topic on Dielectric, Piezoelectric, and Ferroelectric Oxides. Thanks to co-organizer Roman Engel-Herbert for help with the sorting.

Nicole contributes to an article in the December issue of the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society on Accelerating Functional Materials Discovery. The article is one of the products of an NSF-DMR workshop held earlier this year on The Materials Genome Initiative in Ceramics, Geosciences and Solid-State Chemistry.

Nicole gives an invited seminar at Penn State University.

Lots of new publications, including one in Nature!

Nicole presents an invited talk at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Nicole is once again Lead Organizer for the Focus Topic on Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Oxides for next year’s APS March Meeting (with Stanislav Kamba and Roman Engel-Herbert) and Lead Organizer for a symposium on complex oxides for the MRS Fall Meeting 2014 (with Jonathan Spanier, Gustau Catalan and Jon Baniecki).

The Benedek Group welcomes Alex Miller and Aqyan Bhatti as new Ph.D. students!

Our Feature Article on “Why are there so few perovskite ferroelectrics?” appears in the the latest issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. See our cover image here.

Nicole presents an invited talk at The 25th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Theory at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

An ‘animated abstract’ accompanies our latest paper. Watch it here on the Cockrell School’s YouTube channel.

Our paper with a collaborator at Cornell on the why there are so few perovskite ferroelectrics is accepted for publication as an invited Feature Article in the Jounral of Physical Chemistry C. We have the cover of the July issue!

Nicole talks to visiting students from the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders.

Nicole presents an invited talk at the Harrington Symposium on Next-Generation Materials for Energy Generation, Storage, and Transport at UT Austin.

Nicole is awarded a grant from The Welch Foundation to study lone-pair effects in perovskites and perovskite-related materials.

Nicole gives an invited talk at the MRS Spring Meeting in Symposium XX: Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures for Advanced Information and Energy Technologies

Check out our app for calculating tolerance factors using the bond valence model under the Tools tab! Works on iPhone and Android.

The Benedek Group attends the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore. Nicole gives a contributed talk, “Why are there so few perovskite ferroelectrics?”

Our paper, with collaborators at Cornell and Drexel, on design rules for new double perovskite and Ruddlesden-Popper ferroelectrics accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials.

Nicole gives an invited talk at an NSF-DMR workshop on The Materials Genome Initiative in Ceramics, Geosciences and Solid-State Chemistry.

Nicole attends the APS Sorters’ Meeting as lead organizer for the Focus Topic on Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Oxides. Thanks to Albina Borisevich for her help with the sorting!

Nicole presents a lunchtime talk on her research to students from the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders.

Nicole presents a seminar in the Center for Nano- and Molecular Sciences at UT Austin.

Nicole presents a seminar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Theory and Simulation of Materials Group is formed. The Benedek Group welcomes Xinyu Li as a graduate student.