"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat"

December 25, 2013

2013 was the fastest year on record (plenty done, with even more to do). Christmas is a nice time to step back and refocus. In terms of research it has been a year where my group matured to produce a series of excellent papers that wouldn't have been possible without their combined skills (and backgrounds from chemistry, physics, chemical engineering and materials science). I am indebted to them and our many talented collaborators around the world.

  • "PbO2: from semi-metal to transparent conducting oxide by defect chemistry control"
  • "Thermodynamic and electronic properties of tunable II–VI and IV–VI semiconductor based metal–organic frameworks"
  • "Prediction of (TiO2)x(Cu2O)y alloys for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting"
  • "Classification of Lattice Defects in the Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4and Cu2ZnSnSe4 Earth-Abundant Solar Cell Absorbers"
  • "Electronic origin of the conductivity imbalance between covalent and ionic amorphous semiconductors"
  • "Band alignment in SnS thin-film solar cells: Possible origin of the low conversion efficiency"
  • "Microscopic origin of the optical processes in blue sapphire" (OA)
  • "Electron excess in alkaline earth sub-nitrides: 2D electron gas or 3D electride?" (OA)
  • "Dynamical response and instability in ceria under lattice expansion"
  • "Band alignment of rutile and anatase TiO2"
  • "Engineering the Optical Response of the Titanium-MIL-125 Metal−Organic Framework through Ligand Functionalization" (OA)
  • "Electronic Structures of Antimony Oxides"
  • "Limits to Doping of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors" (OA)
  • "Helical frontier orbitals of conjugated linear molecules" (OA)
  • "One-dimensional embedded cluster approach to modeling CdS nanowires"
  • "Dielectric response of Fe2O3 crystals and thin films"
  • "Oxidation of GaN: An ab initio thermodynamic approach"
  • "Structural and electronic properties of hybrid perovskites for high-efficiency thin-film photovoltaics from first-principles" (OA)
  • "Polymorphism of indium oxide: Materials physics of orthorhombic In2O3"
  • "Synthesis, Characterization, and Electronic Structure of Single-Crystal SnS, Sn2S3, and SnS2" (OA)

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    One goal next year is to increase the proportion of fully open access (OA) publications. Institutional repositories are nice, but they don't compare to direct access on a journal website.