HetSys News

Christopher Woodgate, a current 3rd year HetSys student and his supervisor Julie Staunton have had their latest paper featured as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review B.

Short-range order in high-entropy alloys (HEA) prompts exciting physical questions: What are the implications for material properties, and what underlying mechanisms are drivers? In this theoretical work Christopher and Julie describe a rigorous, first-principles approach combined with atomistic modelling to assess the nature of compositional order in the prototypical HEA, NiCoFeMnCr, and its derivatives. In particular, this work shows that finding the range of interactions, and representing the resulting behavior in reciprocal space, is important for understanding the stability of these materials.

You can read the article online here.

You can read more about Christopher and Julie's work here.

HetSys is pleased to announce that it will be running a second Industry Study Group, in partnership with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

Mathematical Science Study Groups with industry have been running for over fifty years and, having started with pioneering work in the UK in the 1960s, these groups now take place all over the world in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. They have been hugely successful in solving problems and providing insight for various organisations. Building on the successful sessions of 2017, 2019 and virutally in 2020. HetSys and KTN are delighted to host this event for a multidisciplinary research audience of HetSys PhD students and their supervisors, academics and associated colleagues between the 3rd April and 6th April, on campus at Scarman House.

Here in HetSys we want to celebrate women in the Sciences, by giving you the opportunity to meet some of the women working in our Centre.