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2023

27.01.2023 Our paper titled "Exploring the Nanoconfinement Effect Using 2D Capillaries" is on the front cover of the 2023 first issue. In this paper, we discuss Two-dimensional nanocapillaries assembled by van der Waals technology and how they enable experimental exploration under extreme spatial confinement. Our research into these directions will help to reveal nanoconfinement effects on molecular structure and behavior down to the atomic scale. View the article.

26.01.2023 Zhijia Zhang Joined our group as a PhD student!

25.01.2023 Matheus Suenson Cardoso Joined our group as a PhD student!

20.01.2023 Bilal Ahmad Ganie Joined our group as a PhD student!

01.01.2023 Our European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant - Wonder Sieve starts!

This projects to develop lab-on-a-chip molecular sorting devices with simultaneous detection and separation functions - wonder sieve, based on van der Waals assembled nanocapillaries.

2022

19.12.2022: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

23.09.2022 Qian Yang was named Research Staff of the Year in the University of Manchester Excellence Awards.

28.11.2022 Jing Yu joined the group as a visiting PhD student. Jing Yu is a PhD student from University of Hong Kong.

07.10.2022 Amit Singh joined the group for PhD. Amit is the winner of the prestigious Dean's Doctoral Scholarship from the University of Manchester. You can check out Amit's profile from his own website!

27.09.2022 Flavia-Alexandra Cimpean and Stephen Tipper Joined the group for MPhys project on "New materials enabled by two-dimensional reactions".

09.2022 Artem Mischhenko was named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2022 by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics .

08.09.2022 Our interdisciplinary research project "van der Waals heart" is funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). In this project, we will probe the electrical activity of heart cells and tissues down to the subcellular level. Better understanding of the electrical activity of healthy heart cells will help us to reveal the causes of dysfunctional heart cells and potentially guide us towards better treatment towards Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).

13.08.2022 Our April 1st joke paper titled "Novel approach to room temperature superconductivity problem" is highlighted by famous science and technology Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder in her latest video! Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOngA8bBbkg (from 11:11)

29.06.2022 Tamaghna Chowdhury joined our group as a visiting PhD student and will be exploring the 2D chemistry using Raman system.

28.16.2022 Qian Yang Won The Royal Society University Research Fellowship to lead innovative research towards smart van der Waals sieves.

13.06.2022 Katarzyna Kuras joined our group for summer project.

07.06.2022 Our paper named "Machine Learning Enhanced Electrical Impedance Tomography for 2D Materials " is accepted by Inverse Problems Journal. A critical step for a bunch of physicists to publish on mathmatical journal! Thanks to our MPhys students and collaborators who contributed to this work!

22.03.2022 Anupam Bhattacharya departs to finish his PhD Degree in India. We threw a farewell party and wish him all the best in the future.

02.03.2022 Qian Yang awarded the Prestigious Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship to work on van der Waals assembled nanocapillaries as PI.

08.02.2022 Kate Mawdsley and Egle Rackaityte Joined the group for MPhys project on gas transport through atomic-thin crystals.

2021

11.2021 Artem Mischhenko was named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics.

09.2021 23.09.2022 Qian Yang won the Excellence Award Best Output Award in the University of Manchester.

06.2021 PabloA Diaz nunez Joined our lab as postdoctoral researcher.

05.2021 Artem Mishchenko is the finalist of the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

03.2021 Anupam Bhattacharya Joined our lab as visiting PhD student.

2020

12.2020 Artem Mischhenko was named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2020 by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics

01.05.2020 Our ERC Consolidator Grant started - Project description

01.04.2020 Room Temperature Superconductivity 'Breakthrough' due to COVID-19 outbreak, check it out!

A long-standing problem of observing Room Temperature Superconductivity is finally solved by a novel approach. Instead of increasing the critical temperature Tc of a superconductor, the temperature of the room was decreased to an appropriate Tc value. We consider this approach more promising for obtaining a large number of materials possessing Room Temperature Superconductivity in the near future.

Novel approach to Room Temperature Superconductivity problem

by Ivan Timokhin and Artem Mishchenko

#HTSC, #betterathome, #iworkfromhome, #DIY

2019

19.11.2019 Artem Mischhenko was named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2019 by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics

15.11.2019 Artem Mischhenko was awarded Consolidator Grant 2019

23.10.2019 our lab received funding from the Royal Society International Exchanges 2019 Cost Share to boost our collaborative research with Russian colleagues

01.09.2019 Dr Qian Yang's Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship kick starts!

19.08.2019 Ivan Timokhin received ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation Award (funded by InnovateUK)

05.07.2019 Ivan Timokhin joined our team for postdoc research.

18.06.2019 Wenyu Liu joined our team as visiting PhD student.

Our paper is highlighted on Cover page of May issue of Nature Physics:

"Dimensional reduction in graphite"

The quantum Hall effect is thought to exist only in two-dimensional materials. Here, transport measurements show that thin graphite slabs have a 2.5-dimensional version, with a parity effect for samples with odd and even number of layers.

29.03.2019 "Our work that was marked as Editor's Pick in APL is now online!

Here we show that graphene-based electronic devices can perform in temperatures comparable to that of the Venus atmosphere (∼460°C). Shall we see graphene in space? How about that, @elonmusk? " Makars Šiškins, 1st author of our paper!

21.03.2019 Artem Mishchenko received a Pilot Award through the R2I programme by Innovation Optimiser.

11.03.2019 Ciaran Mullan joined our team for PhD study.

25.02.2019 Our paper on Quantum Hall Effect in Graphite is published in Nature Physics

"Graphite offers up new quantum surprise" UoM press release

Phys.org - Graphite offers up new quantum surprise

Interesting Engineering - Scientists Uncover Improbable Quantum Property of Graphite

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07.01.2019 Nikolai Semenov joined our team for a short-term research project.

2018

15.12.2018 Mengjie Feng joined our team for PhD study.

27.11.2018 Artem Mishchenko was named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2018 by the Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics.

25.09.2018 Zhuang Gunter, Matthew Rimmer and Filip Moldzynski joined our team for MPhys projects.

1.09.2018 Ziwei Wang joined our team for PhD study.

21.06.2018 Artem Mishchenko was awarded EMFL Prize 2018 for "outstanding research in high magnetic fields over the past years"

2017

11.11.2017 Yunzhe Du joined our team as visiting PhD student.

26.10.2017 Ziwei Wang has been awarded the winner of the Best Summer Placement 2017! CONGRATULATIONS!!

26.09.2017 Dale Chancellor, Michael Brown, Ziwei Wang, and Chang Lu joined our team for MPhys projects.

15.09.2017 Yaping Yang joined our team for PhD study.

1.09.2017 Jidong Li joined our team as a visiting PhD student.

7.07.2017 Ziwei Wang joined our team for paid summer placement.

1.07.2017 Makars Siskins and Ciaran Mullan received the Platt prize for best experimental work! CONGRATULATIONS!!

1.04.2017 Servet Ozdemir joined our team for PhD study.

2016

9.10.2016 Manal Alhazmi joined our team for PhD study.

24.09.2016 Makars Siskins and Ciaran Mullan joined our team for MPhys projects.

29.07.2016 Jun Yin joined our team for postdoc research.

16.07.2016 Seok-Kyun Son joined our team for postdoc research.

19.06.2016 Servet Ozdemir joined our team for a summer project.

8.06.2016 Makars Siskins joined our team for a summer project.

2015

27.11.2015 Artem Mishchenko was awarded EPSRC Fellowship (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).