James Rondinelli

Illinois A team of @APSphysics physicists promoting STEM research and workforce development to our reps! #APSCVD2024

We're hiring at Northwestern! In Mechanical Engineering, we have TWO openings (incl. one in manufacturing) and one tenure-track opening in Materials Science & Engineering. Please share/retweet within your networks. I couldn't be more proud to be @NorthwesternEng!

We explain how to understand the relationship between the structural modes of 2D halides and their orbital order, why they're all insulating; e.g. RuCl3 can never have 3 degenerate t2g states. This applies to other materials with edge-connected octahedra. journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/1…

Join us @NorthwesternEng. Our MSE department is hiring TWO tenure-track faculty members in experimental, computational, or theoretical MSE. bit.ly/NU-MSE-FacSear…. #materials @Chemjobber

Northwestern Materials Science & Engineering is hiring TWO tenure-track positions in all fields! One month in, and I can't begin to describe how wonderful our community of students, staff, & faculty is. RTs and ad shares are much appreciated! mccormick.northwestern.edu/materials-scie…

Xue-Zeng Lu & @JMRondinelli @NorthwesternEng @ResearchNU create a chemistry-agnostic strategy to design symmetry-protected persistent spin texture materials in #MatterIssue15! Featured article: bit.ly/30YwvVs

Congrats to Nathan and Lauren on the design of an oxynitride compound exhibiting a metal-insulator transition; work supported by @NSF_MPS and @NUMRSEC. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Congrats to #NSFfunded graduate students Jaye Harada and (now Dr.) Nenian Charles on their new Progress Report describing our ongoing research @NUMRSEC and @NSF_MPS. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Critical thickness in ferroelectric capacitors: problem solved. Read more here: aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.… Supported by the Army Research Office (ARO) .

Just published in Nature Communications - 'The must-have and nice-to-have experimental and computational requirements for functional frequency doubling deep-UV crystals' doi.org/10.1038/s41467…; nature.com/articles/s4146… - with @JMRondinelli @NorthwesternEng @UHouston

New collaborative paper describing thermal control of #ferroelectric phases: "Ferroelectric Sr3Zr2O7: Competition between Hybrid Improper Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Mechanisms." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New optical control from atomic structure in hybrid improper #ferroelectrics: Tunable inversion symmetry to control indirect-to-direct band gaps transitions journals.aps.org/prmaterials/ab…

"The Next Generation of Nonlinear Optical Material: Rb3Ba3Li2Al4B6O20F - Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Growth" (Comm. No. adom.201700840) with @JMRondinelli to be included in the virtual Best of Adv. Opt. Mater. 2017 issue - advancedsciencenews.com/best-of-advanc…

New paper appearing in @PhysRevB on the structure stability and electronic properties of layered #nickelates: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/1… which agrees with ARPES data from nature.com/articles/s4146…. Support from @ArmyResearchLab (ARO) and @NSF_MPS.

"Pb2BO3I: A New Borate Iodide with the Largest SHG Response in the KBe2BO3F2 (KBBF) Family" accepted by @angew_chem! DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802079 and 10.1002/ange.201802079

New opportunities in materials science by focusing on anion rather than cation chemistry in transition metal compounds. Support from @NUMRSEC. nature.com/articles/s4146…