Murphy Materials Modelling Group

Hello! This is the official Twitter account for the Murphy Materials Modelling Group (MMMG) at Lancaster University, led by Dr Samuel Murphy.

After a bit of a pause on Twitter, we are back and please to announce we are holding another Bay Fusion industry and public event on 27th June 2023 in Manchester - checkout our website for details - bay-fusion.co.uk/events/ #bayfusionuk #UKAEA #fusion

Great explainer video, @Energy_Zap !

Interested in studying how neutron irradiation may damage high temperature superconducting magnets in fusion reactors, then check out this @UKAEAofficial funded PhD position at @LancsUniEng findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Also here is a group shot outside the Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) building @UKAEAofficial

Students from the ENGR428 Nuclear Fusion Engineering module @LancsUniEng on a tour of JET and RACE facilities at @UKAEAofficial. Thanks to Chris, Jordan and the team for giving us a great tour #fusion

I love showing @LancsUniEng Chemical Engineers how to convert heat into work using a Stirling Engine. Shame it's only about 20% efficient though......... #thermodynamics

James Simpson from @UKAEAofficial teaching on the ENGR428 Nuclear Fusion Engineering module at @LancsUniEng last week. The students really enjoyed hearing about plasma physics and operation of tokamaks #fusion

Science #WordOfTheWeek: Future fusion reactors will require fuel. Deuterium-tritium fuel (made of isotopes of hydrogen) is a likely candidate. It reaches fusion conditions at lower temps than other elements and releases more energy than other reactions: energy.gov/science/doe-ex…

Congratulations to Ville Jantonen on a successful PhD defense @KumpulaScience. It was a pleasure to act as your 'opponent'. We had a great discussion, I learned a lot and I very much enjoyed the Karonkka

@philipcball This paper says "Simulation and thus scientific computing is the third pillar alongside theory and experiment in todays science and engineering." ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/47367…

"#Biodiversity is essential to our #health, happiness & #wellbeing - we cannot survive without it" - @CarolineHowe #CBDCOP15 officially kicks off today - and we want to see world leaders come together to #ProtectNatureNow Some thoughts from our @imperialcollege experts 👇 [1/n]

Really impressed by this image from my student Jade Li. This is what happens when the pressure in Xe bubbles in uranium nitride increases @ATLANTIC_epsrc @LancsUniEng

UKAEA has welcomed the Government’s backing for fusion energy research with today’s announcement of an additional £126M for the UK fusion programme... Full statement: ✅ LinkedIn - bit.ly/3EOGilm ✅ Facebook - bit.ly/3Az9wCt #fusionenergy #fusioniscoming

We're delighted to publish the results of our collaboration with Jaime Marian's group at @UCLA and Mark Gilbert at @UKAEA, looking at oxidation of tungsten first walls in tokamaks #fusion iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Congratulations to @WillNeilson on finishing his PhD. The first of what I hope will many theses on my shelf! @Transcend_epsrc @LancsUniEng

Congratulations to Mathew Haskew on publishing another paper trying to make biodegradable batteries from silk fibroin-ionic liquid polymer electrolytes @JGHardyLab @LancsUniEng onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Rounding out our #fusionenergy tour with @_RJPearson Co-founder, Chief Innovator & UK Director of @Kyotofusioneer.

The group taking a tour of the awesome Materials Research Facility at @UKAEAofficial.

@meghasanjv, Ryan Kerr and Andrew Davies presenting their recent work on ceramic breeder blanket materials and oxidation of tungsten first walls at @UKAEAofficial #fusionenergy

Group visit to @TokamakEnergy where @meghasanjv presented our recent results on radiation damage in high temperature superconducting magnets and we discussed tritium breeding materials. #fusionenergy