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And all around I find no competition, but those whom I can learn from, what I can grow to, and redefine my realities.

New @J_A_C_S : We reveal relaxor ferroelectricity as the origin of ultralow, glass-like thermal conductivity in crystalline AgPbSbSe₃ -linking polar nanodomain dynamics to phonon scattering @jncasr @ANRFIndia @IndiaDST pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

For the attention of the broad research community of inorganic chemists: our department is hiring for a tenure-track position in inorganic chemistry. Application deadline: August 31, 2025. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…

Lovely read!! Thank you authors for this beautiful review.

🚨Announcement from @BiswasLabJNC WE ARE HIRING !!! Immediate Ph.D. position available. Students with a masters degree in Chemistry or Physics can apply. To know more about our group and the work that we do visit faculty.jncasr.ac.in/kanishka/ @kanishkabiswas @JNCASR @NCU_JNCASR

Glassy thermal transport and zT of 2.7 in doped GeTe results from the inhomogeneous ferroelectric instability developed due to local polar distortions near the dopant sites. Just out in Advanced Materials @DebattamS @subarnadas_ @jncasr advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Local distortion from Cu s-d coupling via the 2nd-order Jahn–Teller effect drives exceptional thermoelectric performance in metal sulfides. Just out in @J_A_C_S @kanishkabiswas @shuvobiswas2000 @VenkataMatu @MoinakDutta0 @te_materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Proud to share that @jncasr is recognized as the leading institution in India for materials science research during 2019 – 2023, according to a report published by @NatureIndex based on the materials science research output of five leading countries. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Check out our @ChemMater article where we uncover an intriguing ultralow thermal conductivity in a crystalline material TlCuZrSe3 which approaches its theoretical limit of minimum thermal conductivity. Congrats to @RohjRohit and other authors. doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…

Undergraduates - Join us for summer research @MIT @ChemistryMIT!

And that’s a wrap for this year’s Winter School! Huge thanks to the amazing speakers for their inspiring, pedagogic talks. It was truly a wonderful journey of learning and exploring the frontiers of Materials Science!

From being the most intrigued by QM & spectroscopy as a student to teaching it as a TA, the journey feels surreal. Teaching wasn’t something I initially saw myself enjoying, but I’m so grateful my advisor encouraged me to try it before forming an opinion. #LastClass

Congratulations to Dr. Aparna R. K. on successfully defending her PhD thesis. Special thanks to Prof. Tapas K Maji for his valuable comments. Wishing Dr. Aparna all the best in her future endeavors. We will always be thankful for your contribution. @Aparnaark @Maji_TK @tvmiiser

@raorahul25497 @PhysRevB Congratulations!

Big news! Our latest @PhysRevB article uncovers the magnetic structure and crystal field states of CeNiGe₃. This marks my debut in inelastic neutron scattering analysis. Dive into the details here: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… #CondensedMatter #NeutronScattering

Please #share! Multiple #Gradstudent positions available in my lab at @MIT in nanoelectronics, spintronics, neuroscience, electrophysiology, antenna, biomedical devices and neurotechnology. I specifically encourage #women and communities marginalized in STEM to apply! If interested apply by Dec 15 at media.mit.edu/graduate-progr… Details at web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar… Please do NOT send emails but apply directly through the website. Due to high volume of emails, we might not be able to respond to emails but that does not mean we are not interested in your application. @AWISNational @STEMWomen @4womeninscience

Do check out our latest work!

@jennifer_fowlie Congratulations!

Oh, yeah, looks like I'm a professor now

The biggest reward during PhD? The pure thrill of discovery! That moment when you realize you’ve unlocked something new—maybe a new compound from XRD, a surprising SEM morphology, or a fresh equation that tells an untold atomic story. It’s pure intellectual adrenaline!

Nanostructured “ferecrystals” with TaSe2 in SnSe solid state matrix showed natural 2D superlattice heterostructure layers with “twisting”! Tremendous phonon scattering and high n-type zT of 2.2 @J_A_C_S @TanejaVaishali1 @jncasr @IndiaDST pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

"Curious about emphanisis? 🧐 Dive into our latest publication on Cs2PbI2Cl2 to learn more! A huge shoutout to our reviewers—your invaluable feedback has pushed us to explore new depths and expand our knowledge. 🌟

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