With an overarching theme of clean energy, our research is pillared on nuclear energy, fuel cells and materials for energy storage tied with a common thread of elucidating fundamental microstructural properties.
Some recent research
Strain-Induced Interfacial Phase Transition
Aidhy DS et al., Fast ion conductivity in strained defect-fluorite structure created by ion tracks in Gd2Ti2O7, Nature Scientific Reports, 5, 16297 (2015) {Link}
Fast-Ion Conductivity in Interfacial and Nanocrystalline Materials
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Impact of segregation energetics on oxygen conductivity at ionic grain boundaries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, 6 1704 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Strained ionic interfaces: Effect on oxygen diffusivity from atomistic simulations The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 8 4207 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Impact of segregation energetics on oxygen conductivity at ionic grain boundaries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, 6 1704 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Strained ionic interfaces: Effect on oxygen diffusivity from atomistic simulations The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 8 4207 (2014) {Link}
Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Ceramics Oxides
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, A fast grain growth mechanism revealed in nanocrystalline ceramic oxides, Scripta Materialia 83, 9 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Stabilizing nanocrystalline grains in ceramic-oxides, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15, 43 18915 (2013) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, A fast grain growth mechanism revealed in nanocrystalline ceramic oxides, Scripta Materialia 83, 9 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Stabilizing nanocrystalline grains in ceramic-oxides, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15, 43 18915 (2013) {Link}
Microstructure Design
Aidhy DS and Weber WJ, Microstructure Design For Fast Oxygen Conduction, Journal of Materials Research, (2016) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, (001) SrTiO3 | (001) MgO interface and oxygen-vacancy stability from first-principles calculations, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6, 17, 15536 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Liu B, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, In Press {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Liu B, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Chemical expansion affected oxygen vacancy stability in different oxide structures from first principles calculations, Computational Materials Science, 99, 298 (2015) {Link}
Aidhy DS and Weber WJ, Microstructure Design For Fast Oxygen Conduction, Journal of Materials Research, (2016) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, (001) SrTiO3 | (001) MgO interface and oxygen-vacancy stability from first-principles calculations, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6, 17, 15536 (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Liu B, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, In Press {Link}
Aidhy DS*, Liu B, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Chemical expansion affected oxygen vacancy stability in different oxide structures from first principles calculations, Computational Materials Science, 99, 298 (2015) {Link}
Radiation damage in nuclear materials
Aidhy DS, Lu C, Jin Ke, Bei H, Zhang Y, Wang L, Weber W, Point defect evolution in Ni, NiFe and NiCr alloys from atomistic simulations and irradiation experiments, Acta Materialia, 99, 69-76 (2015) {Link}
Aidhy DS, Millett PC, Desai T, Wolf D, Phillpot SR. Kinetically evolving irradiation induced point defect clusters in UO2 by molecular dynamics simulation, Physical Review B 80, 104107 (2009)
Aidhy DS and Wolf D, Comparison of point-defect clustering in irradiated CeO2 and UO2: A unified view from molecular dynamics simulations and experiments, Scripta Materialia 65, 867 (2011)
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Radiation damage in cubic-ZrO2 and YSZ from molecular dynamics simulations, Scripta Materialia, (2014) {Link}
Aidhy DS, Lu C, Jin Ke, Bei H, Zhang Y, Wang L, Weber W, Point defect evolution in Ni, NiFe and NiCr alloys from atomistic simulations and irradiation experiments, Acta Materialia, 99, 69-76 (2015) {Link}
Aidhy DS, Millett PC, Desai T, Wolf D, Phillpot SR. Kinetically evolving irradiation induced point defect clusters in UO2 by molecular dynamics simulation, Physical Review B 80, 104107 (2009)
Aidhy DS and Wolf D, Comparison of point-defect clustering in irradiated CeO2 and UO2: A unified view from molecular dynamics simulations and experiments, Scripta Materialia 65, 867 (2011)
Aidhy DS*, Zhang Y and Weber WJ, Radiation damage in cubic-ZrO2 and YSZ from molecular dynamics simulations, Scripta Materialia, (2014) {Link}