Nick's PhD work spanned many different aspects of energy materials discovery. He was mostly concerned with a class of聽intercolated dichalcogenides called Chevrel phases. These materials have a vast amount of compositional tunability, but have been difficult to explore experimentally due to an overwhelming amount of potential formulations. Nick developed a physically interpretable machine-learning descriptor that accurately identified several previously unknown Chevrel materials that are being tested for energy applications like catalysis and batteries. Nick has joined the Musgrave group as a postdoctoral research to continue his PhD work. In addition to this, he has joined the Ban research group in the Mechincal Engineering department at CU to try and make his calculations on Chevrel battery materials come to life. Congratulations Nick, we wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.
