Research Projects
Ongoing projects
Overcoming the Brittleness of Oxide Glasses by Surface Aging
In this project, we will explore the use of aging in humid atmosphere to enable certain oxide glasses to undergo self-healing and exhibit ultra-high damage resistance. Experiments will be complemented by reactive molecular dynamics simulations.
Time period: 2020-2025
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark | Technology and Production Sciences (2,878,000 DKK)
European Spallation Source Lighthouse: Hard Materials in 3D (SOLID)
We are part of the cross-disciplinary center SOLID (https://solid.dtu.dk/), which aims at visualizing the internal structure of materials in 3D on all relevant length and time scales using the world most powerful neutron and x-ray sources. We are involved in the work package on amorphous materials, where we will characterize deformation mechanisms in oxide glasses on all relevant length scales.
Time period: 2020-2026
Funding: Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (our share: 2,120,000 DKK)
Deciphering Nanoporosity of Amorphous Materials using Topological Data Analysis
In this collaborative project, we will extend the mathematical theory in topological data analysis to develop tools for characterizing the chemical configuration of tunnels and voids inside amorphous materials.
Time period: 2021-2026
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark | Natural Sciences (6,128,000 DKK)
TOUGH: Toward Tough Amorphous Electrolytes and Stable Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries
In this EU-funded TOUGH project, we will explore the mechanical behavior of amorphous solid electrolyte/electrode interfaces.
Time period: 2022-2024
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, EU Horizon 2020 (219,000 EUR)
Computational Design of Disordered Electrode Materials for Batteries
In this project, we aim to develop new amorphous electrolyte materials for solid-state batteries with a combination of high ionic conductivity and high fracture toughness.
Time period: 2022-2025
Funding: Danish Data Science Academy, PhD Fellowship (1,890,000 DKK)
Preventing Micro-Cracks in Amorphous Solid-State Electrolytes for Batteries
In this project, we aim to develop new amorphous electrolyte materials for solid-state batteries with a combination of high ionic conductivity and high fracture toughness.
Time period: 2022-2025
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark | Thematic Research (2,874,000 DKK)
NewGLASS: New Horizons in Glass Structure Prediction and Mechanics
In this project, we aim to first identify structural descriptors at the short- and medium-range length scales and then use these to design novel glasses with tailored deformation mechanisms and microstructures to achieve superior fracture resistance.
Time period: 2022-2027
Funding: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (1,997,000 EUR)
RELAX: Revealing the Hidden Mechanism of Room Temperature Relaxation in Glasses
In this EU-funded RELAX project, we will work on the correlation between glass structure and relaxation using diffraction and molecular dynamics methods .
Time period: 2023-2024
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Horizon Europe (231,000 EUR)
DrugMOF: Disordered Metal-Organic Frameworks for Drug Delivery
In this EU-funded DrugMOF project, we will attempt to identify which structural features are best correlated with the drug release rate in disordered MOFs.
Time period: 2023-2025
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Horizon Europe (231,000 EUR)
Flexible Screen Protectors
In collaboration with PanzerGlass, we will attempt to develop a new class of strong, flexible, and transparent screen protectors for non-flat mobile devices.
Time period: 2023-2026
Funding: Industrial PhD, Innovation Fund Denmark (1,072,000 DKK)
Liquid magic: Self-healing glasses from porous liquids
This exploratory project aims to prepare self-healing glasses by using a recently discovered class of porous liquids to make glass composite materials.
Time period: 2024-2026
Funding: Villum Experiment, VILLUM Foundation (1,934,000 DKK)
Inverse Design of Materials Using Diffusion Probabilistic Models
In collaboration with Prof. Jilin Hu, we attempt to develop diffusion probabilistic models to first learn the connection between chemistry/structure and material properties and then allow an inverse design of novel glass-ceramic materials.
Time period: 2024-2026
Funding: Villum Synergy, VILLUM Foundation (2,998,000 DKK)
Previous projects
ToughMOF: Tailoring Metal-Organic Framework Glasses with Higher Fracture Toughness
Time period: 2021-2023
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, EU Horizon 2020 (207,000 EUR)
GLASSphase: Toward Tough Glasses with Controlled Nanoscale Heterogeneities
Time period: 2020-2022
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, EU Horizon 2020 (207,000 EUR)
Tailoring the Structure of Disordered Solids using Statistical Mechanics
Time period: 2017-2021
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark | Technology and Production Sciences (2,577,000 DKK)
Self-Healing Cover Glass for Mobile Devices
Time period: 2020-2021
Funding: InnoExplorer, Innovation Fund Denmark (1,489,000 DKK)
Glass Mechanical Properties: Structural Origins and Engineering
Time period: 2016-2021
Funding: VILLUM Fonden Research Project (10,034,000 DKK)
DFF-Danish ERC-Programme: Towards the Design of Ductile Oxide Glasses from the Bottom-Up
Time period: 2018-2020
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark | Technology and Production Sciences (907,000 DKK)
Fundamentals of Glass Relaxation
Time period: 2015-2018
Funding: Corning Incorporated
Atomistic Design of Chemically Durable Glasses
Time period: 2015-2018
Funding: VILLUM Fonden Postdoctoral Programme (1,168,000 DKK)
Topological and Chemical Principles for Designing Novel Oxynitride Glasses
Time period: 2014-2017
Funding: Lundbeck Foundation (1,300,000 DKK)
Topological Basis of Compressed Inorganic Glass Properties
Time period: 2013-2017
Funding: DFF-Starting Grant, Danish Council for Independent Research (7,046,000 DKK)
Equipment funding
Finding Order in Disorder by Laboratory X-Ray Total Scattering Experiments
Hard X-ray diffractometer
Time of purchase: 2024
Funding: Carlsberg Foundation (2,303,000 DKK)
Precision cutting machine for optimizing the mechanical properties of glass
Secotom-60 (Struers)
Time of purchase: 2022
Funding: Myhrwolds Fond (100,000 DKK)
Equipment for characterization of micro-mechanical properties of glass
38DL+ Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge (Olympus)
CB500 Micro Module Mechanical Tester (Nanovea)
Time of purchase: 2017
Funding: Obel Family Foundation (615,000 DKK)
Simultaneous thermal analyzer (STA)
Netzsch STA 449F1 Jupiter® calorimeter with TM-DSC module software extension
Time of purchase: 2014
Funding: Obel Family Foundation (590,000 DKK)
CPU/GPU access
Melting and glass formation of metal-organic frameworks
Benchmark and Development Access for HPC Vega
Time of access: 2021-2022
Funding: EuroHPC (896,000 CPU core hours)
Mechanical Properties of Non-Oxide Glassy Electrolytes
LUMI-C Sandbox Project
Time of access: 2022
Funding: DeiC (2,500,000 CPU core hours)
Water in disordered materials: friend or foe?
LUMI-C Capability HPC
Time of access: 2022
Funding: DeiC (1,600,000 CPU core hours)
Correlating structure with fracture toughness in disordered materials
Regular Access for HPC Vega
Time of access: 2022-2023
Funding: EuroHPC (10,000,000 CPU core hours)
Molecular dynamics simulations of glassy MOFs using machine learning force fields
Benchmark and Development Access for HPC Vega
Time of access: 2023
Funding: EuroHPC (51,200 GPU core hours)