The Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI NP) facility in Magurele, Romania, runs the currently most powerful laser in the world, capable to deliver two 10 PW pulses each minute. It stands at the forefront of cutting-edge research in laser-driven particle acceleration and high-energy nuclear physics. In pursuit of advancing our understanding of these fields, our simulation group...
There is a range of quantum mechanical methods that can be used to calculate binding energies of molecular clusters or between molecules and surfaces. The individual approaches then differ in computational cost they require and accuracy they can provide. We will discuss the random-phase approximation (RPA), which is a method that, in terms of accuracy and computational demands, sits between...
Carbon dots (CDs) are photoluminescent nanomaterials with a broad application potential including nanosensors, cellular bioimaging, and optoelectronics. Besides the bright photoluminescence (PL), they manifest high (photo)stability, low toxicity, biocompatibility, and high structural variability. CDs can be described as two-domain structures containing a graphitic-like or amorphous carbon core...
Molybdenum disulfide, $MoS_2$, is a layered material from transition metals dichalcogenide (TMD) family[1]. Applications of TMDs range from tribological coatings[2,3] to electronics[4], optics[5] and catalysis[6].
TMD films are commonly prepared as an amorphous material. Tribological applications rely on a natural tendency of TMDs to crystallize during sliding. Catalysis applications might...
