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Some highlights from our recent research:

35. Highly tunable magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy in Fe 3+-doped BaTiO 3 Bradford A. Barker, Nabaraj Pokhrel, Md Kamal Hossain, Katherine Inzani, Sinéad M. Griffin, Elizabeth A. Nowadnick Physical Review B 110, 224437 (2024) 34. Piezoelectricity in n=2 Ruddlesden-Popper ferroelectric oxides...

Welcome to the webpage of the Nowadnick Group! We are a computational materials science group at the University of California, Merced.

Beth Nowadnick Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Beth grew up in Washington state and did her B.S. in physics and mathematics at Stanford University. She continued at Stanford for her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics, where she worked with Prof. Tom Devereaux...

July 2025: Associate Professor. Beth is promoted to be an Associate Professor with tenure. Thank you to all the group members for their ongoing research contributions over the past years! May 2025: Kishwar graduates! Kishwar defends her thesis and receives her Ph.D. in Materials & Biomaterials...

Spring Semester 2025: MSE 119/MBSE 219 - Computational Materials Science Fall Semester 2024: MSE 152 - Materials Processing and Performance II Spring Semester 2024: MBSE 219 - Computational Materials Science Fall Semester 2023: MSE 112 - Materials Selection and Performance Spring Semester 2023: MSE...