In the past two days, March 3^rd to 4^th, the Materials & Matter conference took place at Skoltech. The first day ended with a poster session, where researchers from our group presented their work:

• Andrey Geondzhian presented "X-ray Spectroscopy of Negative Charge Transfer Insulators"
  
  
• Artem Dembitsky presented "Screening of Protective Coatings for Li-Ion Solid-State Batteries using Universal Interatomic Potentials"
  
  
• Nikita Davydov presented "First-Principle Study of the Impact of Grain Boundaries on Oxygen Loss in LiNiO₂ Cathode Material"
  
  
• Maria Solovieva presented "Using Curvature Pattern to Explore Sodium Adsorption Mechanism in Hard Carbon Anode Material for Metal-Ion Batteries: A DFT Study"
  
  

Anton Boev and Arseniy Burov presented their theses in a correspondence format. The topics of their research works were:

• "Origin of Capacity Retention in Ti-Doped LiCoO₂: An AIMD Study of Ti Segregation Effects on Antisite Defects, Oxygen Vacancies, and Li Charge Transfer at the LiCoO₂/EC Interface" (by Anton)

• "Multi-level Computational Study of "Pinned" Li+ Ions Phenomenon in Novel KTiOPO₄-Structured Li_1-xNa_xVPO₄F (x = 0, 0.15) Cathodes". (by Arseniy)

It was a great pleasure to participate in the first conference of the year for our group!