This March, the group participated in the Chemistry Department Open Day. To share our work with the public, we ran a supercooled ice demonstration and some computer simulations. 

In particular, we simulated water droplets and bucky balls slamming into graphene and gold substrates. 

Can you guess the speed needed for a 30-molecule water droplet to pierce a sheet of graphene? (Hint: its faster than the speed of sound!)

Remarkably, a few years ago, running these simulations would have taken several months of computer time. However, now it's something we can do for fun in a few minutes using machine learned interatomic potentials and foundational models.