Dream Materials: Going from fictional compounds to modern devices
Sushrut Ghonge
Physics Graduate Student
University of Notre Dame
Developing any new technology comes with a wish list of new materials. We need one type of material to make a folding smartphone, and another to construct the body of a spacecraft. But how do we find such materials from the infinite possible combinations of chemical elements and their compounds? Learn about a new paradigm in materials discovery that allows us to find new materials using only our mind (and some help from computers).
Part of the Our Universe Revealed Lecture Series
Originally published at physics.nd.edu.