This makes graphene an excellent candidate material for future energy needs, as well as in quantum computing for enormous calculations with little energy use. (sciencedaily.com)
«This is a development of considerable significance for nuclear materials science, where composites — particularly oxide dispersion - strengthened steels — have long been considered promising candidate materials for applications involving high temperature and high irradiation dose,» says Sergei Dudarev, a professor of materials science at Oxford University in the U.K., who was not involved in this work. (sciencedaily.com)
Instead of continuing to develop new materials the old - fashioned way — stumbling across them by luck, then painstakingly measuring their properties in the laboratory — Marzari and like - minded researchers are using computer modelling and machine - learning techniques to generate libraries of candidate materials by the tens of thousands. (scientificamerican.com)