March 2023
Light handling
A UT Austin-led team links supercomputer simulations and material fabrication to advance light-related devices.
Category Archives: Materials Science
July 2022
Adding up alloys
With the power of Oak Ridge’s Summit supercomputer, researchers will probe the 3D printing’s details to improve and predict metal parts’ properties.
May 2022
Taking charge
At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, researchers simulate ion transport for ways to predict and improve materials for energy storage.
August 2020
Quantum quandary
Simulations on Oak Ridge’s Summit supercomputer take aim at new energy-transmission devices and quantum computers.
August 2019
Power play
Carnegie Mellon-led team generates atomic-scale simulations at Argonne in search of the best new solar cell materials.
October 2018
Quantum predictions
With faster supercomputers and improved algorithms, scientists are studying a broad range of materials to find useful properties.
August 2018
Current developments
Supercomputing offers path for designing electricity-producing layered materials.
November 2017
Rules of attraction
Supercomputers let an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led group explore how atoms align in magnetic materials.
July 2017
Going meta
Sandia researcher taps high-performance computers to design metamaterials that mold electromagnetics.
September 2015
Costly crumbling
Mira grinds out models that show how rock and other materials break.