Researchers develop algorithm to predict new superhard crystals
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stony Brook University researchers, Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Geosciences and Physics and Dr. Andriy O. Lyakhov, Research Fellow, have developed an algorithm capable of predicting new superhard materials. The findings of their work have just been published in a paper entitled Evolutionary search for superhard materials: Methodology and applications to forms of carbon and TiO2, in the current online edition of Physical Review B.