Materials database proves its mettle with new discoveries

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 10:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Trying to find new materials, to improve the performance of anything from microchips to car bodies, has always been a process of trial and error. MIT materials scientist Gerbrand Ceder likens it to setting out from Boston for California, with neither a map nor a navigation system—and on foot.

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