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Designing materials one atom at a time

Sadasivan Shankar · TED

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The elements in the periodic table were created over billions of years and are rarely supplemented with new elements. Not for long. Sadasivan Shankar reveals that thanks to increasing computing power researchers are designing entirely new materials, one atom at a time, to have the specific properties needed for an infinite number of applications.

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TED
Department
TED@Intel
Speaker
Sadasivan Shankar
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
Source
TED
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