# Designing materials one atom at a time

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@Intel
- Speaker: Sadasivan Shankar
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sadasivan_shankar_designing_materials_one_atom_at_a_time)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Designing materials one atom at a time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sadasivan_shankar_designing_materials_one_atom_at_a_time/43069a160f41), 11 min (TED's player)