Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Nano-topology optimization for materials design with atom-by-atom control

  • Chun-Teh Chen,
  • Daryl C. Chrzan,
  • Grace X. Gu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17570-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The ability to design materials manipulating individual atoms with the best possible atom distributions for target properties is currently a challenge. Here the authors introduce Nano-TO, a topological based computational approach with an atom-by-atom control for materials design with desired properties.