Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design

  • Dezhen Xue,
  • Prasanna V. Balachandran,
  • John Hogden,
  • James Theiler,
  • Deqing Xue,
  • Turab Lookman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11241
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Design of materials with targeted properties requires innovative approaches to guide researchers through complex search space. Here, the authors report an adaptive design strategy, using inference and global optimization methods, which can find shape memory alloys with very low thermal hysteresis.