Duke Engineers Use Brute Force Computing to Find New
Materials
In the search for cheaper materials that mimic their purer,
more expensive counterparts, researchers are abandoning hunches and intuition
for theoretical models and pure computing power.
In a new study, researchers from Duke University’s Pratt
School of Engineering used computational methods to identify dozens of
platinum-group alloys that were previously unknown to science but could prove
beneficial in a wide range of applications.