A novel computational technique has revealed hundreds of ceramic materials possessing a wide range of potentially industry-disrupting properties like electronics that could function in a lava bath
If you have a deep-seated, nagging worry over dropping your phone in molten lava, you’re in luck.
A research team led by materials scientists at Duke University has developed a method for rapidly discovering a new class of materials with heat and electronic tolerances so rugged that they that could enable devices to function at lava-like temperatures above several thousands of degrees DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06786-y
This research was primarily supported by a five-year, $7.5 million grant through the US Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) competition led by Curtarolo (N00014-21-1-2515, N00014-23-1-2615) and the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPC-Frontier).