The US Department of Energy announced today that it will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers.
When physicists Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller discovered the first high-temperature superconductors in 1986, it didnt take much imagination to envision the potential technological benefits of harnessing such materials.
Steady progress in the development of advanced materials has led to modern civilizations foundational technologiesbetter batteries, resilient building materials and atom-scale semiconductors.
In the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, the state of the art of materials science defined technologys zenith and accelerated economies.