A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most puzzling materials—from high-temperature superconductors to solar cell semiconductors—by uniting two long-divided scientific perspectives.
"For decades, chemists and physicists have used very different lenses to look at materials. What we've done now is create a rigorous way to bring those perspectives together," said senior author Laura Gagliardi , Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. "This gives us a new toolkit to understand and eventually design materials with extraordinary properties."
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