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Nature Materials 7, 426 - 427 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2190

Computational materials science: Out of the scalar sand box

Gus L. W. Hart1

  1. Gus L. W. Hart is in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA.
    e-mail: gus_hart@byu.edu


With the extension of a popular computational method to its tensorial analogue, structural configurations that optimize anisotropic physical quantities can now be predicted.

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