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Nature Materials 7, 426–427 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2190

Computational materials science: Out of the scalar sand box

Gus L. W. Hart

A primary goal of materials science is to discover or design new materials that meet societal needs. In computational materials science, we aim to achieve this goal by directly modelling materials from first principles if possible.