By 
Sadasivan Shankar
 | 
TED Institute Talk

Designing materials one atom at a time

The elements in the periodic table were created over billions of years and are rarely supplemented with new elements. Not for long. Sadasivan Shankar reveals that thanks to increasing computing power researchers are designing entirely new materials, one atom at a time, to have the specific properties needed for an infinite number of applications.

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