Algorithm Predicts New Superhard Materials

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:51AM from the what's-harder-than-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers in New York have developed an algorithm that can predict new superhard materials — a relatively small class of compounds of which diamond is the most famous. Beyond the pluses this represents for, say, the drilling industry, the physicists claim say their computational approach can be used to think up new materials of all sorts. 'New materials with desired properties will be routinely discovered using supercomputers,' they say, 'instead of the expensive trial-and-error method that is used today.'"

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first post! by somersault · 2011-09-14 09:53 · Score: -1, Troll

Handily erected via touch screen keyboard

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which is totally what she said
1. Re:first post! by Dunbal · 2011-09-14 10:04 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  But I thought Yoshihiko Noda had already been erected oh wait...
  
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Penis? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 09:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Superhard materials like my penis?