Tag: materials

  • Nation & World

    Identifying exotic properties

    Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.

    5 minutes
    illustration of water and how symmetry indicators work as a net to catch topological materials
  • Nation & World

    New way to model molecules

    Scientists from Harvard and Google have demonstrated for the first time that a quantum computer could be used to model the electron interactions in a complex molecule.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How to move out and stay green at same time

    With the end of the academic year fast approaching, the temptation to purge all obsolete office and school materials is stronger than ever. But to maintain Harvard’s impressive 50 percent recycling rate, Harvard’s University Operations Services (UOS) wishes to remind the community to continue recycling all materials whenever possible. All old documents, books, folders, magazines,…

    2 minutes