Physics Professors Build "Recipe Book" for New Materials
Physicists are now able to create new materials with properties that do not exist in nature. These findings enable researchers to build a "recipe book" that shows how to build these materials using topology.
Randall Kamien, the Vicki and William Abrams Professor of Natural Sciences, and Tom Lubensky, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics, are two who are paving the way in this field. They contributed to a study that demonstrates how the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world. The study was published recently in Nature.
“The beauty of liquid crystals is that the abstract notions of topology can be directly visualized with a regular microscope,” Kamien said. “The striking, colorful figures reveal a more profound, underlying structure. It’s like music; after the first time you hear something you begin to realize that there is deeper structure.”
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Randall Kamien, the Vicki and William Abrams Professor of Natural Sciences, and Tom Lubensky, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics, are two who are paving the way in this field. They contributed to a study that demonstrates how the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world. The study was published recently in Nature.
“The beauty of liquid crystals is that the abstract notions of topology can be directly visualized with a regular microscope,” Kamien said. “The striking, colorful figures reveal a more profound, underlying structure. It’s like music; after the first time you hear something you begin to realize that there is deeper structure.”
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