Opportunities and challenges in understanding complex functional materials.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31575896.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-12422-z and PMC identifier 6773745.
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Abstract
Understanding complex functional materials suffers from needing to capture structural features on many length scales. By quantitatively combining complementary experimental measurements, realistic models can now be generated. Here, I discuss the strengths and limits of this approach, but also advocate focusing on the interactions that drive structural complexity instead.