Building on our understanding of the chemical bond, advances in synthetic chemistry, and large-scale computation, materials design has now become a reality. From a pool of 400 unknown compositions, 15 new compounds have been realized that adopt the predicted structures and properties.
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Walsh, A. The quest for new functionality. Nature Chem 7, 274–275 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2213
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