She designs new materials on an atomic level
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By using quantum mechanical modelling, KTH Researcher Raquel Lizárraga can help companies to cut years and millions from the development of new materials.
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Raquel Lizárraga is a researcher at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KTH, working with Applied Material Physics. She is also the founder of QM4Mat, a spinoff from her research that helps companies design new materials using first principles Quantum Mechanics calculations.
" We model materials at the quantum mechanical level, meaning that we look at what atoms and electrons do inside materials" , she says. "The idea is to be able to predict the properties a material will have, like its strength or plasticity" .
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Text: Lisa Bäckman