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Chemists from the University of Pennsylvania are enabling the next generation of research into ferroelectric materials. In a new study, published in Nature, they demonstrate a multiscale simulation of lead titanate oxide that provides new understanding about what it takes for polarizations within these materials to switch. Their simulations show that thermal fluctuations are responsible for the first nuclei from which changes in polarization spread.
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