Feature Chemistry

Quantum chemistry may be a shortcut to life-changing compounds

Technique could ID materials for better solar cells and batteries or more effective medicines

Sifting molecules

MOLECULAR PURSUITS  Quantum chemistry could launch a manufacturing revolution, helping to identify materials for improved solar cells, better batteries or more effective medicines.

A. Aspuru-Guzik/Harvard Univ., adapted by E. Otwell 

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

When Alán Aspuru-Guzik was in college, he really got into SETI@home, the project that uses home computers to speed the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.