MIT News  July 18, 2024 The tendency of certain chemical motifs to be more common than others is known as chemical short-range order (SRO), and it has received substantial consideration in alloys with multiple chemical elements present in large concentrations due to their extreme configurational complexity. SRO renders solid solutions “slightly less random than completely random,” but not easily quantifiable due to the sheer number of possible chemical motifs and their subtle spatial distribution on the lattice. Researchers at MIT presented a multiscale method to predict and quantify the SRO state of an alloy with atomic resolution, incorporating machine learning […]