Salvatore Torquato - Microstructural Descriptors of Disordered Heterogeneous Materials Across Length
Presenter
October 7, 2025
Abstract
Recorded 07 October 2025. Salvatore Torquato of Princeton University presents "Sensitive Microstructural Descriptors of Disordered Heterogeneous Materials Across Length Scales for Materials Discovery" at IPAM's Bridging Scales from Atomistic to Continuum in Electrochemical Systems Workshop.
Abstract: The bulk transport properties of disordered heterogeneous materials that arise in electrochemical systems are determined by their complex microstructures. I will discuss the zoology of correlation functions that quantitatively characterize the microstructures. Of particular interest is the identification of microstructural descriptors that sensitively detect the degree of order/disorder across length scales, including the nascent concept of hyperuniformity, which describes microstructures at the largest lengths scales. I will describe these developments and how these descriptors can be used to accurately predict transport properties as well as how to employ this theoretical framework for inverse design of materials with tunable properties.
Learn more online at: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/workshop-ii-bridging-scales-from-atomistic-to-continuum-in-electrochemical-systems/