In control of chaos

Assembly line: A different chemical mixture is created in each of the droplets w
Assembly line: A different chemical mixture is created in each of the droplets within the ’Tubular flow reactor’ - under exactly the same boundary conditions. Image: Empa
Assembly line: A different chemical mixture is created in each of the droplets within the 'Tubular flow reactor' - under exactly the same boundary conditions. Image: Empa - Crystals consisting of wildly mixed ingredients - so-called high-entropy materials - are currently attracting growing scientific interest. Their advantage is that they are particularly stable at extremely high temperatures and could be used, for example, for energy storage and chemical production processes. An Empa team is producing and researching these mysterious ceramic materials, which have only been known since 2015. Nature strives for chaos. That's a nice, comforting phrase when yet another coffee cup has toppled over the computer keyboard and you imagine you could wish the sugary, milky brew back into the coffee cup - where it had been just seconds before. But wishing won't work.
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