#linquistics

Do you catch yourself staring at a RPG rule and something just feels extremely wrong?

Searching for a grammar of materials to aid in discovery of catalysts

A research group from the Theory Department has explored the use of formal grammars as a new approach to discovering solid catalysts. Such grammars can encode the building rules of known materials and subsequently propose unknown materials with similar properties. By using the concept from computational linguistics, the Berlin-based scientists collaborated with US-American and South-Korean colleagues.

The discovery of new catalytically active materials is of great importance for accelerating the introduction of renewable energy sources and reducing the energy consumption of chemical industry. This search is highly challenging because catalysts have to fulfill a wide range of conditions like high activity, elemental abundance, low toxicity, long-term stability. At the same time there is a practically infinite number of materials that could potentially be interesting. The grammar-based approach proposed in this paper develops systematic building rules based on physical insight or known materials. These rules then allow the targeted generation of promising candidates, as demonstrated for simple ionic materials.

Mycenaean Linear B tablet 1450-1100 BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

"The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1450 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing. It is also the only one of the Bronze Age Aegean scripts to have been deciphered, by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris."

-taken from wikipedia

Aus der Zeitschrift “Deutsch Perfekt.”

Wörter im Text

das soziale Netzwerk, -e - hier: Internetportal, das die Möglichkeit anbietet, Informationen über sich selbst im Internet zu publizieren und Kontakt mit anderen zu haben.

die Abkürzung, -en - wenige Buchstaben, die an der Stelle eines Wortes stehen.

liebevoll - mit viel Liebe.

…ist die große Schwester von… - hier: …hat mehr Buchstaben als…; … ist länger als …

umgangssprachlich - in der gesprochenen Sprache.

sich etwas dabei denken - hier: eine spezielle Absicht haben.

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Wörter zum Thema

attraktiv - gut aussehend; schön.

auf der Suche sein - einen Partner suchen.

die Blicke treffen sich - sich in die Augen sehen.

Gemeinsamkeiten haben - gleiche Erfahrungen, Hobbys oder Interessen haben.

Jeder Topf findet seinen Deckel - Jeder findet irgenwann seinen Lebenspartner.

jemandem eine Chance geben - mit jemandem, der nicht auf den ersten Blick die große Liebe ist, eine Beziehung versuchen.

jemandem schöne Augen machen - durch Blicke, Gesten und Worte zeigen, dass man jemandem interessant und gut aussehend findet und kennenlernen möchte.

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I have the magazine “Deutsch Perfekt”. It’s for people who want to improve their German. You should have about a B2 level to be able to use the material. The magazine came with a small booklet called “100 Wörter Liebe.”