Compositionally varied materials and method for synthesizing the materials

A method of designing a compositionally varied material comprising:

• forming a matrix from at least a first type of atom having at least one physical property and a second type of atom having at least a second physical property, said matrix including a plurality of layers of at least said first and second types of atom, designing a spatial pattern in said matrix, including at least a third type of atom or atoms or groups of said third type of atom or atoms at predetermined locations in said spatial pattern to form the material, said locations being at least in some of said plurality of layers or between succeeding ones of some of said plurality of layers, forming nonequilibrium disordered local environments with at least some of said third type of atom or atoms or groups thereof and coupling or decoupling at least a third physical property of said third type of atom or atoms and said locations with said matrix physical property to produce one or more functions of said material.

A method of designing a compositionally varied material comprising:

• forming a matrix from at least a first type of atom having at least one physical property, said matrix including a plurality of layers of at least said first type of atom, designing a spatial pattern in said matrix, including at least a second and a third type of atom interleaved in a plurality of layers of at least said second type of atom and a plurality of layers of at least said third type of atom at predetermined locations in said spatial pattern to form the material, forming nonequilibrium disordered local environments with at least some of said second or third type of atoms and coupling or decoupling at least a second physical property of said second type of atom or at least a third physical property of said third type of atom and said locations with said matrix physical property to produce one or more functions of said material.