K.A. Müller and research on ferroic and polaronic materials

K.A. Müller mentored work outside IBM on Ferroic and Polaronic Materials already in the 1970s and showed a keen interest in any progress made in these fields afterwards. He supported particularly research of the ferroelastic materials SrTiO3 and LaAlO3. He was also fascinated by research into polaronic states of WO3 and their effect on ferroic properties in perovskite samples. This demonstrates that his activities were not restricted to superconductivity but extended more generally in solid-state sciences including the field of phase transitions and pattern formations in nanomaterials.