| Materials and Process Simulation Center Home Page Directed by Announcements: MSC2009 is tentatively scheduled for March 26-27, 2009.
Programs for past conferences can be seen Recent Publication: Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials, Boukai AI, Bunimovich Y, Tahir-Kheli J, Yu J, Goddard WA, Heath JR, Nature 451 (7175): 168-171 (2008) Further discussion in and The objectives of the MSC:
To develop methods required for first principles multiscale
multi-paradigm based predictions of the structures and properties of
proteins, DNA, polymers, ceramics, metal alloys, semiconductors,
organometallics and to apply these methods to design new materials for
pharma, catalysis, microelectronics, nanotechnology, and
superconductors.
Activities at the MSC:
Research projects in the MSC are supported by industry (current
sponsors include ChevronTexaco, Aventis Pharma, Berlex Biopharma,
Nissan Motor Co., and Intel) and government (current sponsors include
DARPA, DOE, ONR, NSF, NIH). These projects cover applications ranging from design of new drugs
acting on G-Protein Coupled Receptors and incorporation of novel amino
acids into biopolymers, to design of homogeneous catalysts for
activation of CH4, to fuel cells (improved catalysts for anodic and
cathodic processes and improved proton or oxygen transport membranes),
to designing new molecular microelectronics materials, to
nanoelectronics and self assembly on nanoscale systems, to new
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