Research into the nature of materials promises to revolutionize many areas of modern life, from power generation and transmission to transportation to the production of faster, smaller, more versatile computers and storage devices. Materials science is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates chemistry, physics, and engineering both to provide a deeper understanding of existing materials and to allow for the design of new materials with predetermined properties. Computational scientists are using the supercomputers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to study the nature of materials at the smallest possible scale.
Current Active Materials Projects
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Fermi surface of plutonium: Fundamental insight into electronic correlation
Current PI: Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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Predictive Simulations of Phase Transitions in Dynamically-Compressed Materials
Current PI: Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida
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Metastability in Driven Dynamical Systems for Next-Gen Microelectronics Applications
Current PI: Panchapakesan Ganesh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
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QMC-HAMM: From The Nanoscale To The Mesoscale
Current PI: Lucas Wagner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Novel Methods for Complex Excited-State Phenomena in Functional Materials
Current PI: Jack Deslippe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Predictive Simulations of Functional Materials
Current PI: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Large Scale Numerical Simulations of Polymer Nanocomposites
Current PI: Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
Allocation Source: DOE ALCC PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 2,500
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First Principle Heat Generation Simulations of On-die Interconnects
Current PI: Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 20,000
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Nucleation and Growth of Colloidal Crystals
Current PI: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 5,000
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Disorder and Statistical Mechanics of Alloys and Functional Materials
Current PI: Markus Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: DOE INCITE PROGRAM
Allocation Hours: 200,000
