Materials Digital Library: MatDL.org |
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Collaborators: Laura Bartolo, Adam Powel, Don Sadoway
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We are collaborating with researchers at MIT, Kent State University, University of Colorado, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop content for MatDL, a new, web-based digital library for materials research and education. In our simulation-based research on self-assembly of nano building blocks, supercooled liquids, and complex fluids, we generate nanostructures whose complex properties depend on the combination of several thermodynamic and processing parameters, as well as details of the particular material components involved. The MatDL project develops domain-specific xml tags for include all of the descriptive data required to understand the source of a given nanostructure, and makes it easy and convenient to create digital libraries of materials simulation results for others to use as a guide in their research or understanding of a particular phenomenon. The students in Glotzer’s course ChE/MSE 557 produce many of the nanostructures that will be included in this exciting new research and educational tool. |