Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Nanotechnology is an exciting multidisciplinary field concerned with materials and devices that are highly ordered at the molecular scale around 1 to 100 nanometers.

The range of potential uses of nanotechnology and nanomaterials is broad, encompassing biological, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering, materials science, and robotics.

The physical properties of nanomaterials, which are derived from the molecular scale arrangement of molecules and atoms, are often useful to model using software and high performance computing, particularly in cases where the molecular scale structure is difficult to observe directly. By visualising and simulating the nanomaterials, it is possible to gain a better understanding of the phenomena and fine tune the material for desired properties.

VPAC supports a range of visualisation and simulation software capable of simulating nanomaterials and can offer direct modelling services for researchers.

Contact

For further information regarding VPAC's nanotechnology modelling services and software packages, please contact lifesciences@vpac.org or phone +61 3 9925 4645.