Nanoscience and High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing is used in nanoscience to investigate the relationship between the size, shape and structure of nanoscale materials (nanomorphology) and the thermal and chemical environment to which they are exposed.
Through the use of VPAC’s High Performance Computing facilities researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the University of Melbourne were able to gain an insight into how these materials could be predicted, controlled and manipulated by varying physical parameters of their environment.
Figure; Although preliminary investigations found most CNx nanotubes to be highly unstable, the relaxed CN5 (9, 0) nanotube with a triple helix structure could potentially offer exploitable functional properties.
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