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SUMMARY:Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand -
  Professor Sharon Glotzer\, University of Michigan
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CONTACT:Sian Bunnage
DESCRIPTION:From the Stone Age\, to the Bronze Age\, to the Iron Age\, to 
 the Plastics Age\, to the Information (Silicon) Age\, the materials availa
 ble to humankind define the world we live in. Recently\, unprecedented com
 puter capabilities driven\, in part\, by the desire for better and faster 
 video game graphics have found their way onto the computational scientist
 ’s workbench. These new capabilities are changing the course of material
 s research\, making possible the discovery of new and complex materials de
 signed and engineered with specific properties and functionalities in mind
 . In particular\, they are enabling the birth of assembly engineering – 
 a new design/optimization approach to materials fabrication that contribut
 es to the new trend of additive manufacturing. In this talk\, we discuss b
 reakthroughs from the field of nanotechnology\, where nanoparticles are de
 signed to assemble - like atoms\, molecules\, proteins\, and viruses - int
 o complex crystals when thermodynamic and kinetic conditions are optimized
 . These examples demonstrate how recent advances in computers are bringing
  us into a new Age where materials are digitally discovered and designed o
 n demand. In this new Age of Materials on Demand\, the world will be shape
 d not by the discovery of a single material that enables a host of new tec
 hnologies\, but by the design of a host of materials demanded by the conce
 ption of new technologies.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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